Mistel SLEEKER MD870 Backlit TKL Mechanical Keyboard with Cherry MX Blue Switch and Silver Full CNC Aluminum Case for Mac and Windows (Single White LED, PBT Dye-Sub Keycap, Macro Support, ANSI/US)

Pros:Very solid all aluminum caseNice thick PBT cherry profile keycapsGenuine Cherry key switchesSupport for Mac and PCRemovable type C cableCons:Typing on this is like typing on a can of rocks, the stabilizers all create a loud rattle, and key presses create a loud pinging noise that resonates throughout the keyboard.If you are a Mac user, the keycaps set is nice and complete, however, if you are a PC user then there are replacement key caps for everything except the Print Screen, Scroll Lock and Pause buttons as these remain F13, F14 and F15 respectively.Summary:If your a keyboard enthusiast and know your way around a soldering iron, then you could look at this as a keyboard kit that with some effort can be a good buy considering the steep discount it is currently selling for.

Feels great and looks great. Windows mode and replacement key caps work fine, only problem is remembering what f13 through f15 are on PC.

Edit:I kept the keyboard. It's really gorgeous, even if they did screw up the rest. Karabiner covered over it.Did find one more issue. There's no rollover between the Cmd and Opt key (Win/Men equivalents, I think) on the right side.If you press either alone, they are what they say, but if you hold Cmd, then press Opt you get a Cmd-Up with no Opt registered. Similarly, Opt then Cmd is an Opt-up.This means you can't do Cmd-Opt-Whatever shortcuts on the right side. This is true in Mac and Win modes, and is simply a sloppy design defect IMO. I've never see a keyboard do that before.Original:I'm struggling with my opinion of this keyboard. I'll break it down into pros and cons.TL;DR: it's beautiful, but rattly. They misimplemented the Mac stuff almost completely, but you might not notice if you're not a developer or gamer. I'm both, and it bugs the heck out of me.Pros:* The keyboard is beautiful, hands down.The milled aluminum case looks absolutely terrific, and the keycaps are very tasteful. I like the color choices, and the font is very Mac-like, as it were.* The key caps are good quality PBT.There are ragged edges, as the other reviewer mentioned, and I do see "release dots" on the back of some keys, but nothing I can see when using the keyboard or looking at it casually on the desk. The only reason I noticed the ragged edges are that the backlight highlights them a little. Otherwise, they're nice and thick and the key sound on unstabilized keys is excellent.* The typing feel is largely excellent. Mine has Cherry MX Browns, and they behave exactly as expected. There's no flex in the board or plate.Cons:* The stabilizers on large keys rattle quite a bit--way more than I'd expect for a $180 keyboard.The plate mount holes are generously sized for the MX stabs, and they move around and rattle against the plate. I'm not sure the underlying wire is lubed either. I'm sure I can tape and lube them to eliminate most of this, but again, $180 keyboard and I really shouldn't have to out of the box. My $100 Cooler Master is quieter than this one on large keys, and the problem is worse here because the solid PBT clacks are very much in contrast with the mushier hollow rattle of the Return/Delete keys.* The USB-C port doesn't work with my MacBook Pro, whether plugged in directly or through the LG display that Apple sells as a match.Like the other reviewer, I also have to use two adapters to go C->A->C to get the keyboard to power up at all. This is exceedingly lame for a keyboard that sells itself as Mac-compatible and then went out of its way to supply a USB-C port because Macs have them.These last two are the reason I'm strongly considering returning the keyboard:* The keyboard doesn't allow flipping whether the F-keys primarily send F1/F2 or whether they primarily operate as system keys. In Mac mode they always operate as system keys (sort of, read on).This is a problem for both games and developer IDEs, where the F-keys are used frequently. There's simply no way in Mac mode to use them that way without holding Fn down. Note that Windows mode is the opposite, the keys are always F-keys, so the only way to really toggle from the keyboard is switch back and forth. However, this makes the system stuff not work when in Windows mode.* This is the killer. It doesn't send correct Mac keycodes for the system keys.Mac OS supports two ways to do system functions. Apple keyboards send discrete keycodes, but there are also system-global shortcuts available in case you have a Windows keyboard attached instead. That's what this board sends.So, for example, the first two keys on the function row don't actually send brightness_decrement/brightness_increment keycodes like a Mac keyboard. They send F14/F15 keycodes because that's the default global shortcut for brightness up and brightness down on keyboards that don't have brightness keys.The third key (mission control) is worse: instead of sending mission_control, it sends a macro of Ctrl-Down/Up-Arrow/Ctrl-Up. The 4th key sends F4 whether or not you hold Fn because F4 happens to be the default shortcut for Launchpad, and it sends that instead of the launchpad keycode.On Mac, *all* of the top row functions have separate keycodes, just like the media keys. This keyboard uses none of them beyond the common media ones, presumably because Windows also uses the media keycodes.Sound picky? It's not. What it means is that you cannot use the top row as F-keys, even with the Fn button, because the system functions require you to keep the system global shortcuts mapped to their F-key defaults. On Mac, system global shortcuts pre-empt the key in any other app, so the F-keys become unusable system-wide.Your F14/F15 keys? Not usable anymore because they'll do the monitor light instead *just like* the first two keys F4? Always Launchpad, etc. Ctrl-Up in your IDE to move a line? Welcome to Mission Control. The apps never even see the keys hit because the global shortcuts are captured before the app sees them.That's why gamers and developers typically turn those F-key and ctrl-arrow global shortcuts off--we use those keys. But if you do that here, you'll have a keyboard where the top row doesn't work for system functions anymore. Moreover, because the keys collide or fire macros you can't remap them with Karabiner either to fix the issue. You can try remapping the brightness down key, but you'll end up remapping F14 as well in the process because this keyboard sends the same code for both.This is sort of a disaster in terms of Mac compatibility. So why isn't the keyboard a complete bust that I'm returning instantly?Because I can throw it into Windows mode where it only has F-keys and doesn't try to send system functions. I can then map the right Ctrl key to Mac Fn (losing my Ctrl key in the process), swap keycaps around, then use Karabiner to make the keyboard do the right thing.But now I have an 86 key Windows keyboard just like the one I came from and I've paid $180 for a milled aluminum case and some nice keycaps, and still have to deal with the rattling stabilizers. Plus, I'm comfortable writing Karabiner scripts and whatnot--if you're not, this will not be an option available to you.I really think Mistel goofed on this one. They have something really nice, until you look closely. When you do, you realize this is a keyboard made by Windows experts emulating what they thought Mac keyboards do, but they got it wrong on most counts.

Awesome looking MK. Really thick aluminum casing. It probably weighs a good 5 lbs. Only problem is right out of the box half of the bottom keys didn't work. If out of the box mistel can't even get it to work I wonder how it would hold up after a year. Also some of the larger keys didn't have support so unless you hit Tab dead center (which as a programmer I use very frequently) it comes right off. Caps lock has the same issue. Also note if you plan to use it in windows mode the media keys are useless too. Although this could be fixed with a program like autohotkey. Great looking keyboard poor execution.

The media could not be loaded.  Great keyboard! Love the handling and size of it, Perfect for my LOL.

Let me start by saying that the keyboard itself is actually quite nice. It's my second mechanical keyboard and I am finding that it offers a perfect middle point when it comes to the amount of travel in the keys, not to mention that the build quality feels outstanding. So why the two star review? Well, it doesn't really work. For me, one of the biggest selling points of this keyboard was the native usb-c cable an mac compatibility. When I plugged the keyboard into my MacBook (one of the newer ones that only has USB-C ports) it didn't light up, nor did it respond. I tried again using one of the many adapters I purchased for this laptop and plugged it into the thunderbolt 3/usb-c port on my MacBook, and plugged the keyboard into the usb-c port on the adapter. Still nothing. Finally–and hoping it wouldn't come to this–I plugged the cable from the keyboard into the included usb-c to usb adapter, plugged that into my usb to usb-c/thunderbolt 3 adapter, and plugged that into my MacBook and the keyboard lit up. So in an attempt to bypass dongles and adapters all together, I have done the opposite.(Just so we're clear this is the functioning setup: keyboard => usb-c => usb => usb-c => laptop )As I am typing this I am discovering a few more flaws:The feet this board comes with have to be screwed in. So if you like your keyboard to have a little rise to it, you have to make that decision rather permanently. Once you've screwed on the feet, you seal the deal by placing some 3M adhesive rubber bits over the heads of the screws. Not a deal breaker, but certainly not ideal.It appears my board has been shipped with not one but two f6 keys (and missing the f8). Seeing as I only have one set of function keys between this keyboard AND my laptop, I'd like to have the right ones. But mistakes happen, I get it.Finally, something that would have never bothered me if it weren't for all the other issues, some of the keys still have some leftover plastic bits hanging off of them. As if they were rushed out of the mold and not filed or trimmed afterwards. Teeny little bits, easily removed by hand, but they served as the preverbal cherry on top of the list of shortcomings I encountered with this board.I will admit at this point in my review that it has been typed entirely with the keyboard in question (using every adapter I have just to get a usb-c plug to go into a usb-c port, let's not forget that detail) and the accuracy of the keystrokes and the speed at which I can type far exceed that which I experience on my Ducky keyboard with speed silver switches. However, I can't really give that to the keyboard itself as much as I can to the MX Clear switches that it is equipped with. So I'll wrap this up by saying that I fully realize that my problems fit a small niche, not everyone made the jump to a MacBook pro with usb-c ports and actually care about usb-c compatability and I'm sure most of the keyboards come equipped with the proper function keys and that this was an unfortunate error. That being said, if you are going to produce a keyboard in this price range, equipped with the tech that it's packing, and sporting the look that it does, testing on a new MacBook pro is something you'd just expect they would have done. Obviously they haven't. It just makes me wonder where else they're falling short or cutting corners.