Pros: The steelseries Shift key board is easy to set up and use. The interchangeable key sets have another added benefit of being very easy to clean. with 24 programmable macro keys possible (8 keys and 3 layers) you wont be hurting for macro space. The steelseries engine also let's you create different profiles so you can truly never run out of macros.

Cons: The steelseries engine 2 is intolerable to use. Hopefully they will be changing over to the steelseries engine 3 but as of now it is almost unusable for what was promised. They keyboard it self has been great but the software has been anything but.

Other Thoughts: If you are looking for a good keyboard and are a saint when it comes to dealing with unwieldy software then this is your board. If you are like me and want something simple to program, you may want to wait out for the keyboard to be upgraded to the steelseries engine 3 or look else were.