Had some concerns before ordering about the plastic covering being cheap, but it's pretty good - has a nice overall feel to the build. The lack of media buttons is annoying but it's quieter than my k90 by quite a bit.
a couple of times the keyboard hasn't come on when the booting the pc up and I have had to unplug and back in again.. any preference to the usb ports I should use. should I use
Mines done this on and off all the time I've owned it, I had a look online and it's fairly common between owners.
Mouse never ever has this problem (Rival 300) just the KB.
what media keys do you need? If you hold the steelseries button you get a pause/forward/backward/fast forward buttons for music and video playback. I think they highlight over the function keys.
or you can just use the software and amend a profile to do away with holding the steel series key - thats what i did.