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So here we can see the keys activated. The default color will be red. The surface is made using somewhat smooth plastic, for both gaming and productivity it feels good. 

I have under exposed the photo here a bit to show you the LED intensity. All keys on the K40 have little back-light LEDs, these are configurable in a color of your choice. With the light button located at the top you can choose the proper brightness level. With the Corsair software suite you may control the colors, we'll show you that later on.

There is also a windows lock mode key, which allows you to disable the Windows key and get dropped back to the desktop by accident in a hefty gaming session. These functions are all supported at default, there's no need to install any software whatsoever. The keys themselves are exposed though, simple cleaning works out well with say a can of compressed air. However, being exposed like that has another effect as well, the base will collect dirt more quickly. It's not massively different with normal keyboards, but sure the base is exposed and a little more susceptible to dirt. With the M keys you can assign a profile/macro towards each G key to customize it. Combined with the M1/M2/M3 keys you can assign several preferences/profiles towards each of the 6 G-keys. Profiles can be stored in the keyboard as it has on-board profile storage (36K of memory) and there are six dedicated, programmable G-keys (18 keys per profile).

With the help of software you may assign colors towards your keys. Any color of preference will do as these are RGB lit keys. You can also select that the keyboard “pulse” (slowly changes brightness from off to full (and back)) and cycle mode (rotates through colors).