I own a lot of keyboards with various screen/knob combos on them. It seems like once you go beyond the tiny LED/OLED the quality usually drops quite a bit. This is one of the better ones I have tried with a large screen. It mostly works as it should so I rated it accordingly but there are quite a few cons.
Pros
Nice screen. Not the brightest but not too dim either. Good viewing angles. I can lean back in my chair and still see things on it. Windows detects it as an additional screen and you can put whatever you want on it.
If the computer goes to sleep but the keyboard is still getting power, the screen goes all black with the exception of the red AJAZZ logo with no text. Not very offensive.
The knob feels nice to turn and press and the volume interacts immediately. Some keyboards have volume knob lag, not this one.
Major Con
The angle adjustment stands are flimsy and don't keep the board up. It is very easy, for me while typing, to accidentally push the board forward which knocks one of the feet back into the holders and drops a corner of the board. Maybe this is just a skill issue, as I usually use weighted keyboards with better stands where that's impossible. If you are a lighter typer, maybe this wont bug you.
Minor Cons
The touch feature of the screen is near useless. The touch screen interacts with the main screen not the keyboard screen. For example, I put all my desktop icons on the keyboard screen and when i try to touch them to open a program it just interacts with the corresponding space on my main monitor instead of opening the program.
The Mac/Win switch being on the front of the device. Why? I am not hyped about the screen on/off toggle being there either.
The knob function is not adjustable via VIA. Its just always going to be volume up/down and mute.
For reasons I haven't yet figured out, when playing games on this keyboard, it will randomly open folders like My Computer in front of my game. When I end my gaming session, I will have to close 7 My computer windows.
The knob isn't really replaceable. If the knob stem was metal instead of plastic you could screw on any knob you wanted to match whatever keycaps you put on but that's not the case. At least it feels nice as is.
Screen angle is not adjustable. While the viewing angle works well at most angles you would use it at. I still feel it would be nicer if you could adjust the screen angle to your liking.
Overall I feel you'd be better off using a keyboard you really enjoy and getting a single comparatively sized stand-alone screen.
DireVibesCon #4 may be from a software switch for mac mode -- Id say if it has the ability to remap, see if there is a softswitch in the manual and then in the software(? Does it even do VIA or is it like proprietary?) either turn off the setting (if there is one for it) or just disable to keypress combo when in specific apps (if the software doesnt have it I think there are other ways to achieve the same outcome in different pc programs).
I had smth similar happen. Didnt know I was in mac mode bc I did it with like a 3 button combo and then eventually I kept getting the same issue as you (diff board), and was just confused bc it was just doing mac mode things even tho the slider was in windows mode. lol.
Hopefully you got it figured out and ended up enjoying the board a month(ish) later.
- Nice screen. Not the brightest but not too dim either. Good viewing angles. I can lean back in my chair and still see things on it. Windows detects it as an additional screen and you can put whatever you want on it.
- If the computer goes to sleep but the keyboard is still getting power, the screen goes all black with the exception of the red AJAZZ logo with no text. Not very offensive.
- The knob feels nice to turn and press and the volume interacts immediately. Some keyboards have volume knob lag, not this one.
Major Con The angle adjustment stands are flimsy and don't keep the board up. It is very easy, for me while typing, to accidentally push the board forward which knocks one of the feet back into the holders and drops a corner of the board. Maybe this is just a skill issue, as I usually use weighted keyboards with better stands where that's impossible. If you are a lighter typer, maybe this wont bug you. Minor Cons- The touch feature of the screen is near useless. The touch screen interacts with the main screen not the keyboard screen. For example, I put all my desktop icons on the keyboard screen and when i try to touch them to open a program it just interacts with the corresponding space on my main monitor instead of opening the program.
- The Mac/Win switch being on the front of the device. Why? I am not hyped about the screen on/off toggle being there either.
- The knob function is not adjustable via VIA. Its just always going to be volume up/down and mute.
- For reasons I haven't yet figured out, when playing games on this keyboard, it will randomly open folders like My Computer in front of my game. When I end my gaming session, I will have to close 7 My computer windows.
- The knob isn't really replaceable. If the knob stem was metal instead of plastic you could screw on any knob you wanted to match whatever keycaps you put on but that's not the case. At least it feels nice as is.
- Screen angle is not adjustable. While the viewing angle works well at most angles you would use it at. I still feel it would be nicer if you could adjust the screen angle to your liking.
Overall I feel you'd be better off using a keyboard you really enjoy and getting a single comparatively sized stand-alone screen.