New mechanical Keyboard needed - low profile caps and mac compatibility

[Shihatsu]

Hi guys,

I was asked for a mechanical Keyboard which is Mac compatible and has low profile Keycaps (like the Cherry MX 3.0 Board). As I have absolut no clue about Macs and personally love high profiles like SA, I am stuck. My only idea was to use a keyboard that comes with explicit Mac-support and buy a DSA-set for it - this would fix the switch onto Cherry -MX though. Are there any other options?

Basic requirements:
Layout: ANSI-104
Multimediakeys: nice to have
Macrokeys/programmable: nice to have
LEDs/Backlight: nice to have
Pricerange: will be used profesionally, so it doesn't matter, as cheap as possible, as costly as it has to be
Switch: no clear preference, currendly MX-Red is used, the guy is ready to give anything a try, could be Matias, Topre, ...
Usage: Programming at work, Wordprocessing, sometimes DOTA2/SC2 during a break.

Thanks guys.

[margo baggins]

Mac compatability is here https://geekhack.org/index.php?topic=63028.0

For low profile caps you are going to want a DSA set.

[kasakka]

Any mechanical keyboard will work perfectly fine with a Mac. You will just need to rearrange the modifiers, which you can easily do from OSX's Keyboard settings separately for every connected keyboard. For example I use both a custom 60% and a Vortex Pok3r with a Macbook Pro.

If you want the correct key labels then your options are more limited in terms of keycaps but I'm sure someone sells them or a keyboard with them on already.

It's worth noting that 60% keyboards are very close to the size of Macbook Pro keyboards and you can disable the internal keyboard automatically when an external keyboard is connected with the Karabiner app. Then you can just lay a 60% keyboard on top of the MBP keyboard, it's surprisingly nice to use that way if you only have the laptop screen to work on.