Having owned my Razer Ultimate now for better than a month ripster nailed it in the link he gave you.............. Great board, mechanically no big problems, but all the things noted are issues. My board will dim, brighten on occasion and I do worry about the back lighting having issues individually on the keys and then of course the wear in the future. I don't beat and bang on it so it should be OK, however I'm looking to grab another board here to make sure. Shoulda, woulda, coulda.......
The programmable, macro keys are neat- they work great-- although if it goes into hibernation you have to click the razer icon to get them to wake up I guess as they are unresponsive. As long as you don't allow it to hiber you will be fine. You could always just remap a few keys as well.........
I do an enormous amount of photo, video editing (Photoshop, Vegas Pro) and I really, personally don't see the big benefit of the programmable keys, etc. I will say the back lighting is beneficial sometimes, but as seen in ripsters link your sort of looking over your shoulder all the time when you see them dim and brighten once or twice.
Otherwise if I had to do it again I would opt out for a simpler board and go with the shortcuts vs programmable keys as someone earlier said. All the media, etc. keys are to noisy and I would rather go without. Same problem why some do not like the CM Storm- enough already. I'm already working on swapping some keys out:}
