laffindude, are we now 100% sure that the new pure and poker are going to be 100% programmable.
I've read the announcement above and it's hard to definitively tell from google translate.
The caveat has been mentioned awhile ago, you cannot program the physical FN and PN key, so it is not 100% programmable. The original KBC annoucement did say updatable firmware. So it theoretically could be fully programmable.
One of the main thing they're pushing is the hardware programmable thing. I believe the programming step to be: (I am doing this from memory from the short time I played with the board, I may be missing a step or 2)
* You press a key combo to set the keyboard into program mode (PMODE on the caps)
* Press the PN key and the key you want to program to program that key
* Press what you want the key to be (include macros) and press PN to end programming the key
* Press the key combo to end program mode
There are limitations (you're limited to what's on the keyboard already) and obviously a little fiddly. There is a way to print out what is programmed on the key as plain text to help you program macros.
On the topic of manual. It'll just confuse you more. The early Chinese programming steps I saw was horrible. I can only imagine the horror of the translated manual.