Some Reservations
Everything is not all sunshine and roses. Despite my immediate love of the feel and typing experience of the ROG Scope II, there were some adjustments to be made. After 30+ years of typing on a full size keyboard there has certainly been a learning curve. I can’t touch type the delete key, and the single space Zero on the 10 key is taking some adjustment. It is a bit of a struggle, but practice with the form factor will make it a non-issue.
Also, when dealing with any ASUS product that features RGB, there is the big rainbow colored elephant in the room known as Armoury Crate. While ASUS has given us some great products over the years, they have also given us the software equivalent to Syphilis with this monstrosity. Luckily, they seem to have been listening (at least recently) as you do not have to install the full version of Armoury Crate for the Scope II, as they have a trimmed down version called Armoury Crate Gear which will only offer customization of the one device.
Better still is the fact that ROG Scope II 96 has six onboard profiles which can be customized within the Armoury Crate software, then saved to the device. You can then uninstall the software and utilize all 6 profiles, selectable with the a FN+1-6 keypress. To be honest though, the Armoury Crate Gear is not even close to the bloatware levels of the full version, and places very little load on the system. You do not have to create an account to use the software, but it does still run some background operations, even when not open. My personal feeling would be to leave it installed all six profiles set the way you want, and then uninstall it.
