Optimus Maximus Available for Preorder

That's a damn nice keyboard and I would like to have one as would many of us here. I have to say that if you spend $1550 on a keyboard plus shipping puts you @ $1600 conisdering it would come from another country, you have lost your mind or you have way too much money to blow on stupid stuff.

I know the keyboard is extremely nice, but it's not $1550 dollars worth of nice, I have a feeling that this price is incorrect or you'll be seeing this keyboard disappear from existance and the company as well real soon.

:rolleyes:
 
I want one, but i cant justify that price.

I think i made a decision when the first design that if it was under 300$ i would just splurge and get it. ha. boy was i off on my estimate!
 
K10 said:
would you guys really find this useful? for me, i never look at my keyboard so i'm not sure how useful it'd be for me.
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I really don't think it would be useful for me. I'm in your boat. Once I got over the pretty pictures it'd just be something that I wouldn't want to eat or drink anywhere near. ;)
 
rofl.. wow. I've been looking at this for 2 years or longer since its been a prototype, even before that when it was just a 3d renderation. I remember target price points were rumored from the develper that it was supposed to go for $300 to $500 USD. But... $1500? Pathetic. I'd take one for sure in the $300 range.
 
If it was $100 maybe $150, I'd buy it, but $1500? He can kiss Dick Cheney's hairy arse for that price.
 
thats mighty expensive, i dont see this catching on much bcs of that price, but i'd expect to see something like touchpad LCD's or w/e acting as keyboards....that would be cool.
 
I want one... but not for that price... I might pay $250-$300 at most if I had money to burn... but $1500? No.
 
While I wouldn't buy one, I think it's a good price point for the company itself. If you will notice on their site they say they will only be making 400 in the first month, and to me, that's a really low production number so it should be pretty easy for them to hit, unless I'm just way off the mark.
400 x 1500 = $600,000
good money, especially since these probably aren't cheap to produce. Then the price will slowly drop like all things tech related usually do, till it gets to the point that it is actually a good buy.
 
Chimowowo said:
400 x 1500 = $600,000
good money, especially since these probably aren't cheap to produce. Then the price will slowly drop like all things tech related usually do, till it gets to the point that it is actually a good buy.
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Which will be sooner than later since the market determines a fair price, not the company producing the product.
 
Chimowowo said:
While I wouldn't buy one, I think it's a good price point for the company itself. If you will notice on their site they say they will only be making 400 in the first month, and to me, that's a really low production number so it should be pretty easy for them to hit, unless I'm just way off the mark.
400 x 1500 = $600,000
good money, especially since these probably aren't cheap to produce. Then the price will slowly drop like all things tech related usually do, till it gets to the point that it is actually a good buy.
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I applaud your business sense, but there's a factor you haven't considered.

Why hasn't a large brand name snatched this up? They creators would stand to make millions if that happened, yet they instead are settling on "small potatoes" as a return on their labors it would seem.

Especially if their production costs are even 1/3rd of the MSRP of the keyboard.

I'm thinking that there's something horrible wrong with the keyboard (or production of the keyboard) if the final price is so outrageously high for the consumer.

That, or the keyboard could be vaporware.
 
This brings up a great point.

I wouldn't drop 50 bucks on a keyboard I've never interacted with. I'm curious to see if this runs sell out, or what exactly happens here.
 
I can really see the use of a keyboard like this especially for a gamer. imagine all the keys change depending on the game your playing. It would really cut down on the learning curve when games come out with strange key layouts.

Granted $1550 is alot of money, hopefully it will come down. But look at what your getting 113 OLED displays. OLED displays are new technology so they aren't going to be cheap. the software and hardware design had to be a nightmare to get working properly. This could not be done with LCD or LEDs or any other type of display, there all way to thick. OLEDs produce there own light, and therefore can be made very thin/small.

Damn, if the price has dropped by half when I get my income tax refund next year I may get one, but unless I win the lottery I dont see this keyboard on my desk anytime soon.
 
personally, I think it's something wrong with the production/product. That's why they would produce such low numbers. That's also why I said I won't get one yet, but I just like to play devil's advocate a lot, hence my finding the good side to the numbers.

I would like to see it come to fruition as a cheaper viable product though, and I'm hoping that if it's not vaporware, they take this money and workout the bugs and drop the price later on.
 
this is a pretty sweet idea, but i was under the impression that OLED's had a terribly short lifespan.

Why pay that much for somthing you are going to be replacing in a year or so?

Make it 100 bux and sell tons of them :)
 
It looks cool, yeah, and it'd be cool to be the first one on your forum to own OLED tech., but 1600$ cool? Nope.
 
Ouch thats pricey... I have been waiting for these to be released for over a year =\
 
you guys seem to forget that there are A LOT of people with way too much money.
 
Anybody know what the estimated lifespan of OLED displays is?

Just curious.

It would really suck to be staring at a $1600 grayscale keyboard after a year or so.... which I have a feeling will happen.....Last I heard 10000 hours is about average, and I don't know about you guys, but I typically leave my machine on 24/7, meaning that if the keyboard doesn't "turn off" after a given period of inactivity, you have about a year and a half... give or take..
 
I predict complaints a month after they ship (if ever*), when the OLEDs start showing signs of burn in. :D

*Or a second prediction is that they won't get enough pre-order and will 1) cut the price more than in 1/2 or 2) refund for all orders.
 
Well that just means I'll be holding onto my screen-less keyboard for now. $ 1500 is just an absurd amount of money for an input device unless it has a port for a vibrating fleshlight.
 
Prices are sometimes demand driven; and as the petroleum people say,"If you won't pay that much for it, we won't charge that much for it." I say," pick it up, look at it, then, put it down and walk away."
 
EdLSmith said:
Prices are sometimes demand driven; and as the petroleum people say,"If you won't pay that much for it, we won't charge that much for it." I say," pick it up, look at it, then, put it down and walk away."
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cept the petrol people are talking out their collective asses, supply and demand doesnt work like that for a necessary commodity.
 
First they promised an entier keyboard that would light up, not just the side keys, they promised more features, and they promised a $300 price range.

Not only did they hack those features and made the oled display very limited to only a few keys, but the increased the price 5 fold.
 
Ockie said:
First they promised an entier keyboard that would light up, not just the side keys, they promised more features, and they promised a $300 price range.

Not only did they hack those features and made the oled display very limited to only a few keys, but the increased the price 5 fold.
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All 113 keys are OLEDS, not just a few you think are. Read the description before you run and post stuff.

On the subject of price, since there are 113 OLED displays in the keyboard... anybody has any clue what would the price for one be? B/C if it is anything near $10, price of displays alone is over $1000. The pricing of the keyboard would then be not Optimus' fault, it is a function of material cost. And it would also explain why nobody else (especially big players) is making such keyboard, they would not sell many...
 
If the pre-orders don't take all of the first production runs I will have one when they are released. I have been saving money in a separate bank account specifically for this keyboard. To me, it is well worth the price having a keyboard with the features it does.

Pictures will be posted when I get it.
 
Apallohadas said:
If it was $100 maybe $150, I'd buy it, but $1500? He can kiss Dick Cheney's hairy arse for that price.
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I would pay up to ~200 bucks for this...but for 1500, they can suck my one and only left semen producer.


Fracking BS.....
 
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