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Optimus Keyboard Not Delayed

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Gizmodo says that the recent rumors of an Optimus keyboard delay are not true and that the ship date was always February. Late, on time or otherwise, are any of you going to plop down a mortgage payment on one of these babies?

Optimus themselves have updated the situation, saying that standard shipments are still on track for February, but if you want a unit they will deliver it soon (but with only PC software, Mac software won't be ready until late January).
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I actually think they are probably priced really well, its just way out of my budget, I mean theres how many little OLED displays on the keyboard, that has to cost alot to manufactur as well as design costs.

if i ever have $1500 I can't think of anything to spend on I would probablky get one. Hey, just so you all know my Birthday is Jan 17th, ;)
 
Boy, and here I thought shelling out $1200 for my PC monitor was a lot. :)

Pretty sweet though.
 
~$500.00 isn't really all that bad but I can't see spending that kind of money on something that isn't going to get me closer to playing Crysis.
 
Superdemon said:
~$500.00 isn't really all that bad but I can't see spending that kind of money on something that isn't going to get me closer to playing Crysis.
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Who actually looks at their keyboard anyway...?

Seems like a pretty useless item.
 
Nemesis999 said:
Who actually looks at their keyboard anyway...?

Seems like a pretty useless item.
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I don't think you really get the point.. when your the one guy at a lan with a keyboard that lets you put pr0n on each of your keyboard keys, you better believe you will get some attention.. not saying that's my thing, I don't goto lans nor will I buy this thing but there are most definitely people with spare cash willing to spend on geek gadgets that rate high on the brag meter :p
 
The $462 version is for only one button that is OLED activated.

Priced are as follows:

1 Button OLED: $462
10 Button OLED - $599
47 Buttons OLED 0 $999
Full Keyboard OLED - $1564

You have to actually try to pre order to see all the prices.:p
 
As someone who constantly switches between Dvorak and Qwerty layouts, I would like something like this. However, short of winning the lottery, I'd never buy one at that price.
 
jayx9 said:
The $462 version is for only one button that is OLED activated.

Priced are as follows:

1 Button OLED: $462
10 Button OLED - $599
47 Buttons OLED 0 $999
Full Keyboard OLED - $1564

You have to actually try to pre order to see all the prices.:p
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Wait a damn minute here. How can they justify that price? They are selling their 3 button keyboard for $134.99 on thinkgeek right now ( http://www.thinkgeek.com/computing/input/88ee/ ) Why does the full sized keyboard cost so much more?
 
If it was an ergo board and I didn't have all of the other projects I've currently got going vying for funding already, I'd cough up the $1500. Expensive? Yes. Worth it? If its build quality matches its looks, absolutely.
 
I believe at any time you can replace the static keys with OLED ones, which could be why they are charging the price they are (the hookup is there just not the OLED key). Still a retarded amount of money.
 
LED diodes are cheap. The reason the keyboard is so much is because it's a one of a kind, and folks will pay. Now add a few more companies making one and watch the price come way down.
 
If I had that much spare money, then yea I'd buy one....I mean, why not? It's a neat toy for rich folks....hopefully the price will creep down over time
 
Flyingcrazy said:
LED diodes are cheap. The reason the keyboard is so much is because it's a one of a kind, and folks will pay. Now add a few more companies making one and watch the price come way down.
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They aint just LED diodes, there complete OLED displays in each and every key, you have to consider the fitting of a working color display in a functional keyboard key, the cost of not only the display, but also the interconnects, the didicated microchips to power and control each display seperatly, the software programing, as well as research and design costs.....This aint something that you can just go and grab the components off a shelf and slap it together type of item, its unique and cutting edge, and that costs alot of money.
 
My opinion: Useless waste of money. It's like buying a Gold Plated Gun, pretty to look at, but hardly practical. What sort of energy draw does it have? Do the keys heat up? What about the stress on the OLEDs by pressing on them? I know the surface of my "W" key is usually fairly worn out from heavy use of the WASD key layout of most FPS games, would this stand up to that? What about dead pixels? This is pure fluff for those who have the disposable income to piss away.
 
I think it'll just be a cool novelty item until there are a few OLED keyboards out providing competition, and the price goes down to where more than the select rich will buy it for shits and giggles. I think a lot of the price now is just because its brand new, and they have to recoup R&D cost, etc..

I personally don't think it will take off well enough to survive as anything but an oddity though. Too bad, I wouldn't mind seeing something like this becoming more standard 5-8 years down the road. :D
 
My opinion: Useless waste of money. It's like buying a Gold Plated Gun, pretty to look at, but hardly practical. What sort of energy draw does it have? Do the keys heat up? What about the stress on the OLEDs by pressing on them? I know the surface of my "W" key is usually fairly worn out from heavy use of the WASD key layout of most FPS games, would this stand up to that? What about dead pixels? This is pure fluff for those who have the disposable income to piss away.
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I think it will be functional, to say the least. OLEDs use a very small amount of energy, emit a very small amount of heat, and are very durable.

That's also why the keyboard costs so much. OLED is a new technology that costs a lot more to produce than standard LED technology.
 
CRAP NO!

I don't like their explanation of why there is no linux software. Hell I'm sure there are Nuts on Linux (and I use that term dearly) That would love to write their own drivers for this darned thing if they were given the chance. They'd probably want them to be open source but who really cares?


Second is the warranty... One year? WHAT THE HELL, really What the hell. It could be worse but show a little faith! The HD's like to buy 5 years, the SD cards Lifetime. This will not cover incidental or intentional damage anyway so why not?


The one good thing going for this is that it isn't too outrageous and having about a 10FPS full refresh from the PC seems like it might make it ideal as a movie prop.


I can be somewhat particular about my keyboard, I like it to be soft but not too soft. Full sized and certain keys in certain places (No L shaped return) and then we can talk about sound. The hardware of this keyboard may turn out to not be as elegant as its looks and what about wear and tear?
 
HOCP4ME said:
I think it will be functional, to say the least. OLEDs use a very small amount of energy, emit a very small amount of heat, and are very durable.

That's also why the keyboard costs so much. OLED is a new technology that costs a lot more to produce than standard LED technology.
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Oh, I'm sure it will be functional, at $1500 each they better be. But like the analogy I used, even a Gold Plated Gun is functional, but not exactly the sort of thing you'd want for everyday use. Makes a great conversation piece, something cool to show off to friends, but probably not something that will get the same sort of use (and abuse) that any of us posting here give our own keyboards on a daily basis.
 
You may not look at your keys when typing, but do you remember every single shortcut for every program that you use? imagine using photoshop and having icons show up on the keyboard for all the various functions. For newbies to various games, the keys would change to show them what the various keys are. That way when they go from Halo 2 to Call of Duty 4 to UT to what ever else even though the keys might change they can quickly see what key to press.

I not sure how well the content detection is, but if it will let you press something like ctrl + alt or ctrl-shift and show you all the windows shortcuts that you have setup then that would be another good use. On my old box I had about 30 shortcuts setup. ctrl + alt or shit + just about any letter on the keyboard opened some program.
ctrl + alt + c opened up calc
ctrl + alt + e opened up windows explorer
ctrl + alt + i opened up internet explorer
ctrl + alt + f opened up firefox
ctrl + shift + i opened up irfanfiew
ctrl + alt + v opened up visual studio.net
ctrl + shift + v opened up visual studio 6
ctrl + alt + w opened up Word
and so on.


By having various profiles for different programs I could see where it could come in handy for shortcuts for various function in a program and could speed up some task. Howevereven though I can see where it could be useful, it is far to pricely for my blood and don't see many other than those with money to waste getting one. Although once the price of a full keyboard gets to the $500 or less range, then it become far more usefull for more people.
 
yeah, its cool and i could see uses, but to be honest, i can buy a g15 for around 60 bucks, i can abuse it and logitech will usually take care of me, and if its really bad, i can but nearly 10 of them for one optimus.

not to mention the g15 is IMO more practical for both gaming and everyday computing, plus i can program my own applets, i like having my polygon count displayed on the screen when in max, or have my trillian messages go to the screen when i'm in a game.
 
My e-penis size got big enough when I bought my Stacker 830. I don't need anymore bragging rights. What I need is better parts inside the damn thing.
 
It would definitely be nice to have enough FU money to get a keyboard like that.
 
Exavior said:
imagine using photoshop and having icons show up on the keyboard for all the various functions.

By having various profiles for different programs I could see where it could come in handy
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Well, there you have the potential. I've got one of the mini-3's and it;s pretty useful to be able to have a tiny but very clear pic that triggers a programmable macro as complex as you want that is context sensitive through, not just the application, but down through it's menus.

I've fooled around using it with kids, and a pretty good range of adults. Not all of them spoke english but they all used it productively and loved it.

Some versions of this can become terrific products and I hope they do.
 
Techx said:
I don't think you really get the point.. when your the one guy at a lan with a keyboard that lets you put pr0n on each of your keyboard keys, you better believe you will get some attention.. not saying that's my thing, I don't goto lans nor will I buy this thing but there are most definitely people with spare cash willing to spend on geek gadgets that rate high on the brag meter :p
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ZOMFG PRON THE SIZE OF APPLICATION ICONS!!!
 
JethroXP said:
What about the stress on the OLEDs by pressing on them? I know the surface of my "W" key is usually fairly worn out from heavy use of the WASD key layout of most FPS games, would this stand up to that?
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Please, please RTFM before commenting on things. :rolleyes: It wouldn't actually kill you to actually go to their website to see what they've written about building the damn thing before you complain about how pressing on the OLED's will wear them out faster.

http://www.artlebedev.com/everything/optimus/ said:
The service life of displays and their ribbon cables has been enhanced by making the screens embedded in the keytops motionless—it’s only the transparent caps that are pressed.
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You can also visit Art. Lebedev Studio's blog and get A LOT of information about the whole design and manufacturing of the keyboard.
 
This is for people who have lots of money to piss away on useless, gimmicky, expensive toys that are completely devoid of any practical use.

:rolleyes:
 
How long before we see cheap replacement keys ala knock-offs from China? That would be cool.. we could buy the plain keyboard (the one with a single OLED space key) and replace all the other keys with knock-off screens...
 
I'd spend $400 on a shemale hooker before I would on a keyboard.
 
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