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gawd]]>Dec 8th 2006 1:07PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/12/08/owners-of-eyeballs-rejoice-optimus-swaps-back-to-color/http://www.engadget.com/2006/12/08/owners-of-eyeballs-rejoice-optimus-swaps-back-to-color/
$1200+ is still way too pricey for a keyboard if you ask me though, especially considering I just built a whole computer with dual video cards and matching monitors for barely $2100, so I will continue to rock my Eclipse board, and just memorize shortcuts, like a human with a functioning brain.]]>Dec 8th 2006 1:08PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/12/08/owners-of-eyeballs-rejoice-optimus-swaps-back-to-color/http://www.engadget.com/2006/12/08/owners-of-eyeballs-rejoice-optimus-swaps-back-to-color/
Woah... where do I get one of those? I stopped by the mall a couple weeks ago looking for one, every store I stopped in just looked at me blankly like they'd never heard of one...]]>Dec 8th 2006 1:22PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/12/08/owners-of-eyeballs-rejoice-optimus-swaps-back-to-color/http://www.engadget.com/2006/12/08/owners-of-eyeballs-rejoice-optimus-swaps-back-to-color/
If they FIX that and bring back the launch keys during this "return to color" then maybe they'll recapture all that concept buz they've squandered over the past year.

Rushing to market, shedding features all the way, was the absolute worst thing ArtLebedev could have done.]]>Dec 8th 2006 1:13PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/12/08/owners-of-eyeballs-rejoice-optimus-swaps-back-to-color/http://www.engadget.com/2006/12/08/owners-of-eyeballs-rejoice-optimus-swaps-back-to-color/Dec 8th 2006 1:13PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/12/08/owners-of-eyeballs-rejoice-optimus-swaps-back-to-color/http://www.engadget.com/2006/12/08/owners-of-eyeballs-rejoice-optimus-swaps-back-to-color/
Where's my dinner?.......]]>Dec 8th 2006 1:15PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/12/08/owners-of-eyeballs-rejoice-optimus-swaps-back-to-color/http://www.engadget.com/2006/12/08/owners-of-eyeballs-rejoice-optimus-swaps-back-to-color/
Lebedev has been making actual products in this realm of computing for a little while now. They've also shown actual development pictures in their project blog.

Just because someone's doing something cool doesn't mean it's automatically vaporware. People probably thought that same thing when someone announced the first "portable computer" (laptop).]]>Dec 8th 2006 1:17PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/12/08/owners-of-eyeballs-rejoice-optimus-swaps-back-to-color/http://www.engadget.com/2006/12/08/owners-of-eyeballs-rejoice-optimus-swaps-back-to-color/Dec 8th 2006 1:16PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/12/08/owners-of-eyeballs-rejoice-optimus-swaps-back-to-color/http://www.engadget.com/2006/12/08/owners-of-eyeballs-rejoice-optimus-swaps-back-to-color/http://www.engadget.com/2006/12/02/lg-debuts-ebook-concept-laptop-with-oled-screen-liquid-fuel/ ...that has a nice little oled keyboard already built in.
I'll be the first to get that badboy.


]]>Dec 8th 2006 1:21PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/12/08/owners-of-eyeballs-rejoice-optimus-swaps-back-to-color/http://www.engadget.com/2006/12/08/owners-of-eyeballs-rejoice-optimus-swaps-back-to-color/Dec 8th 2006 1:42PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/12/08/owners-of-eyeballs-rejoice-optimus-swaps-back-to-color/http://www.engadget.com/2006/12/08/owners-of-eyeballs-rejoice-optimus-swaps-back-to-color/The correct word is "tack". To take a different tack comes from the sailing world where tack refers to the course of the vessel with respect to the wind direction. Tact is synonymous with diplomacy and not the intended meaning here.
Sorry to be untactful in taking this tack.]]>Dec 8th 2006 1:31PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/12/08/owners-of-eyeballs-rejoice-optimus-swaps-back-to-color/http://www.engadget.com/2006/12/08/owners-of-eyeballs-rejoice-optimus-swaps-back-to-color/Dec 8th 2006 1:33PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/12/08/owners-of-eyeballs-rejoice-optimus-swaps-back-to-color/http://www.engadget.com/2006/12/08/owners-of-eyeballs-rejoice-optimus-swaps-back-to-color/Dec 8th 2006 1:36PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/12/08/owners-of-eyeballs-rejoice-optimus-swaps-back-to-color/http://www.engadget.com/2006/12/08/owners-of-eyeballs-rejoice-optimus-swaps-back-to-color/Dec 8th 2006 1:47PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/12/08/owners-of-eyeballs-rejoice-optimus-swaps-back-to-color/http://www.engadget.com/2006/12/08/owners-of-eyeballs-rejoice-optimus-swaps-back-to-color/
John Gruber put together a recent "fireball" on the topic that seems quite relevant here:

http://daringfireball.net/2006/12/omnivapor]]>Dec 8th 2006 2:05PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/12/08/owners-of-eyeballs-rejoice-optimus-swaps-back-to-color/http://www.engadget.com/2006/12/08/owners-of-eyeballs-rejoice-optimus-swaps-back-to-color/Dec 8th 2006 2:10PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/12/08/owners-of-eyeballs-rejoice-optimus-swaps-back-to-color/http://www.engadget.com/2006/12/08/owners-of-eyeballs-rejoice-optimus-swaps-back-to-color/Dec 8th 2006 2:35PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/12/08/owners-of-eyeballs-rejoice-optimus-swaps-back-to-color/http://www.engadget.com/2006/12/08/owners-of-eyeballs-rejoice-optimus-swaps-back-to-color/Dec 8th 2006 2:19PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/12/08/owners-of-eyeballs-rejoice-optimus-swaps-back-to-color/http://www.engadget.com/2006/12/08/owners-of-eyeballs-rejoice-optimus-swaps-back-to-color/
Granted, I see the advantage to having ALL the keys change for programs, games, etc. But let's keep the cost down and just have 12 customizable keys for now.
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In conclusion, stick with the 113 layout and change the enter key. That is all.]]>Dec 8th 2006 4:18PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/12/08/owners-of-eyeballs-rejoice-optimus-swaps-back-to-color/http://www.engadget.com/2006/12/08/owners-of-eyeballs-rejoice-optimus-swaps-back-to-color/Dec 8th 2006 5:32PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/12/08/owners-of-eyeballs-rejoice-optimus-swaps-back-to-color/http://www.engadget.com/2006/12/08/owners-of-eyeballs-rejoice-optimus-swaps-back-to-color/Dec 8th 2006 6:51PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/12/08/owners-of-eyeballs-rejoice-optimus-swaps-back-to-color/http://www.engadget.com/2006/12/08/owners-of-eyeballs-rejoice-optimus-swaps-back-to-color/
I think not. I am done reading on this. They could have had my $500, maybe even $700, but this is insane. Did anyone ever consider that perhaps they knew the feature cut would cause complaints and this is simply a way to raise the price in disguise? Conspiracy theorists unite!]]>Dec 8th 2006 7:52PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/12/08/owners-of-eyeballs-rejoice-optimus-swaps-back-to-color/http://www.engadget.com/2006/12/08/owners-of-eyeballs-rejoice-optimus-swaps-back-to-color/Dec 8th 2006 9:16PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/12/08/owners-of-eyeballs-rejoice-optimus-swaps-back-to-color/http://www.engadget.com/2006/12/08/owners-of-eyeballs-rejoice-optimus-swaps-back-to-color/Dec 9th 2006 1:57AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/12/08/owners-of-eyeballs-rejoice-optimus-swaps-back-to-color/http://www.engadget.com/2006/12/08/owners-of-eyeballs-rejoice-optimus-swaps-back-to-color/Evan Evans]]>Dec 9th 2006 5:13PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/12/08/owners-of-eyeballs-rejoice-optimus-swaps-back-to-color/http://www.engadget.com/2006/12/08/owners-of-eyeballs-rejoice-optimus-swaps-back-to-color/
I can't wait to see what this does to the ship date as well. At this rate, you might as well promise a bundled copy of Duke Nukem Forever with each keyboard, because they seem to have to use the same development method :(]]>Dec 9th 2006 10:02PM