Optimus Maximus to ship in white?

At this point we're pretty firmly on the seeing-is-believing bandwagon with the Optimus Maximus, but this picture on user optimus_project's LiveJournal pretty clearly shows the Ultimate Keyboard with a white frame as opposed to the silver one we've previously seen. Oh, also it's titled "Optimus Maximus to be shipped in white," so there's that. We're kinda getting the render vibe from the image, but as always, we'll leave that up to you to hash out in the comments.

[Joe_Templeman @ Oct 5th 2007 7:48AM]

This keyboard makes sticking stickers on my G15 look so primitive.... =(

[Tinu Tapori @ Oct 5th 2007 10:12AM]

A black keyboard would have looked super-hot!

[01 @ Oct 5th 2007 12:51PM]

I'll go for primitive over$1500 for a keyboard any day :-)

[Alan Partridge @ Oct 5th 2007 7:50AM]

That LiverJournal doesn't belong to just some user, it's Artemy Lebedev himself. His been blogging every step of making that thing and its quite an interesting read...if you're into that sort of thing.

http://community.livejournal.com/optimus_project/

[[e-mail] @ Oct 5th 2007 7:55AM]

Is this ever coming out. If it's too much longer I'm just going to take to my keyboard with some Crayolas.

[Nick @ Oct 5th 2007 11:17AM]

They are changing the color of the keyboard so they have a new reason as to why it isnt released yet.

[blade417 @ Oct 5th 2007 8:04AM]

gluteus maximus?....



oh come on, you knew someone would say it

[Chrisphillers @ Oct 5th 2007 8:10AM]

What a ridiculous keyboard a) its takenbloody years since it was announced b) A display on every single key?? How pointless/expensive is that? When then originally announced it having 8 'hot keys' with displays made sense but this, this is lunacy!

[RedBull Runner @ Oct 5th 2007 8:16AM]

Lunacy? THIS... IS... MADNESS!

[jlouis @ Oct 5th 2007 8:26AM]

Madness? THIS... IS... LE-BE-DEV!!!!!111One!eleven!exclamation!

[riggs @ Oct 5th 2007 8:39AM]

NO!!....THIS...IS...OPTIMUS!!

[Don @ Oct 5th 2007 8:41AM]

A display on every key is genius, actually. But taking 5 years from announcement to get you product to market, and at a price 5 times more than originally stated? Dumb, dumb, dumb.

[Don @ Oct 5th 2007 8:17AM]

"Optimus Maximus to be shipped?"

The article could instead have been more accurately titled as the above.

[raymie @ Oct 5th 2007 8:35AM]

hahahaha you replied to the wrong comment

you ass

[Don @ Oct 5th 2007 8:39AM]

@ Raymie:

"hahahaha you replied to the wrong comment"

What?

[raymie @ Oct 5th 2007 8:47AM]

it like screwed up my comment....i was talking to that pfd dude

[Paul @ Oct 5th 2007 12:31PM]

@raymie I do hope you appreciate the irony though.

[RedBull Runner @ Oct 5th 2007 8:17AM]

look... no-one cares about your blog. so stop spamming it everywhere.

[PFD @ Oct 5th 2007 8:21AM]

RedBull Runner go get a life

[Owen V @ Oct 5th 2007 8:34AM]

they have an engadget logo on one of the 8 shortcuts

[Derry Quinn @ Oct 5th 2007 8:38AM]

Cool! Didn't notice till you said

[Owen V @ Oct 5th 2007 8:34AM]

make that 10 shortcuts

[dudeInAmerica @ Oct 5th 2007 8:37AM]

In for 2, wait a minute, $1400 each? In for 0.

[Derry Quinn @ Oct 5th 2007 8:37AM]

Go Redbullrunner! Yeah!

[strider_mt2k @ Oct 5th 2007 9:01AM]

Wow!

It's so strange to see one with an actual enclosure on it and not splayed out on a test bench with only a few keys functioning!

I imagine someone out there might actually start believing this is a solid and not a gas!

[MEAT! @ Oct 5th 2007 9:25AM]

"I imagine someone out there might actually start believing this is a solid and not a gas!"

Very good, very good. But don't stop there.

'...and, some of those people might have money! And then...and then Art Lebedev can...take...take their money for preorders without producing a product! It's all so clear now!'

[Hguh @ Oct 5th 2007 9:32AM]

with the pricetags on these things, is ANYONE gonna buy em?

[rudebo @ Oct 5th 2007 9:57AM]

this tells me one thing and one thing only:

they realised only people who buy more usefull but still shallow products from apple would buy the maximus :) hence .. white

[Joe_Templeman @ Oct 5th 2007 10:49AM]

That keybaord is so awesome!!! But it does beg the question...why not buy a $5 keyboard and scrape the letters off! $80 is stupid!

[John Doe @ Oct 5th 2007 10:55AM]

No one cares anymore.

[Tom @ Oct 5th 2007 11:44AM]

What! Please stop making public statements in my name, thanks - I still care about this interesting project.

[Constable Odo @ Oct 5th 2007 11:20AM]

The name sounds like the name of a Roman general.

[shaliron @ Oct 5th 2007 11:49AM]

Does this matter anymore?

[Texas T @ Oct 5th 2007 12:16PM]

what exactly is the significance of this keyboard? what's it do? i just started hearing about it a month or so ago.

[Chris @ Oct 6th 2007 12:08PM]

Every key is a little screen, so you can change what they display. Like 'e' will change to 'E' when you hold shift.

It's really useful for showing shortcuts and stuff in things like photoshop. But it can be used for so much more.

Really want one, but not at that price, a 22" screen with the shortcuts listed infront of me my be a cheaper option!

[CubeGuy @ Oct 5th 2007 3:11PM]

If it was 200, I'd buy one. Even if I had to buy the other keys still. It's a fantastic idea.

[Kentucky Wildcats! @ Oct 7th 2007 1:03AM]

They also repainted the Vector car so it looked like they had more than one. Same deal here.