Optimus Maximus to ship in white?
By Nilay Patel 
posted Oct 5th 2007 7:41AM
posted Oct 5th 2007 7:41AM
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This keyboard makes sticking stickers on my G15 look so primitive.... =(
A black keyboard would have looked super-hot!
I'll go for primitive over$1500 for a keyboard any day :-)
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/
Is this ever coming out. If it's too much longer I'm just going to take to my keyboard with some Crayolas.
They are changing the color of the keyboard so they have a new reason as to why it isnt released yet.
gluteus maximus?....
oh come on, you knew someone would say it
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!
Lunacy? THIS... IS... MADNESS!
Madness? THIS... IS... LE-BE-DEV!!!!!111One!eleven!exclamation!
NO!!....THIS...IS...OPTIMUS!!
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.
"Optimus Maximus to be shipped?"
The article could instead have been more accurately titled as the above.
hahahaha you replied to the wrong comment
you ass
@ Raymie:
"hahahaha you replied to the wrong comment"
What?
it like screwed up my comment....i was talking to that pfd dude
@raymie I do hope you appreciate the irony though.
look... no-one cares about your blog. so stop spamming it everywhere.
RedBull Runner go get a life
they have an engadget logo on one of the 8 shortcuts
Cool! Didn't notice till you said
make that 10 shortcuts
In for 2, wait a minute, $1400 each? In for 0.
Go Redbullrunner! Yeah!
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!
"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!'
with the pricetags on these things, is ANYONE gonna buy em?
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
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!
No one cares anymore.
What! Please stop making public statements in my name, thanks - I still care about this interesting project.
The name sounds like the name of a Roman general.
Does this matter anymore?
what exactly is the significance of this keyboard? what's it do? i just started hearing about it a month or so ago.
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!
If it was 200, I'd buy one. Even if I had to buy the other keys still. It's a fantastic idea.
They also repainted the Vector car so it looked like they had more than one. Same deal here.