Final Optimus Maximus box design revealed

Well, it looks like Art Lebedev's slow drip of information about its Optimus Maximus keyboard even extends to the product's packaging, as it now turns out that last box we saw wasn't the final version -- the one above is, supposedly. Not that it likely make a bit of difference to the select few actually able to get their hands on one, that is.

[Mike @ Nov 22nd 2007 5:39PM]

I still really, really want one, regardless of price. Come on winning lottery ticket!

[gage @ Nov 22nd 2007 5:44PM]

In other really important news, I just took a piss.

[Fank @ Nov 22nd 2007 5:56PM]

Indeed.
Guys, it's a box.

[Sartor @ Nov 22nd 2007 6:15PM]

I wonder how much the box will sell for on Ebay.

[Kax02 @ Nov 22nd 2007 11:18PM]

That's pretty important news, no kidney stones today folks!

[CUBSWILLWIN @ Nov 22nd 2007 6:40PM]

I'm pretty sure I'm more excited about your news than a 1500 dollar keyobard's box design.

[Joe @ Nov 22nd 2007 9:23PM]

With 65,536 colors, one would think the 6 and 3 could vary a bit more.

[Joe @ Nov 22nd 2007 9:25PM]

Engadget, here- for future use:

news·wor·thy [nooz-wur-thee]
–adjective
of sufficient interest to the public or a special audience to warrant press attention or coverage

[DBrim @ Nov 22nd 2007 5:48PM]

So, uh, what's the point of the rubik's cube?

[s7r1k3r @ Nov 22nd 2007 6:05PM]

Engadget was doubting this thing from the begining and now that its a reality they just got owned and are still a little too proud of themselves. I think an apology is due.

[Josh L @ Nov 22nd 2007 6:38PM]

Why?

[bluesky_v2.01 @ Nov 22nd 2007 6:22PM]

Price please.

[Alexander @ Nov 22nd 2007 7:56PM]

it was announced that it would cost $1500 bucks with all the keys on it. Now that the dollar has fallen, I'm sure it will cost more.

I remember hearing that the base with normal keys (not OLED ones) was going to be like $200 bucks. Then you can purchase the keys one-by-one to get the whole keyboard.

I'd personally just put it on my CC if I could get confirmation on the existance of Linux drivers. Works for MacOS, but not Linux. Oy.

[ethana2 @ Nov 23rd 2007 2:31AM]

Yeah, I wouldn't touch it without Linux drivers either.

...or if they were feeling really awesome they'd release full soft specs (ATi) or make drivers for Linux, BSD /and/ OpenSolaris (nVidia). Right now, they're basically pulling a.. what do you call it? (Apple/Adobe/Microsoft)

[Rand @ Nov 22nd 2007 6:32PM]

Coming from a product development background I'll say waving a prototype around is still a long way from production. Its easy to make one of something, making 1000s of them is an entirely different matter. Its looking promising, but its not out of the woods yet and Engadget is still far from owned.

[Sauerkraut @ Nov 22nd 2007 6:34PM]

Did the company pay engadget to put up these articles?

No one cares about them until it's 200 dollars
All I see these days are Optimus Maximus news and Eee Pc lol

[CUBSWILLWIN @ Nov 22nd 2007 6:39PM]

exactly! If it was engadget's choice, they woudn't put up a boring article about a keyboard for the rich. Engadget reports on interesting and sometimes poitnless but funny news.

[waiownsyou @ Nov 22nd 2007 8:38PM]

It's Thanksgiving... give Engadget a break. It's a slow news day.

[ethana2 @ Nov 23rd 2007 2:42AM]

I think engadget does a fine job with the content. Every camp issues a fairly good number of 'all I see here is ____' complaints, so I'd call it about fair.

That said, I'm a little confused on the software. Did they finally make it so people could edit and remove their posts, or was that article I saw a while ago some OpenID login thing?

...cause every day I think 'If there's one thing engadget needs to fix (other than kind of writing off the interests of my particular OS faction when it comes to new hardware reviews ;), it's adding support for post edits.

...I think it'd be awesome to have an article on the market share of various browsers and Operating Systems on engadget, compared to, say Google or something. I really think that would be fascinating. Checking my useragent... ok, it's not a spoofed googlebot. begin.

[Anthony @ Nov 22nd 2007 7:41PM]

I was on the fence with this product but now I'm sold! The box is amazing!

The only news I really want to hear about this thing is that they figured out a way to keep it under $300. It is a great concept and all but I would be much more impressed on a company that was figuring out a way to lower the costs of production that would make things like this reasonable.

[tekdroid @ Nov 22nd 2007 9:17PM]

I'll wait for the brown-box OEM version...

[Maximiliam @ Nov 22nd 2007 9:51PM]

Boxes are flammable

[ethana2 @ Nov 23rd 2007 2:50AM]

filed under 'the cons of proprietary software'

...your clothes are probably flammable too. Perhaps that's why you came into this world without them. There's a reason for everything!

[TheCow5 @ Nov 23rd 2007 12:34AM]

I have a couple questions.
Is Engadget a marketting arem of these companys. its a box!
Do these companays simply use companys like Engadget for free marketting. First its "we have created something" and all the hype with it. then its Look we have created a box, then the hype. then its we have a price to go with the box and the hype behind that.

can some tell me when a chinese or japanese company makes a cheep knock-off of this.

[ethana2 @ Nov 23rd 2007 2:48AM]

Congratulations! You're a qwerty user!

You'd think if you were looking at your fingers as much as most of you guys do, you'd want something prettier under them...
That said, there are a lot of people who do commit qwerty to memory...
...and learning a new layout well does take a month...

I guess what I mean to say is 'I do.' ~ colemak typist for 6 months

[Mile @ Nov 23rd 2007 3:26AM]

How come no one is yelling for an Optimus Maximus Mouse? I want to program the buttons but want visual feedback as to what the hell I programmed them for and I refuse to pay more than $900 for this.

[Logboy @ Nov 23rd 2007 6:46AM]

Reality check here....it's a keyboard...you're going to have to replace it in a year because you get cheetoh (sp)crumbs inside and oh yea you masturbate dangerously close to it.

[Ian @ Nov 23rd 2007 11:52AM]

How much is it going to be?

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