http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/21/optimus-maximus-shipments-begin/ Engadget Comments for http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/21/optimus-maximus-shipments-begin/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/21/optimus-maximus-shipments-begin/Feb 21st 2008 4:28PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/21/optimus-maximus-shipments-begin/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/21/optimus-maximus-shipments-begin/*this is me pretending to have the OM with stickers on my keyboard*
Yay!]]>Feb 21st 2008 4:30PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/21/optimus-maximus-shipments-begin/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/21/optimus-maximus-shipments-begin/Feb 21st 2008 4:31PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/21/optimus-maximus-shipments-begin/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/21/optimus-maximus-shipments-begin/Feb 21st 2008 5:01PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/21/optimus-maximus-shipments-begin/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/21/optimus-maximus-shipments-begin/
http://www.artlebedev.com/everything/optimus-tactus/

I guess I will have to pre-order in four years and then wait another three for it to ship.]]>Feb 21st 2008 8:39PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/21/optimus-maximus-shipments-begin/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/21/optimus-maximus-shipments-begin/Feb 22nd 2008 4:13AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/21/optimus-maximus-shipments-begin/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/21/optimus-maximus-shipments-begin/Feb 22nd 2008 9:08AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/21/optimus-maximus-shipments-begin/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/21/optimus-maximus-shipments-begin/Feb 21st 2008 4:31PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/21/optimus-maximus-shipments-begin/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/21/optimus-maximus-shipments-begin/Feb 21st 2008 4:31PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/21/optimus-maximus-shipments-begin/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/21/optimus-maximus-shipments-begin/Feb 21st 2008 4:36PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/21/optimus-maximus-shipments-begin/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/21/optimus-maximus-shipments-begin/]]>Feb 21st 2008 5:01PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/21/optimus-maximus-shipments-begin/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/21/optimus-maximus-shipments-begin/Feb 21st 2008 6:07PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/21/optimus-maximus-shipments-begin/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/21/optimus-maximus-shipments-begin/Feb 21st 2008 6:15PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/21/optimus-maximus-shipments-begin/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/21/optimus-maximus-shipments-begin/Feb 21st 2008 7:49PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/21/optimus-maximus-shipments-begin/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/21/optimus-maximus-shipments-begin/Feb 21st 2008 4:31PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/21/optimus-maximus-shipments-begin/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/21/optimus-maximus-shipments-begin/Feb 21st 2008 4:41PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/21/optimus-maximus-shipments-begin/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/21/optimus-maximus-shipments-begin/Feb 21st 2008 4:45PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/21/optimus-maximus-shipments-begin/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/21/optimus-maximus-shipments-begin/Feb 21st 2008 4:58PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/21/optimus-maximus-shipments-begin/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/21/optimus-maximus-shipments-begin/Feb 22nd 2008 9:31AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/21/optimus-maximus-shipments-begin/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/21/optimus-maximus-shipments-begin/
Faslane]]>Feb 21st 2008 5:20PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/21/optimus-maximus-shipments-begin/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/21/optimus-maximus-shipments-begin/Feb 21st 2008 4:46PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/21/optimus-maximus-shipments-begin/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/21/optimus-maximus-shipments-begin/Feb 21st 2008 4:47PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/21/optimus-maximus-shipments-begin/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/21/optimus-maximus-shipments-begin/
Unfortunately these will all be bought by the same folks that happily paid up for the SSD MacBook Air, and the keys will be reprogrammed to collectively display Steve Jobs' face...]]>Feb 21st 2008 5:07PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/21/optimus-maximus-shipments-begin/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/21/optimus-maximus-shipments-begin/
This is really the Segway of keyboards.]]>Feb 21st 2008 4:48PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/21/optimus-maximus-shipments-begin/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/21/optimus-maximus-shipments-begin/
Duke Nuken F0 EvA still missing in action.]]>Feb 21st 2008 4:48PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/21/optimus-maximus-shipments-begin/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/21/optimus-maximus-shipments-begin/
"They was right."]]>Feb 21st 2008 5:12PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/21/optimus-maximus-shipments-begin/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/21/optimus-maximus-shipments-begin/Feb 21st 2008 5:19PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/21/optimus-maximus-shipments-begin/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/21/optimus-maximus-shipments-begin/
Homeboy, that was a Blazing Saddles quote.

Remember? Sheriff Bart visits his old friends on the work crew...?]]>Feb 21st 2008 8:05PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/21/optimus-maximus-shipments-begin/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/21/optimus-maximus-shipments-begin/and i could have a daft punk button.
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photoshop/autocad and many other programs use or can use key command shortcuts instead of typing for input.

for example, z selects zoom, p selects pan, and so on for a TON of keys... You just can't replace it with a few hot keys.


I checked these out in person at CES and they were very cool, but a little too glossy, looks cheap and shows fingerprints like an iphone... Also it was quite heavy and got rather warm.

Even for normal typing it's rather cool to have lower case letters on the keyboard then have them go uppercase.

What I don't care about is color. The PSU is kind of a issue too.

Give us a e-ink 4-grey high resolution display on every key with some soft glow/backlight options and for $300 or less and I'm so in.]]>Feb 22nd 2008 2:40AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/21/optimus-maximus-shipments-begin/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/21/optimus-maximus-shipments-begin/Feb 22nd 2008 8:45AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/21/optimus-maximus-shipments-begin/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/21/optimus-maximus-shipments-begin/
Is it true that in addition to the Duke Nukem Forever playable demo it ships with the Guns-n-Roses Chinese Democracy album?]]>Feb 21st 2008 4:54PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/21/optimus-maximus-shipments-begin/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/21/optimus-maximus-shipments-begin/Feb 22nd 2008 1:32AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/21/optimus-maximus-shipments-begin/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/21/optimus-maximus-shipments-begin/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Model_M_Keyboard

IMHO the best keyboard ever made...]]>Feb 21st 2008 5:07PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/21/optimus-maximus-shipments-begin/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/21/optimus-maximus-shipments-begin/Feb 21st 2008 5:27PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/21/optimus-maximus-shipments-begin/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/21/optimus-maximus-shipments-begin/
Amazing keyboard. If I could have one that had the same tactility/size without the insane clicking I'd buy it. But then again the clicking is amazing.]]>Feb 21st 2008 5:26PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/21/optimus-maximus-shipments-begin/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/21/optimus-maximus-shipments-begin/
-avi]]>Feb 21st 2008 8:30PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/21/optimus-maximus-shipments-begin/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/21/optimus-maximus-shipments-begin/
but personally, i never use the 'special' keys, or individual programmable keys on my keyboard... that's what my mouse is there for... to click on things...]]>Feb 21st 2008 5:13PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/21/optimus-maximus-shipments-begin/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/21/optimus-maximus-shipments-begin/It's just a matter of time before the first 'christmas light' hack comes along and turns this keyboard into a twinkling finger decoration. Hunt and peck has never looked so good.]]>Feb 21st 2008 5:23PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/21/optimus-maximus-shipments-begin/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/21/optimus-maximus-shipments-begin/]]>Feb 21st 2008 5:28PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/21/optimus-maximus-shipments-begin/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/21/optimus-maximus-shipments-begin/It is a regular keyboard with OLED keys (some of which are customizable)? and it sells for over a grand?
What is so great about it? what a stupid idea... who cares? it is a frikin Keyboard!
one coffee spill and you are out $1K...
No thankyou - terrible idea

FAILURE
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It's like those 'gaming keyboards' that have a small digital display at the top telling you things like ammo counts. Who seriously looks at their keyboard for things like that?

And as far as the comment about Photoshop users and the like making use of this keyboard, that's just as unlikely. If someone is actually using something like that professionally, they aren't sitting around staring at the keyboard for their hotkeys, they already have them memorized. I animate in Maya all day long and I sure as hell don't waste any time searching for what key to press every time I need to move something and set a key, nor would I want to get used to some obscure key setup that I couldn't migrate from one area to another without lugging a keyboard around and installing/setting up all the software for it again. You'd have to get two just so you have the same setup at both work and home.]]>Feb 21st 2008 6:07PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/21/optimus-maximus-shipments-begin/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/21/optimus-maximus-shipments-begin/
In six years, all computers will be voice input or using multi-touch for everything.]]>Feb 21st 2008 8:02PM