OCZ expands Alchemy line with Illuminati backlit keyboard
By Darren Murph 
posted Feb 20th 2009 12:33AM
posted Feb 20th 2009 12:33AM
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Your mom is "attainable on all budgets"
hahahahahah LMAO
NICE!!! couldn't have said it better myself!
this keyboard better not be more than 30 bucks.... cuz to me its got nothing special other than the backlit keys n the standard buttons...
if its on the 20s range i might get one!!
=D
"attainable on all budgets" -- means if you get on your knees, I will give you a discount.
loooks like the logitech s510
Looks almost exactly like the Logitech s510
huh? the logitech actually looks QUALITY. this looks ghetto. i farted, by the way.
Looks like a rebranded Logitech S510 keyboard.
The S510 isn't a bad keyboard (I'm typing this on one now).
If the price is right a backlit version with a wheel wouldn't be a bad product.
Damn, Illuminati is making a comeback, Palm style. First the Tom Hanks movie, and now this licensing deal with OCZ. Are they on the NYSE? I need me some stock!
So does the keyboard come with a custom branding iron and a small sample of anti-matter?
Uhh? Same exact keyboard:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16823126043
http://www.crazypc.com/products/kb208bk-4157BK.html
Pardon, here's the fixed first link: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16823184014
I just picked one up last week from Best Buy. They had em on sale for 50 dollars.
If the thing came in Colemak with a Circle of Friends adorned super key, I'd consider it.
...actually, the keys will almost assuredly be designed for qwerty typists-- requiring forceful keypresses over a relatively long distance.
I love my laptop keyboard, but I really wish I just had a giant capacitive multi-touch screen instead..
to bad it wasnt wireless, yea it would drain the hell out of batteries with the lights on but to bad it wasnt wireless
too bad it wasn't nuclear, and not even a keyboard, and you could just throw it at countries and watch them explode. just the country, not the little cute animals. the humans, fine. but the animals, no.
If it didnt have them logo's splashed across the front i would like this more, a little more subtle please.
It's not the Logitech S510 (wireless, looks nothing like the OCZ) or that newegg link Alex posted (totally different keyboard). It does seem to be the exact same keyboard as that Logisys one from crazypc.
I like the switch between red and blue keys - nice. And affordable, the other OCZ keyboards are dirt cheap.
Woops, that first link was supposed to go here: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16823184014
Great stuffs.
When are they gonna make a good portable keyboard with a trackpad, clit mouse, or trackball that's decent looking and affordable?!? Is that too much to ask?
now that's called simplicity !
That's not simplicity, that's a rip-off:
http://www.logitech.com/repository/40/jpg/1955.1.0.jpg
The just changed the colors (for the better, by the way), but it's clear where they got their 'design inspiration' from...
This is simplicity:
http://www.pantburk.info/upload/AppleWirelessKeyboard.jpg
looks like a Keyboard from the Speedlink silentstroke-series http://www.speed-link.com/?p=2&cat=14
Bastard
What the hell? The photos show a different key layout than the main title picture! Look at the length of the Backspace.
I noticed because this is the only one criteria I have (regarding layout) for a keyboard. I need longer Backspaces as I'm too used to them and since I type with all ten I kept on missing the backspace key when typing on a short-backspace-key keyboard.
OCZ should have been more creative in the the design of that wrist pad area.
Is that a volume knob below the number pad? What a horrible place for controls (on the "wrist rest")
This keyboard is OLD! It is a re-branded "Logisys KB208BK".
I don't know why OCZ would use Logisys garbage.OCZ's reputation has been going downhill and this isn't going to help any.
Go away adbot!!!
The only reason OCZ has not released the re-branded Logisys kb208bk is probably due to the fact that the original drivers were barely compatible with XP and need to be revised for newer OS's
Looks like my keyboard at home, a Speed-link Silent Key. Only difference might be the backlight.
Sweet... a keyboard for my secret society meetings.. the big name across it is like totally incognito..
Inferior to the Logitech Illuminated Keyboard.
Someone will make this wireless than i'll get it whatever the price is... Waiting for years...
I had the Logisys version of this keyboard (until I spilled beer all over it) and it really sucks. Keys are unresponsive and the layout is kinda wacky, just slightly wider than normal layouts. I always hit the \ key instead of enter which was annoying but not as annoying as the spacebar that only has two actual buttons under it meaning that if you hit it at anything other than dead center, yourtextjuststacksuplikethis. The lights are pretty, though.