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- LoungeActx, on 10/12/2007, -6/+160hahahahaahaha....that's a little insane! They expect people to spend that much for a keyboard?
It was cool when it was color...but now that it's black and white....that seems very steep... - Rezzy, on 10/12/2007, -4/+154For that price I could buy and train a typer-monkey to do all my work for me.
- TimmyGUNZ, on 10/12/2007, -10/+110I'd rather spend $1,200 on a MacBook which comes with a pre-installed keyboard!
- primehifi, on 10/12/2007, -6/+84Try explaining this purchase to that special someone in your life.
Something like this perhaps?
"Yeah honey, its only a keyboard" ...... "yes, I know, 1200 is a lot" ..... "fine, I'll send it back in the morning" - Osiriscky3, on 10/12/2007, -4/+81Insanity doesn't even explain this. I was expecting like $200 maybe $300 especially with the lame black and white, but $1200 ZOMGWTFBBQ.
- kingfoot, on 10/12/2007, -5/+66i could get 2 ps3s for that...
at most i would have expected 300 big ones...but 1200, thats just insane. not to mention no color anymore... why can't they do color again? - bigwig87, on 10/12/2007, -1/+61Meh...my roommate would've spilled a beer on it anyway...
- steelmaverick, on 10/12/2007, -3/+60I'd rather spend $1,200 on ANY computer than spend it on a keyboard.
- SAOSiN, on 10/12/2007, -8/+64Wouldn't it be funny if engadget accidentally added a extra zero?
- TimmyGUNZ, on 10/12/2007, -11/+47Then you are an idiot.
- adml_shake, on 10/12/2007, -0/+35Well it was a nice dream while I thought I could afford one....
- mastercheif, on 10/12/2007, -6/+34Price of a good Cell Phone? More like the price of a PS3!
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -5/+342 PS3s at retail price, actually. I'd like to know which fabulous cell phone they're comparing it to.
- billflu, on 10/12/2007, -4/+27They really got the consumers' hopes up and then crushed them.
Undigg the original.
http://digg.com/hardware/Optimus_Keyboard_February_1st_ - negativefx, on 10/12/2007, -5/+30Honestly, after hearing about the driver issues (bugs, terrible performance, etc.) with the mini-3, I wouldn't even pay $200 for the fullsize keyboard.
- ohmar, on 10/12/2007, -1/+26You know, some day this will be common place, until then, we will just leave it in the 'Popular Science type' cool gadgets that you will never see in person
- compu73rg33k, on 10/12/2007, -3/+26What happened to the "about the same price as a high end cell phone". I donno about you guys, but the high end cell phones I see are $200-300. Oh well, as the article says, it was fun dreaming about it...
- chicken101, on 10/12/2007, -3/+25Even the color version should be no more than $399.
$1200 for a keyboard is friggin' bonkers. - ahhell, on 10/12/2007, -4/+25Wait a sec. Not only is it $1200 but it's black and white now??!!
Are they ***** serious? - Carbamide, on 10/12/2007, -3/+25*jaw drops*
- sockpuppets, on 10/12/2007, -5/+24Someone's going to buy one of these at Best Buy only to learn there's a stack of maxim's in it when they get it home.
- mr.hostility, on 10/12/2007, -3/+22It had better blow me for that price.
- jpreynolds, on 10/12/2007, -3/+22They will produce a color version later on and charge $2,000
- apersaud, on 10/12/2007, -3/+18For that much I rather get another MacBook....
- kingamoon, on 10/12/2007, -12/+27"I'd rather spend $1,200 on a MacBook"
Wo Wo .. calm down now. I wouldn't take it that far :) - ultraelite, on 10/12/2007, -3/+17I hope its a typo like its supposed to be 120,00 but it isn't
- darkixion, on 10/12/2007, -3/+17For $48 more you can get an XBox 360, Wii and PS3!
- etruscan, on 10/12/2007, -1/+15@steelmaverick "I wonder.....how much R&D could there possibly be in order to place OLEDs in keys?"
A lot. That's a tiny screen (each with a high likelihood of hot pixels) on every key. It's tough to get a single screen with 100% of the pixels lit, let alone 101 (or however many the keyboard has). It was an incredibly daunting task to put together this keyboard, and I'm not surprised they have such a high pricetag for a version that has so many features cut... not surprised at all. I was really wondering how they were going to do it at all.
Personally, I wouldn't pay anything over $200 for any OLED, SED, or LCD keyboard, and it's gotta be a) customizable and b) in color. Otherwise, hit the road. $1200 is laughable.
- MeatBiProduct, on 10/12/2007, -4/+18Trust me when I say that keyboards like this will be supplied by someone else than a russian idiot who obviously can't get manufactuering and distribution down so they have to market their product like some sort of playboy magazine gadget.
We will see this stuff from Logitech and other manufacs. in the future - no question about it. - funkonomics, on 10/12/2007, -5/+18What does this transform into?
- Gerz1219, on 10/12/2007, -3/+16Well, when you hype a product as the next big thing, and promise that it'll be available at an affordable price, you create certain expectations. Then when you slash features left and right and charge 12 times as much as the competition, you fail to meet those expectations.
This has nothing to do with entitlement. Nobody was sitting around, anxiously twiddling their thumbs, wondering when OH WHEN an afforable keyboard with glowy color icons was going to come out. Screen shots of the prototype were plastered all over the web and it looked cool, and since it was marketed as a consumer-level product, people wanted one. The consumer doesn't -- and shouldn't -- care about the business side of electronics. They only care about the end product. This is a classic example of over-promising and under-delivering, regardless of how impractical, unnecessary, and expensive the concept is. - Leiterfluid, on 10/12/2007, -1/+13They can "demand" whatever they want, but that doesn't mean they're going to get it.
- Forever-Zero, on 10/12/2007, -3/+15I'm not buying a keyboard that costs as much as my computer did, I don't care how bright the LEDs are. For $1,200, it better wipe my ass for me.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -3/+15This guy puts updates in his livejournal than on the product site itself. That alone should have told us all along this wasn't going anywhere.
- JonForTheWin, on 10/12/2007, -2/+13& if you didn't Digg it bury it as inaccurate.
- Klarth, on 10/12/2007, -2/+13At least $200 maximum?
*head explodes* - DoubtfulSalmon, on 10/12/2007, -3/+12They don't expect *you* to buy one. They expect the big end of town to fork out for it, a bunch of rich tossers, businesses who have a need for it, etc. The early adopters fund the early deployment, then prices drop when economies of scale kick in.
Don't you know *anything* about new product development? - Xeth, on 10/12/2007, -0/+9This one:
http://www.bang-olufsen.com/page.asp?id=54 - turrican, on 10/12/2007, -1/+10Bah.
I'll stick with my nice clicky sub-ten-dollar IBM Model M. - converge, on 10/12/2007, -13/+22:'(
- compu73rg33k, on 10/12/2007, -3/+11Either that or he has more money than he knows what to do with.
- Yupp, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8It's simple. Lebedev is underfunded. He is making a common mistake in manufacturing - pricing a product based on his prototype bill of materials.
A properly funded company can sell for below cost initially to ramp volume up to the point where the product is profitable. Deals are made with vendors for higher quantities, etc. It's a risk management thing only made possible with enough money in the bank to gamble on a product.
This also requires good market info to scale the effort to the expected sales revenue.
The way it's priced indicates Art feels very few units will be sold, therefore he price models to make a profit on the sale of unit #1. It's sad, because with the cohones (and cash) to go for a volume play (say a $299 price point), many of us would have bought one. - mstnpb, on 10/12/2007, -3/+11@greyfade:
it doesn't matter how much they spent on R&D. it's the consumer who makes the final decision on whether or not the R&D was worthwhile. if no one buys it, bollocks to R&D.
"103 tiny high-res OLED displays, control circuitry for each, all programmable; interface circuitry to unify it all"
who cares? i want to USE it, not take it apart. - Llanowar, on 10/12/2007, -3/+10Too bad, i'm not all that rich, but if the Optimus was about $200-$300 I would have saved up money for it... But $1200 is just a little too much for me.
I wonder what the color version is gonna cost. - Klarth, on 10/12/2007, -4/+11Funny, because more than anything I was looking forward to playing Duke Nukem Forever on my Infinium Phantom whilst using a glorious full-colour Optimus 113.
Goodnight, sweet prince. - ZapWizard, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7This is a case of "we made a render of it, now we have to make it"
At that point most stuff dies as vaporware
I have to applaud Art Lebedev Studios for actually getting somewhere with the idea, but ya I won't pay $1200 for a B/W version. But even at $1200 they will probably be able to sell these in specialized fields such as international kiosks, control centers, etc...
Companies already make VERY expensive LCD based switches.
http://www.nkksmartswitch.com/
Those switches are used in industry by the hundreds for critical control systems. - tendonut, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6I've never had a latency problem bad enough to get me to buy a "gaming NIC". That is for the same poor saps that buy anything with the Fat3lity logo on it. Mice, mouse pads, sound cards, etc...
Besides, the majority of the latency problems we witness are server-side. Nothing we can do/buy can change that. - VipeNess, on 10/12/2007, -4/+10sorry but i just lost interest in the keyboard completely. maybe 300.00 bucks but now the guy that built it hope you read this.... dumb ***** move man. you got greedy and now its going to hit you hard.
- extremer, on 10/12/2007, -3/+7i am going with 10people...
- dd240sx, on 10/12/2007, -3/+8they can suck my balls 1200 times
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