geekhack

geekhack Community => Keyboards => Topic started by: reaper on Sat, 29 January 2011, 13:36:46

Title: Maximum PC run over SteelSeries 7G with a truck
Post by: reaper on Sat, 29 January 2011, 13:36:46

"We've been thinking a lot about keyboards around here lately (SPOILER ALERT: We're working on a keyboard roundup for the April issue of Maximum PC) and one board that just keeps coming up is the SteelSeries 7G--not because it's a great keyboard (although it is) but because it would make a great weapon. Or a building foundation. Or siding for a humvee.

The thing is sturdy, we're trying to say.

But just how sturdy is a question of some inter-office debate. So, to settle things once and for all, we decided to see just what it would take to break a 7G. We started out with your basic punch/kick/stomp test."

(http://www.maximumpc.com/files/u57670/keyboard_stomp-8711.jpg)

You can read more about it here (http://www.maximumpc.com/article/%5Bprimary-term%5D/photo_video_awesome_17_we_run_over_keyboard_truck#slide-6-field_gallery_images-16904) (with pics and all). lol

Title: Maximum PC ran over SteelSeries 7G with a truck
Post by: reaper on Sat, 29 January 2011, 16:22:25

^ lol Now, that's what I call torture tests.

Title: Maximum PC ran over SteelSeries 7G with a truck
Post by: Phaedrus2129 on Sun, 30 January 2011, 00:01:05

I bet Ripster has some terrible disfiguring scar. Or really bad acne. Or maybe just three chins.

Title: Maximum PC ran over SteelSeries 7G with a truck
Post by: JRM on Sun, 30 January 2011, 03:03:50

My Steelseries 7G broke up after 30 days of use, and I didn't even ran over it with a truck.

Title: Maximum PC ran over SteelSeries 7G with a truck
Post by: Parak on Sun, 30 January 2011, 03:28:47

I wonder what it would take to kill one of my Cortron (http://geekhack.org/showwiki.php?title=Island:13306) keyboards. Maybe a tactical nuke?

Title: Maximum PC ran over SteelSeries 7G with a truck
Post by: Garry on Mon, 07 February 2011, 18:20:03

Quote from: JRM;287171

My Steelseries 7G broke up after 30 days of use, and I didn't even ran over it with a truck.

I've had mine for a while now and it's a solid bit of kit. Especially considering the hammering I give it on a daily basis.