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Title: Art Lebedev Optimus Maximus @ £259 !!!
Post by: The Solutor on Fri, 01 April 2011, 07:59:23

Very good price, isn't it ?













Too bad today is the April 1st :tongue:

Title: Art Lebedev Optimus Maximus @ £259 !!!
Post by: BucklingSpring on Fri, 01 April 2011, 08:34:01

Quote from: The Solutor;322642

Very good price, isn't it ?
Too bad today is the April 1st :tongue:

I once asked them what switches they are using... Never got an answer. Even for April 1st.

Title: Art Lebedev Optimus Maximus @ £259 !!!
Post by: sparayurji on Fri, 01 April 2011, 08:39:53

afaik, ml...

Title: Art Lebedev Optimus Maximus @ £259 !!!
Post by: The Solutor on Fri, 01 April 2011, 08:42:39

Quote from: BucklingSpring;322654

I once asked them what switches they are using... Never got an answer. Even for April 1st.

Not so sure they don't match my taste, just bought an used G84 to try the ML switches (for a bit less than 1400$ :wink:)

Title: Art Lebedev Optimus Maximus @ £259 !!!
Post by: BucklingSpring on Fri, 01 April 2011, 08:56:21

Quote from: sparayurji;322656

afaik, ml...

Any documented evidence to support it?

Title: Art Lebedev Optimus Maximus @ £259 !!!
Post by: sparayurji on Fri, 01 April 2011, 09:02:18

Quote from: BucklingSpring;322667

Any documented evidence to support it?

at around 4'30"

Title: Art Lebedev Optimus Maximus @ £259 !!!
Post by: BucklingSpring on Fri, 01 April 2011, 09:03:28

• "Typing on it, well, sucks. We kind of hate to say it, but this thing more than likely won't replace what ever keyboard you're writing your novel on -- it's better off used as an absurdly configurable swiss army knife for tasks like gaming, Photoshop, or just about any other productivity app that doesn't require a lot of typing.
• Okay, why does typing on the Optimus suck, you ask? Well, although the keyboard uses mechanical switches and a lot of high quality components (evident when we pulled off some keys), and there is some clicky tactility to keypresses, as a whole it just requires way too much force to depress keys. And the larger the key, the more force is required, so enter is easier than space, but harder than tab. Let's put it this way, we sit around and type all day long and this thing wore us out in about 30 seconds to a minute. Carpal sufferers, beware."

Edgadget source (http://digg.com/news/technology/Engadget_Finally_Tests_the_Optimus_Maximus)

Not sure ML can match that description

Title: Art Lebedev Optimus Maximus @ £259 !!!
Post by: The Solutor on Fri, 01 April 2011, 09:05:44

Quote from: BucklingSpring;322667

Any documented evidence to support it?

http://www.artlebedev.com/everything/optimus/faq/

look at the underside of the keycaps

Title: Art Lebedev Optimus Maximus @ £259 !!!
Post by: The Solutor on Fri, 01 April 2011, 09:07:27

Quote from: BucklingSpring;322670

Not sure ML can match that description

Also not sure that engadget match the good website definition...

Title: Art Lebedev Optimus Maximus @ £259 !!!
Post by: gilgam on Fri, 01 April 2011, 09:09:56

i thought it was black cherry ...

Title: Art Lebedev Optimus Maximus @ £259 !!!
Post by: Ekaros on Fri, 01 April 2011, 11:14:12

ML, but keycaps aren't good what I have heard of analyzing...

Ok, they should be the most expensive ones around, but feeling is wrong...

Title: Art Lebedev Optimus Maximus @ £259 !!!
Post by: Reaif on Fri, 01 April 2011, 16:27:20

The optimus could be severely improved by changing the type of everything in use lol. If you are going to charge that much for a keyboard, why not get some decent switches? I have an ML board and I hate that thing. I would get rid of it if it weren't for all the work I put into it. All in all though, they really ought to use e-ink (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E_Ink) for the display type. They might not get color, but it would improve so many aspects of the board.

Title: Art Lebedev Optimus Maximus @ £259 !!!
Post by: noodles256 on Fri, 01 April 2011, 16:28:57

start  a group buy

Title: Art Lebedev Optimus Maximus @ £259 !!!
Post by: BucklingSpring on Fri, 01 April 2011, 16:52:39

Quote from: sparayurji;322669

at around 4'30"

Ok... I stand corrected

Title: Art Lebedev Optimus Maximus @ £259 !!!
Post by: The Solutor on Fri, 01 April 2011, 17:26:14

Quote from: Reaif;322952

The optimus could be severely improved by changing the type of everything in use lol. If you are going to charge that much for a keyboard, why not get some decent switches? I have an ML board and I hate that thing. I would get rid of it if it weren't for all the work I put into it. All in all though, they really ought to use e-ink (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E_Ink) for the display type. They might not get color, but it would improve so many aspects of the board.

e-ink is slow, and doesn't emit any light.

Do you really want a 1500$ keyboard that is not even backlit ?

Title: Art Lebedev Optimus Maximus @ £259 !!!
Post by: woody on Sat, 02 April 2011, 10:27:01

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e-ink is slow, and doesn't emit any light.

Seems like the right solution for legends.

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Do you really want a 1500$ keyboard that is not even backlit ?

Yes, please.

Title: Art Lebedev Optimus Maximus @ £259 !!!
Post by: Lpb45 on Sat, 02 April 2011, 10:32:25

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Art Lebedev was disappointing in that video.

Veronica though, never disappoints.

Show Image

(http://i.imgur.com/uydih.gif)

mmm I like!

Title: Art Lebedev Optimus Maximus @ £259 !!!
Post by: The Solutor on Sat, 02 April 2011, 11:05:05

Quote from: woody;323298

Seems like the right solution for legends.

The are not just static legends, a decent display can be used for a wide variety of useful purposes, and also useless but funny, think to a "keyboard saver" or to a keyboard virus with all the keys randomly scrambled or falling, matrix style..

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Yes, please.

 I'm now, probably at the 10th year of backlit only keyboards.

I really cant think to use a non backlit one other than for affective/historical purposes.

BTW an EL or e-paper low end version can be handy in the office environment.

Title: Art Lebedev Optimus Maximus @ £259 !!!
Post by: The Solutor on Sat, 02 April 2011, 11:07:41

Quote from: Lpb45;323304

mmm I like!

Lot of disagreement about the shape of the enter key, but widely shared opinion on the shape of Veronica's "trackballs" here, isn't it ? :biggrin: