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Art Lebdev Presents Optimus Pultius 15-key
Art Lebedev has presented a new member of the Optimus family, Optimus Pultius. This gadget like its older full-featured cousin the Optimus Maximus, uses 15 OLED embedded keys that make them fully-programmable. The Optimus Maximus did go on sale with a price tag as much as US $1900. The Pultius can be used with the Maximus for expansion of programmable keys or a side-kick to your existing keyboard. This product launches sometime end of 2008 thru early 2009.
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1900 bucks! I wouldn't pay 19 dollars for that.
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the maximus sold for $1900, the plutius should be cheaper.
its still overpriced and does very little.
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It's very neat what you can do with it, but definitely not worth the price to the average joe or really anyone for that matter.
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This version will still cost 500 bucks though.Stick it up your donkey.
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$1900 for a keyboard
...$500 for a number pad ...
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maybe is just me. 1.900$? for a useless gadget? you get a car with that money...
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In all honesty, are the "economical OLEDs" really that expensive to manufacture? I'd think the fact that its a unique product gives it an excuse to be so expensive.
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Dont get me wrong,if i was stinking rich i would buy one to show off,nothing more.Its just not really viable for the average joe to buy a 1900 dollar keyboard.
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only a retard pay 1900$ for 15 keys
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This 15 key version is not 1900 dollars,the full keyboard is 1900 dollars.Who knows how much this 15 key version is going to cost.
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OLED displays can be made using a modified Inkjet printer; $1900 =/= Printer + Special Ink + Manufacture of keybaord parts.
It is a complete and utter rip-off, IMO.
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it's such a good thing that Art Lebedev thinks we need a product that doesn't last near as long as similar devices and comes in 10's of times more expensive , and that they KNOW we'll give a paycheck or two for it. LOL someone smack them. looks neat though
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If I was stinking rich and retarded I would buy the keyboard and reprogram the keys to say things like boobs and stuff
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erm - why such a high price tag? surely making it cheaper would get more and more people interested.
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These things are so sweet...Can't wait use them with my skull-trail, my 2000watt psu and my gold plated jewel incrusted case....
. Yea the tech is cool, but not $2000 worth of cool ...Definitely for the ultra-rich schmuck who'll buy anything just because it's expensive... ...And I thought I was being extravagant when I added the Enermax "Ceasar" to my Newegg wishlist...
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We bought a 500$ 93 Civic DX this year. About 900 After registration fees. 150k on it, and it gets 45MPG. TAKE THAT PRIUS!
So what I can still buy another 1000 $ in keyboards now right? (none of them staitek after my experience with the shitty ass eclipse II) |
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The concept of these devices is very cool, but until the keyboard comes down to about the $200 range it's not going to sell in the mass market sector at all.
I am not sure why it is priced so high. Perhaps it is more expensive to make than people are assuming. Perhaps they are trying to recoup R&D costs. Who knows. But $1900 is way over the top.
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If the keys are good I could see some use in this. It would make a very good Midi controller for beat programming.
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ahahaha i saw something similar to saitek and though of the keyboard. cant help it, geek. (my keyboard is a saitek eclipse II)
you cant blame me, this thread WAS about a keyboard :P
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