Ultimate Keyboard

[winterhavok]

http://www.daskeyboard.com/ What do you think about this product guys? I am considering buying one just to see what it is all about.

 

[BrutalDrew]

I saw that a while ago. it is pretty interesting, but I am fine with my Logitech Elite.

 

[Captain Slug]

Or, you could recover the keys on the keyboard you have for $15
http://hooleon.com/miva/merchant.mvc?Screen=PROD&Product_Code=OV-0645&Category_Code=A-BO

Either way it seems like a fad to me, the the das keyboard is just a remolded IBM standard keyboard from the days of yore.

 

[Vulcan]

I'm sorry but thats just fcking retarded. I paid half that for my saitek keyboard.

 

[tenchi86]

Awsome looking but I would never buy it. After having so many features with my logitech keyboard I could never go back.

 

[Scott9027]

I don't think having no labels would increase the speed or accuracy of your typing. It sounds like a gimmick. If you want to try it out you can cover up the inscriptions on your own keyboard, preferably an old one first, and see how you like it just as Captain Slug suggested.

 

[Spartacus51]

I've got a few keyboards from the 80s that have almost all the writing worn off of them. You telling me that all I have to do is get rid of the rest and I can turn around and sell em for 80 bucks?

It will improve your speeds, IF you look at the keys at all now. I guess I do to reset myself every once in a while but I doubt there'd be a noticable increase for most people here.

Not to mention do you really have all the symbols memorized? Pipes and brackets would be my hang up.

 

[Vulcan]

It will improve your speeds, IF you look at the keys at all now. I guess I do to reset myself every once in a while but I doubt there'd be a noticable increase for most people here.

SHHH. Don't tell anybody, but my typing sucks

 

[zulfy26]

Its for über geeks duh. And the keys are weighted!!

/sarcasm

 

[1cem4n]

Seen it but why don't you just spray paint your keyboard?

-1cem4n

 

[Janus67]

I have to completely agree, that is the dumbest looking thing I have ever seen. Why would you spend $80 on "weighted" keys that are blank? I know where every key is on my keyboard, but that still doesn't justify going and buying a "cool" keyboard or excuse me "Das Keyboard" to prove it. It just looks like some crappy keyboard that had the letters painted over it. I thought this might be a thread about the new keyboard where you can put keys wherever you want them and program it however you want.

 

[threeme2189]

pretty stupid.
i would buy one and then write all of the keys on it in "silver sharpie" style

 

[winterhavok]

I can get the thing for free to test because of where I work, I just wanted to see what you guys thought about it.

 

[squasher]

Why not test it? I wonder about the weighted keys, the blank stuff is kinda dumb but the weight might be cool.

 

[attack]

Hey, man...I just used a 99 cent sharpy that was lying around and just markered the keys!

I only did the qwerty layout and ctrl and alts. I don't remember all of the shift numbers hehe.

 

[Contra]

i think it is dumb and i also have several old keyboards that have the keys wiped off i will also sell them on ebay for $80 and bank
i will say that they are proven to work and have my seal of approval!!!
i will also call them "VINTAGE"

 

[Spartacus51]

I thought this might be a thread about the new keyboard where you can put keys wherever you want them and program it however you want.

There is such a keyboard? got a link?

does anyone make an optimized keyboard (think I remember them) that have a different layout for optimal speed? (QWERTY was actually designed to slow typists down, typewriters got jammed all the time because people could type so fast. Obviously we're past that stage, I wanna type faster!)

 

[Scott9027]

I think I have heard about something that let you type faster, the word DVORAK comes to mind... but I don't really want to learn to type all over again.

 

[lowfat]

I think I have heard about something that let you type faster, the word DVORAK comes to mind... but I don't really want to learn to type all over again.

I did some searching for it, tried typing something. It really is easier to type with, but your right, I don't want to relearn to type again.

if i had an old keyboard that i could rearrange all they keys, I would try it.

 

[Xris]

This is slightly off topic, but I really hate how nerds/geeks use the german words "das" and "über."

Ich versteh' überhaupt nichts.