12-04-2006, 05:50 AM
Quote:If my memory is working right, the shipping weight on one of those stainless steel keyboards was a staggering 18 pounds. Had a full row of F keys, numeric keypad, a couple of rows of programable shortcut keys (Mac feature only, it used applescript) and both QWERTY and DVORAK were available.
I didn't buy one because they cost 749.99
You could get a black enameled stainless steel keyboard for 150 extra.
Had I known they were going to fold, I would have bought one damnit, they had a USB option!
An 18 pound keyboard is less of a computer accessory and more of a blunt-object weapon. But holy smokes, $750? There is no way in hell I'd fork out that kind of cash for a keyboard. I could buy a pretty righteous gaming desktop PC for that.
Also, I prefer PS/2 keyboards and mouses over USB ones. I have like 8 free USB ports on my computer, but I'll be damned if I'm gonna use any of them for mouse and keyboard input when I have dedicated PS/2 ports sitting right there! You never know when you might want to use 8 USB ports all at once.