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The sooner every party breaks up the better - Jane Austen's Emma
Keyboard offers bash protection
YOU MIGHT NOT think that a keyboard is much to get excited about, but the new Steel Series 7G is a rather funky-looking bit of kit that is sure to get hardware and gaming freaks salivating.
Forget flashy lights and hot keys - the 7G is a keyboard brick, harking back to old IBM days. Unlike most keyboards, it has no restriction on the number of simultaneously keypresses possible thanks to a manipulation of the PS/2 buffer, and this makes it ideal for fast-pased gaming.
More to the point, its virtually indestructible - meaning you can smash it against a desk in a fit of rage and continue playing ten seconds later. Handy, if our experience of gaming is anything to go by.
All that indestructibility comes at a cost, however - the 7G will cost a stonking $150 when it goes on sale in December. If you're a gamer, we suppose you might be running out of things to spend money on.
Pics of the keyboard, for the inclined, are here. µ
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"[...]this makes it ideal for fast-pased gaming."

Fast-paced, surely?

BTW, Inq, your email-the-author link (top of page) is broken; I tried to mail WF directly, and it bounced, after you forwarded it to its final destination (IM).
Interesting how it has its own symbol on the 'windows' key, I guess nobody that tries to be classy and known as reliable wants to be identified with windows anymore? ;)
A hundred-fifty dollars? This IBM Model M (c.1984) cost me $5 at a surplus place, and it takes a fare beating. Then again, this keyboard probably cost that amount back in those days too.
I always wanted a keyboard where keys don't "jam"! :) Though, nowadays, I'd just be happy to find a keyboard with the right layout, with no extra power/sleep/whatever keys stuck in the middle, with proper spacing between the various blocks, with no special "ergonomic" design ideas that make it unsuitable for fast typing.

I thought I got one that fits the bill recently, but after I actually got to use it it turned out there are some flaws. And the search continues...