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The editors liked
Innovative OLED-based keys
Completely customizable key layout
Powerful configuration software
Built-in SD card slot lets you transport custom layouts.
Completely unique
Powerful options for customizing
OLED displays are stunning in the right conditions
Fully programmable
Brilliant displays
Can display video.
Changing key icons show functions in many situations. Includes several application-specific layouts and complete manual configuration. Some on-key feedback shows information from your Mac.
The editors didn't like
Expensive
Not enough practical benefit.
Price
Extremely poor for typing
Questionable long-term reliability
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Extremely high price
Shoddy build quality
Requires external power source
Sticky/slippery keys.
Pricey. Takes heavy pressure to activate keys
Causing RSI concern. No companyprovided sets for Photoshop
Final Cut Pro
IPhoto
Firefox
IMovie
Or other Mac apps. Not enough variety in live
Onkey data. Letter keys are slightly larger than normal.
Changing key icons show functions in many situations. Includes several application-specific layouts and complete manual configuration. Some on-key feedback shows information from your Mac.
Pricey. Takes heavy pressure to activate keys, causing RSI concern. No companyprovided sets for Photoshop, Final Cut Pro, iPhoto, Firefox, iMovie, or other Mac apps. Not enough variety in live, onkey data. Letter keys are slightly larger than normal.
The Optimus Maximus’s in-key displays offer an exciting, innovative interface. But too-heavy key action kills its futuristic versatility. It’s uncomfortable for plain-old typing....
Fully programmable, Brilliant displays, Can display video.
Extremely high price, Shoddy build quality, Requires external power source, Sticky/slippery keys.
In a recent review, I knocked the Das Keyboard for having a high price point. Little did I know that I hadn’t seen the beginning of an expensive keyboard. Today we review the Optimus Maximus Keyboard, with a MSRP of around $1600 USD. However, how go...
Abstract: Video Review: Have you ever wished you could change the keys on your keyboard to something else, say for gaming or a specific application you are using? Do things that glow in the dark intrigue you? How about an item that makes people crowd around wit...
Abstract: 20,000 hours OLED glow life; 160-degree viewing angle; SD card slot; two USB 2.0 ports; USB and DC power connections required; one-year warranty Even before Russian designer Artemy Lebedev released the 113-key Optimus Maximus in 2007, the hype machine ...
Completely unique, Powerful options for customizing, OLED displays are stunning in the right conditions
Price, Extremely poor for typing, Questionable long-term reliability, *
It’s hard to knock a device we wanted to like so badly based on its premise, but there’s no escaping that the Optimus Maximus makes a pretty dismal typing device. As a piece of art and a technological achievement, it certainly deserves cr...
Innovative OLED-based keys; completely customizable key layout; powerful configuration software; built-in SD card slot lets you transport custom layouts.
Expensive; not enough practical benefit.
As impressive as we find the Optimus Maximus keyboard in concept, the $1,600 price tag overwhelms its real world benefits. We can only recommend this keyboard to those most charmed by this unique keyboards novelty. Specifications: Dimensions (W x D x ...
Abstract: Optimus Maximus Keyboard Hands-On Posted on: January 10, 2008 [CES 2008] We played with the (elusive) Optimus Maximus OLED keyboard from Art Lebedev and here are our first impressions: as we expected from the previous photos, the keyboard is quite bulk...
Innovative OLED-based keys, Completely customisable key layout, Powerful configuration software, Built-in SD card slot lets you transport custom layouts
Expensive, Not enough practical benefit
As impressive as we find the Optimus Maximus keyboard in concept, the US$1,600 price tag overwhelms its real world benefits. We can only recommend this keyboard to those most charmed by this unique keyboards novelty. ...
The Optimus Maximus is a brilliant concept. Putting a screen in every single key of a keyboard and allowing it to display whatever you like is a trick that looks really cool and has the potential to be useful. As such we have to applaud Art Lebedev for br...
