What is wrong with keyboard manufacturers

[0roo0roo]

yea the last thing i want is to squint at the screen on a kb, whole point is not looking down.
ipad as supplimental visual controls in games or whatever is more interesting however.

 

[konakona]

Seriously, what's the point? Just to show that you could do it? It's a keyboard; an input device. This is like a pen with a clock. Is it for those times when you step away from your monitor and to make sure you know what is playing on your mp3 player you cart around your keyboard?

I am guessing it's something along the line of plexiglass windows on side panels, illuminated keyboards, etc, etc.. They may serve some purpose in some limited niche situations, though mostly pointless IMO. But computer enthusiasts love to indulge themselves with pointless things, like overclocking to the max even when you know it won't net you appreciable performance gain for instance. To be fair, he didn't (yet) claim they LCD makes those logitech superior to other models. No need to knock him

 

[bigboxes]

Seriously? How about when you're playing a game and it hangs. Sometimes you can get the desktop back so you can kill it easily with the task manager. Sometimes you can't. Then it's pretty handy to have LCDSirReal's RIP function.

If you use Teamspeak, having the who's talking display always available is pretty handy, as is a key to mute the mic in TS. Or check who's on the channel without leaving the game.

And then all the other stuff, like realtime display of CPU core load, network bandwidth utilization and... well, there's a list:

• Customizable display of weekday, date and time.
• Shows number of unread mails as icons, if your mail client supports it
• Displays CPU usage (average load on top, details in CPU module).
• Shows the memory load.
• Shows inbound (top) and outbound (bottom) network traffic volume
• Shows network inbound/outbound network load over the last ten seconds, and/or total data sent and received.
• World clock with daylight savings support and user selectable time zones
• Speaker switcher, switch between (for example) 5.1 and headphones with a click
• Displays sound volume and audio output mute status
• Stopwatch with lap time (click to start/lap, long-click to reset/stop)
• Detects unresponsive programs and allows you to kill them
• TeamSpeak2/3 integration: Shows who is talking, player count (channel with large font, server with small font), arriving and leaving players, mic mute status, self speaking status, channel changes. Click to mute/unmute mic. Long-click to show who's in the active channel.
• WinAMP integration: Shows new song name when song changes. Shows remaining play time and average bitrate. Click to re-display current song.
• Foobar2000: supports the WinAMP spam component.
• FRAPS integration: Shows the current FPS.
• SpeedFan integration: Shows user selectable values from SpeedFan (temperatures, fan speeds, voltages).
• iTunes integration: Shows new song name when song changes. Shows remaining play time and average bitrate. Click to re-display current song.
• CoreTemp integration: Shows the highest core temperature and the average core temperature.

LOL, well thank you for copying & pasting your site. I did read your link. All other information is available onscreen. The last thing I want to do is look at my keyboard. If you think that it's a gamer's dream to know who's talking while your pc is locked up... face it, you aren't doing anything until your unlock your pc. You can kill the process in the task manager, but it's more likely that you are gonna have to reboot anyways. I still say this is a proggie that one uses just because you can, not because it makes any sense. This coming from the guy who just overclocked his cell phone's processor. Because I can. LOL

 

[Ben90]

geekhack.org

Holy shit these guys don't mess around:

Time for the KING of the Esc keys, the Topre on the left. On the right is the Das. I call the Topre the KING because I love the blood red color of it - the Filco is more candy apple. I also like the Topre's almost rubbery texture. On the other hand the Das has a bad rep because the lettering tends to wear off. Take a close look at that S for example - I think I see a chip in it.

 

[Modelworks]

yea the last thing i want is to squint at the screen on a kb, whole point is not looking down.
ipad as supplimental visual controls in games or whatever is more interesting however.

You can get small LCD screens now, about 3" that connect to the USB port. Then you can run software to display anything you want from pc information like cpu temps to rss feeds. Great for putting on the desktop or attaching to an existing monitor. Find it much more useful than the keyboard lcd displays.
http://cgi.ebay.com/132x132-pix-Ser...emQQptZLH_DefaultDomain_0?hash=item5d26907e30

 

[Cruke]

well i have had the Microsoft wireless keyboard and mouse 5000 for about 3 weeks now and it is the best one i have ever had i like the mouse it is ezy to grip and the key board is good as well it works great with my windows 7 ultimate.and the price i payed was $80.00 Australian i will be sticking with this one. as i have had 4 wireless sets and this is the best by far i am really happy with it

 

[Synomenon]

I bought a 5-pack of Dell RT7D50 keyboards on eBay a few years ago for only $20.

Only problem with it is that it's USB and it doesn't work with those simple USB to PS/2 adapters. I need PS/2 so I can use that function in the BIOS that allows for powering the PC on with the press of a key or key combo on a PS/2 keyboard.

So when I went on vacation to the Philippines this past December, I bought three of these keyboards (only available in Asia):

Logitech Classic Keyboard K100

Neither has any shortcut / media / FN keys. Just the standard 104 keys.

 

[Cristatus]

You know what I hate about most current keyboards?

When they mess around with the layout of the PG Up/Dn/Home/End/Insert/Delete. They're starting to make them laid out vertically, instead of horizontally.

(C)

 

[aceO07]

You know what I hate about most current keyboards?

When they mess around with the layout of the PG Up/Dn/Home/End/Insert/Delete. They're starting to make them laid out vertically, instead of horizontally.

(C)

That and the addition of rarely used multimedia keys are some of the main reasons I haven't got a new keyboard.

Also the nonstandard wireless communications so that I need to get a new receiver for everything. Logitech is getting better with their unifying receiver, but it only works for their newest models.

 

[Throckmorton]

Seriously, what's the point? Just to show that you could do it? It's a keyboard; an input device. This is like a pen with a clock. Is it for those times when you step away from your monitor and to make sure you know what is playing on your mp3 player you cart around your keyboard?

How do you view CPU usage while playing a game? Run your games in a window?

 

[Compddd]

Logitech Solar Powered Wireless K750 keyboard

Best keyboard I have ever owned.

Standard 104 keys with a function key at the bottom you hold down and then press the corresponding F key that has the function you want. Works flawlessly in Win 7 without having to install Logitech's software.

Did I mention it's wireless and charges from the lights in your room? Mine has never gone below 100% charge

 

[johanl]

I'll brave the flames once more since some of you reading this thread may be doing it from a Mac using a Logitech LCD keyboard.

What’s new in LCDHost alpha 15:

• LCDHost is now available for OS/X.
• Change: Log files are now stored in the data directory on OS/X.
• Fix: RSS class now handles query parameters correctly.
• Dev: Added button and listbox setup items.
• Added: Menu item under tools to remove obsolete setup items from a layout.
• Fix: Network bandwidth suffix was shown even when percentage display was selected.
• Change: LH_FLAG_READONLY setup items now loads stored values, LH_FLAG_NOSAVE replaces old functionality.
• Dev: lh_cb_load_layout now copies parameter data and expects it to be UTF-8 encoded.
• LH_Lua: Now embeds the ‘cairo’ graphics library, no need to ‘require “lcairo”‘.
• LH_Lua: Font handling abstracted to remove platform dependencies.
• Fix: Change events for setup items now only fire on actual data change.
• Fix: File selection setup items now show all paths as relative to layout.
• Fix: Changing min/max for supported setup items now clamp the current value.
• Fix: Downloading public keys are now done in parallell and only once per key.
• Fix: Spurious characters could be seen with some fonts with LH_Text suffixes.
• Added: “Show units” as an option for numeric text items such as network usage.
• New application icon by Ender91.

Featured layout for this release was this one, also by Ender:

 

[ripster55]

Great stuff. But display it on one of these USB mini-monitors and get a real keyboard.

 

[simonizor]

I have this Dell keyboard. Works great for me.. lol