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Art Lebedev Optimus Maximus video review

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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 bringing the product to market. Unfortunately, simply creating a product isn't where the story ends, it also has to be worth buying and here is where the Optimus Maximus falls down. It's astronomical price means it's really only a toy for the very rich. Read full review

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5/10

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Edward Chester

By Edward Chester
Reviewed 23 October 2010
Updated 26 May 2011

Price as reviewed

£1,499.00

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Art Lebedev Optimus Maximus details

Value
2/10
Features
8/10
Design
8/10
Overall
5/10

Price as reviewed

£1,499.00

Manufacturer

Art Lebedev

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Arctic Fox

12:07 PM on 23 October, 2010

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When a piece of kit is that mediocre on the performance front and that bad when it comes to value for money its a mot point whether it is worth your time and effort giving it a full review! Indeed it must be a bit depressing having to expend that much on something that does not deserve your attention or ours.





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4:11 PM on 23 October, 2010

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I have complained time and time again about your judgement system for reviews and I seriously seriously have to say this now. What is the point in having a 1-10 score on value if you give a £1500 keyboard that isn't even that good a 2. ARE YOU JOKING? 2? 20% value? I'd say there was a 0 or a 1 for value here, since my awesome Logitech Wave keyboard (bought on your recommendation) costed me £30 and has more macro keys and functions better. Why do you need OLED screen keys when you can just remember that r reloads your gun in CS:S. Jesus Christ I can't believe you would even review this nonsense!

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9:25 PM on 23 October, 2010

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If it was £500, I would buy it

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ffrankmccaffery

6:18 AM on 24 October, 2010

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Touch type?

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8:59 AM on 24 October, 2010

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Why not use a touch enabled tablet instead of this? It'll cost you probably something like 200-400 EUR. If color's not a problem, use some e-Ink display instead of OLED or LCD to get really good visibility. So why spend 1500 pounds?

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Ala Miah

12:14 PM on 24 October, 2010

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If I had a million pounds, I should be shot If I spent 1499 on a keyboard.

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3:30 PM on 24 October, 2010

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@Artic Fox: On the contrary, it was a product I really enjoyed using and writing about. It's a shame that ultimately it doesn't deserve more credit but that doesn't mean it's not worthy of attention.





@Kaiser202: You seem to be forgetting that you're actually getting quite a lot of stuff for your money. All the engineering that goes into this keyboard doesn't come cheap. You certainly can't compare it to that Logitech keyboard because that keyboard can't do what this keyboard can. Whether that extra functionality is useful to you or not doesn't change the fact that it is there.





@ionut Borcoman: You can't actually touchtype on a tablet. Of course, touchtyping rather negates the advantage of having different things displayed on your keys but that's another argument.





@Ala Miah: Why? It's a bit of fun.





You guys really need to lighten up. So it's not for you. So it's a rich man's toy. Don't get so angry about it. People spend hundreds of thousands of pounds on stripped out sports cars that actually do less than the cheaper standard equivalents, all because it makes them faster for the few times they actually drive them in anger. Spending a fraction of that on something you can always get the benefit from is eminently sensible.

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3:44 PM on 24 October, 2010

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@ed - But do you envy the man with the £1500 keyboard, or do you pity him?

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6:29 PM on 24 October, 2010

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@darkspark88


I envy the man for having the choice!

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8:18 PM on 24 October, 2010

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@Ed yeah, I take your point about lightening up, and maybe this is a one off kind of thing. But given the paucity of meat-and-two-veg reviews recently you risk frittering away your readership with this tosh. It certainly has no interest or relevance for me - I can speak only for myself, but I wonder who else was waiting eagerly for this review?

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