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Optimus Mini Three OLED keyboard reviewed
Robbedoeske writes "The first Optimums Mini Three keyboards have been shipped to Holland and Tweakers.net managed to lay hands on one of them to review this precious gem." Apparently the drivers crash a lot, consume way to much CPU, the device is capable of only 3 frames per second, and the packaging makes the images look far more crisp than the actual device. And with a price tag of over $100, I'm scared to imagine what the price of a full keyboard will actually be should it ever actually ship. But it still would be neat.
There's more to the Prime edition than meets the eye.
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Am I the only one who wants to make a driver hack for the Optimus so that when the computer says, "Press any key to continue" that there actually IS an Any key?
There is no mod option "-1: Disagree" for a reason. "Overrated" is not an acceptable substitute. Post something instead.
It's buggy, slow, fraudulently packaged, consumes an inordinate amount of your CPU, has been delayed many times, delivers on only a fraction of its originally advertised functionality, and is extremely expensive.
Has someone let Steve Ballmer know that Optimus has stolen Microsoft's marketing plan?????
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The author of this article is hereby banned from using the word "gem" ever again, except to describe a precious stone.
It seems you are 4 jokes late :)
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I see your point of "ads everywhere", however I'm going to stay optimistic here. So let's say they ship a utility that lets you manage this spiffy new keyboard. It might look like a 3rd party mouse control panel, N52 gamepad, Palm Sync app. I doubt very much that it would allow automatic flash .swf syncing, not to mention a flash player engine on the keyboard itself.
Allow if it did, someone would write adblock to block the ads or TiVo for keyboards to skip the ads using magical time-shifting techniques.
Leela: "Didn't you have ads in the 20th century?"
Fry: "Not in our dreams! Only on TV and radio. And in magazines. And movies. And at ballgames. And on buses. And milk cartons. And t-shirts. And bananas. And written on the sky. But not in dreams! No sirree!"
That will be next. An OLED dreamcatcher from Optimus that you hang on your bed, bluetooth enabled for maximum R.E.M. product placement bandwidth to the OBEY chip in your skull.
I got what looks like a server error when I followed the link:
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I did a bablefish translation and it comes back with.
"Fuck, my MySQL install can't handle the Slashdot effect..."
Or label the cancel button on your controller O and the confirm button X...
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