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Optimus Mini Three OLED keyboard reviewed

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the well-thats-a-let-down dept.

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.

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  1. Slashdot stats in realtime! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Informative

    check this out,
    This site can actually cope with a slashdoting pretty easily,

    Nevertheless its pretty cool to look at their stats and see the slashdotting take place:
    http://tweakers.net/stats

    Scroll down to "reviews" to see the major increase in traffic since a few minutes.

  2. Re:Don't worry by 1u3hr · · Score: 2, Informative
    Maybe they could be convinced to open source the drivers and let the community take a shot at it. Or do we think this is hardware limitation?

    See here for hte docs and code. This is really an Alpha version, but rapidly evolving according to TFA.

  3. Re:Bah... get a real keyboard! by damieng · · Score: 2, Informative

    I've an original Model M (keyspring), a Mattias Pro (Alps switch) and a Das Keyboard II (Cherry switch).

    The Das Keyboard II is nicer to type on than the IBM imho...

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    [)amien
  4. ...another mini3 review... by daniel.baker · · Score: 5, Informative

    Dead Programmer has an informative review over here: http://www.deadprogrammer.com/optimus-mini-three-f ull-review

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    stubborn tiny lights vs. clustering darkness foreverok?
  5. Re:Bah... get a real keyboard! by 1gig · · Score: 2, Informative

    Personaly I like the Das as well but I really prefer to have the keys marked so I got the Cherry G803000LPMUS-0 which is the same keyboard as the Das (gray instead of black though). They are still expensive but $67 for a good keyboard is not to bad. All the new high end keyboards or you could say quality mechanical keyboards are using the Cherry MX Liner keyswitches so why not buy from the source and save some money. The only problem is they are hard to find basicly only POS providers have them here in the states. If you live in the EU though they are allot easer to find.

  6. Re:Vrouw topless... saywhat? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Informative

    The story [theregister.co.uk], and of course the vital link to Google earth [regmedia.co.uk].

  7. Re:Site unavailable due to "power failure" by hylke · · Score: 2, Informative

    No, Redbus, which is the location tweakers.net is located had a power failure, which made foobar of some part of the database. The servers didn't have any problem with slashdot, as you can see at the statspage :)