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Hands-On With SteelSeries Ikari Mouse and New 7G Gaming Keyboard
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ScuttleMonkey
on Mon May 05, 2008 06:31 PM
from the keeps-a-lickin dept.
from the keeps-a-lickin dept.
Engadget recently had the chance to review some high-end gear from SteelSeries. While they may be a little on the pricey side, it seems that both the Ikari laser mouse and the 7g keyboard received favorable reviews. "The Ikari laser mouse they announced last year is particularly great, with a built-in processor and sensitivity settings to allow for a customized and precise sensitivity setting in a plug-and-play setup particularly suited to professional gamers. Settings are easy to work, and the actual sensitivity and response of the mouse easily outclasses our prior mousing experiences. New to the market is the SteelSeries 7G keyboard, which is making its debut on Monday the 5th. The keyboard is fully mechanical, with no-click switches that give it a much stronger, smoother tactile feel, while simultaneously catering to gamers by registering half presses. The keyboard weighs a ton thanks to the heavy-duty iron-infused plastic and the gold electronics, and is quite capable of handling abuse. We grew up typing on heavy-duty keyboards, and this is easily the best one we've used this decade -- though the $150 pricetag also makes it the most expensive outside of the Optimus Maximus."
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Professional gamers? (Score:5, Funny)
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Caps Lock! Oh No! (Score:4, Insightful)
Re:Caps Lock! Oh No! (Score:4, Funny)
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Well, it is a gaming keyboard.. I kind of took the Windows user thing as given.
Aikon-
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More importantly I don't want to have to fart around with keyboard maps in Linux, Windows and MacOS whenever I switch keyboard.
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You bought the wrong keyboard then. Get yourself one fo these [thinkgeek.com] and never worry about it anymore. QWERTY, Dvorak, Gamer, who knows? Poke at a couple of keys and find out what's mapped where!
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I'm in the market for a robust, high quality, compact keyboard with the right layout. But nothing has surpassed the happy hacking keyboard yet.
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Option "XkbOptions" "ctrl:nocaps"
In MS Windows, try caps-as-ctrl.reg [gnu.org]. You will need to reboot after installing.
For both pro and casual gamers? (Score:4, Insightful)
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I'm not asking that rhetorically, I'd seriously like an answer; the whole "Professional Gaming" thing, save my early flirtation with The Wizard when I was 10, passed me by in my old age.
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My roomate unfortunately has found it cheaper to punch a hole in the wall since plaster is cheaper than computer equipment.
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Personally, I want to know what the fuck gamers are doing to their stuff where they need reinforced steel and a mouse with it's own CPU.
I don't know about the mouse, but a heavy keyboard with mechanical switches is nicer to use IMO. Weight keeps it from shifting around and the switches are more durable. If the keys are properly formed, using some kind of infused plastic rather than the surface printed labels then they won't tend to have the labels wear off either.
For this particular keyboard though I don
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Prior mousing experiences (Score:5, Funny)
Well, that's a phrase you don't hear every day.
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Gamers bleat that 4000dpi is needed for that "uber" control. It's not. Not even close. The day any human being on this planet shows me manual dexterity with an object weighing half a pound capable of precision control to within SIX THOUSANDTHS OF A MILLIMETRE is the day I'll personally fund the construction of an 8000dpi mouse just for you.
I want to tell you just how fine that resolution is. SHORT head hairs on an ANT measure 0.006mm.
You could survive on 1000dpi at the most
Not sure how this qualified as a review (Score:5, Informative)
This is a slashvertisement if I've ever seen one.
L shape enter/return key and small backspace key (Score:5, Insightful)
Just from looking at the keyboard I hate it already. An L shaped enter/return key and a tiny backspace key with the backslash next to it.
I've always hated the L shaped return key because it forces you to move the center of the key slightly higher...which is too high for a pinky. The large size you could say makes it easier to hit, except that most L shaped keys have terrible balancing so hitting it slightly lower or higher than the middle of the key can cause the key press not to register.
Now the tiny backspace key really gets me. I had a keyboard with a tiny backspace key and it pissed the hell out of me because I would often hit the key next to it since it was so small.
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Analog? (Score:2)
Does this meen that the keys are analong and can be programed that way? or is it just another button that clicks halfway down?
The idea of having analog 'WASD' sounds real nice for pc games. Still 150 is too much when better supported gaming keyboards are on the market for less then 100
waste of money (Score:4, Funny)
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Was this supposed to be a review? (Score:2)
Model M (Score:5, Funny)
a...men (Score:3, Insightful)
The ads for movies and what-not is getting really annoying. I don't remember