How 'Minimus' Can Optimus Maximus Go?

The Optimus Maximus keyboard is already out on the market and available for purchase. It was high time for that since Artemy Lebedev kept his customers in the dark since August. What keeps people from embracing the Maximus keyboard is, of course, the maximum price. Well, $1500 keyboard is a little bit too expensive for the average user, isn't it?

The Art Lebedev Studios promised a version of the keyboard to cost under $1000, that would be stripped of some features. The good news is that Lebedev knows how to honor a promise and the users can configure an OLED-enabled keyboard to fit both their tastes and their pockets.

So, the new offer posted on the official website lets you configure a keyboard whose cost would proportionally increase with the desired number of OLED mini-displays. The minimum configuration is, of course, a single key OLED-enabled keyboard (it's actually the Space key), to cost 'just' $462.27. Quite a bargain, huh? Let's see, you get a trendy keyboard with an OLED-enabled space bar, which you will be able to customize with the appropriate symbol (namely ' ', also known as 'blank'). I don't know what is the general idea behind this, but I would end up paying 40 times the price of a multimedia keyboard in order to have a spacebar glowing its diffuse blue light on me.

The second option is to order a 10 OLED-enabled keys keyboard for $599.01. Well, at least this offer actually lets you enjoy the full left panel to hold the multimedia keys, which is better than a blinky spacebar. But it would cost you some extra $140. If you really feel rich, the best option is to pick a keyboard that has all the 47 alphanumeric and symbol keys OLED-enabled. That would be the best choice to actually make something out of your trendy keyboard, but you will have to rip off your pocket exactly $999.2.

Of course, you may actually take the whole keyboard with all the 113 keys that feature OLED displays, at a fair price of 1564.3, no extra charges. This would be the best pick, but you don't enjoy any discount, as you pay the full price. But opting for a few OLED enabled keys only is just like buying a Ferrari sparkler to use in your old and rusty wagon.