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Computer Add-Ons - Ideazon Zboard Gaming Keyboard
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List Price: $49.99
Our Price: $49.72
Your Save: $ 0.27 ( 1% )
Availability: N/A
Manufacturer: Ideazon
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Average Customer Rating:   
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Batteries Included: 0
Binding: Electronics
Brand: Ideazon
Color: Black/Silver
EAN: 0826734000594
Feature: Box Content - USB Keyboard Base, Gaming Keyset, Standard Keyset, Wrist Rest, Installation CD, and Documentation
Is Autographed: 0
Is Memorabilia: 0
Keyboard Description: QWERTY
Label: Ideazon
Manufacturer: Ideazon
Model: PW1USE1-B3ZBD01
Platform: PlayStation2
Publisher: Ideazon
Release Date: 2004-06-23
Studio: Ideazon
Warranty: 1 year warranty
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Features
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Box Content - USB Keyboard Base, Gaming Keyset, Standard Keyset, Wrist Rest, Installation CD, and Documentation
USB Hub - Your Zboard Base is equipped with 2 USB (bus powered) connectors
Hot Keys - A set of nine hot keys launch common functions such as E-mail, Calculator and My Computer or allow you to instantly return
Multimedia Control Buttons - Play/pause, stop, next/previous track, volume up/down and mute
Additional LED Indicators - Standard 3 LED (Caps, Scroll and Num lock) and Zboard enhanced functionality (Pad Lock, Bar Lock and Enable)
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Editorial Reviews:
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When you want to master applications and games quickly and easily, look no further than the Zboard from Ideazon. The Zboard is a revolutionary, two-piece, interchangeable keyboard system that is designed to optimize your computing experience.The Zboard system is comprised of a base and interchangeable keyboard interfaces for many of today's popular business applications. The unique system design delivers maximum flexibility so that you can quickly and easily exchange between businesses, gaming or educational interfaces depending upon your current need.
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Spotlight customer reviews:
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Customer Rating:
Summary: Good Idea Bad Setup for the Real gamer
Comment: I love the Idea of the Zboard BUT for someone who Has Played alot of competative games I would sugjest the Merc Stealth as I now have or the Z MERC witch My friends all have now that they have used mine. There are a few issues with them still but the best ones I have found Yet for Gamming
Customer Rating:
Summary: DO NOT BUY THIS!
Comment: This is a great design for a gaming keyboard; however, the drivers are horrible. If you are running any windows or Linux system, do not buy this keyboard. The drivers are so awful that you will end up with a very expensive standard keyboard without the promised gaming functions. In addition to the lousy drivers, the steelseries company [...] that now owns this product offers lousy to nonexistent support. I am ashamed of Amazon for still selling this product on its website. A class action lawsuit website is all you should see when you search for this item. Please do not waste you money as I did on this.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Absolute Garbage
Comment: There are many things wrong with this keyboard, in the first that it's a novel concept, and was directed to be a 'keyboard' marketed towards gamers. I fell for the advertising and spent the first few hours messing with the various configurations and being in awe of the keymapping, but in the end you are still left with a very sub-par product - a rubber dome based keyboard, with folding gimmick top half.
It would constantly disconnect from the computer, the drivers had to be reinstalled for it to respond again, it didn't exactly 'work' during bootup other, which forced me to fetch an older keyboard and use that to install Windows..
Overall a very shoddy product. If you want a solid gaming keyboard for your money that won't die on you every 15 minutes after two days of ownership, strongly consider a Das Keyboard. It's what I'm writing this review on right now, and I've owned it for more than a year, a long time after I've thrown away the worthless Zboard as well.
Customer Rating:
Summary: zboard
Comment: my father in law loves this keyboard. he got the WoW adapter keyboard for it too and really enjoys it. highly recommended for the avid gamer.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Great gaming keyboard
Comment: I have been using this keyboard for years and love it. I use to avoid first person shooter games because I just couldn't get use to the WASD movement. My fingers would always slip off the keys and I would end up hitting the other keys and end up blowing myself up with a grenade ore something. That all changed when I found the Zboard. I love the butterfly pad on the left hand side that is set up perfectly for ease of movement and improved access to other important keys. The butterfly keys are large and slightly angled to keep your fingers in the proper position. This set up also works great for MMORPGs and man other games that allow WASD movement. The right hand two thirds of the board is a standard keyboard that you can use for typing. The gaming keyboard does not have a num-pad. Some thing had to go to make room for the butterfly pad. Also, there is no ~ key. I guess they ran out of room and figured that was the least used key. Quite a few games do use that key. They should have kept that and got rid of the Ins key. Who uses that? None of that is a real issue. If you need the total functionality of a full keyboard, you just have to swap out the gaming keyboard with the standard keyboard and you are good to go. It only takes 15-20 seconds to do.
One thing to note is that the keyboard requires that the drivers be installed. The keyboard will not function properly without them. Also, the keys are programmable through the software that comes with the board, but there is really no point in that. It is far easier to program the keys within the game itself.
The one premise that this keyboard was built around was the ability to swap out the keyboard with different key sets designed for specific functions. They have key sets that are specific to certain games and applications. In my opinion, you don't need any key sets other than what comes in this package. Every popular game that comes out gets a key set. Most are just the basic key set with with some artwork and keys labeled for specific functions. I really don't find it practical. The FPS ones are not bad, because they are designs are functional but, in most cases, once you set up things the way you like it on the default gaming board, you don't really need to have a specialty board. Most FPS games are set up pretty much the same way. I did get the DOOM 3 one packaged with the game. It did offer a slightly better setup specific to the game, but I could have easily w got by without it.
That said, the additional key sets they create for the MMORPGs seem completely worthless to me. Movement in those types of games are now more like the FPS games. I'm sure that there are still a lot of people in those games that use the arrow keys for movement instead of the WASD, but that is because they lack a better option. The butterfly pad is the perfect solution, but they don't design those boards that way. They basically give you a standard keyboard setup with colorful graphic of the game, and keys labeled for specific function, but it leave movement on the right hand side arrow keys. Movement on the right hand side is impractical. That is the mouse side. People have to reach across their body to use it. People use it that way on standard keyboards because they have to, but you would think that a keyboard designed for gaming would give the a better option. They are not even enhanced butterfly type keys, just the standard arrow keys. I don't understand this design at all and I find them completely useless. I use the standard gaming board that comes in this set for all my gaming.
They also make the MERC gaming keyboard, which I also own. In some ways it is designed a little better for gaming, but unfortunately some design flaws on that keyboard sent me back to my Zboard.
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