News - Das Keyboard 4 launched, includes a Hi-Fi volume knob

[HEXUS]

Said to be the most significant upgrade since the original Das Keyboard was launched.

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[jim]

It's a nice idea, imo. The volume wheel on Logitech's G110/G510 is abysmal.

[JCBeastie]

If that had soft white backlighting I would be sold. What i really like is the large rubber rest in place of flip out feet; those are the worst part of any keyboard.

[badsyntax]

Have you seen the SteelSeries Apex keyboards (especially the [Raw])? White lighting, good feel and rubber plugs for feet instead of fold-out legs. There's some bargains on that online recently. Worth a look if you're in the market for a new keyboard.

That Das unit is nice but the $=£ isn't so appealing.

[edzieba]

The Apex does not have mechanical keyswitches, which is why it is so much cheaper.

I picked up a G710+ recently because I find media keys & programmable macro keys (dedicated calculator launch!) too convenient to give up for a switch to mechanical keys, and prefer a white backlight. The DAS looks like it would have won out, if it were available earlier and had a UK ISO layout (DAS make US ANSI only).

::EDIT:: Whoops, the DAS isn't backlit. Meh to that, then.

[SUMMONER]

Still no ergonomic version.

[Neostar]

They need to make a TKL version with backlit

[Sohaib.27]

the wheel is what microsoft should implement into their keyboards! The volume buttons on my wirelss 5000 are quite stiff