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Does anyone make a keyboard with LED lighted letters on them?

post #1 of 7
1/13/06 at 5:52am
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Like little blue or red light coming through? I'd buy a laptop for that feature alone.
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post #2 of 7
1/13/06 at 8:37am

Oled

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Originally Posted by Option
Like little blue or red light coming through? I'd buy a laptop for that feature alone.
Feb 1st.

A startup out of Russia will be offering an OLED keyboard. Every key has a dot matrix OLED which can be custom configured. Article with photos from CES on Engadget.

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post #3 of 7
1/13/06 at 8:45am
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Originally Posted by Option
Like little blue or red light coming through? I'd buy a laptop for that feature alone.
Only Apple as far as I know.
Check out the new core duo laptops in here:
http://www.macnn.com/articles/06/01/...tel.notebooks/
http://www.apple.com/macbookpro/

Be careful though: the reality behind the real possibities of installing windows XP on the new Apple Core duo laptop are still fuzzy (even if I really believe there won't be any problem at all, you might have to face some issues with special hardware being not recognized... the backlit keyb being one of them... but that depends on how much of the keyb-light sensor interaction is software driven).
In the end you might end up with a laptop with those features, but being unable to exploit them outside macosx. Still, as I stated first, I don't know any other name with a backlit keyb in the lappy business...
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post #4 of 7
1/13/06 at 8:47am
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Originally Posted by 21st Hermit
Feb 1st.

A startup out of Russia will be offering an OLED keyboard. Every key has a dot matrix OLED which can be custom configured. Article with photos from CES on Engadget.

Hermit
ehm, I think he was searching for a laptop keyb ... anyway let's hope the oled thing is real and not FUD..... I've been waiting for that keyb a long time since.
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post #5 of 7
1/13/06 at 10:22am
i am sure the oled keyboards will transfer to laptops within a year of their desktop release. that would be juicy.

as for regular under-lit keyboards, wasn't there some Asus or Acer (or was it Sager) owner who modified his lappy with a lit keyboard? But later removed it because it sucked way too much.

i think its a novelty feature, you don't really need it. light produced by the LCD is adiquate to light up the keyboard in dark rooms, on top of that you should ahve the keyboard memorized anyway...thus having no point of you having to look atht keyboard at any given time.
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post #6 of 7
1/13/06 at 10:16pm
Here's an external one.
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post #7 of 7
1/13/06 at 10:37pm
Internal - Apple is the only one I know of mainstream and it has an ambient light sensor to ramp up the brightness as needed.

External - Saitek has a sweet black keyboard with blue LED backlights. On mine the ASDW keys are getting a bit fuzzy from extreme use, the silver coating is wearing off and at night the light shines through as a blue blob instead of a letter. I know where aswd are though =)
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