Good ol' internet. Some of the rants against people wanting mechanical keys in their keyboard are hilarious. Cause it's not nerds who are gonna spend 300 bucks on a keyboard to begin with. Something tells me they better care about what the nerds want.
I really like the modular design feature, but I could do without the fancy LCD doodads. If I'm gaming, looking down at my keyboard is the last thing I'd be doing. Plus all those extraneous electronics inside might make it more annoying to disassemble and wash.
I'd be willing to pay good money for a mechanical version of this -- the modularity / potential compactness is really appealing. I've been wanting a mechanical version of the n52 or G13 for a while now -- the feel of their keys is really meh if you've ever used a mechanical keyboard (I use the red version of the CM Storm QuickFire).
The guy's arguments are kind of funny regardless. Membrane keyboards were incredibly cheap compared to mechanical keyboards, and back then I don't think there were many, if any, backlit mechanical keyboards. Now we have affordable mechanical keyboards, and you can get backlit ones easily. Plus there's the new Cherry MX red switch model which is almost a dedicated gaming key switch, as far as responsiveness/sensitivity, without the noisiness. So what's his argument as far as why we
shouldn't want to see them in this keyboard. Maybe he thinks SSDs are worthless too, because you know, we've been using platter drives just fine for the past decade.