Saitek Eclipse Keyboard ( PZ30AU )
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Customer Review: Painted Whore, Heart of Gold, Keep Away From Coffee
Summary: 4 Stars
Soft but satisfying tactile response. Quiet enough for typing with kids in the next room. Wide backspace, single-height enter, pipe and backslash where they're supposed to be. The blue light is pretty, but that's the least of the reasons to buy this keyboard.
Wife left her coffee beside the keyboard. One doesn't do this with toddlers in the house. A run through the dishwasher revived a few keys, but still unusable. I took it apart, saw what appeared to be dried pools of sticky coffee on some of the three membranes, but a vigorous wiping didn't do any good. If it happens again, I'll get it into the dishwasher before it's too late.
My backup keyboards just didn't cut it. Typing was a chore, not the effortless interface of the Eclipse. I considered the Eclipse II, but it seemed to offer only more lighting options, and that's not why I loved the original.
If there's any "bad" in this board, it's the color on the keys. Mine rubbed off significantly during its lifetime. I didn't care. My fingers glide over these keys.
I'm not giving it five stars because it's not perfect. Is anything? It's close.
Customer Review: Bang 4 the Buck
Summary: 5 Stars
This keyboard is terrific, the keys are sturdy and responsive to the touch.Love the back lighting I would recommend this board to anyone that games and doesn't want to spend a ton of $$$. Customer Review: Muy buen Teclado , pero sin ?
Summary: 4 Stars
Exactamente lo que queria, ilumina de noche y se puede colocar mas tenue la luz... lo unico malo es que es en ingles y la ? no aparece. Actualmente tengo el teclado configurado en espa?ol pero los caracteres especiales no van donde corresponden y a veces tiende a confundir... si se coloca en ingles no hay ?Customer Review: great keyboard
Summary: 5 Stars
Love this keyboard! I type at night sometimes and hate the lights on, this lighted keyboard is just the ticket. Customer Review: Poor quality makes this unusable.
Summary: 1 Stars
I have had it with this keyboard. It fails on a number of accounts as follows:
1) The keys have a very poor feel and tend to generate multiple strokes. So "Please" turns into "PPPlease" and it wreaks havoc with passwords. I have to type the passwords really slow and careful and even then it messes up about 2/3 of the time. Given many systems lock you out if failed attempts exceed some number this becomes more than an inconvenience.
2) Keyboard illumination is poor and characters are not well marked. In particular it is very hard to distinguish "%" from "^" when using the lighting. Other characters are not much better and the paint feels like is rubbing off.
3) The buyer information does not tell you what kind of hookup it is using. I was expecting ps2 and got a usb keyboard. While this is not a huge deal with newer computers it is still nice to know before getting the keyboard.
The only plus for this is the price. At about 36 $ it is a lot cheaper than higher end ones which could go way over 100$. Therefore it appears to be a good deal, but it is not! The above makes it totally useless at least for me. So now I have to pay "The price of a high end one" + 35 $ :-(. I learned the hard way not to cut corners and buy the good one right at the start.