New Keyboard

So, I've been wanting to get a new keyboard for a while, and had been waiting for Logitech's new "gaming" keyboard, the G15 to come out. It was nice and back lit, with a bunch of programmable buttons, and it had an LCD screen built into it. The only problem was that it costs like $80, which isn't that bad compared to several other backlit keyboards. I picked it up at best buy, and immediately took it back the next day. While the back light was nice, the keys were all readable, and there weren't really any hot spots with the LED lights, the hotkey macro's didn't work right with EQ. Also, I didn't really like the way it typed, or the angle which it was at. I wanted it to be about .25 inches higher, and to get that, I'd need a book or something under it.

That night, I saw a new keyboard at thinkgeek, the Wolf Claw 2 FPS This thing was meant to play FPS type games, so instead of the programable hotkeys, it has a pad centered around WASD (go look at the pictures you lazy bums). This seems like the perfect keyboard for me, and you can bet I'll be playing some Counter-Strike this weekend to test it out.

So far I only have 2 complaints with it.

0) to keep it the same size as a normal keyboard, they cut off the number pad. I liked the number pad :( For some odd reason, it still has a Num Lock key. Which as far as I can tell only serves to turn on and off the Num Lock LED... I didn't even notice when I bought it, but I think I'll get over it. And if I do need to every do serious manual data entry, I'll just hook my old one back up.

1.1) Since they got rid of the number pad, they mushed the arrow keys and the ins, home, del keys right along side the right side of the keyboard. Okay, this will take a bit of getting use to, but since you don't really use them that much it will probably turn out okay.

1.2) This one really doesn't count, since all keyboards are now plauged with the "silent" feature, meaning they type like wet cardboard. Give me my clicky clack of those old IBM keyboards. Where you actually felt like you were doing something when you pressed a key. Or at least give me a bit of tactile feed back as to when the connection is being made. I'm sure you can do this with out adding sound if you'd spend some time on it, and not just go for the graphite switch pads with the rubber pressing on em. (yes I know you can still get the old IBM style keyboards, but I wanted a more gaming friendly keyboard)