Try pressing all the keys on your keyboard at once. Go ahead, do it now. Open up notepad and try, see how many actually get pressed. Chances are it won't be very many. Ever wonder why?

Most keyboards are made so simultaneous key presses average about 10% of the total number of keys on the board (that's about 104, give or take a few extra keys, so about 10 keys at once can be pressed). 10 keys at once is certainly enough for most people, considering that you've only got 10 fingers and typically, while gaming, only use one hand for the keyboard.

There are a few problems with this, which is where anti-ghosting comes up. SteelSeries, whom we recently reviewed their SP mousepad and are working on a review for their Ikari laser mouse, revealed today that they don't care for this standard, and are ready to change it. High performance keyboards need to up the ante, and so they have now.

The 7G not only eliminates anti-ghosting by making the keyboard read all keys simultaneously, no matter how many are pressed at once, it also guarantee's roughly 10x the number of keystrokes for typical keyboards at 50 million. It's priced highly at $150, comes with both PS/2 and USB connectors (all gold plated, of course), and has additional microphone and headphone jacks and two USB ports for easy interface.

Don't be held off on the price. If they're right, 50 million keystrokes means that instead of paying $20-50 for a typical to mid-range keyboard, you'll pay $150 for a board that lasts 10x as long, that's an achievement to keyboards everywhere, is both minimalist in its design and also fits well with today's almost-standardized port system for keyboards. It looks like a great deal from that standpoint, now doesn't it?

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