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Ideazon Zboard Gaming Keyboard | 
| Brand: SteelSeries
Category: CE
List Price: $49.99
Buy New: $40.91
as of 8/1/2010 02:07 PDT details
You Save: $9.08 (18%)
New (24) Used (2) from $34.99
Seller: ANTOnline
Rating:  115 reviews
Platform: PlayStation2
Color: Black/Silver
Media: Electronics
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Batteries Included: No
Operating System: Playstation 2
Keyboard: QWERTY
Shipping Weight (lbs): 5
Dimensions (in): 0.2 x 0.1 x 0
Warranty: 1 year warranty
MPN: PW1USE1-B3ZBD01
Model: PW1USE1-B3ZBD01
UPC: 826734000594
EAN: 0826734000594
ASIN: B0002H7F3G
Release Date: June 23, 2004
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Features:
| • | Box Content - USB Keyboard Base, Gaming Keyset, Standard Keyset, Wrist Rest, Installation CD, and Documentation | | • | USB Hub - Your Zboard Base is equipped with 2 USB (bus powered) connectors | | • | Hot Keys - A set of nine hot keys launch common functions such as E-mail, Calculator and My Computer or allow you to instantly return | | • | Multimedia Control Buttons - Play/pause, stop, next/previous track, volume up/down and mute | | • | Additional LED Indicators - Standard 3 LED (Caps, Scroll and Num lock) and Zboard enhanced functionality (Pad Lock, Bar Lock and Enable) |
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Product Description
The Zboard Base has an auto recognition feature for any keyset you insert. Just switch keysets & play your favorite games.
It comes with:USB Hub with 2 USB connectors that supports low voltage devices (up to 100mA) such as mice, joystick or memory sticks.9 Hot Keys allow you to instantly return to a pre- selected destination, such as a file, folder, program or web page.7 one-touch Multimedia Control buttons: play/pause, stop, next/previous track, volume up/down and mute.Additional LED indicators; it has additional 3 LEDs to indicate Zboard enhanced functionality (Pad Lock, Bar Lock and Enable).The Gaming keyset was designed for First/Third Person Shooter and Action games. It provides a better gaming experience, advanced layout and built-in technological advantages. Most commonly used game commands are labeled right on the keys to help you start playing new games faster.Up to 7 simultaneous key-strokes - Jump, move forward, lean left, change weapon and shoot at the same time!! Large "butterfly" keys are enlarged and sloped to help keep fingers comfortable through hours of gaming.Unique domed action keys give gamers the responsive feel.Pre-defined key layouts from the list of game titles supported by your Gaming Keyset or create your own key layouts using the Z Engine software which allows you to easily drag and drop to remap all keys.The Standard Keyset is based on the traditional 108-key layout for regular everyday use.
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Showing reviews 1-5 of 115
 Good Idea Bad Setup for the Real gamer February 12, 2010
Rory (Medford, OR USA)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
I love the Idea of the Zboard BUT for someone who Has Played alot of competative games I would sugjest the Merc Stealth as I now have or the Z MERC witch My friends all have now that they have used mine. There are a few issues with them still but the best ones I have found Yet for Gamming
 DO NOT BUY THIS! January 10, 2010
B. Phillips (Atlanta, GA)
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
This is a great design for a gaming keyboard; however, the drivers are horrible. If you are running any windows or Linux system, do not buy this keyboard. The drivers are so awful that you will end up with a very expensive standard keyboard without the promised gaming functions. In addition to the lousy drivers, the steelseries company [...] that now owns this product offers lousy to nonexistent support. I am ashamed of Amazon for still selling this product on its website. A class action lawsuit website is all you should see when you search for this item. Please do not waste you money as I did on this.
Absolute Garbage October 30, 2009
M. Kirichenko (Brooklyn, NY)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
There are many things wrong with this keyboard, in the first that it's a novel concept, and was directed to be a 'keyboard' marketed towards gamers. I fell for the advertising and spent the first few hours messing with the various configurations and being in awe of the keymapping, but in the end you are still left with a very sub-par product - a rubber dome based keyboard, with folding gimmick top half.
It would constantly disconnect from the computer, the drivers had to be reinstalled for it to respond again, it didn't exactly 'work' during bootup other, which forced me to fetch an older keyboard and use that to install Windows..
Overall a very shoddy product. If you want a solid gaming keyboard for your money that won't die on you every 15 minutes after two days of ownership, strongly consider a Das Keyboard. It's what I'm writing this review on right now, and I've owned it for more than a year, a long time after I've thrown away the worthless Zboard as well.
 zboard April 16, 2009
Jessica M. Zeffery (alaska)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
my father in law loves this keyboard. he got the WoW adapter keyboard for it too and really enjoys it. highly recommended for the avid gamer.
Great gaming keyboard March 13, 2009
Brett (Michigan United States)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I have been using this keyboard for years and love it. I use to avoid first person shooter games because I just couldn't get use to the WASD movement. My fingers would always slip off the keys and I would end up hitting the other keys and end up blowing myself up with a grenade ore something. That all changed when I found the Zboard. I love the butterfly pad on the left hand side that is set up perfectly for ease of movement and improved access to other important keys. The butterfly keys are large and slightly angled to keep your fingers in the proper position. This set up also works great for MMORPGs and man other games that allow WASD movement. The right hand two thirds of the board is a standard keyboard that you can use for typing. The gaming keyboard does not have a num-pad. Some thing had to go to make room for the butterfly pad. Also, there is no ~ key. I guess they ran out of room and figured that was the least used key. Quite a few games do use that key. They should have kept that and got rid of the Ins key. Who uses that? None of that is a real issue. If you need the total functionality of a full keyboard, you just have to swap out the gaming keyboard with the standard keyboard and you are good to go. It only takes 15-20 seconds to do.
One thing to note is that the keyboard requires that the drivers be installed. The keyboard will not function properly without them. Also, the keys are programmable through the software that comes with the board, but there is really no point in that. It is far easier to program the keys within the game itself.
The one premise that this keyboard was built around was the ability to swap out the keyboard with different key sets designed for specific functions. They have key sets that are specific to certain games and applications. In my opinion, you don't need any key sets other than what comes in this package. Every popular game that comes out gets a key set. Most are just the basic key set with with some artwork and keys labeled for specific functions. I really don't find it practical. The FPS ones are not bad, because they are designs are functional but, in most cases, once you set up things the way you like it on the default gaming board, you don't really need to have a specialty board. Most FPS games are set up pretty much the same way. I did get the DOOM 3 one packaged with the game. It did offer a slightly better setup specific to the game, but I could have easily w got by without it.
That said, the additional key sets they create for the MMORPGs seem completely worthless to me. Movement in those types of games are now more like the FPS games. I'm sure that there are still a lot of people in those games that use the arrow keys for movement instead of the WASD, but that is because they lack a better option. The butterfly pad is the perfect solution, but they don't design those boards that way. They basically give you a standard keyboard setup with colorful graphic of the game, and keys labeled for specific function, but it leave movement on the right hand side arrow keys. Movement on the right hand side is impractical. That is the mouse side. People have to reach across their body to use it. People use it that way on standard keyboards because they have to, but you would think that a keyboard designed for gaming would give the a better option. They are not even enhanced butterfly type keys, just the standard arrow keys. I don't understand this design at all and I find them completely useless. I use the standard gaming board that comes in this set for all my gaming.
They also make the MERC gaming keyboard, which I also own. In some ways it is designed a little better for gaming, but unfortunately some design flaws on that keyboard sent me back to my Zboard.
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