Ideazon Zboard

price, usability, design, durability

reliability

67% of the reviews on Amazon.com give this product a positive rating.

Interchangeable keysets for gaming, office, and specific applications (stay tuned for more information) ; Easy to program profiles and macros ; Keysets can be changed on-the-fly ; Excellent gaming keyboard with great functionality

Key action is a little rough - and noisy ; Non-Standard QWERTY layout on gaming keyset

Although the Ideazon Zboard may not be for everyone, it has some features that make it an excellent gaming keyboard. For general office use, the keys are a little stiffer that many other keyboards on the market and the action isn't as clean. The...

Interchangeable Interfaces ; Customizable Keys ; User Friendly ; Hot swappable

A couple of my keys would stick every so often ; Interfaces are pricey ; Limited Interface Availability

The Zboard is a very cool product, but it did fall short of receiving our OCC Recommend Award for a few reasons. First off, while I was using the Zboard over the past few days I have noticed that some of the keys will stick. The enter button on the...

The Zboard MERC is an excellent innovation in gaming-specific keyboard design. The layout and butterfly keys expand upon and improve the original Zboard's design. While the MERC forgoes the cool limited edition game-specific Zboard keysets, it is a far...

Ease of set up ; Swappable keysets ; Software key binding utility ; Variety of gaming and productivity keysets available ; The best way to pillage pixels in the 21st century ; Much more comfortable gameplay than a standard keyboard

Typing normal text commands on gaming keyset can feel disorienting

While I didn't become a First Sergeant while testing the Zboard under fire, something odd did strike me. In use, there wasn't a pause for me to tell myself "you know, I'm fragging one helluva lot more here" but there was a moment or two of feeling my...

The base package gives you the standard board and the Crossfire, but Ideazon sell plenty of others for various games and applications. However, they don't seem to be readily available anywhere other than the US and Canada, which lessens the Zboard's...