Game Hardware: Controllers, Keyboards, Mice
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Ideazon Zboard Gaming Keyboard | 
| Brand: SteelSeries
Category: CE
List Price: $49.99
Buy New: $38.81
You Save: $11.18 (22%)
New (26) Used (2) from $35.00
Avg. Customer Rating:  117 reviews
Platform: Playstation2
Color: Black/Silver
Media: Electronics
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Number Of Items: 1
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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| Customer Reviews: Read 112 more reviews...
 Nice for a start August 11, 2010
Over all good board its not a top of the line but it is a good price for the guy like me that really only games for a few hrs a night and dose not want to spend a tone of money
 SteelSeries disappoints once again August 9, 2010
Pros:
-Anti ghosting
-Keysets
-All the keys are labeled
-Useful windows/explorer keys
-Good deal compared to others
Cons:
-Keyboard feels cheap
-Bent the contact pins while trying to put in a new keyset (the standard keyset fits better than the fps keyset)
-Not backlit
-Software is not the best, razer and logitech have much better
Eventhough this is supposed to be a gaming keyboard, I didn't feel much game in it. Keys are stiff, and they're full size keys instead of the lower profile ones that you see on razer keyboards. When I purchased this, I didn't know that steel series made the zboard, but once I got it the mail and played with it, it was just like any other steel series product...a cheap consumer product, made to look like gaming gear. Having had experience with SteelSeries before, I would not recommend their products.
Good Idea Bad Setup for the Real gamer February 12, 2010
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
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
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.
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