My Lycosa came in. Here’s some oversize bubble wrap like object.

The box away from the oversize bubble wrap

The backside

The inside, the strange square is the install disk

Sorry about the unstable hand, must have been crazy tired when i took the picture.

Build Quality: 4/5 Seems fine

Feel: 3/5 a bit glossy, not “grippy” enough

Compatibility: 3/5 Mac has no drivers though windows is great.

Look: 5/5 Sexy thang

Average: 3.75/5 Overall great gaming keyboard

Other thoughts: Seems like a generally good keyboard, can just light up “WASD” or all, or none. Has volume/media controls. Mic and earphone ports. One USB Port. Standard keyboard.

Just popping in to mention i updated my desktop to 10.5.7 leopard. This patch fixes DFU mode for iphone/ipods. Has a few optimization tweaks, but in general looks the same. For this reason i will not post any pictures. For my hackint0sh system, it destroyed my audio, but my backup AppleHDA.kext sufficed. Simple fix.

I have run into a slight problem, my laptop came with Windows Vista (shudder). I decided to downgrade to Windows XP. It was hell, a HP Pavilion DV2618CA, HP did not offer many official drivers.

I’m afraid Windows XP is dying, we are losing one of the last good operating systems. I eventually did find the right drivers though, but newer laptops will not be so lucky.

But the fact of backwards compatibility from Vista to XP is virtually non-existent, scares me, what shall i do when i buy a new laptop? A new desktop?

Following the release of some security patches and SP3, windows XP has been knocked off full support, and bumped down to extended support until 2010. At which point we will lose it entirely .

Maybe it is time we all switched over to Apple Macintosh’s and boycotted MicroShit as a way of saying, don’t fix something that isn’t broken. Linux is another good alternative, big community, good driver support, just not enough applications.

Microshit has been trying to play catchup to apple for to long, obviously, with all the copied features, we should switch over. The final blow will be when game makers switch to Apple systems.