*Passes out*

[MinisterofDOOM]

Nah, all those cans have been stacking up for AT LEAST a year and a half. I just save them instead of throwing them away. One day I'll recycle them. Maybe. Eventually.

[C-Kwik]

It's not just advantage. It's the appeal of having a neat gadget.

But it does offer advantages. Those on-the-fly macro keys are very useful. No need to set up keybinding "profiles" in an external application. Now you can set up the macro you want in-game when you want it.

Also, Logitech's gaming keyboards solve a common keyboard design issue: simultaneous keypress limitations. Due to the way the key matrix is laid out on most keyboards, certain key combinations don't work. Usually no more than 3 simultaneous kepresses at once can be supported by the keyboard. Logitech's gaming keyboards use a different design that allows more simultaneous keypresses and avoids the key "overlap" that causes things to muck up. An example: In Rigs of Rods (a free trucking sim) on my home PC with mg G15, I have a certain control setup. Since it's a sim with big trucks, you're pretty busy on the keyboard shifting, etc. On my parent's machine with an older $20 "generic" keyboard (even a Logitech, just not a gaming-purposed one) those keybindings don't work. I lose the ability to turn right under certain conditions due to the number of keys being used at once. No such issue on my G15.

Never ran into a problem with keys not working. Until this becomes a common issue, then I don't see much use.

As far as the LCD, it's extremely useful. Some examples:

Raiding in WoW. Since WoW doesn't have a built-in VOIP system (that's worth using, at any rate) everyone uses Ventrilo or similar programs. That means there's no visual indicator in-game as to who is speaking. If you don't raid with the same people regularly, that can add confusion unless everyone always identifies themself every time they talk. Not an issue for me with my G15, as the LCD shows Ventrilo info so I can glance at the LCD and see who is transmitting.

Also, with the Trillian plugin, I can IM people without ever having to alt-tab out of my game. Just hit one of the function buttons for the LCD and the keyboard switches over to the LCD for a minute. Type the message in the LCD itself and transmit...the whole conversation takes place in the LCD alone.

Then there's the additional info you get at a glance. No need to open the character window in WoW. I get on-the-fly unit count info in C&C. Very useful.

And the new LCD should be even more robust. Freeing up viewport space without sacrificing UI information is a highly desirable bonus in my eyes.

If its an LCD you're after, you can probably buy an LCD monitor for about as much as that keyboard and end up with a FULL-SIZE LCD to look at. The GF used to play WoW and we have a dual-head set-up. Played WoW on one screen and could easily see multiple IM clients on the other without problems. Hell, we have her 360 set up on the primary monitor as it handles the DVI and VGA connections as separate sources. The second monitor stays up and she can browse and IM people while playing on her 360. And a dual-head set-up can be used outside of gaming, even as a simple desktop extension (which btw, can be quite convenient to have). Most decent video cards already come with some capability of dual-heading so that shouldn't be an issue for most.

Don't get me wrong though. The keyboard is neat. But I don't see it being worth $200.