Microsoft SideWinder X4 Keyboard
MICROSOFT SIDEWINDER X4 KEYBOARD
- Availability: Available Now
- System – Windows
- Price – $59.95 US
- Microsoft
PRODUCT DESCRIPTION
A virtual command center at your fingertips, this new keyboard gives you powerful programming and versatility to enhance your work or game play.
The SideWinder X4 Keyboard is a keyboard designed to give gamers more control over their gaming experience with the industry’s most advanced anti-ghosting technology. Developed by the Applied Sciences Group, this new technology ensures gamers’ most complex key combinations will be recognized by the computer to keep the game in action. The new keyboard also offers other advanced gaming features such as macro recording, mode and profile switching, and adjustable backlighting.
The Applied Sciences Group, an interdisciplinary research and development team that works across the Microsoft Entertainment & Devices Division doing applied research for Microsoft Hardware, Microsoft Surface and Xbox 360, developed the anti-ghosting technology with gamers in mind. The advanced technology takes anti-ghosting to the next level by allowing gamers to press up to 26 keys at once. Because each key is scanned independently by the keyboard hardware, each key press is correctly detected regardless of how many other keys are being pressed at the same time. The SideWinder X4 Keyboard excels where other keyboards fail, letting users execute key combinations and taking full advantage of their skill and speed.
“We’re always looking for new and novel ways to enhance people’s interactions with their PCs,” said Steven Bathiche, research manager of the Applied Sciences Group at Microsoft. “We know that ghosting can be a problem for gamers, so we wanted to develop a way to eliminate this issue and improve the overall gaming experience, and we’ve succeeded with the new anti-ghosting technology in the SideWinder X4 Keyboard.”
Precise Gaming Keyboard With Advanced Features
The SideWinder X4 Keyboard also offers more of the features gamers need to stay at the top of their game. Macro recording lets them string together multiple moves into one press of a button, and the new automatic macro repetition feature lets them repeat the macro over and over as needed with one key. Mode and profile switching also provides easy ways to customize the keyboard for different games and users while adjustable backlighting lets gamers select the lighting level that meets their needs.
Features:
- Advanced anti-ghosting capability
Press up to 26 keys simultaneously without ghosting—what you press is what you get! - Mode switching
Manually toggle the keyboard from standard mode to either of two gaming modes. LEDs show the selected mode. - Automatic profile switching
When a game or application profile is assigned using the software, the keyboard detects the game or application you are running and applies your custom profile to the application. - Programmable macro keys
Switch among three banks of six programmable macro keys to assign up to 18 macros per profile. - In-game Macro Record button
Record any sequence of keystrokes—even standard chat messages. Macros are stored on your hard drive and can be easily shared. - Automatic macro repetition
Set your macros to repeat. - Backlit keys
Adjust key-legend backlighting with three illumination levels plus “off.” - Media keys
Play/Pause, Previous Track, Next Track, and Mute. - 3-Year Limited Warranty
Requirements
- Requires a PC that meets the requirements for and has installed one of these operating systems: Windows® 7, Windows Vista®, Windows XP
- 100 MB Hard Drive
- CD drive
- Powered USB port
THOUGHTS FROM THE GAME REVIEW NETWORK
One of our members had the opportunity to review this game and here’s what she thought.
Jyl @ The Post-It Place – “With the gaming industry at an all time high Microsoft has answered the call and came out with the ultimate keyboard for gamers. It is designed to give gamers more control over their gaming experience, the SideWinder X4 comes equipped with the industry’s most advanced anti-ghosting technology – ensuring that the most complex key combinations will be recognized by the computer to keep the game in action…. The guys are LOVING the SideWinder X4. What they rave about the most is the programmable macro keys. It makes hard to do moves easy as pie with the tap of one button.”
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What an awesome keyboard! I want one. This would be very handy.
This sounds like a fantastic Keyboard I use a simpler one but Hubby loves things with bells and whistles