Recently established Australian importer Ausz Boards want to offer all the gamers out there reading this post the chance to pick up a funky ZBoard keyboard at a special discounted price.

What is a ZBoard? Head over here and click the "What is a Zboard" button on the left hand side for a full explanation, but to summarise, it is basically a specially designed keyboard that is able to have customisable "keysets" attached that changes it's functionality appropriately. Want a keyboard that is specially designed for playing World of Warcraft? Then grab the WoW keyset and snap it onto your ZBoard base and away you go! Keysets exist for many other popular games including Everquest 2, Battlefield 2 and Doom 3. As well as gaming keysets, a number of professional keysets exist for use with applications such as 3d Studio Max, Photoshop and Dreamweaver. Check out this link for details on the full range of keysets currently available. Each ZBoard also comes with two standard keysets included: a gaming keyset and a standard keyset that lets the Zboard act as a normal keyboard.

A ZBoard by itself with just the standard included keysets will set you back $100. Buy a ZBoard and a game keyset at the same time for $139, or a ZBoard and a work keyset for $160. Game keysets by themselves are $50. The Photoshop work keyset by itself is $60, the other work keysets are $65. But remember to mention you saw this post when you place your order with Ausz Boards to get your discount.

On top of these prices, Ausz Boards are also offering a volume discount. All orders placed within a week of each other will be considered part of the same bundled order, though customers will still pay and be otherwise treated separately. When you place your order, just mention whether you are interested in being bundled with any other orders that come through for the benefit of a volume discount or not. If you list yourself as interested, your order will automatically be counted with any other orders that arrive the same week and discounts applied accordingly. Discounts get greater the more orders that are placed, so it might pay (no pun intended) for the interested people to all place their orders at once, or at least within a week or each other, to get the maximum discount you can. Prices for the volume discount are listed below.

	1 to 11	12 to 23	24 to 47	48+
Plain ZBoard	$100	$95	$90	$86
ZBoard + Game Keyset	$139	$130	$125	$120
ZBoard + Professional Keyset	$160	$150	$140	$135
Additional Game Keyset	$50	$47	$45	$43
Additional Professional Keyset	$65	$60	$55	$50
Photoshop Keyset	$60	$55	$50	$45

To place your order, or if you have any questions, you can contact Ausz Boards at support@auszboards.com. Don't contact any Ausgamers staff if you have questions about the ZBoards, prices, or anything else related to this offer. The most we'll do is forward you through to the support staff at Ausz Boards anyway, but more than likely we'll just laugh at your inability to follow instructions and ignore you. Enjoy!

They better change that to Adobe (R) Photoshop (TM) !!

Am I the only one that thinks these things are horridly gaudy?

err whats with the auto download of an executable file when visiting the ausz board website?

probably just personal preference but as far as these new fandangled keyboards go, i rekon this keyboard seems like it'd be far more flexible and better suited to gamers with obscure customized keyboard needs but hell, i've never used either keyboard so i could be totally wrong. It'd be interesting to take both to a lanning event and put them up against eachother to see what gamers would prefer. I know these Exeltek guys are wanting to be a sponsor at the next Shafted Lan in Melbourne with demo's and one to give away as a prize. Have you guys at zboards ever thought of doing something like that? might be a good way to promote the keyboard becuase I know something like this I wouldn't buy unless I'd tried it out first.

Sorry for my ignorance but the plain zboard is just a normal standard run of the mill key set right?

wow cash for comments...

interesting gimmick i suppose but i think if i was to get one it'd be the model nailbomb linked too.. ms natural config for keyboard bliss k thx

and also a personal comment, i would worry about key slippage myself and the keys are blank.

Yeah, thats definately a good point, think they've got that sort of stuff worked out. I remember when I was first reading about these apparently the key twist on to the board and once twisted they use some kind of suction method that permanently sticks until they're untwisted, also with the blank keys, i think it comes with reusables stickers or something from memory that you can put on whichever keys you like.

It's interesting that you mentioned about emailing shafted a few weeks ago, did you email admins @ shafted.com.au? I'm actually on that list and don't remember seeing the email come through but i get so many emails i could have easily missed it. It's probably worth while sending another one, I don't think the exeltek guys have had a response yet either from the shafted guys so im not sure whats going on there.

They haven't got a keyboard for that yet persay...

last edited by Boxhead at 21:07:56 16/Sep/05

ahh ok, yeah he's one of the head admins... it's probably better to send the email to admins@shafted.com.au though as your more likely to get a response.

i would have liked one of these boards for wow but alas i don't play that game anymore.. just wondering will there be a Dungeons & Dragons Online: Stormreach board?


God i can't wait for that game to come out!!

Secondly we would ask viewers to refrain from making smart (or dumb) ass comments about our site.

I personally cbf taking a company seriously if they can't even take themselves seriously. That site is just terrible... it would take less than 15mins to make something decent. It just makes me question your work ethic.

A plain basic site really wouldn't really need any code. A simple 2 column css page layout would do the trick, which can be easily obtained and edited with minor effort. For me it would of taken more effort to do thatt site in frames like it has been done than to stick with basic css & html.

I'm just saying this as it was my first impression, and first impressions count for something.

Dude have a bit more personality already.

Nice.

I'd like to have the Photoshop one if someone wants to buy it for me. Be cool to have a heap of hotkeys ready to go because I can never remember most of the buttons.

8-)

he's just trying to sell the product why are u crawling up his ass for??

and if u have so much hate for the web site why don't u ask them for a job to create a brand new ubar web site of the year.

i mean it will only take u 15min

ahhh I know what it is... stupid star downloader seems to be picking up your answer chat link automatically.

No complaints from me. But one problem with the website that has to be fixed NOW. Is the width of the page. Scrolling from side to side sucks.\

That is all.

Also regarding LAN's , we emailed 15 LAN's or more a few weeks back (including Shafted) and only got a few responses. Currently we work with two LAN places. 1 in Sydney and 1 in Perth. Might need to do another round of emails i think.

You should sponsor the next qgl...

I think the keyboards are great and i would love to have one of those bf2 ones BUT I just cant justify paying $150 for a keyboard that will make a game that I play a few hours a week (1 hour max a day) a little bit easier. You buy the game and then have to f***ing upgrade just to play it, it just ends up to be alot of money.

I would like to say that it is still cheaper to order the Zboard with extra game keyset + delivery direct from the US. Have a look for your selves. I got Zboard + World of Warcraft keyset all for less the $110.

OMFG COCKBLOCK

astro boy was joking, there ain't not lan here and there never was! *slams door shut*.

Do you have any keyboards for Warcraft 3?

do you guys make a keyset optimised for forums

all i really need is lol, rofl and maybe old

cheers,

cs_master

damn, you stay up late promoting your products..... now thats dedication I can admire :)

I don't think that's planned no. 3 keys would be an awefully small keyboard. haha. (yes im joking.)

i spel and grammr gud

Asusz Boards, dont know why you bother posting in this forum there only like top's 100 people view + active members most just flame ur arse.

You whould have much better luck on sites like OCAU and Node / GameArena.... just to name a few.

He probably gets shy around big crowds.

whirlpool.net.au

Asusz Boards, sorry i was refering to QGL forum section, AGN does indeed have a lot more viewers my bad. :)

There's also this legitimate business method called advertising properly and not relying on spamming forums to muster business...

Here's a tip: don't reply to messages like my one there.

Hi Ausz Boards,
I've been speaking to the admins at shafted about having you and your keyboards as a sponsor and they are interested, it's just that you emailed the wrong address last time which is why you didn't get a response. If your still interested in being a sponsor at shafted can you email your details asap to admins@shafted.com.au

Don't make them and they won't get replied to Persay.

I'm 20 w00t

20 going on 12.

this is more succesful than the last time a sales rep from a computer related company joined these forums.

haahaha we are all bastards

spidz brings teh funny ;-)

Any chance of developing an ergonomic model Zboard?

Sorry Bla, but thats just poor form.