If you've ever thought to yourself, "I'd rather spend an exorbitant amount of money on something ridiculous with a gaming touch just to prove to the world that money is nothing," the good folks at XPG may have just the thing for your taste. At the ongoing CES 2020, the company is showing off a keyboard that is literally gold-plated.
Beneath that ostentatious sheen is a real keyboard: XPG's Summoner, with Cherry MX Speed Silver switches (sorry to include a reference to metal for Poors, but lest we accidentally attract the undesirable, the appropriate Glorious You'd think they could have come up with Gold switches) and RGB lighting; according to Tom's Hardware, the keycaps and base are gold-plated, but the wrist rest is not. In case you're wondering, it's fully functional; Jared, who was at CES, said that typing on this wrist rest "feels like gold."
He then removed the Escape key from this $10,000 keyboard. Because that's the PC Gamer way.
This keyboard is, to say the least, hideous and exists only as a grotesque monument to consumerism at its most conspicuous. Ironically, anyone wealthy enough to afford such a thing could probably get one for free: XPG told us that they recently gave one to a Saudi Arabian prince.
After Jared finished dismantling the literally gold-plated keyboard for our video, I offered him $20 for a Coke. I may have underestimated his determination.
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