Keyboards

What you have described is called the N-Key rollover, it quite literally means how many keys the board can register at one time. Higher end keyboards usually can have 5-6 simultaneous keys being pressed before it cant register anymore.

Whats your budget for a keyboard? Decent keyboards can be had for $30, while high end mechanical keyboards can $100+.
Any particular wants on it, backlighting, macro keys, mechanical?

Well I think the feature is called keyblocking. However you could be correct. I'm no genius.

At most 50.00. I don't need anything special. Plain jane is fine with me. I don't need a backlight or media buttons.

From what I can tell, there are two main competitors at that kind of price point.

The Microsoft Sidewinder X4. $42
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E168...

and the Logitech G110. $50
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E168...

And luckily for you, both have backlighting, media keys and dedicated Macro keys.

Their must be one out there without the flashy effects that doesn't have ghosting. The keyboards with "gaming" labeled on them are always more expensive.

Because office keyboards are always very cheap (low end, horrible boards) or very expensive (mechanical, often also targeted toward gamers), there is no real middleground.

The backlighting can be turned off on both keyboards I recommended.

I had one not long ago that worked just fine and it wasn't mechanical. It was a 20.00 Logitech media board from walmart. I don't know what model it was or I would get another lol

Hehe, and I bought a $150 keyboard just the other day. Hasn't arrived yet, but soon.

Buy a nice keyboard, cheap keyboards are cheap for a reason.
And its not like a keyboard is your primary method of input to a device that chances are you spend 10+ hours a week on  .

Also you wont find any mechanical keyboards until you get to ~$100, think the cheapest is the Coolermaster Quickfire which is around $85.

You know what upsets me? Is they figured it out. People are playing computer games more hardcore than ever so they invented the act of ghosting. 7 years I had that keyboard and never had that problem. They are trying to force us to pay 50$ for a keyboard worth a crap... Thats so upsetting!

The first widely available keyboard was the IBM Model-M, included with most IBM systems at the time, which was actually fairly expensive.

However as computers became less of a niche thing and more widely available, they lowered in price, it made less sense to include a $100 keyboard on ever cheapening computers, hence the invention of the membrane keyboard, which chances are you are using right now.

Keyboards have gotten cheaper over time, not more expensive.
Plus, older keyboards used the PS/2 interface, with a theoretically infinite N-Key Rollover limit. However USB has become the popular interface and PS/2 is starting to become phased out, unfortunately it has an N-Key limit of 6.

But ultimately, you get what you pay for. That's why I'm willing to buy a $150 keyboard, cause I know the thing will be amazing.

yeah the one i had was PS/2

Still any other ideas?

These are two very good keyboards.

I bought this one http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E168... Works extremely well for its purpose. Nothing flashy, and fairly quite.

Looks like a good choice.