It depends on what you want to do with a keyboard, but yea I believe there is a fine line that draws where it becomes too fancy.
I had my G15 for gaming purposes back when I used to game a lot. The extra keys on the side allowed for me to do extra macros and bindings, so that I didn't have to use a layout that was too far from the WASD movement controls.
But now I am done with games and my G15 finds relatively little use aside from photoshop. It's only good for being able to monitor media from the tracklist buttons, volume control, stopwatch, system monitoring, a news feed and that's really it.
The bluetooth keyboards should be all the rage if you are into using BT. I'm not one to convince anyone, but if you like to have multiple support with an universal device, there you go. It can act as a receiver for a variety of devices, from your simple cellphone to ps3, whatever else out there supporting BT.
I do research and stuff in a room constructed similar to a movie theater. This will allow me and others to work on the projection with relative ease, rather than being way down right next to the pc.
But then again we know not everyone has the same needs as another. I see the whole concept of upgrading pc peripherals in the same boat as upgrading a cellphone, or fancy accessories on a car.
Some people say a cellphone only needs to be used for its basic use, making calls, texting. Then here they go with the Blackberry and iPhone: basically constructing a mini-laptop, yet people will fall for the hype. Now a BB or iphone lets one surf the web with blazing fast speeds, run extra software phones couldn't before, act as a compass.
Cars are getting built in bluetooth, higher hp/torque, all these fancy things over your standard purpose of a car (reach point a to point b).
I guess the modern consensus is, get rid of old tech and in with the new?
