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PC Gamer
Jeremy Laird

A Californian company wants to sell you an outrageously expensive $8,000 keyboard supposedly inspired by a Roman philosopher, but did the Stoics really go in for conspicuous consumption?

Seneca: First Edition.

When it comes to keyboards, colour me a comparative philistine. I just don't get the whole mechanical-switch, wobbly-key thing. They're all awful. Which, in a roundabout, contrarian kind of way, makes me just about perfect to wax sceptical on the subject of the Norbauer & Co Seneca: First Edition, a keyboard that's listed for up to $8,090 and is apparently inspired by the eponymous Stoic philosopher of ancient Roman fame.

Yeah, an eight grand keyboard with a praise-poverty sales pitch. More on the metaphysical, you might say epistemological, problems the Seneca association poses in a moment.

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