BloodShed: I've had mine for about 1½ year now and has yet to go AWOL on me, then again I don't go around bashing peoples heads in with it despite the nice handles :P
Your LAN.buddy should get one of those waterproof and bendable keyboards if he can produce enough sweat to kill 3 keys ( ̄▽ ̄)
Hehe, I think he's not that violent. ^^
His room is directly under the roof, that's ~40° in summer, so I guess it'd be possible.
However, he killed a zBoard (christmas gift) before new year's. ;)
I probably should've said that apart from the weak keypress (which is a dealbreaker to me) the G15 has all the features in the world. The refresh looks very slick indeed, though I dislike the orange tone.
On topic of waterproof and bendable - a friend uses one of those for his fileserver, which is inside a case of beer (the 20 bottle european ones). The keys seem to degrade heavily, being harder to press every time he uses it.
NamelessFragger, I envy you for your
Model M. Have you, by chance,
read this article by Daniel Rutter?