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Re: Codex Micro

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Post by porphyra » Wed, Jul 15, 2026, 7:14 PM UTC

landr0id wrote: post #147

porphyra wrote: post #130

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What's wrong with it? I believe you but I'm just curious... since on paper it just uses Gateron low profile switches which seems reasonable.

For the Nomad: The caps slightly rotate. If you look at them from the side profile, they are also all varying heights. I found enough variance in the physical layout of keys that I was constantly making mistakes and pressing multiple keys simultaneously. It has this gimmicky magnetic riser on the back which the magnets fell out of. The display is just a gimmick but has a fun Tamagotchi-type thing that analyzes WPM, s…

Thanks. I like low profile mechanical keyboards in theory but I guess I'll just stick to the Keychrons and Lofrees.

Re: Codex Micro

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Post by sbarre » Wed, Jul 15, 2026, 7:21 PM UTC

joshmarinacci wrote: post #136

This is just a Macropad, right? All of the smarts are on the PC side. So why is it so expensive?

Because (A) it has an OpenAI logo on it and (B) they made $13B and lost $21B last year?

Re: Codex Micro

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Post by Topfi » Wed, Jul 15, 2026, 7:22 PM UTC

Is this a joke? Instantly thought of this: https://www.reddit.com/r/claude/comments/1s7m8ld/this_is_the...

Things you do if you definitely are focused on the a Trillion USD industry and SuperDuperUltraMega AGI is 100% possible and what you are fully committed to. Next they’ll spend Millions on a podcast that fails to get 50k hits on YouTube or a design firm whose biggest claim to fame is creating a Ferrari whose interior looks like a Magic Mouse. Say what you want about Anthropic, their Aquihires and interpretability investments at least make sense for an LLM lab.

Re: Codex Micro

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Post by tyleo » Wed, Jul 15, 2026, 7:23 PM UTC

I was just thinking of making something like this! But more as a novelty than something I realistically expect to use.

Re: Codex Micro

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Post by theragra » Wed, Jul 15, 2026, 7:23 PM UTC

genxy wrote: post #51

paxys wrote: post #16

This is a rebranded/reskinned WORK LOUDER Creator Micro 2 btw ( https://worklouder.cc/creator-micro-2 ). Great device if you're into expensive tech toys (a la Teenage Engineering), but if you were waiting for a big OpenAI hardware reveal sorry to disappoint.

Or you could get a bluetooth number pad for $20.

I'm using such pad as a second gamepad when I need one :) It is actually not too bad, if combined with a multikey mouse

Re: Codex Micro

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Post by staeff777 » Wed, Jul 15, 2026, 7:24 PM UTC

Codex micro - is it a tiny coding agent? Or a small coding model? No it is hardware, that has nothing to do with coding.

I think they should have called it "codex luna" - because it's small!

Re: Codex Micro

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Post by __s » Wed, Jul 15, 2026, 7:26 PM UTC

Or just order any macropad

Re: Codex Micro

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Post by dominotw » Wed, Jul 15, 2026, 7:28 PM UTC

i guess they were stealing pricing logic from apple

Re: Codex Micro

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Post by iknowstuff » Wed, Jul 15, 2026, 7:29 PM UTC

arjie wrote: post #71

steve1977 wrote: post #9

A quarter RGB keyboard for the price of half a MacBook Neo? Yeah this will sell like hot cakes...

It’s $230 vs. $699? That’s almost exactly a third, not half.

At release, the Neo was $499 for education.

Re: Codex Micro

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Post by rykuno » Wed, Jul 15, 2026, 7:30 PM UTC

My first question is this — what does this do that a $50 Streamdeck cannot?