I agree, it is only personal opinions,and as a yammie lover i easily took offence over the "bad design" thing.Only reason i was startled over it is:not only does my 9000 still have the original strip, i only came accross two boards that required the strips.Mabey some of you heard of more cases i did'nt,but i am on alot of keyboard sites.I know of tyros1 that needed them.