The first time I saw the picture, I thought: "Yuk, what an ugly keyboard that is." But then when I looked at it a second time, the new design might have some charm. I quess the picture doesn't represent the keyboard very well, because in the report of Alec he stated that the metallic colour of the keyboard has been maintained, but on the picture it almost has an antracite/black colouring. I think it's a very dark picture.
The only thing that worries me as well, is that the display and the buttons are on the same panel. I don't think that to be very beautifull. Even with the KN6000, which I think is a very beautifull keyboard (according to the looks), the display and the arranger buttons are divided with a thin line. I hope that such 3D-effects are in the panel of the KN7000 as well. Because one major, big, but very flat panel is not the thing that sounds very appealing to me. The new sound can be very beautifull, but if it comes from a keyboard with bad looks... But then I didn't see, nor hear it in Frankfurt, the picture doesn't represent the "star-trek" effect (see review of Alec) of the board, and its a very dark picture. I quess we just have to wait to see the real looks. I hope it's way better than what's represented on this picture.

The other thing I'm wondering is: what are these two round (are they round???) things on the right of the panel. One could be the sound-controller, but what is the other thing? And then, placing the real-time sound-controller on such a difficult-to-access place (far away), would not be very clever in my opinion (similar to the panel memory).