Gaming Pad from Belkin

wow sweet dude! this could be a very nice mini keyboard/mouse for casual FPS players... but for hardcore FPS players... maybe it not enough buttons for them... hahah but i m wondering how much are these for going??? i would like to get one XD
 
from what ive read and seen its a nono. recently (2-3 days ago) i did a lot of research on this, the forums are swamped with people complaining about drivers and just general issues like brightness of LED, the pad moving up when you rest your palm on it, the thumb stick not having enough contact, the spacebar too far away and a bunch of driver issues like i said.

Im personally holding out on the next revision, it seems that belkin has stopped replying on the boards and so im guessing have basically abandoned this.

its too bad, it looked pretty cool and im a gadget junkie!
 
Mangaroo said:
from what ive read and seen its a nono. recently (2-3 days ago) i did a lot of research on this, the forums are swamped with people complaining about drivers and just general issues like brightness of LED, the pad moving up when you rest your palm on it, the thumb stick not having enough contact, the spacebar too far away and a bunch of driver issues like i said.

Im personally holding out on the next revision, it seems that belkin has stopped replying on the boards and so im guessing have basically abandoned this.

its too bad, it looked pretty cool and im a gadget junkie!
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From what I know from firsthand experience and my clan within the MMO I play, we all use one....those glitches and every major problem was fixed in an update about a week and a half ago.
 
I could care less about the leds, I would be worried about it slipping around, but that's nothing a little epoxy can't take care of.

I am hesitant to get it....its $70 at Tiger, but I work for CDW and can get it for $55 (I can't get YOU one and am not offering.....<appeasing the forum GODS guidelines>

I don't know if I want to gamble $55 on something like this, I mean how much are call girls these days anyway?
 
SmUtTnY said:
From what I know from firsthand experience and my clan within the MMO I play, we all use one....those glitches and every major problem was fixed in an update about a week and a half ago.
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I agree that most of the driver and firmware issues have been resolved, but the whole pad tipping up in the front depending on how you place your hand, and the spacebar being in the wrong place have not. I have, what I consider, average size hands and I have issues with location of the space bar. It should have been adjustable.

There are more reviews on line and I believe there is an older thread about this so do a search.
 
I got one and I've used it maybe a handful of times. I don't have a problem with the LED that could bring down jet planes (a little bit of electrical tape solved that), or the drivers.

The issue I have is that it's hard to use. None of the keys have easy labels, and you can't easily see the keys from behind the raised palm-rest because of how high it is. That means that for every game I play with it, I have to memorize by muscle memory the placement of each key, and if I forget, there are no handy button labels to remind me. It's frustrating.

To boot, the keys are offset horizontally about a half-key width from the 'norm' so I'm pressing inbetween keys instead of on the keys. The spacebar is indeed also too far out so you hit one side of it only. It works now but I'm willing to bet that after much use the key will stick and no longer press smoothly.

That, and there simply aren't enough keys for it to replace your keyboard in most games. That means you still have this huge slab of keydom right in front of you, which kind of makes the N52te mildly redundant.

On the bright side, it does have a long cord, the backlighting is nice if bright, and it is comfortable with decent keyfeel. Too bad it just doesn't seem very useful for me. For $40 it probably would be worth a trial purchase, for $70+ it's just more Belkin insanity.

Now... if someone made an N52te with LED keys, like the Optimus keyboard, I'd be willing to shell out a couple hundred bucks easily, especially with another row of keys.
 
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