Belkin n52te Tournament Edition SpeedPad
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Customer Review: pretty good
Summary: 4 Stars
Purchased this to play WoW on my laptop, mostly because laptop gets discomfortingly hot during gaming. It does everything I hoped for with a few caveats, which I am well aware of thanks to other user reviews here (a bit big and nonadjustable, crazy bright LED, no easy way to set up multiple key combo short of creating macros).
One time I forgot to bring it with me and had to go back to the default keyboard mapping. Tried to play some PVP and it was nearly impossible, which made me really appreciate how much it has improved my gaming.
Customer Review: Great Product support needs work
Summary: 4 Stars
This gamepad is awsome. Fully customizable for any game. Saves a lot of missed keystrokes. The support site is kinda behind. From what I understand the non te version of this thing is very well liked by gamers and had great support and website, though I've never checked it out. Well most of the posts on the te forums were complaints about lack of improvment from the original. I guess they never tried taking the original to a different computer. The te can be used on any computer no software required, granted you have saved your profiles to the keypads onboard memory. I love this feature, and no the original has no onboard memory. Please view the sites for both Belkin n52 and Belkin n52te to decide wich is right for you.Customer Review: i do not see the reason for all the grief
Summary: 5 Stars
Let's get the "con" out of the way. Belkin installed a star going nova to light up the keybank indicator. Like Fry's Chevy Nova, it lights up the sky. Still shines through two layers of electrical tape!
I set my WoW key bindings to the default settings on the speed pad. Played around in a green area. Got the feel for the pad, tweaked key bindings and then moved on to a yellow area. Killed mobs with ease, didn't have to focus so much on moving the mouse over the right spell or worry about cursor moving off my spam button. So I moved onto an orange area, no problem. This n52te is Awesome. My game did improve in a few hours. I don't get why all the fan boys of the n52 are hating so much, QQ.
Yes, a bit pricey but, W gave me $600 to blow.
Customer Review: With respect to all the negative reviews..
Summary: 5 Stars
You'll find plenty of negative reviews about this little guy anywhere you look. I took all the negative points very seriously (there are a lot of very valid points) and decided not to buy it. However, I saw it at bestbuy a few days ago and man, I kind of drooled a little. Looks even better in person, so I thought what the heck, if I really don't like it I'll just return it and make up a story about bogus Mac software (which works impressively well, by the way. Not at all like your typical Razer software).
Its important to note that I never used the original n52, but I couldn't be happier with the n52te. Firstly, The spacebar isn't giving me the problems I was expecting. I see what people are talking about, when they mention not being able to hit it on the edges, but hitting the space bar at the far ends feels uncomfortable and unnatural to me anyways. I haven't hit space bar without it registering unless I try to get it to miss. I thought I'd have to pop the key off and put something in there to make it a little more stable, but it's really just fine the way it is.
The thumb stick comes off to reveal a d-pad, which I prefer. The small hole in the middle isn't a problem for me now and I don't see it being a problem later on.
I spent two days away from WoW just getting my macros in perfect order, and I honestly can't imagine needing more than is available with the n52te. Sure there are only 3 KeyMaps, where the original apparanly had 4, but I think I've got more than I could handle anyway.
There are blue, red, and green lights under the spacebar to let you know, out of the corner of your eye, which keymap is currently active. Very helpful, but these three lights are way too bright, in my opinion. I put a few layers of tape over them. Problem solved.
I'm just writing this to encourage folks not to give up hope, if you were initially really excited about this and swayed by all the negatives. I'll honor all the negative reviews and assume that if you're already accustomed to the original n52, you'll probably be disappointed. For everyone else, I really recommend you give it a shot. This thing works very well. Its made of quality materials, its comfortable, and dead sexy to boot. Looks incredible next to my blue DeathAdder. Five stars, absolutely.
Feel free to comment and ask me questions. I'll be more than happy to respond.
Customer Review: took awhile but i really like it
Summary: 4 Stars
i know allot has been said so im going to keep it short.
Im a N52 Nos owner and I bought TE as its replacement when it came out, i primary play FPS or 3rd person action games, so far my TE has seen several months of consecutive service,some of the games its trotted though: COD4, RB6V, RB6v2, FEAR,Half life,portal,A-Creed, Lost Planet,and even Tiberium Wars,
The good: N52TE has the same good button setup,
same awesome feel as its predecessor, and the back lighting rocks!
other major improvement are in looks, keys are a bit bigger, the dpad is easier to handle, the scroll feels tighter,the new plastic palm rest is VERY smooth and soft,and the on board memory concept works,it also appears that the scroll wheel/mouse driver conflict Glitch- (that hindered the N52 NOS) is not a problem with the TE.
The Bad: where Razer initially blew it,-happened with the drivers and the firmware. Version 1.01 was terrible and glitch-y, just bad software design all around, not to mention the design was a huge departure from form the N52 NOS as it was simplified down to the max. Newer driver versions have sought to bring back some of the complexity as well as fix existing issues (ENTIRE MACRO SYSTEM for starters) while keeping the "Razer" interface. (The original N52 NOS, featured a rather bland interface that was complex but functioned beautifully) another downside is that you cannot import your old n52 nos profiles even with the new 2.10 driver and 1.02 FW versions today, so you get to remake them.
now granted, this is actually not a HUGE hassel,
both editors can be run at the same time-
so if you put one next to the other, and re-input the data by reading off the old profile-you will be done in no time- 1 hour for me for all of my profiles.. 15+
*So should you get it?
The biggest reason for getting this is the same reason that would drive an individual to get its predecessor: If your looking for a palm sized fully functional,fully programmable, gaming keyboard, then this device may work for you. Also a device like this will work wonders for games which have fixed non remapable in game keyboard controls. with the N52 NOS &TE each key can be mapped to take any key or macro sequence: (Example-> Splinter Cell Double Agent has this problem)thus giving you the ability to fit the entire control scheme to your personal needs, (whether the game designers wanted you to or not)