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Holistic Guidance - Belkin n52te Tournament Edition SpeedPad
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List Price: $69.99
Our Price: $56.35
Your Save: $ 13.64 ( 19% )
Availability: Usually ships in 2 to 4 weeks
Manufacturer: Belkin Components
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Average Customer Rating:   
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Binding: Electronics
Brand: Belkin
Color: Black
EAN: 0722868643150
Feature: Gaming accessory incorporates keyboard and gamepad functions into one easy-to-use device
Is Autographed: 0
Is Memorabilia: 0
Label: Belkin Components
Manufacturer: Belkin Components
Model: F8GFPC200
Publisher: Belkin Components
Release Date: 2008-03-10
Studio: Belkin Components
Warranty: Lifetime
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Features
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Gaming accessory incorporates keyboard and gamepad functions into one easy-to-use device
15 fully programmable keys built for complete customization and speed
Programmable 8-way thumb pad with removable joystick
Adjustable wrist pad and backlit keypad and scroll wheel
Embedded memory powered by Razer allows you to personalize multiple player profiles for all your games
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Editorial Reviews:
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Whether for FPS (First Person Shooter), MMORPG (Mass Multiplayer Online Role Playing Game), or RTS (Real Time Strategy) games, Belkin's n52te is built to dominate with swift execution. Gain a competitive edge with fully customizable keys, portable player profiles, cool blue backlighting, and Razer's killer performance tools. Bring on all challengers and see why your n52te won't be the only thing that's lit up. Enhanced tactile feedback and button responsiveness for rapid key presses Backlit keypad and scroll wheel for total control in dark conditions System Requirements - Windows XP, XP 64-bit, Windows Vista, Vista 64-bit, Mac OS X v10.2.8 or above, USB port, CD or DVD drive, 35MB free space and DirectX compatible video card
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Spotlight customer reviews:
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Customer Rating:
Summary: Quite pleased
Comment: I held off on getting one for a long time, despite positive reviews from friends, but decided to take the plunge for a recent game.
I like it a lot. Expect to spend 1 day getting used to it another few days really getting a feel for it.
It really boils down to one simple benefit:
The thumbpad.
With this one simple thing, you put movement in control of your thumb (which previously was probably relegated to "jump" duty on the spacebar while movement required two fingers if you wanted to "strafe run") and now you have your fingers free for activating a bank of 14 hotkeys plus three more if you count wheel-up, wheel-down and wheel-push, which you can do with your index finger without leaving the thumb pad.
The other two buttons I don't find to be generally useful: the one above the thumbpad and the one below it, as I rarely want to take my thumb off of the movement pad to activate them (although if the game has any ability that can't be done while moving anyway, these are good buttons for them). I do think that a couple of left-side pinky buttons would be doable -- it really could use a few more buttons for those button-heavy RPGs -- but for FPSs you've got plenty.
The software is very nice and more configurable than I thought. You can map any button on the device to act as any button on your keyboard, including the wheel-up, wheel-down and wheel-press (by default, the n52te wheel maps to a mouse wheel but I always re-assign it because hey, I already have a mouse wheel).
You can also do macros. The easiest way is to simply "start recording" and then press the buttons in the order and speed you desire, then "stop recording". For example, perhaps I want to switch weapons, wait 1 second (while the game does the animation for switching weapons) and then execute a maneuver and then switch back; this is very easily accomplished.
I also personally found it helpful to map a button on my mouse to be "shift" so that I can get twice as many keys on my n52te. So I can map the top middle button to be "3" and then map that to something in the game, then map "shift-3" to be something else in-game and basically double the number of available buttons.
The only real downside to the n52te is the button layout and how some games (mainly RPGs) do not visually support a 3x5 layout.
That is, if the game only has one hotbar of 10 buttons, I have to remember that the "6th button" on my screen is actually the "first button of the second row" on my n52te.
Luckily, games like Worldcraft and Warhammer are configurable enough that I can visually put three rows of buttons on screen and then map them to match the physical layout of my n52te. For FPS games I typically just draw on a sheet of paper what I'm mapping to where until I get the hang of it.
I also wish they had a left handed version (which is to say, a version for the right hand so that lefties can use the mouse in their left hand). I had switched to a left handed mouse a few years ago and actually had to switch back to a right handed mouse in order to use the n52te.
All in all, I'm well pleased with it, but it definitely has a learning curve. Hardware-wise and compatibility-wise, I've had zero problems with it, even on 64-bit Vista.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Works fine on Mac
Comment: I used SpeedPad to play my warlock in WoW it works fine on my Mac,only part that i am not quite figured out is how to quickly reconfigure it for other classes(i have changed some of the keybindings in WoW so i can use for warlock). Also it sold cheaper here comparing to Belkin website.
Customer Rating:
Summary: pretty good
Comment: 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 Rating:
Summary: Great Product support needs work
Comment: 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 Rating:
Summary: i do not see the reason for all the grief
Comment: 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.
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