bit-tech News: On Our Desk 14

news · November 17, 2008

Hi all,

We have just published our latest gadget round up - *On Our Desk 14*. If

you could post a link on your site that would be very much appreciated.

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*/Feature-wise, the N52te boasts all the latest mod-cons. It's got 15

totally programmable keys positioned around your fingers and thumbs, a

mousewheel near the index finger, extra button and analogue stick on the

thumb and an adjustable wrist support. All of it's backlit with a blue

glow that'll be familiar to anyone who's used a Razer Deathadder mouse

or Tarantula keyboard -- probably as Razer has helped design and support

the product through the software.

The software itself is the usual set up for a product like this, letting

you tweak the key configurations and create custom macros which you can

assign under a number of different keyboard profiles. There are some

special tweaks in here too, like the ability to change the polling rate

or the option to lockdown profiles so you don't switch through them by

accident. You can even link profiles to certain applications so that

they come into effect only when a certain game is running.

Unfortunately, our experience with the N52te wasn't exactly as

impressive as the feature list would have us believe and though the

N52te sounds good on paper it isn't nearly as good in actual use.

The wrist rest for example claims to be adjustable on the box, but in

reality isn't all that tweakable. It basically has two different

positions it can be in and moving it between the two means you have to

pull the entire rest off the main chassis./

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*Cheers guys!

Tim Smalley

www.bit-tech.net

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