Z Board

[emtff77]

Is this worth getting, anyone have it? I don't want to wear out my keyboard on my laptop.

[Travers1111]

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Its a real pain to get used to the arrows, i personaly kept the normal keyboard layout, but i like it mostly because you can press waaay more keys at one time than my old one.

[camper.]

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Seems like a hell of a gimmick IMO. 102 key FTW!

[|CBW|Simon]

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I love mine. It's cheaply made and some of the names have worn off, but it roxxor in game for me.

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I love mine.
The names are wearing off, but the keys still have great responsiveness.
I also love the placement of most keys. I use my BF2 keyset to play all kinds of games, and I'm typing on it right now. As long as I don't need to use any numbers it's fine.

[megawhompertoo]

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have you considered the "merc" model?

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16823161019

best of both worlds--dedicated keypad and a "regular" keyboard.

[samarlian]

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love mine too for i have big fingers and like the big keys

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have you considered the "merc" model?

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16823161019

best of both worlds--dedicated keypad and a "regular" keyboard.

The MERC is huge though. It wouldn't even fit on my keyboard tray.
I just swap keysets if I want to do any real typing. That's pretty rare, so my BF2 keyset just stays on here.

[emtff77]

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Thanks for the ideas and help...

[2nd-Irish]

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I love my Z-board, but would go with the merc if I had a bigger desktop just to keep the fullsize keyboard. Chat is a little tougher on the z-board's hacked keyboard.


The large arrow keys are super easy to use, and no sore fingers after long sessions.

[|CBW|Simon]

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For me it's no accidentally hit buttons from my fat fingers

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For me it's no accidentally hit buttons from my fat fingers

That's a huge boon for me. With my old keyboard I died in UT a lot due to fat-fingering and my system beeping from me trying to push too many keys at once. The ZBoard solved all of that for me.
Even in BF2 I had beeps while trying to crouch and move diagonally and then try to quickly jump from there. Not anymore!