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10-Key Pad: Usefullness?

post #1 of 10
8/31/05 at 12:42pm
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In comparing Dell's Inspiron XPS2 to Alienware's Area 51-M, I noticed the 51-M has a 10-Key Pad built-in to the keyboard.

I'm curious - has anyone found this to be particularly usefull or worthless? Has it/should it play any role in deciding on which laptop to buy?
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post #2 of 10
8/31/05 at 2:13pm
Although it didn't play a role in deciding which laptop I wanted to buy, I have found it to be very useful. I've had to work from home a lot over the past few days and since I work in the mortgage industry, having the numerical key pad has been very convenient.
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post #3 of 10
8/31/05 at 2:20pm
I think it is useful but to be honest, I could get by without it...but it is a nice extra and useful if you play a lot of avaition games like fighter aces or use microsoft flight sim 2004 and it almost eliminates the need for the FCN key
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post #4 of 10
8/31/05 at 2:30pm
Really depends what you need it for...
a friend ordered one with the keypad, as he spend a lot of time working with IP addresses, and he loves it
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post #5 of 10
8/31/05 at 2:36pm
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What about games?

Are there any particular games (or other apps) for which having a keypad is really helpful?
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post #6 of 10
8/31/05 at 7:49pm
accounting/engineering/telemarketing/whatever needs mounds of numerical data, keypad allows one handed operation and rapid entry/compution... u can get by without it but it is something that u might have a use for... some airplane simulators use the 1 &3 keys for rudder but thats again reprogrammable.... size is more of an issue than #of keys tho
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post #7 of 10
9/1/05 at 12:13am
It was weird to get used too at first but love it now
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post #8 of 10
9/1/05 at 1:12am
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Originally Posted by Hoss
In comparing Dell's Inspiron XPS2 to Alienware's Area 51-M, I noticed the 51-M has a 10-Key Pad built-in to the keyboard.

I'm curious - has anyone found this to be particularly usefull or worthless? Has it/should it play any role in deciding on which laptop to buy?
It's indispensable in my opinion since I do my checkbook in Money on my 7700.

Most all games can make use of them. if they aren't already bound to controls you can bind them as you see fit. I have punish/don't punish and accept order/decline order set to some of the keys for BF2 as well as a few other controls bound to the other keys. It's also nice not to have to do any kind of finger limbo to have keys like PG UP and PG DOWN or HOME and END. they are right there on the keypad. I don't think I could live without a keypad, in fact that's one thing I really liked about the 7700 because I like a full size keyboard and this is as close as you'll get to that on a laptop.
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post #9 of 10
9/1/05 at 1:39am
I'm loving mine...

Checkbooks, Plan Of Attack commands, etc. All kinds of good stuff.
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post #10 of 10
9/1/05 at 4:25am
I luv it...it practically eliminates the need for using the FCN key often. And it made my transition from desktop to lappy so much smoother....i dont like lappys with a normal keyboard, i used to hate em...thats why the Disco-Light XPS2 sux big time...surrender to the alien-eyes and the fullsize KB
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