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Wacom has a few cheap low end tablets that are not marketed as graphics-tools and if you want to go really cheap there's always the tablets made by Trust.
But if you are going to use a tablet to make your notes you will probably find that it is easier, faster and result in higher quality to use a good pen, a blank (no lines or grid) paper and then scan it. That also has the benefit that you don't have to set up your computer during lecture.

Not many people use a gamepad in FPSes on PCs. That's true.

There are special gamer keyboards. The Wolfclaw, the Pro Gamer Command Pad, the DX1, Themaltake Flare, and more offer a different setup of keys that some gamers really find advantageous. They can be really nice for a serious RTS player, too, despite being marketed mostly for FPS players.

There are special mice just for gamers. Take a look at Trust's Gamer Mouse, the Razer Copperhead, and even the Zalman pistol-grip mouse.

I have a flight stick with seven buttons, trigger, a top hat, and throttle. I use it for flight games, and I like it much more for Mechwarrior 4 or many other vehicle-combat games than a keyboard and mouse.

I have a racing wheel and pedal set for car games. I have a game pad for my PC for the PC versions of Madden-type games. There are even more ways to command a PC, though.

Some gamers use a voice command system for some functions, although that can interfere with speaking to your teammates through Teamspeak or Ventrilo.

Some use things like the Fragpedal from Good Work Systems. It lets you have four extra buttons (two per pedal and two pedals) you can use without moving your fingers. I've considered buying that one specifically for fall prone/get up, crouch, reload, and strafe. There are also the Kinesis foot switches, although each USB connection with those is only good for up to three buttons. Perhaps I'd leave reload on the mouse or keyboard with the Savant Elite Triple Action. You can hook up multiple Savant Elite pedals, but the Fragpedal is less expensive already. Maybe I'll just see if I can get used to my car game gas and brake pedal set for FPSes before making such an investment. There are even more expensive versions of this concept out there, mostly meant for people with disabilities or to cut down on wrist strain. They could certainly be useful in gaming, though.

In the PC world, you're expected to invest in the level of game play you are after. Some people are quite competitive with a decent stock keyboard and a two-button mouse. A scroll mouse is a very cheap and now standard device and is much better for most games. A little better keyboard can go a long way to help. Every little bit can help, though. If you lose to a guy who has bought a fancier controller, you either shrug it off as okay or you go an invest in a fancier one yourself.

i missed quite a lot, just wrote down those you can get in germany.

what about trust mi5400x?
no dongle, just a charger, but you can as well swap the batteries?
the size seems to be okay, then again i have very small hands (which sucks when playing guitar)

> You'ld think IBM would know better than to associate the word
> "Trust" with "Technology". That combination is like a
> buzzword for suspicion to the Tech-wise.

Like in www.trust.com?

Indeed it would look like that to me as well. In the words of the Videobox site: "Just add a way to get your PC's Video & Audio signals to your living room TV set to transform your Squeezebox into a Video Player."

It is a rather novel way to control things none the less, and with something like the suggested Trust Wireless Televiewer, you could stream video nicely through to your TV set from your PC sans-wires. In conclusion however, it doesn't look like a reason to rush out and buy a Squeezebox.

I have also played a bit with it on my 7650, it has IRDA but I got a bluetooth USB adapter like this(40$). Which works much better since the phone just needs to be somewhere in my office. Which is also great for sync. to Notes.
Only problem is that the drivers crashes both w2k and XP desktops when I try to use the serial connection. Works fine with file transfers though. Seems that this USB device is a rebranded device under different names, the drivers seems to be rebranded Megabit(or some name like that). So I am looking for a more stable bluetooth device with better drivers.

Aaaanyway the C64 took me a bit of work to get running but once I did, it has been great fun. :)

Have you seen Trust's product lineup? A friend of mine bought this monstrosity from them the other day that had -- I kid you not -- the usual two buttons, two scrollwheels (one horizontal, one vertical; one was also a button), and another two buttons on the sides. That's a total of nine buttons, folks (counting the wheels as two buttons each). The Windows driver was about 60Mb.

It is a regular joke amongst our friends that it is only a matter of time before Trust made a mouse with a trackball on top of it, and that will be rapidly followed by a joystick mounted on top of a trackball atop a mouse. In the version 3, they'll add a four-way view switch button to the joystick and another half-dozen buttons to the bottom of the mouse. Version 4 will probably be wireless and integrate a toaster, oven and water cooler into the base of the charging cradle. You heard it here first.

Have you seen Trust's product lineup? A friend of mine bought this monstrosity from them the other day that had -- I kid you not -- the usual two buttons, two scrollwheels (one horizontal, one vertical; one was also a button), and another two buttons on the sides. That's a total of nine buttons, folks (counting the wheels as two buttons each). The Windows driver was about 60Mb.

It is a regular joke amongst our friends that it is only a matter of time before Trust made a mouse with a trackball on top of it, and that will be rapidly followed by a joystick mounted on top of a trackball atop a mouse. In the version 3, they'll add a four-way view switch button to the joystick and another half-dozen buttons to the bottom of the mouse. Version 4 will probably be wireless and integrate a toaster, oven and water cooler into the base of the charging cradle. You heard it here first.

I got my keyboard brand new from Trust - the Power keyboard. Nice feel and NO superfluous keys... well, as long as you don't consider the Windows key superfluous anyway :-)

Can't use rechargables? Maybe your old one cant't but something like this can.

http://www.trust.com/products/frame-product.htm?ar tnr=11933