Alienware Area-51 m9750 Laptop Keyboard and Touchpad

As you might expect, beneath the screen you'll find the keyboard. In an elegant touch I liked the way the area containing the hinges for the screen curve upwards. Beneath this you'll find shortcut keys for the usual suspects such as your web browser, your mail program and your media player. There's also a TV button, which makes sense as there's an integrated TV tuner to make the most of Vista's built-in Media Center software. Above these there's a row of blue backlight indicators for wireless, charging, hard disk activity and if the mouse pad is active, as well as scroll and number lock. Of course the power button of the right of this has a cool blue light too.
 

You get a pretty much full size keyboard with a number pad too. It does mean that when you’re sitting in front of it you're shifted slightly over to the side, but it's not as bad as some I've used. You get a full size Backspace, Right-Shift and Return key, and arrow keys underneath, but the Home, Page Up/Down and End keys are also located on the arrow keys and you have to use the Function key to get to them. The keys have a good feel to them but I did want a touch more travel to them - not a deal breaker though. The touch pad is a large oblong affair, to match the aspect ratio of the screen, and there's a scroll area on the right of it.

Alienware Area-51 m9750 Laptop Port