anyone have experience with it? how durable is the coating?

right now I have an mx518 and the rubber coating began peeling within minutes of use, it was really terrible(perhaps it was just poorly applied on my mouse?)if anyone has experience with it, does it peel under normal use, or will you have to scratch it with a nail?

my mx518 is dieing on me, and i'm looking to replace with a copperhead or lachesis, really prefer lachesis but I'm worried about the whole top being rubber coated given my experience with my mx518

anyway thx for any help

Jibba

United States22883 Posts

May 30 2008 20:13 GMT

Why prefer Lachesis?

Azael1111

United States7 Posts

May 30 2008 20:42 GMT

What do you mean by rubber coating?

The razer mice are mostly covered in a hard plastic, with the buttons being a slightly less durable plastic as well.

Klapdout

United States282 Posts

May 30 2008 20:46 GMT

my biggest reasoning for both mice, is having two side buttons on each side,after having the two side buttons on my 510/518 I want more

however the copperhead can't change dpi while in game without using two of those buttons being bound, where Lachesis has two top buttons for this

Lachesis can turn off the lights on the mouse, copperhead can't,the "tunnels" on the side of the copperhead look to be in the way to me and I don't like them much, and the Lachesis has a button on the bottom of the mouse for changing profiles which I like

overall not a huge preference toward Lachesis, enough to justify the money difference, but if its just going to peel away like my 518 I'll pass

edit

On May 31 2008 05:42 Azael1111 wrote:
What do you mean by rubber coating?

The razer mice are mostly covered in a hard plastic, with the buttons being a slightly less durable plastic as well.

the death adder and Lachesis have a rubber coat which is for non slip grip I suppose? if you have used either of these and didn't know they had a coating, it would sure be a good review of their durability

the whole point to the post can be summarized , if anyone has used a death adder/lachesis for a length of time has your rubber coating worn off?

KwarK

United States42609 Posts

May 30 2008 20:55 GMT

I've had a copperhead for two years and it is as functional now as it was the day I got it. Very durable because it's just plastic with a softer, rougher plastic for the buttons. Only thing I have to do is wipe it down with a damp cloth once a week because the surface tends to collect all the grime off my hand and that sometimes effects the performance if I let it build up. But that's a simple maintainence thing and very easy to deal with.

Hurricane

United States3939 Posts

May 30 2008 21:00 GMT

On May 31 2008 05:46 Klapdout wrote:
the "tunnels" on the side of the copperhead look to be in the way

These are actually really handy. Without them, you'd have to have your fingers on the bottom of the mouse. They are made of some material that grips really well, so its the perfect place to put your thumb, ring/pinky fingers.

Also, I change my DPI with one button. I set the front right side button to switch profiles, one for browsing (2k dpi) and one for SC/gaming in general (400 dpi).

Klapdout

United States282 Posts

May 30 2008 21:01 GMT

On May 31 2008 05:55 Kwark wrote:
I've had a copperhead for two years and it is as functional now as it was the day I got it.

considering in the last two years I've gone through 3 logitechs, with my current mx518 starting to die on me thats a good sign =)

On May 31 2008 06:00 Hurricane wrote:
These are actually really handy. Without them, you'd have to have your fingers on the bottom of the mouse. They are made of some material that grips really well, so its the perfect place to put your thumb, ring/pinky fingers.

Also, I change my DPI with one button. I set the front right side button to switch profiles, one for browsing (2k dpi) and one for SC/gaming in general (400 dpi).

good to know, unfortunately no stores in my immediate area carry razer products so i cant go check anything out in person, and have to rely on pics/reviews

good to know they don't get in the way

one question, in the softare suite can you set it to automatically change dpi/sensitivity for a game on launch?

or rather set it to auto load a profile when a specific game launches?

Hurricane

United States3939 Posts

May 30 2008 21:03 GMT

I've also had mine for a year and a half and is working perfectly.

yare

507 Posts

May 30 2008 21:07 GMT

i've had my logitech for mx300 (i think) for 5-6 years now. aside from the buttons showing wear it's as good as the day i got it..

ShaLLoW[baY]

Canada12499 Posts

May 30 2008 21:09 GMT

#10

I petition to have the word razer auto-turned to Razer much like poker already is.

Poll: Razer to Razer ?
(Vote): Yes
(Vote): No
(Vote): Boxer

Hurricane

United States3939 Posts

May 30 2008 21:11 GMT

#11

Changing the Razer font would be really annoying =\

ShaLLoW[baY]

Canada12499 Posts

May 30 2008 21:12 GMT

#12

I know, I just wanted to make the poll to fuck up anyone who auto-votes Boxer.

omgbnetsux

United States3749 Posts

May 30 2008 21:18 GMT

#13

On May 31 2008 06:12 ShaLLoW[baY] wrote:
I know, I just wanted to make the poll to fuck up anyone who auto-votes Boxer.

garrr

Klapdout

United States282 Posts

May 30 2008 21:19 GMT

#14

boxer is imba on any poll

0_0

United States2090 Posts

May 30 2008 21:19 GMT

#15

lol i like how there are 3 people that messed with the url to vote for boxer.

Hurricane

United States3939 Posts

May 30 2008 21:26 GMT

#16

On May 31 2008 06:01 Klapdout wrote:
one question, in the softare suite can you set it to automatically change dpi/sensitivity for a game on launch?

or rather set it to auto load a profile when a specific game launches?

To my knowledge you can't. I'm also not at my computer so I have no way of checking this for you. It's probably safe to assume that this is not possible though, I don't remember any part of the config that relates to settings when a program is launched.

decafchicken

United States20019 Posts

May 30 2008 21:29 GMT

#17

what rubber coating are you talking about on the mx518? I've had mine for two years and nothing has peeled off and its still the same awesome mouse it was when i got it.

Klapdout

United States282 Posts

May 30 2008 21:47 GMT

#18

On May 31 2008 06:29 decafchicken wrote:
what rubber coating are you talking about on the mx518? I've had mine for two years and nothing has peeled off and its still the same awesome mouse it was when i got it.

http://forums.techarp.com/overclocking-cooling-modding/23634-logitech-mx510-mod.html

here is an mx510 where the ruber coating has been peeling off

and actually this solved my problem, the rubber coating on my mouse MUST have been improperly applied. I grabbed my old 510(which I didn't think had this coating I thought it was something new on my 518) and ran my fingernail on it causing it to scratch. If I were to do this on my mx518 it would peel a huge chunk of rubber coat off,in that forum thread they even posted the coating has to be removed with sand paper. On my 518 it comes off with the slightest scratch of my finger nail, even rubbing it to hard peels the coating it had to be applied poorly at the factory.

my 510 doesn't have this issue at all, its very hard to remove the coating on it, now that I know how rubber coating is supposed to be, I'm not worried about it

so looks like I'm getting a Lachesis, thx for everyone who posted much appreciated

I spent a lot of time googling to find info about rubber coatings and durability getting no where, takes me two seconds to find what i wanted googling for pics ;D

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