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wurm
Profile Joined October 2007
Philippines2296 Posts
Last Edited: 2009-02-20 10:33:04
February 20 2009 10:31 GMT
#121
My favorite gaming peripherals would have to be my Razer Krait and Razer Mantis Control edition.

I've no need for fancy mice with three or four more extra buttons/extra weight/etc.. I'm primarily an RTS gamer (WC3, DotA and SC:BW of course) so the addition of extra buttons is nothing to me. What I needed was a light, fast and accurate mouse for the movements I needed when playing those games. Before I bought my Krait, I was using a Logitech optical. It was a good mouse by my standards, only the cord would always get in my way(it would always roll up a little in the middle, so it felt like it was fighting with me) and sometimes it wouldn't grip properly with my mousepad.

So when I bought the Krait, it just felt... right. The no-tangle cord eliminated my primary problem with the Logitech Optical, and the Krait just glided over my old pad. I don't think I'd game anywhere without my Krait.

A couple weeks later, I bought my Razer Mantis. The extra large surface is perfect for my sweeping movements, plus sometimes it feels like I'm not using a mousepad at all. The precision the Control brings together with my Krait makes me a happy RTS gamer.
I know where my towel is.
ToSs.Bag
Profile Joined December 2008
United States201 Posts
February 20 2009 10:43 GMT
#122
On February 19 2009 16:50 FakeSteve[TPR] wrote:
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Yeah, those bad boys right there.

I've got three to give away, and the premise is simple: Post here telling me what your favourite gaming peripheral is and why - note that this doesn't necessarily have to be a Razer product. Feedback from gaming communities is the basis for decisions Razer makes, so what is essentially free market research for us certainly warrants some free swag.

A bigger contest will be coming later, for now, get to postin'. Contest closes 11:59PM GST March 2nd 2009, winners will be announced on the 5th. Note that the more detail you go into, the more likely you are to win a Moray.

Help out the sponsor of TSL, win free stuff. It's win-win, baby! Aren't you all glad I work for this company?

Information on the Moray itself is HERE. Yes, they seriously have noise-isolation.

Lovingly yours,
FakeSteve




So you're the asshole the kept me from getting these at Yesterdays Woot-off..... for shame......... FOR SHAME!

P.S. Did you get any Buhdunkudunk Ovary Cattle?

damn refresh button
UbRi
Profile Blog Joined March 2007
Italy603 Posts
Last Edited: 2009-02-20 11:13:35
February 20 2009 11:10 GMT
#123
I know that this probably isn't the best way to get the price but I want to be honest:

My favourite gaming peripheral was, is and will forever be the good old Logitech mx300 mouse, its memory will last forever in my right hand and in my mind.

I tried many mice in my awesome (lol) gaming carreer, but i will never forget the sensation I felt at first when I tried mx300, it was like i had been using it for ages, really, it took me no time to get used to it. Unluckily that mouse is no more with us, since in a year or something more one of its buttons was broken.

After the mx300, which was my first experience with an optical mouse, I tried out:

Logitech mx510: the worst mouse i've ever had, too big, I never became confident and accurate with it, and I tried hard to modify settings and stuffs.

Razer Diamondback: that mouse was pretty good, a different phylosophy from logitech mice, the aesthetic is way better, but it was also an efficient mouse, really, it's not just about good look, I had to train my feeling with it anyway, it took me some time, and I don't think i ever reached the level of accuracy and speed I had with mx300, but I don't think i'll ever reach it.

Logitech G3: Look at this mouse, how standard it looks! You wouldn't give it a cent, you would be wrong! This mouse is a really professional one in my honest opinion, its design is simple, maybe too little "user friendly" , same goes with the comfort with the hand, I often had to rest my wrist after a long gaming session. But I have to admit its accuracy is something notable, again, it took me some time to get used to it, but less time than with the Razer Diamondback, actually this mouse is the most similar thing I found to the mx300, but again, not good like that mouse.

All my experience is based merely on SC/BW, I never played anything else for 8 years, so I really suggest Razer, if they are going to make an RTS-specific mouse, to study closely the mx300. I refer to it as the gold standard, there's only 1 thing I could ask more from a mouse, a good design, you know, also the eyes wants their part, and I'm pretty sure Razer would have no problem in creating a beautiful mouse, given how good other Razer mice are.
Kage
Profile Blog Joined May 2007
India788 Posts
February 20 2009 14:30 GMT
#124
I like my mouse (the IE 3.0) cause it makes me cool
I keep whippin it to pwn while the girls drool
See me flash that sensitivity up and down
Im the talk, the L337 of the gamer town

Don't mess with me you eff-pee-ess newbies
cause I got the skillz to pay my billz
all you have to do is fly by my breeze
this mouse dont stutter, never the stillz.

Ok I'm not the best poet around that's for sure. For many of my quake 3 days I have used the IE 3.0 which has served me really well without skipping.. always aimwhoring and pwning them rest. IT would be awesome to finally have a razer product that I can use, but good luck to all those that entered..


Kaltes_Feuer
Profile Joined September 2008
Netherlands7 Posts
February 20 2009 16:47 GMT
#125
Keyboards:

Logitech G11:

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Estimation "well"

+ Adjustable illumination (3 modes: the disconnected illumination, dim illumination and bright)
+ not so loud sound by pressing keys
+ Pleasant design

- "Shift" it is cut off (you get used in due course, first time you get on a key
- Are not necessary G keys in general.
- USB 1.1
- The big lack at a rate of very greater it and solid weight is longer USUAL keyboard ON 10 sm and wider on 3.5-4.
- Russian letters are not highlighted.


Logitech G15 Gaming Keyboard Amber:


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Logitech very much I respect, as manufacturer of high-quality components of the personal computer.
KeyB with red illumination.
The basic moments: on the back party 2USB, keys of management of multimedia, 3 levels of illumination, macros, the LCD-display, 6 programming keys, an opportunity of switching-off of button " WINDOWS ".
Minuses:
- The price does not indulge
- There is no output on headphones
- A course of keys not precise (differences with the usual keyboard from GENIUS it is not a lot of)
- Illumination non-uniform, soft
- notnormal a structure of keys (f*** China)
- The utility in the complete set does not hold adjustment of the LCD-display after restart (Windows Vista)
- From flexibility of adjustment of macroowls expected greater
Pluss:
+ the LCD-display is very convenient. It is possible instantly will be switched between various modes (hours, productivity, the timer, etc.).
+ USB on the back party (you want Flash-USB, you want a mousy connect)
+ whatever one may do, but illumination keys
Actually in keyB it is more than lacks. If to be even more exact KeyB it is full of frank defects and dampness of drivers.
Whether there is it to purchase? Well.. Now I precisely know - was not present. Simply keyB with useless fa-fa and %) which you, most likely, if will use it is very rare.

At g11 illumination is better, + keyB on idea supports different games -
> wow. There on a screen info sream, and so with RU WoW this function is not supported. Only in ENG ver. (and macros work through time for some reason)


Razer Tarantula Gaming Keyboard

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At Tarantulas are all that is necessary for me - convenient management of a player, class appearance pleasant sensations from work on it. Certainly well if illumination was for all keys, and all is not visible motes)) - is tired to wipe luster! For brushes of hands I would make the basis rubber as at Logitech Wave.

As to lacks of other keyboards from Razer is that the buttons covered by a rubber covering, are quickly erased + the glossy surface is strongly spoiled!

I would add in BOX a cover for the keyboard.

And so such keyboards gaming only that on them of different unnecessary bulbs and fa-fa up to one place. Ideal KeyB for games (and in general for ABOUT gaming) - this such where ANYTHING superfluous is not present where all is optimized for domination in fight. And KeyB (from all gamers that I touch - and it believe much) which I am valid I can named - KeyB OPTIMIZED FOR games is Steel 6G and now also 7G have left. Here it KeyB so KeyB + mechanics it forever!
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MannerKiss
Profile Joined June 2003
United States2398 Posts
February 20 2009 17:09 GMT
#126
My favorite gaming peripheral is my Razer Lachesis mouse. This mouse has 4000 dpi, which while ridiculously high for a game like starcraft (ABSOLUTELY UNCONTROLLABLE SPEED) for other games in which I can put the resolution up past 1680(especially widescreen on my 24'' monitor) 2000 dpi just doesn't cut it at max speed. Basically, if you use a 1600 dpi mouse at full speed on starcraft and want the same speed outside its the best product to do so.

Only downside is that this mouse doesnt respond well to surface mousepads and the like. If anyone at razer reads these fix this please I want my exact mat back :X.
I want an igloo.
Tsagacity
Profile Blog Joined August 2005
United States2124 Posts
Last Edited: 2009-02-20 17:58:53
February 20 2009 17:57 GMT
#127
My favorite gaming peripheral of all time would have to be my old MX 300 mouse. I've replaced it now with a Diamondback 3G, but to me my mx300 will always be synonymous with Starcraft

I had that mouse for ten years and still remember how excited I was when I got it. Before my MX300, I was on an iMac using a single button mouse and was forced to basically hold down control during 75% of any game of Starcraft (the only gamed I played).

I think the MX300 was the first mouse I ever owned that I could right click with and I was insanely excited to play BW with it. When it arrived I went on a BW marathon for the next week. It was actually awkward to right-click at first :s

Later on, I discovered what was probably my favorite thing about it: I could open it and remove the weights inside I miss how insanely small and light that mouse was.
"Everyone worse than me at video games is a noob. Everyone better than me doesn't have a life."
DeathSpank
Profile Blog Joined February 2009
United States1029 Posts
February 20 2009 18:06 GMT
#128
My favorite gaming device has got to be my mousepad with the gel wristpad thingy on it. Usually my wrist would be subject to the hard, cold, and unforgiving wooden desk which leaves me with a sore and utterly stiff and unhappy wrist however with the gelpad in place I feel like I could push 8000 apm with minimal risk of being diagnosed with carpal tunnel syndrome. It simply feels like my entire arm is resting on a cloud of love that molds to and supports my wrist. It also allows for optimal performance under any conditions and is truly the backbone of my awesome skills.
yes.
inkblot
Profile Joined December 2004
United States1250 Posts
February 20 2009 18:52 GMT
#129
Logitech G15 keyboard. The programmable key bank on the left is very nice, and the LCD screen + media player controls are great for choosing a song without looking at foobar.
FXOTheoRy
Profile Blog Joined July 2008
United States519 Posts
February 20 2009 18:56 GMT
#130
STEELSERIES GLASS MOUSEPAD IS DA SHIZ
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Zortch
Profile Blog Joined January 2008
Canada635 Posts
February 20 2009 19:33 GMT
#131
My favorite gaming peripheral is my mouse/mouse pad combo.
Until last summer I just used random mice that came with computers and crappy cloth mouse pads. But, I was getting more into Starcraft and thought it would be fun and maybe a little helpful to get my first real gaming gear.
So as a birthday gift my Dad got me a Razer Diamondback 3G and a Razer eXactMat.
I’ve slowly worked my way up to using its full sensitivity. The on-the-fly adjustment is awesome so that other people can actually use my computer, and also so I can easily lower the sensitivity when gaming for better accuracy.
The feet on the Diamondback are amazing. My room is dusty as all hell but the mouse feet never collect it like all other ones seem to. They slide so easily on the eXactMat, control or speed side (which I still can’t quite decide between).
I never really use the side buttons, but the main two offer just the right amount of resistance.
My only real complaint is about the scroll wheel. It’s kind of clunky. I prefer a smoother roll, the ones that you can spin with one quick swipe of the finger to race to the bottom of a page or whatever...
Respect is everything. ~ARchon
TaP.Nuada
Profile Blog Joined February 2007
United States428 Posts
Last Edited: 2009-02-20 20:11:35
February 20 2009 20:08 GMT
#132
My favorite gaming peripheral:

The Logitech G3.
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What makes me love this mouse?

1. Simplicity.
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It doesn't have a really amazing design. It's straight to the point (No pun intended?), and does what it was made for.


2. Form factor.
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(According to the Razer ergonomics guide) I'm a fingertip grip user, and this mouse is nearly the perfect size for me. It doesn't have a thumb groove (hate those), and it fits very nicely within my hand. IMO this is the best form factor I've ever used for a fingertip user.

I also like the form factor, because my previous mouse was the Logitech MX300, which used the exact same chasi. So I basically just upgraded technology and gained some extra buttons. No need to re-learn how to play with a new form factor.


3. Weight.
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It's very light. I removed the metal weight put inside the MX300 to make it lighter. The G3 has no need for this. It glides very nicely even after 4+ years of use. It makes it very easy for me to control fine movements at high sensitivity settings.

4. Extra buttons.
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I'm an RTS player at heart, so I really don't need the extra buttons for gaming, but my friends like FPS, and the extra buttons are just nice to have for every day stuff. I use them for FPS games, sure, but I also get lots of use from them outside games. Push to talk for Ventrilo, control+tab navigation of browsers and tabbed chat windows.

Right now I'm considering buying a mouse from Razer. The Salmosa sounds almost perfect for me. The only problem is the lack of extra buttons. I would have bought the mouse weeks ago if it had only two extra buttons (one on each side) like the G3. Since it doesn't sport the extra luxury, I'm going back and forth between the Salmosa and the Lachesis, however, I'm afraid the Lachesis is just too big for my style. Extra buttons are always nice. If you don't like them, don't use them. IMO it's a luxury that is easy enough to add to any mouse, and I'm left confused as to why the Salmosa and Krait (Would have bought this years ago had it been designed with extra buttons) have no extra side buttons.

Compared to other mice:

Logitech G5/mx518
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The G5 and MX518 both have a horrible form factor that only allows for palm users. This might be good for your average gamer, but I am someone who needs better control over his mouse. The form factor alone made this mouse a no-no in my eyes.


Logitech G9
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The G9 also has an unfavorable form factor. Logitech likes the huge thumb grooves for whatever reason. IMO it's a design flaw. It limits buyers or forces logitech to produce mice for users with various dominant hands. Form Factor again ruins this mouse for me.


Microsoft mice
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Microsoft mice are good for doing simple every day things, but when it comes to competitive gaming hardware, microsoft seems to fail.

The SideWinder and SideWinder X5
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These mice might look advanced (microsoft even saying they have the first ever LCD display on a mouse), but are incredibly uncomfortable to utilize. The asymmetric design doesn't allow for ambidextrious users, and is rather difficult to deal with. The LCD display is very bulky and adds too much width to the mouse.


The Habu
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IMO this is a rip-off from razer's Krait. And if buying this mouse, I'd much rather have the better value for the price of the Krait. (Although the Habu does have extra buttons).


Let's compare to some razer mice...

Diamond Back
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A much nicer form factor, great precision, extra buttons. So what makes the G3 better?

The G3 is significantly shorter (not height, rather distance from front to back of mouse) and has smaller mouse buttons.

The extra length on the Diamond back (and most other razer mice) are a significant drawback to me. I feel it has a trade off. I can other move my hand forward on the mouse, but have the back end of the mouse touching my palm (therefore restricting movement), or I can try to use my fingertip style with this mouse, but my fingers will be somewhat far back on the mouse buttons and will then require extra force for me to press them.


Krait
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I really really really wanted to buy this mouse when it first came out, but there are no extra buttons...

I realize that it's designed specifically for RTS and RPG players (I even like the extra buttons for RPG's (weapon swapping on D2 anyone?)), but most gamers, even some serious ones, play a couple different games and like to have fun every now and then.

I'm an RTS player, but all my friends play FPS. So just having the extra buttons so I at least have the option of using them is tremendously nice.


Lachesis
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The Lachesis is awesome. A couple of my friends use it, and they all really like it. I'm seriously considering buying this mouse at the moment, my only worry is that it will be too big. I need to go to Fry's to test it out on display before I make my final decision. However(!), the only reason I'm even considering this mouse is the Salmosa has no extra buttons.


Salmosa
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This mouse looks just beautiful, and sounds even better. I'd have this mouse on my desk right now if it weren't for the fact that there are zero extra buttons. 3 programmable buttons are just fine (I assume these are the left/right main mouse buttons, as well as the scroll wheel) for RTS and RPG's, but I like to play FPS every now and then, so the extra side buttons (even just 1 on each side) can make or break a mouse for me, as it has with the salmosa and krait.


In Conclusion
The G3 has everything I can ask for in a mouse. Great form factor, great weight, extra buttons, good accuracy.

All of the razer mice come very close to being the best mouse for me, but are lacking in just 1-2 areas.

My friends have been trying to convert me to razer for years, but I just love my G3 too much, and I won't let it go for something just as good. I need to see something that is clearly going to be a better mouse for me.


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On February 21 2009 02:57 Tsagacity wrote:
My favorite gaming peripheral of all time would have to be my old MX 300 mouse. I've replaced it now with a Diamondback 3G, but to me my mx300 will always be synonymous with Starcraft

I had that mouse for ten years and still remember how excited I was when I got it. Before my MX300, I was on an iMac using a single button mouse and was forced to basically hold down control during 75% of any game of Starcraft (the only gamed I played).

I think the MX300 was the first mouse I ever owned that I could right click with and I was insanely excited to play BW with it. When it arrived I went on a BW marathon for the next week. It was actually awkward to right-click at first :s

Later on, I discovered what was probably my favorite thing about it: I could open it and remove the weights inside I miss how insanely small and light that mouse was.

I love you. Haha, I've never seen anyone with a passion similar to mine for the MX300. The MX300 was my favorite mouse until my sister broke it, and I replaced with the Logitech G3 (exact same form factor with +2 buttons) And I can't stop using it.

(I read your post after making mine, so it seems we both liked being able to remove the weight)

You are awesome.
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uglymoose89
Profile Blog Joined November 2008
United States671 Posts
February 20 2009 21:10 GMT
#133
Mine would be my razer diamondback 3g because of the size of the mouse itself and its buttons. My hands are pretty small so it allows me to do a comfortable palm grip on the mouse and since the buttons are so big i can also do a claw grip. I really like the on-the-fly sensitivity thing too. Helps when i am sniping or running and gunning.
xxsaznpride
Profile Blog Joined July 2008
United States506 Posts
Last Edited: 2009-02-21 00:11:45
February 20 2009 21:27 GMT
#134
I read reviews from Google to see if this was even worth entering for. Turns out that those Razer Moray phones aren't the worst things in the world, and when I read that these were soft buds, I felt compelled to start writing this. Why? Because in high school, I would always dig my hard buds in extra deep just to feel the bass more (which in the end really wasn't too worth it), and now, because of that, my left and right canals fit differently.

Anyway, FS said to pick ONE peripheral and describe what likes we had for it, so I'm stuck between these Sony headphones my dad bought for me at Target a while back and a Razer Diamondback 3G.

~ Choosing the 3G because, well, I broke those headphones a while back.

I'm sitting in the library right now with this mouse going between tabs and browsing pages and such. When my family moved to a new house in 2000, all we had was a laptop and this mouse. It's 2009, guys, and this mouse is still kicking. This was the mouse I started playing Starcraft on (I think), the mouse I had an epic TvZ on some map (Challenger?) against a cpu with that ended with my GGing because neither of us could cross the river in the middle and kill each other. This was the mouse I learned to play DotA on, which was perfectly fine considering my resolution is and was only 1280x800 when I started. It's survived backpack travel, drops on the floor, pressure from me trying to crush it in my hand, more drops on the floor, and even one or two accidental tosses at the wall. This mouse is durable, reliable, and smooth, and the only fault I've had with it is that the click wheel now goes up AND down when I try to scroll up (a result of my negligence, no doubt).

Some time last year, my friend the Stegosaurus introduced me to a site with incredible deals on it, Woot. I check it every day now, hoping to God that some Sennheiser HD555s and such gadgets relevant to my interests end up on there. Anyway, one day he tells me they're selling 3G mice for $35. $35?! REALLY? A massive price cut from the $70 I remember them being listed as at the time. I got him to buy my a mouse while he got one for himself as well. A few weeks later (because it took near forever for me to go to his house and pick the damned thing up), I got my mouse.

Got it. Tried it out after installing the drivers. Oh shit, this thing was sensitive. I tried to play SC and it was just unbearable (1800: 4/10 speed). DotA was just as bad as one twitch would result in my screen flying off to look at the pretty woods next to where I was dead upon regaining vision. It took some getting used to, but now I rape face in pubs (don't play anything higher as I'm too lazy to go through the various registration requirements). And, for a while, I had to use BOTH the 3G and the mini-mouse on the same pad AT THE SAME TIME just to avoid pissing myself off overshooting links, tabs, and windows while browsing.

Back to the point. When I popped the baby out of the box and started using it (at the time on my wood table with no pad), I came buckets and shat bricks. This 3G is the smoothest mouse I've ever had the pleasure of touching. An MX518 on a mouse pad doesn't compare to how amazing this felt. When I bought a $2 mouse pad from Fry's for the sake of having one, the experience only got better. The scroll wheel on my Microsoft laptop mouse was at first smooth. Felt like a hairy buttcheek in comparison.

I have no particular interest in how the mouse looks as, first, it's just a mouse and, second, your hand is stuck above it and blocking it from view most of the time. The LED lights are fairly superfluous considering no one's going to be looking at it in the first place, but when it's really dark in my room I can see the light coming up from the scroll wheel on my wall. It's a pretty little light to stare at while I'm waiting for my death timer to finally hit zero. The feel of the mouse in my hand is nice, too. I generally tend to use a claw grip but end up clicking the left and right buttons on different areas. Clicking up toward where the spring is (or whatever, right around where it separates into the actual clicker from the body) on the right feels different compared to the left. It's... weird to say the least.

The 3G's speed and sensitivity are beyond reason. I browse at 1800dpi 10/10 sensitivity and still do a bit of overshooting (the friend who bought the mouse for me asked once how the hell I could stand it); when I play DotA, I have it set to 7/10 and do a whole damn lot of bad clicking (Laguna Blade on a creep; shooting Impale a hundred-fifty degrees in the wrong direction...). Despite all that, my last-hitting and denying have exponentially increased in pub-level awesomeness thanks to the 3G.

Lastly, this thing comes with 7 buttons. SEVEN. Well, it's more like 6 and a scroll click, but that's beside the point. The possibility of setting up key macros for SC and WC ladder opened to me for the first time, but I instead left them in their default configurations. It's so convenient being able to hit a button to go back and another to go forward when before I had to either move sluggishly all the way to the back button in the top left or drag my hand off my mouse completely to slam the backspace key. The last key, the lower-right-side key not preset to on-the-fly sensitivity adjustment, goes unused. I can understand designing the mouse to be ambidextrous, but that last stupid button has got to be in the most awkward place I can imagine. Having a palm-clicked button would probably be more useful than leaving that 7th key.

All in all, I spent $35 for a Godsend of a mouse. I haven't so much as let it touch wood since I bought that mouse pad, let alone dropped it or anything. Greatest experience I've ever had with a computer short of porn, anime, and music.

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This sounds more like a review than anything, but you can't have likes without dislikes, so ya.

If a tl;dr is necessary, here:
PROS:
- Smooth.
- Sleek design that rests nicely in my hand
- Extra buttons for people who need it.
- Doesn't randomly skip to different places
- Doesn't scroll down when I scroll up
CONS:
- LED light isn't really bright enough to be epic and make my hand glow kryptonite-style.
- Awkward pinky button.

I don't think I would pay $70 for ANY mouse. The $35 was beyond great, but 70... I'd just get a shitty mouse and buy me some nice headphones. Oh wait...
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Ancestral
Profile Blog Joined August 2007
United States3230 Posts
February 21 2009 03:10 GMT
#135
My favorite gaming peripheral:

My Logitech Mini Optical mouse. Many here will recognize this as "the mouse that all the progamers use." Well I will not deny, that is the reason I originally bought it. When I first got into StarCraft, I went out and bought a Logitech Mx 518, because I thought "if want to be a serious gamer, I need serious equipment!" Of course I did not think this financial transaction through all that well.

Anyhow, I was reasonably satisfied with it, but my major complaint was that it was very large. I sucked at StarCraft a lot more than I even do now, and I just felt like my mouse was limiting me. It probably wasn't, but being a cyclist, where EVERYONE stresses over equipment to the n-th degree, I was paranoid. So I did some research and found out the Mini Optical is "the mouse that all the progamers use."

I was very satisfied with how light and fast it felt, even though the old optical sensor was not as accurate as on my Mx 518. I read a thread on Teamliquid where someone mentioned how to remove the weight from a Mini Optical, which I did. And behold, it was even lighter than before. I loved it so much!

But then, the incredibly loud clicky scroll wheel annoyed me and I felt it bothered my roommates / random people in the library. So I again took it apart took out the "scroll wheel clicker." And now it's silky smooth...

I also lost a mouse foot randomly, so it sat unevenly on my gaming surface. So what did I do? I bought ultra-high grade replacement low friction feet ($2.99 for four) and an extra set for the future.

I've had this mouse for a long time now, and I've spent a lot of time trying to make it perfect (it took me like an hour to put it back together after disassembling the scroll wheel, I am not the mechanical type). One time, it even just stopped working. I was ready to replace it, but as a last ditch effort (after banging it on things hoping it would work), I took it apart, messed with stuff, and put it back together. And it came back to life, and soldiered on!

I've used it so much that the finish is wearing off the buttons. It doesn't feel like I control StarCraft with a mouse anymore - my hand knows it so well that it feels like my hand controls the game directly without any device in between. And I yank it so much, that my hand is basically one with my junk, so it's as if I play StarCraft with my junk. And being a male, my junk is very close to my heart, so it feels like I'm playing StarCraft with my heart. And heart and soul are one to form a human being, so thanks to this mouse and its history, it seems as if I play StarCraft with my soul...

All things in life are temporal. Like cats for example, mine has cancer. The end is always painful when you know it's coming. I've cried and lamented, and just wished a breakthrough cure would be discovered for cat-cancer, it's so young. Fate claims everything though, and we've had great times ^.^

And although my mouse is not as important as a living being, it too will wear out eventually, and it's all the more painful because of the trouble I've had with it, and how I know it's time will come. Time is the fire in which everything burns, to paraphrase Malcolm MacDowell's quote for Star Trek: Generations. The mouse is great, and it's not really produced anymore. I've thought than when it fails for the last time while browsing TL or Facebook Stalking or Pwning noobs, I intend to replace it with a similar, more technologically advanced substitute ... the Salmosa

Razer's commitment to the gaming community is incredible, sponsoring the highest prize-money non Korean StarLeague ever. I would proudly sport Razer earbuds in the library while studying and listening to trance music, or any LAN / gathering, and while on my biycle killing 150 kilometers also listening to trance music.

As you said in the op Steve, Razer wants feedback .. and I'm certain all their products are top quality, but also the image of using a company's product whose commitment to the community is absolute is a good feeling. I'm glad they're holding this promotion too, so personable!
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distant_voice
Profile Blog Joined November 2002
Germany2521 Posts
February 21 2009 03:35 GMT
#136
if razor built a keyboard that isn't terribly expensive (I'm willing to pay about 50-60 €), and easy to CLEAN, I'd SO buy it. I don't need macro keys, or media player keys or any of that shit, I just need something durable that works well and will serve me for a couple of years. Also please design it so that I can rest my hands on it (how do you call those things that you attach to the keyboard?), and make the click of the keys so that you notice the point where it does something. and make it considerably quiet. that'd be all. the most important thing is that you can clean it without taking the risk of breaking it.
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Sonu
Profile Blog Joined December 2008
Canada577 Posts
February 21 2009 03:54 GMT
#137
my favourite pheriphel is this dual function headset. Its both wired and wireless.

The wireless features stinks.... ohwell

the wired feature.. has never failed me yet (only when i lose the wire). It sounds so great..a lot better than the static from my speakers. I dont know the company who made it but i dont care.. its way too cool. I plug in my school computers and it works fine. There are these sponge coverings to surround my ear, the wave lengths are seemlessly transported to my ear drums.

When I play SC (wat else?) against my friends, the Zealots crying "MY LIFE FOR AIUR!" and the Templars asking me if I think as they do are so clear.

These headsets help me immerse myself into the world I am observing...

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GTR
Profile Blog Joined September 2004
51450 Posts
February 21 2009 07:58 GMT
#138
On February 21 2009 12:35 distant_voice wrote:
if razor built a keyboard that isn't terribly expensive (I'm willing to pay about 50-60 €), and easy to CLEAN, I'd SO buy it. I don't need macro keys, or media player keys or any of that shit, I just need something durable that works well and will serve me for a couple of years. Also please design it so that I can rest my hands on it (how do you call those things that you attach to the keyboard?), and make the click of the keys so that you notice the point where it does something. and make it considerably quiet. that'd be all. the most important thing is that you can clean it without taking the risk of breaking it.


I would love to see a company (Razer) make a simple Keyboard which isn't overpriced as fuck (Steelseries).
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Leafy-
Profile Joined January 2009
Canada2 Posts
February 21 2009 12:29 GMT
#139
My favorite would have to be my keyboard it's just a plain wireless HP keyboard that came with my computer I've had it for awhile and I play many different types of games FPS, RTS, MMO's, and many others and it suites me just fine. It's taken a beating fallen off my computer desk many times I've even hit it a few times while nerd raging after losing in a game. The only special keys it has are for volume and for pausing, stopping, and switching songs for being a crummy HP keyboard it's pretty decent I like simple things and this keyboard is perfect.
Prof. Protoss
Profile Blog Joined October 2007
Germany744 Posts
Last Edited: 2009-02-21 12:47:41
February 21 2009 12:47 GMT
#140
May favorite is may Logitech MX510 mouse because it fits so well in my hand and it looks great in shiny blue
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