What mouse do you guys use nowadays? - Page 28

First off, there aren't three sizes. You could use it without a shell but if you do it's the most unergonomic mouse in history with absolutely terrible side buttons. You are supposed to use the shells, of which there are two : Precision and.. uh, comfort grip. I haven't actually used the bigger shell (the comfort one) but I got the impression that the mouse feels nicer with a palm grip, though it felt like the shell kind of got in the way.

The precision grip is.. weird. It is as if it shaped for someone having their hands hovering about 2-3cm above the desk, I tend to rest my hand using the fingertip grip, with the pivot bone Day9 mentioned in his mechanical daily staying on my desk.

If I do my pinky sits just a bit too far back, which isn't too comfortable. If i move it forward the back of the mouse hits the palm of my hand and I couldn't play like that for the life of me, though I imagine this is something I'll get used to. It also has a "Dry grip technology" (yeah..) material which keeps sweaty hands from gliding around the mouse. It's a bit like sandpaper that has been used for too long, won't scratch your skin by any means but definitely serves its purpose.
It is worth noting that the precision shell doesn't glide at all, I used to tilt my mouse a bit when I lifted it and moved it but that doesn't work at all. Gotten used to it by now however.

The two side buttons are nice, harder to press than on a IEM 3.0 but not overly so. They're just above my thumb which is ideal. No complaints there. As for the middle mouse button there are two modes, one of which has harder scrolling with a lot of tactile feedback, apparently it is used for switching weapons in FPS games without scrolling too much.

Another small nitpick is that it's easy to press the scroll left or right while in the "gaming mode", as it is quite hard to press down. I do it rarely nwo though, and have only been using the mouse for a few days.

Well, it definitely works. A bit harder to scroll than a regular mouse but it's not going to give your hand cramps or anything. It's positioned a bit further to the right of the mouse so it's easy to use whatever finger you have on your right mouse button to scroll, which is a bit meh on normal mouses.

The second mode however has a few issues. The point is that it removes all tactile feedback and makes it easy as hell to scroll. And it is, if I spin it fast it'll keep scrolling on its' own, definitely feels nice. BUT if you have that mode enabled the mouse will rattle as it'll be a lot looser than it should be. I just stopped using that mode, but I suppose it's a nitpick.

The DPI buttons are placed well, easy to access but near impossible to press on accident, you can have five different DPI settings stored on one profile if you find that necessary. But don't buy the mouse for 5200 DPI, because no one in their right mind would use that, unless you use a 70inch television as your main computer screen. That said you can store three profiles on the mouses memory if you visit LANs and such, you can also have an infinite amount of profiles on your harddrive.

As for the software it's not perfect but with a bit of tweaking you can get everything to your liking. I rebind my side buttons to shift and ctrl and I had to make a macro that uses shift and ctrl respectively, kind of figured that would be an option to have as an input already. Oh and you can change the LED lights, I hope the mouse wasn't more expensive because of that :/

Precision wise the mouse is absolutely amazing. I haven't used many gaming mouses outside of the Intellimouse Explorer 3.0 but playing on really high sensitivity I definitely notice a difference. I play a 6/11 Windows with 1700 DPI and the mouse definitely feels precise. No problems using it on a Steelseries QCK mousepad either.

All in all it is a gaming mouse if there ever was any. I can't imagine using only this mouse at an office for example. If you like resting your hand on your mouse while browsing (palm grip) you have to get used to the feeling of a small shoe in your hand. But if you use a fingertip grip the ergonomics definitely work for gaming.

Other than the scroll using the loose mode the mouse feels solid, I doubt the right or left click will break anytime soon, ditto for the side buttons. I like it, but it's not a perfect mouse.

A bit more long winded than I was going for but hey, there you have it.