Review Razer Basilisk X HyperSpeed Wireless Gaming Mouse Review: Value Performer

[Admin]

The Razer Basilisk X HyperSpeed punches above its weight class.

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[Countess_C]

"Cons: -AA battery, not rechargeable"

Isn't that subjective? With a built-in battery you need to plug in a cable to it to recharge or put the mouse on a charging station, and the battery will lose capacity over time and go bad, and then the mouse goes in the trash.

With an AA battery you just replace it with a charged one and you're good to go. I use good low self discharge rechargeable batteries for anything that takes AA or AAA.

 

[Math Geek]

i've had this mouse for a few years now and it's worked great for me.

i started with the BT connection and the battery lasted a VERY long time. but it did not like not having line of sight to the BT antenna. we're not talking a long distance here but where i had it put the monitor between them and it dropped connection a lot and otherwise hated me. i had to move it so the mouse could "see" it direcly under the monitor and it worked great. however, BT has a power saving mode i could not turn off that put the mouse to sleep after maybe 15 mins of non-use. problem is it took over 5 seconds for it to wake up upon wiggling it. this got very annoying trying to wake up the pc. that delay got old over time and i started dreading those first seconds after sitting down at my desk. but after maybe a year or so like this i wanted the antenna back where i had it and i was totally over the wake up delay, so i went to 2.4 ghz mode which does not have either of those issues.

in that mode the battery went twice as fast for sure. went from maybe 5 months of battery life to barely more than 2 months. roughly 50% less life. it still works great and i have no desire for a different mouse at all but these have been my experiences with it.

i'm obviously not a pro gamer and don't base my life on spec sheets but this has been a great mouse and i have no regrets buying it those few years ago. think i paid like $45 or so during a black friday sale for it.