ssddx :
"Well, it seems to me a lot of people like getting in the crowd and spewing forth crud for the sake of it being popular opinion.Someone up there said something about a wireless mouse - well, that takes away his credibility - unless his expertise is getting fragged in multiplayer shooters.How about mechanical vs membrane, optical vs laser - let me hear some actual mechanical facts to back up these opinions."
all of the posts i've seen so far are giving you exactly what you wanted to hear. we are giving you our opinion on how the devices made by razer have worked for us. all are based on actual usage whether by us or someone else. dont discredit us even if we do not name a whole list of specifics. or do you want me to list things such as..
.. during gaming sessions the rubber coating which attracts dust can cause me great irritation due to the gritty texture unless i clean the mouse at least weekly with pure water as anything which can disinfect the mouse will make the rubber softer causing even greater buildup and dust and in turn cause greater irritation.
/sarcasm, you get the point i hope.
as far as your comment on my credibility... you fall prey to the common belief that wireless=bad which is not always true. some wireless products have a delay so small that its unperceptible. my deaths were normally fairly insignificant compared to the number of frags i got...normally in the top 4 at minimum. no thats not me bragging but fact...at least for the variety of games i played.
mechanical vs membrane? personal preference. i do prefer boards with stiff mechanical keys with a big letoff but others might not like this and might do better on a membrane based board. i've used both and for gaming the difference is negligible at best. i type faster on mechanical boards, but that doesnt affect gaming performance.
optical vs laser? personal preference. pretty much zero actual performance difference though unless you lift your mouse in which case laser = a bad choice. yes i've personally used both.
Hey, bro. You seem to think that I took issue with you as a person - totally not true. Just as an expert on mice. Maybe I acted a little hastily in disregarding what you had to say concerning gaming peripherals - but more on that later.
You say that the dust affects you. Well, I can sympathize with that - I can have pretty bad allergies. I would definitely count the dust issue as a big fat negative to the Razer gaming mouse, if not for one small problem...I haven't noticed it. Maybe I just have a dust free environment. Either way, the Razer Death Adder has not had that kind of adverse affect on me, if it had, I would probably understand your point.
Now, back to the topic of gaming mice and wireless. You must forgive me, but surely you can see the irony of getting advice on a mouse from a "PC gamer" that uses a wireless mouse. Now, I know that there
are some halfway decent wireless mouses out there - but now you are talking overpriced. The CYBORG R.A.T 9 comes to mind - an excellent mouse, I am sure you would agree. But, except for a few extra side buttons, does nothing my Death Adder can't do faster. Why? Because mine is wired. Sorry!
But, it is not an insult to you that I, and many others, see it my way. Nor is an insult to me that you, and many others, see it your way. Has it ever occurred to you that perhaps it has a lot to do with the
type of shooters people play? You said that the delay was very small. And that is true. It
is. But what kind of shooters do you spend most of your time playing? I have played some BF3 and some CoD in my time (although I hate the latter with a passion). But shooters like Quake Live, Team Fortress 2, and Deathmatch Classic are more my style. Extremely high frame rates,
0 percent mouse lag (not 0.00001, but
0), and other factors are far more important to me and my kind (probably the kind of people who hate wireless) than would be to BF3 players (not making an assumption as to what you play, just making a point).
So maybe I was a little premature to discount your opinions. You are a person, you have a say, and you matter just as much as me or anyone else. So I am sorry.
But I do still disagree and believe Razer is excellent.