I need to replace my mouse. It's an old Logitech and while good, not gaming-oriented.
I am looking at four mice.
The Razer DeathAdder Chroma, the Logitech G502 Proteus Core, the Corsair Sabre RGB, and an honorable mention to the Corsair Harpoon.
Anyone have any thoughts? Specifically about the Sabre.
Here's the pros and cons as I see them.
DA pros: looks nicest of the bunch. has best software including better lighting and particularly a feature to tune your mouse to your mousepad. don't know how useful that is.
DA cons: I worry about durability, especially after the nonsense with the myriad problems on the 2013 DA. tiny mouse feet.
G502 pros: logitech reliability and quality. darling mouse sensor everybody has praise for. edit: also has mousepad tuning ability.
G502 cons: no RGB lighting (RGB model, identical but for RGB lights, significantly more expensive). larger size bad for claw grips and smaller hands? heavier weight.
Sabre pros: $20 cheaper. different areas of the mouse are configurable for different colours. lighter weight. large mouse feet. shape is good smaller hands and claw grips which both apply to me.
Sabre cons: uses avago s3988 as opposed to s3989 on the deathadder and the even better one (model?) on the logitech (see edit). rgb lighting isn't as good as deathadder. software isn't as good as deathadder.
edit: actually, the current version of the Sabre RGB has an Avago S3989, the same one as on the DA Chroma. this mouse was actually launched in three variants. the original two, which were launched simultaneously, were separated with a different sensor, one being optical and the other, laser. the optical version was the S3988 (6400 DPI), and while I do not know what the laser version was specifically using, it seems very likely to me that it was the Avago ADNS-9800 used in the now-superseded version of the M65 available around the same time as these mice. you can tell them apart by the logo present. Corsair shipped the older pair with a new-at-the-time "tribal" styled logo. it must not have been a big hit. the new version with the S3989 has Corsair's current stylized take on their classical logo.
and it would seem that Corsair followed a comment on their blog announcement for this mouse to the very letter when designing their current logo which is used across all of their items now. take a look
http://www.corsair.com/en-us/blog/2014/ ... abre%20rgb
edit done
so do gerbils have anything to say? where am I on all of that? I like the look of both the deathadder and the sabre. I'm worried about shell durability on the sabre and just in general on the deathadder. Is the Logitech too big for claw grip and smaller girly-man hands? I read in one place someone said that the DeathAdder is worse than the G502 in terms of fit. The dimensions on the DeathAdder are smaller so I assume it's the shape and increased height, if it's true. Is that true?
Anybody have experience with two or more of these mice? Anyone have anything to say on the harpoon.