so anker sent me another mouse. this time its a 2000dpi claw gripper.called akner precision gaming mouse...
yeah not the catchiest of titles but really who cares what its called, its how it perfoms that matters.
first off on opening the box your greeted with a sleak stealthy looking thing that wouldnt look out of place on a f-117 night hawk, sporting 7 configurable buttons.
your leftright and middle, 2 thumb and 2 dpi all of which as i said can be reconfigured.
i plugged it in and it lit up with a very brilliant blue which illumiates the whole of the top of the mouse through a cracked glaze pattern along with the anker logo.
the use of a clear stip around the middle does give the mouse an overall sharp look.
on the underside its a very basic affair, 2 large low friction pads and the sensor. the glide profile is very slick on my mat (razer destructor) so i was optomistic.
the side button placement is nothing new but they have placed thenm in such a way so you can press the front 1 with the tip of your thumb and the back with the pad.
allowing you rocker the bottons without having to reposition each time you need to press it...
this is my biggest gripe with most thumb buttons they are often just an after thought but not on this.
some 1 has actually taken the time to see what was needed to get the best responce for the minimum of movment.
after all your thumb although good for grippin isnt the most versitile of your fingers, so a definate PLUS for this.
now to test fuctionality.
after a few seconds the mouse auto detectedand i was ready to rock and roll.
i pull out windows paint and start drawing lines and circles. because the mosue is low dpi i expected it would have a lot of prediction/angle snapping and it did.
in some cases this can be a bad thing but in this instance its not at all a problem. its not intrusive and doesnt stop the mouse creating smooth arcs.
so they have worked some deep black art magic to get the basics right.
like i said 2000dpi but in incriments of 500 so not a huge range of options. your allowed to store 4 dpi profiles, so no worse than many other.
most gamers really dont need more dpi but they do need accurate responcive sensors and this appears to be 1...in fact it reminded me a lot of my old logitec G5 and any1 who knows mice will tell you it was 1 of there better mice.
personally i would have prefered a lower step rate and the adittion of seperate x/y but after using it i found it didnt really affect me much at all.
look at it this way. £15 you cant expect em to give you every feature, but being said they have given us some very nice 1s in there place that aint in some much higher end software never mind budget.but more on that later.
max polling rate can be set from 125 to 1000ms.
the actual poll rate is 0-1000 depending on how fast your moving the mouse, basicaly you stop moving and the pollrate drops to 0 and as soon as you do move it climbs to its maximum and will hover around it till you stop moving again... now you may think this odd but some of the better high end mice have this feature. it helps increase the overall smoothness of how the sensor reads your movment and how it reacts to your movements... this is a pretty techinal excersise to get right and they seem to have done it without adding huge costs to the end user.
software
in the mouse software you get all the sliders to adjust the above and some others to affact lighting, its brightness, pulse rate and off/on.
theres also up to 5 gaming profiles which can also be stored with the added options of macros, this is a sweet little addition that really sets the software appart from other budget orientated mice.
a sweet little feature is how the game sets up and uses the profiles 1s there created.
when your finished creating your game profile and you go to save it. your also asked to select the path to the games main exe, as soon as the mouse detects that exe running it auto loads that games profile.
so no having to navigate taskbar menues to find your prefered profile. this is a great addition wich i hope they can expand on by making them unlimited in the amount of games it can remember. hopefully they will add this feature to the rest of the mice in there gaming range.(i cant really tell you how pleased with this little addition. its a sweet idea, well implimented on what is a budget mouse)
there are more software features but there just your typical scroll speed. pointer speed and acceleration as well as click speed for the l.m.r buttons.
final thoughts.
again anker have suprised me with something special for the money. at around £16 you wont do much better in fact i couldnt find much at all in this price bracket that you could call gaming grade but this little beuty definatly is.
smooth accurate, fast with great a great feature packed software.
a very impressive 9/10 it really doesnt get better for the money.
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Anker-2000DPI-Programmable-specific-Switches/dp/B00CBQO930/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1371989978&sr=8-2&keywords=anker+gaming+mouse
yeah not the catchiest of titles but really who cares what its called, its how it perfoms that matters.
first off on opening the box your greeted with a sleak stealthy looking thing that wouldnt look out of place on a f-117 night hawk, sporting 7 configurable buttons.
your leftright and middle, 2 thumb and 2 dpi all of which as i said can be reconfigured.
i plugged it in and it lit up with a very brilliant blue which illumiates the whole of the top of the mouse through a cracked glaze pattern along with the anker logo.
the use of a clear stip around the middle does give the mouse an overall sharp look.
on the underside its a very basic affair, 2 large low friction pads and the sensor. the glide profile is very slick on my mat (razer destructor) so i was optomistic.
the side button placement is nothing new but they have placed thenm in such a way so you can press the front 1 with the tip of your thumb and the back with the pad.
allowing you rocker the bottons without having to reposition each time you need to press it...
this is my biggest gripe with most thumb buttons they are often just an after thought but not on this.
some 1 has actually taken the time to see what was needed to get the best responce for the minimum of movment.
after all your thumb although good for grippin isnt the most versitile of your fingers, so a definate PLUS for this.
now to test fuctionality.
after a few seconds the mouse auto detectedand i was ready to rock and roll.
i pull out windows paint and start drawing lines and circles. because the mosue is low dpi i expected it would have a lot of prediction/angle snapping and it did.
in some cases this can be a bad thing but in this instance its not at all a problem. its not intrusive and doesnt stop the mouse creating smooth arcs.
so they have worked some deep black art magic to get the basics right.
like i said 2000dpi but in incriments of 500 so not a huge range of options. your allowed to store 4 dpi profiles, so no worse than many other.
most gamers really dont need more dpi but they do need accurate responcive sensors and this appears to be 1...in fact it reminded me a lot of my old logitec G5 and any1 who knows mice will tell you it was 1 of there better mice.
personally i would have prefered a lower step rate and the adittion of seperate x/y but after using it i found it didnt really affect me much at all.
look at it this way. £15 you cant expect em to give you every feature, but being said they have given us some very nice 1s in there place that aint in some much higher end software never mind budget.but more on that later.
max polling rate can be set from 125 to 1000ms.
the actual poll rate is 0-1000 depending on how fast your moving the mouse, basicaly you stop moving and the pollrate drops to 0 and as soon as you do move it climbs to its maximum and will hover around it till you stop moving again... now you may think this odd but some of the better high end mice have this feature. it helps increase the overall smoothness of how the sensor reads your movment and how it reacts to your movements... this is a pretty techinal excersise to get right and they seem to have done it without adding huge costs to the end user.
software
in the mouse software you get all the sliders to adjust the above and some others to affact lighting, its brightness, pulse rate and off/on.
theres also up to 5 gaming profiles which can also be stored with the added options of macros, this is a sweet little addition that really sets the software appart from other budget orientated mice.
a sweet little feature is how the game sets up and uses the profiles 1s there created.
when your finished creating your game profile and you go to save it. your also asked to select the path to the games main exe, as soon as the mouse detects that exe running it auto loads that games profile.
so no having to navigate taskbar menues to find your prefered profile. this is a great addition wich i hope they can expand on by making them unlimited in the amount of games it can remember. hopefully they will add this feature to the rest of the mice in there gaming range.(i cant really tell you how pleased with this little addition. its a sweet idea, well implimented on what is a budget mouse)
there are more software features but there just your typical scroll speed. pointer speed and acceleration as well as click speed for the l.m.r buttons.
final thoughts.
again anker have suprised me with something special for the money. at around £16 you wont do much better in fact i couldnt find much at all in this price bracket that you could call gaming grade but this little beuty definatly is.
smooth accurate, fast with great a great feature packed software.
a very impressive 9/10 it really doesnt get better for the money.
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Anker-2000DPI-Programmable-specific-Switches/dp/B00CBQO930/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1371989978&sr=8-2&keywords=anker+gaming+mouse
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