NZXT revised its gaming mouse. They changed just one thing, and it makes a world of difference, immediately apparent after moments of use. It’s visible on this photo. Can you spot it?
No googling, now!
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Is it thinner or is that just the angle?
They moved the thumb-click button?
The handrest on the side of the mouse has been either increased or decreased (i’m not sure which one is the 1st gen)
Looks like it has a thinner wire.
One is actually made out of candy.
It’s a blacker shade of blue. Non more black I tell you!
In other words, who cares? Obviously, I’m dorky enough to care enough to login and write this pithy comment when I don’t even play any games more daunting than ‘pysol’ on my Linux box with any sort of regularity.
Heh, maybe it’s that it’s now a rougher surface so your sweaty, clammy hands and you girlishly scream when getting fragged, don’t slip quite as much as your whimper in the corner of your chair. Mumbling and sobbing under your breath?
the curve of the palm rest is greater on the left mouse in the pic
It now has More Cowbell?
They made it slightly bluer.
Or they made the thumb button slightly taller or shorter, depending on which one is the revised model.
It’s obviously the better laser (i/r) dpi…
Why didn’t anybody notice that!!!
The main wheels look to be different sizes.
The thumb button is shiner?
matte or glossy
It looks to me like the one on the right is either a little slimmer or the base is a little wider.
they made the LED’s brighter.
Middle button proportions are changed.
“Extruded Teflon mouse feet”
I’m deeply disturbed by that phrase.
Looks like the one on the right is newer, and they lowered the right edge of it, so that instead of having to hold your hand sort of flat / level with the desktop, you can swivel your right hand a little clockwise, which is more relaxed.
it’s hard to tell from perspective, but it looks like one of them is symmetrical, meaning they made their product work for lefties and righties?
Why would anyone make a dual use mouse? I’m left handed myself even I have no empathy for those sinister mousing freaks.
I for one give up . . . you gonna tell us???
I had no idea that mice had 3 wheels these days… What do you do with 3 wheels?!
The silver buttons on the side are different?
The one on the right has little bumps on the side.
The silver thumb button protrudes less?
I’m going with no longer ambidextrous. The mouse on the right looks curved for right hand use only.
#23 W000T nails it, with runner up award to #21 engineer!
This actually arrived yesterday and I spent 10 minutes inspecting it, concluding they’d sent the old one again by mistake. So I asked the PR chap, who told me …
The funny thing is that when you actually *use* it, it instantly becomes obvious. The sticky-out buttons on the first revision were very easy to click by mistake. If anything, the new ones are too *hard* to depress!
A mini review coming soon.
#9 made the right call too, I think. That was the only noticeable thing I could come up with, but I’d been ‘beaten’.
While I’ve never used that particular mouse before, I’ve used that mouse shape, and I never got to a point where it felt comfortable.
The best mouse I’ve ever used (I’m not saying it’s the best out there, just the most reliable, comfortable and seemingly well-designed) is a Logitech G3 Laser mouse. Tracks perfectly on just about any flat surface (and on a more irregular surface, such as my jeans-clad thighs, about as well as the previous generation optical mice used to on flat, matte surfaces) and its two thumb buttons feel almost perfectly-positioned.
The G3′s thumb buttons could perhaps benefit from slightly more resistance to accidental depressing, but even that is a rare occurrence indeed. I used to think that two buttons and a scroll wheel were enough, but I have to say that I now miss those two thumb buttons when I have to surf the web on a different mouse (the buttons are automatically mapped to back and forward on most browsers.)
You can use it with your left hand?
The cord stays out of the way?
It’s filled with bees?
Rumor has it the older mice were filled with wasps.
who uses a thumb button?
I do :]
I thought the one on the right had a braided cord instead of rubber, for better Flexion(tm).
Glad to hear their mfgr’ing tolerances are tight enough that the button difference is not actually just a nominal irregularity.
The one on the left tingles.