heya, long time not logged in to TPU.
Add it to the drawbacks - the rubber gets wrecked pretty quickly, it's not a durable material at all.
Rival 700 has no rubber side (it's nicely textured plastic).
Your friend mouse is Rival 300, which has questionable rubber especially the early batch.
General consensus Rival 700 has much better build quality and material than 300.
Long time proud Sensei user. But... about year ago, when got luck to test new Zowie EC1-A, i realised, Zowie = win.
Just want to say that Zowie has quite few problems too like click latency, hard click (on Huano switches), slow adoption of new sensor, and those flawed 24 notch scroll wheel.
nice, i was looking forward a review of that mouse here on TPU, sadly i missed a sale on my fav' Etailer site at 79$ (oh well i am too used to my Nyth now ... i couldn't do with 10 buttons less
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pretty neat mouse.
It'll be great mouse (sensor, material, crispy click, side button placement, cables) if not because:
1. At 135g it's too heavy. On fps game with low sensivity (which is preferable) your arm will tired fast. In era where the competition has sub 90g palm grip mouse or 100g+ wireless one, that's sad.
2. A little bit problematic. Sometimes it's nitpicking USB port and its software also has trouble with specific macro.
3. The jagged back kinda weird for my hand. Overall shape wise it's almost as good as DeathAdder but not quite there yet.
4. Expensive af.
Alternatively there's Rival 500. It's like 700 but has no oled / vibrator, has tons of extra buttons, and also cheaper. Sadly it's only 5g~ lighter.
For a hundred bucks I'll buy a G403 wireless wich has even better sensor, and is lighter while being, you know, wireless. No need for that gimmicky screen which in my opinion looks awful.
3360 is basically 'export' variant of 3366. Apparently the same goes for 3389.
Jitter on high dpi is because of the implementation of said sensor by the mouse engineer themselves not really fault of the sensor.
But as far as I know, 3360/3389 mice even when it has jitter it's only noticeable on really high dpi like 5000dpi or higher. Which is pretty unusable for most people.
Meanwhile I agree with G403 sentiment, G403 has questionable QC (rattle, uneven clicks, some people even report body bending) and build quality (bad mousefeets and stiff cable - zowie and razer much better here)
If you think you won't have problem with build quality issues, you could try buy two or three at once and hope one of them is good and return the others.
Long story short in mouse world nothing perfect
