Pwnage StormBreaker

[pzogel]

Made of Magnesium, the right-handed ergonomic StormBreaker is exceptionally light at just 51 g. Another novelty is the sensor position being adjustable to one's liking. In addition, it comes with PixArt's PAW3395 sensor, Omron switches for the main buttons, 4000 Hz wireless polling, and up to 120 hours of battery life.

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[Onasi]

But did you remember to peel off the stickers on the feet? /s

Still not convinced that magnesium is something that’s worth going forward with for mice, especially ones that are “full sized ones”, if you will. The Stormbreaker is fairly large and, as review notes, mostly suited to claw or fingertip. I feel like with those grips the difference between something that weighs 60 grams versus 50 is not that much of a game changer and you end up with higher price and all the challenges of click implementation. This isn’t even mentioning the fact that there are plastic mice of similar form factor which are close in weight. The “as light as possible” philosophy makes sense for a purely fingertip mouse, like the M2K, but here it’s more of a gimmick and definitely not worth shelling out 200 bucks when shipping Is accounted for.

 

[JAB Creations]

Whoa, for $170 you get no sixth / trigger button? I use mine for double-click and it cost me like $40?

 

[Chrispy_]

Just $20 more than the Corsair M75 Air last week proves how ridiculous the asking price on that mouse is.

This is a smaller company, without the economies of scale or distribution network Corsair has, using more expensive materials, being significantly lighter, better-made, with wireless polling working 4-8x faster than Corsair managed and generally having no downsides.

Is $170 a lot for a mouse? Yes. But at least this one can kind of justify that asking price.

 

[micropage7]

actually i prefer something smooth, especially for left and right click

 

[Selaya]

Just $20 more than the Corsair M75 Air last week proves how ridiculous the asking price on that mouse is.

This is a smaller company, without the economies of scale or distribution network Corsair has, using more expensive materials, being significantly lighter, better-made, with wireless polling working 4-8x faster than Corsair managed and generally having no downsides.

Is $170 a lot for a mouse? Yes. But at least this one can kind of justify that asking price.

yeah corsAIR's been farming their brand w/ shit garbage products for awhile now
i try to stay as far away from them as humanly possible, but unfortunately in a lot of markets (esp on the psu side of things) they're the only (somewhat) reputable brand around

 

[Chrispy_]

yeah corsAIR's been farming their brand w/ shit garbage products for awhile now
i try to stay as far away from them as humanly possible, but unfortunately in a lot of markets (esp on the psu side of things) they're the only (somewhat) reputable brand around

It's more complex than that though - they've still got a lineup of decent cases and power supplies - it's their peripherals and cooling divisions that need a reality check because they're priced far above their mediocre quality and performance.

 

[Selaya]

yeah, you're (mostly) right ofc, altho i wouldnt consider their psu to be of the topmost tier (generally competent; but i'd only ever consider them the second (budget) choice at most) anymore.
and tbh i like fractal cases more (on basically every department: price, value, performance, quality, aesthetics, design, engineering, useabilty, buildability), but again generally competent

as ive said, i've still given a buncha corsair product recommendations (mostly psus, but case asw on the occasion) simply bc you can find a vendor for their products every fucking where, from afghanistan to zimbabwe. the same cannot be said for most other brands, unfortunately

 

[Shrek]

How does magnesium stand up to sweat?

 

[Onasi]

How does magnesium stand up to sweat?

Depends on the coating, just like with plastic mice. Yes, magnesium mice do have one, they aren’t bare metal (most of them, anyway). The material itself is no more or less susceptible to sweating. And obviously, it won’t corrode or anything, if that is your concern.

 

[Shrek]

I hate coatings, they tend to wear off or scratch.