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Mionix NAOS & AVIOR 7000

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Mionix's newest version of the NAOS and AVIOR designs get put to the test. Both feature the newest IR-LED sensor from Avago, the ADNS-3310. We take them for a spin to see how they perform in comparison to their previous versions!

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Had a Razer Diamondback 3G before, but it finally gave in to years of my furious game raging, it lasted well but nothing lasts forever, I wasn't really happy with the newer Razer offerings (I prefer a very ambidextrous mouse - and a Razer has a habit of making side buttons out of rubber that tends to get degraded and "rott" after a while - I loved the DiamondBack as a mouse but the side buttons degraded into a terrible sticky mess over the years) , so I got the Avior 7000 Last month - Apart from a very weak Macro writer it is fantastic, Love it.

Lovely buttons , great feedback from the wheel roll, none of that gummy rubber on the buttons.

The whole build & weight is just perfect for me (Mostly FPS and Strategy) - If there is anything about it that disappointed me it is the Macro writer. I had hoped for functionality along the lines of XPadder - but perhaps that is just too much to ask.

I cant really seem to find any way of assigning anything other than simple keyboard button and click sequences to a button - no apparent ability to issue mouse movements , or repeat, or toggle macros.

I wanted this mainly because I like to use side buttons for rapid clicking (Think Diablo combat) to save devastating my main click buttons - But I managed it with an AutoHotkey script - so its all good overall - just again, very disappointed that so little market research went into the macro writer in the software. Repeat, Repeat Delay, Toggle, and Mouse Up/Down/Left/Right are very standard macro functions these days - there really is no excuse for failing there.

But that's just a software issue, who knows perhaps it gets improved in later software.

As for the mouse hardware itself - very nice, and very happy with it :)
 
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I've had a NAOS 3200 now for probably about 5 months and I love it. Not jam packed with buttons which I find good so you can lift up the mouse without doing something crazy in a game or something. SUPER comfortable, been to a friends house for a LAN and gamed for many, many hours without my hand or arm getting aches - the only other mouse I've had that is as good for comfort is a sidewinder x8 (personal preference though). The 3200 is all I need as well so it was nice being able to save ~$30-$40 going for the 3200 over the 8200. Nice cable too and superb build quality and button feedback/motion.
 
I really like the ambidextrous shape of that AVIOR mouse, seems really nice. Hardly I can buy it in my country anyway, nobody sells Mionix. Other brands like Razer, SteelSeries, Logitech, Corsair, Filco, ... are already here for a while.
 
I wish the Naos 7000 had three thumb buttons instead of just two. I am so used to my Logitech G500's third thumb button to use as an extra key in games.
 
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