DAREU A980 Pro Max

[pzogel]

The right-handed ergonomic A980 Pro Max is DAREU's take on the Basilisk and G502. Equipped with a customized PixArt PAW3950 sensor and capable of both 2.4 GHz wireless and Bluetooth, the 76 g A980 Pro Max features a TFT display, 4000 Hz wireless and 8000 Hz wired polling, and its magnesium main buttons are equipped with Kailh GM 8.0 switches.

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[Onasi]

Well, people wanted more reviews of bigger mice, so I guess this is that. Still, while that click latency is mediocre by modern standards, it’s still far from being unreasonable. It’s certainly not any worse than Zowies of old and those mice were used by competitors at the highest level without much issue.

 

[Veseleil]

Finally a non-"ambidextrous" mouse with decent specs for a reasonable price. Might be the first reviewed one on a TPU in years that I could actually see myself wanting.
The screen is a bit too much, but the battery % info is good to have, and DPI value as well (for the people that change those regularly and on purpose, not like my G305, which changes DPI if you look at it wrong). Click latency don't bother me much, as I'm not into fast paced competitive stuff.

 

[Rowsol]

Does anyone actually give a shit about 8000hz? I manually set my mouse to 250 to reduce CPU load. It's a thing by the way. The easiest way to notice is to highlight the progress bar on youtube and move left and right. Watch the CPU go sky high. Dropping it from 1000 to 250 helped a bunch.

 

[_roman_]

I like the idea of that display. I believe a black and white display like on my smartwatch may be more battery efficient.

Still it's hard to justify the price when you compare the build quality from the pictures with just an ordinary 8€ mouse. It's not more durable - same small hooks - same bad top plate which wears always out first here. For that price i expect free international mouse replacement for the next 60 years. Cable or wireless mouse does not count as an argument.

Using dongles is outdated. There is no real need for dongles anymore. It should work with any generic WLAN with any WLAN protocol and frequency and any Blutetooth protocol.

Using non standard batteries is also bad. There are so many user replaceable, rechargeable batteries on the market.

In my point of view "but expensive" tag should be used.

 

[FreedomEclipse]

The lack of omron switches are a bonus in my book. Although I have never heard of Huano switches so dont know if they are any good. They could be just as bad.

The software although while really basic. Its all you really need without any extra bloat like Logitech G hub, corsair icue and the like where they have to integrate every damn thing into the one app and it doesnt matter if you dont give a shit about 90% of the extras or even need it. Youre gonna get it anyway because f**k you thats why.

I really wonder if they have a wired only version. Because Id probably buy one as logitech has annoyed the hell out of me with their garbage switches and software.


::EDIT::

Yes they do

Im gonna have to do a Chris Hemsworth in Extraction and find it.

 

[jfe]

Do you have in mind to test new Cougar Revenger Pro 4k?

 

[Han44]

Well, the mouse is interesting, maybe it will come to me soon when it is available and of course they won't charge too much in stores

 

[FreedomEclipse]

well then!

They even tried to sell it for £279...

 

[Onasi]

@FreedomEclipse
Omegalul. It’s literally 65-70 bucks where I am, depending on whether I want to be fucked ordering directly from Ali or use a local retailer, which is slightly more expensive, but less issues with warranty. That UK price (I assume it’s UK since pounds and all) is just… what?

 

[FreedomEclipse]

@FreedomEclipse
Omegalul. It’s literally 65-70 bucks where I am, depending on whether I want to be fucked ordering directly from Ali or use a local retailer, which is slightly more expensive, but less issues with warranty. That UK price (I assume it’s UK since pounds and all) is just… what?

Its AmazonUK. Im assuming its an supply and demand issue since the brand doesnt officially have a UK distributor.

It wasnt a case of they saw the review and raised their prices either.

Probably some random dude in a bedroom saw nobody was selling this mouse in the UK so decided to try his luck.

But you can literally go on Aliexpress and buy this mouse for something like £60

480HKD is £50. So its probably around £60 after tax. give or take

 

[pzogel]

Do you have in mind to test new Cougar Revenger Pro 4k?

Lots of other mice on the plate currently, but possibly at a later point in time.