Mionix continues to surprise with the Naos series. The 8200 is the best one yet, and the shape is still one of the best around. All the buttons perform great and are placed exactly where you need them, and even though the mouse is meant for a palm-type grip, it still works brilliantly with fingertip-type control. The shape accommodates anything from a slightly small to large hand comfortably. The driver suite that accompanies the Naos 8200 is a refined version of what we first saw with the Naos 5000. All of the suite's teething problems are now gone. Setting up the mouse was relatively pain free and at around 35 MB, the driver suite does not hog a lot of memory either.

This mouse works with every surface you can throw at it. The harder mats obviously work best for high-sensitivity gaming, and here, the tracking performance is excellent. The big mouse feet underneath the Naos 8200 work great on both hard and soft mats, so you are not limited in your mat choice. The lift-off distance settings can be tweaked in the driver, which makes getting it to perform perfectly on all mats easy. You can get totally consistent tracking with below 2mm of lift-off distance on pretty much any surface, which is excellent.