At last, a manufacturer that doesn't bend cables!
Thank you Steelseries for wrapping the cable so neatly* around a sufficiently large stand.
Among other good ideas that we see all too rarely:
- a detachable cable on the mouse side (micro USB with a deceptive moulding! ) ;
- flexible, light and fluid cable: shouldn't snag with the others;
- a Velcro tab (non-captive) on the USB-A side;
- the "download our software" sticker (on the USB-A side) can be removed without leaving any glue or marks;
- the software is absolutely unnecessary for this mouse (I'm on Linux);
- there's no PIC inside, so it'll be less complicated to dispose of in a few years' time;
- the wolfish look isn't intrusive: the 'colour of the wheel' briefly indicates the new setting, then reverts to orange (the brand's visual signature);
- the sensitivity control is under the mouse, so it's protected from misclicks (I've heard that happens to some people...).
What could make me a little less happy? Perhaps a bit of over-packaging, and a non-symmetrical mouse: there's a left-handed person in my household, and I'm not used to having more height under one part of my hand (higher left side). I use my mice palm-up, will that be tiring or relaxing in the long run...? In fingertip mode, it should be fine; probably not in claw mode (after checking, that's what the manufacturer's website says).
I don't have any opinion on durability: my mice (steelseries sensei qqch and corsair M55 rgb pro for the previous ones) generally give up in 4-5 years, due to the accumulation of cat hair around the wheel axis (loss of middle click). So now I've got a mouse as good as the Prime, at almost half the price of the ones I had before, and I'm satisfied!
(*) I'm a stage electrician, climber and musician: bending a cable or cord is heresy. And yet (almost) all manufacturers do it!
