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Gaming Mice Get Benchmarked
Via Joystiq, an article at the ES Reality site where they do their level best to benchmark mice in a logical fashion. Post author Sujoy explains: "In this environment where performance is king, it's ludicrous to think that mouse performance has never been measured for reviewing the products. Imagine reviewing the latest graphics card in the same way. Without benchmarks, reviewers would have to resort to loading up their favourite game and commenting on how their frag count improved. You would have no way to compare NVIDIA and ATI cards apart from the quality of the packaging. Without benchmarking, graphics card reviews would be almost entirely useless. So why do we put up with mouse reviews that are just as useless?" They have scales based on control, speed, and DPI to determine how good, really, that mouse is.
http://hardware.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/12/ 11/1427242
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Same for my copperhead, right side buttons adjust DPI, pinpoint accurate when needed, able to swing a tank turret around and pop a round in an apc when required :)
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As for OP, yes, mice are extremely subjective, buy some extra snacks for your next lan party, and trade them to people to try their mice.
A 7 button mouse for me, with lots of programmable buttons and variable DPI will not suit someone who wants just an accurate mouse with 3 buttons
It is interesting to know how many m/s their max is though ^_^
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