Review By Twiek

Some of you may not know, but Razer announced a new mouse a few weeks back, using an old moniker of theirs, Mamba.  It's 5600dpi, can track 200in/s and 50g of movement, and is "lag-free" wireless.  In short, it's billed to be the best gaming mouse ever made (and the most expensive at ~$140).  I preordered mine as soon as I could, and although it wasn't scheduled to ship until Feb. 1, I got it today (Jan 30).  It's so new, that Razer hasn't even finished writing the drivers for it.  So this is more of a first impression than any authoritative review... I won't be able to test out the programability until they drivers are ready.

I find the design to be very elegant.  It is nearly identical to the DeathAdder that I'm dear to (and never thought I'd replace).  Here it's sitting in the charging base/receiver.  It has two main buttons on the side, and a nice mousewheel.


The left side.  The sides have a shiny piano black finish, but also sculpted cutouts, which have, along with the buttons and top, a grippy, rubber-like coating.  The coating on the buttons and sides seems grippier than the top, which is very similar to the DeathAdder.


The right side.  Sorry southpaws, this mouse is for righties only.


The bottom side of the Mamba is much busier than most mice... there's an on/off switch, a sync button, a cable latch, a battery port, and a pair of gold-plated contacts for charging.

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