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PROS:
Appearance:
-The general appearance of the mouse itself is very good; it definitely looks quality. The LED lights look pretty awesome. The 3D "bumpy" paint on the mouse is well done and doesn't look cheap at all. It's so realistic that when I opened the box and exposed the mouse my brother said "it has a defect, they made it bumpy."
-The box is nice, has a magnetic cover in front which one can lift to see the mouse
-The metallic weights and box also look nice, although I won't be seeing much of them
-The wire is braided black and blue and goes well with the blue dpi lights
Functionality:
-Tracking is excellent and works well on all surfaces I tried (including carpet/rug)
-The pads/feet on the mouse are smooth and result in little friction when using the mouse
-Ergonomics are pretty good; it is not evident from the pictures but the sides of the mouse are coated with a matte-like finish--not quite rubber, but still enough for a decent grip when using the mouse. The shape of the mouse fits the hand relatively well, and works for both palm and claw grips.
-The clickers are solid and click with the perfect amount of finger pressure
-The mouse wheel is quiet and turns with the perfect amount of pressure
-The mouse works (LEDs, all buttons, etc) right after it's plugged it in; the CD only has to be installed to program the mouse with other functions
CONS:
Appearance:
NONE
Functionality:
-MAJOR!!!: The software is good, but it doesn't adjust DPI all the way to 8200; it stops at 5000.
In the software, there are three ways to change DPI: a slider bar, clicking the up and down arrows next to the DPI text box, and manually entering the DPI in said text box. The slider bar is buggy (doesn't point to the DPI it's supposed to) and only lands on 500/1000/1500/2000/3000/4000/5000 DPI, the up and down arrows only bring the DPI to those same numbers, and manually entering the DPI I want only changes the DPI to the numbers above. It was a bummer that I couldn't manually enter the 800 DPI I'm used to for some games (if you look at the product description on the Perixx site, the DPI for the MX3000 reads 500-8200 rather than #/#/#/#/#/#/# like it does for its other mice, making me believe that I could adjust it to a specified amount I wanted), but at the very least, this mouse should perform at the advertised DPI range. Upon further inspection, I realized that the 500/1000/1500/2000/3000/4000/5000 DPI range is for the MX2000, so it appears that Perixx recycled some of their older-model software for this mouse. Hopefully a software patch can be released so customers can play at advertised DPI levels. I'm not taking off a star for this, but you may be bothered by the current range.
-DPI +/button has awkward positioning. Also, I noticed that it doesn't seem to perfectly fit in its slot, because when I press +DPI and then -DPI right after, the button clicks twice--once (minor) when it goes to the middle, and another when it goes to the minus side. The mouse only registers the second click though, so it's not terrible, just an annoyance. Note that this doesn't happen when going from to +. I'm not sure if this is a defect with my particular mouse or all of them.
-The middle mouse wheel is a bit difficult to click, but I'm adjusting to this
OTHER:
-Though not necessarily apparent, the shape of this mouse is for right-handers only
-The LED DPI indicators are always blue, regardless of what color the side LEDs are set. The scroll wheel does not light up, as a couple of the pictures may make it seem; rather, the inside of the mouse lights up to color the side LED lights, and a bit of this light leaks through the wheel hole.
-The wheel does not scroll side-to-side
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This mouse fits really well with my hand and grip. I like the button placements. My only major gripe, is it tracks movement even when its lifted off the mousepad more than a 1/2 inch. I play with fairly low sensitivity so I pickup and move the mouse some for larger movements and it is tracking my backswipe unless I excessively lift it off the mat.Update: I contacted perixx and they said would pass this info along to their design team to improve it. I ended up returning this mouse and buying a Razer Deathadder which has a setting for mouse lift right in the software. Really like it so far.
Update 2: Perixx responded saying their future mice will have a 2mm liftoff.
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