#computer mice

General features include a rechargeable internal battery, OLED screen for connectivity status and current DPI and battery, a trackball for horizontal scrolling, RGB effects, and magnetic attachment points for an optional solid backplate and hand rest.

The mouse itself is as comfortable as you would hope a vertical would be, but compared to the Tecknet one I've been using I'm struck by how much smaller it is, I have less to actually grip onto. This isn't a bad thing for me specifically! While I was using the Tecknet mouse I found myself missing being able to "fingertip grip" the mouse for FPS games and similar, and the smaller size of the DeLUX mouse helps facilitate that kind of movement again. Without the hand rest the mouse is very maneuverable while still feeling natural to hold onto. WITH the hand rest it's a different story, it's only really usable for web browsing and other pointer tasks, it's too big and awkward. Supremely comfortable while doing that, though.

Battery life seems to be really good so far, I haven't noticed the counter on the screen go down after plugging it in for the driver GUI to mess with settings. I've already turned off RGB to preserve battery life but changing the USB polling rate to 1000 Hz probably negated any advantage from that. If you don't turn RGB off, or don't set it to be on permanently, there's a contact sensor on the back of the mouse that turns it off while your hand is on the mouse to preserve battery life. The driver suite itself from their website is a whopping 13 MB in size and does everything you would hope it would do, rebinding of all buttons except the horizontal trackball is possible, USB polling rate can be changed, DPI can be changed, macros can be made and assigned, settings persist between machines so they're stored in on-board memory.

The trackball is a confusing choice, it's a proper ball in there but it only controls a vertical scroll wheel assigned to move left or right, intended for Excel documents and such. It seems like a missed opportunity to have offered more control over the mouse with a full trackball, or just use a forward-and-back lever or a normal scroll wheel instead. I'm not actually complaining about it, it's comfortable and it works for what it does, but it's a strange choice.