Laser Z2 Mouse Review
Affian | 21 Sep 2009
The Laser Z2 Gaming mouse, it’s the cheapest gaming mouse I’ve ever seen retailing at about NZD$70-80. 5 buttons (even though it says it has 7), switchable DPI between 800-1600-2200, and a “Rapid-Fire” function that means when you click the mouse it fires of either 1 aka off, 2, 3, or 4 clicks in rapid succession.
The cable I was surprised to see was a nice flex cable which does wonders for not getting kinks in it and getting hooked up on the edge of the desk like some kinked cables do.
The mousewheel changes colour depending on what your “Rapid-Fire” settings are, unlit for off; red for 2; blue for 3 and purple for 4. The mousewheel has a nice feel to it with smooth scrolling but “bumpy” enough to move it one click at a time.
Photos!
Yes I got 2 of them
Even though it comes with a drivers CD all the mouse’s features are hardware based and you don’t need any drivers to run them. One issue that we ran into was the mouse cursor twitching and even erratically flying across the screen, but we found out this was mostly caused by having a mousepad with glitter in it mucking up the laser tracking.
All in all not a bad mouse and damn cheap for a gaming mouse. I’m not going to bother giving this a score because review scoring is arbitrary at best so I’ll give it a √3 out of √5.
Nice…seems like a few too many bells and whistles for my liking. I like my G9 with none of the custom crap
I just want my 5 usable buttons w/ scroll wheel and decent tracking :3
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The design doesn’t sit with me, NEITHER DOES THE G9 DANTE (fucking kitchen sink PoC)
I don’t really like having buttons on my thumb grip but it seems to be pretty good but i’ll stick with my Copperhead. (yes razors are gay but they’re good when they work)
I like the sidewinder thumb buttons, having them stacked one over the other means I don’t have to let go with my thumb to hit either of the buttons. Also the laser on this mouse seems sub-par, about what you would expect with a cheap mouse. It would be fine once you’re used to it but it’s picky about what surface you are using it on.
[PS] rapid fire is fun to play with but not that usefull unless you can get used to switching firing modes quickly.