Strengths over the Mamba:
- Light weight
- Surprisingly able to use palm grip, claw grip, and finger grip without discomfort
- Mouse glide pad are much bigger and glides noticeably better than Mamba. Not just because sensei is light weight.
- Software allows changing the liftoff distance to best suit your mouse pad type
Mutual Strengths with Mamba:
- Does not choke in fast swipe speeds. (I use a palm grip and play at 60cm / 360 sensitivity). 1000hz
Kinzu/Xai may have same strengths
Weaknesses:
- Thumb buttons on the right side are pointless (I'm a right hand gamer). The thumb buttons on both sides are unavoidable because of the ambidex design
- Very small amount of positive acceleration. Negligible but still there.
- 10,000 CPI capability. REALLY? why? After 1600 CPI, it gets really tricky to move the mouse.
- Wired. A small price to pay to keep weight lower. I got an anchor to hold the mouse cord down so the cord doesn't get in the way.
Summary:
I really didn't think I'd keep this mouse, thinking the Mamba was the king of all gaming mice. As a palm grip player, I wanted to try this out for FPS gaming. I wanted to check out the liftoff distance, fast swipe tracking, and palm grip comfort which all turned out amazing.
Here's the useless gimmicky features this mouse can do without that gets talked about in other reviews (ie. light color and ability to change it, LCD screen with custom graphic).
- Super Responsive
- Changeable illumination colors
- super long cable
- Neat LCD at the bottom
- Loaded with an ARM processor!
Weaknesses:
- Interchangeable weights would be nice for those who want a heavier mouse
Summary:
Now this is a great mouse what mouse out there can say "Hey I have a processor inside me" my guess is none of them! It's super responsive, cool looking! Colors are cool too. You can save and load up profiles on the mouse if you want. My only complaint, It's rather light and I prefer a mouse with a bit of weight.
The price of the mouse seems extreme for what it is on the outside but inside is where the money is at!
TL;DR - Buy this mouse, you won't regret it.