| SteelSeries Sensei Pro Laser Gaming Mouse |  |
| Reviews - Featured Reviews: Input Devices | |||||||
| Written by Austin Downing | |||||||
| Thursday, 03 November 2011 | |||||||
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SteelSeries Sensei Detailed FeaturesJust as important, as the hardware used to create peripherals, the software used to control them can easily help separate a particular company from its competition.
The first page of the SteelSeries Engine was designed to allow users to program each button with a macro of their choosing along with whether the Sensei is a left handed device or a right handed device.
The second page is dedicated to creating and uploading the profiles that are stored on the Sensei. Although an infinite number of profiles can be created only five profiles are able to be saved directly to the Sensei and can easily be switched without the software once they have initially been prepared.
The settings page provides the meat of the SteelSeries Engine and gives users the ability to customize the sensitivity of the Sensei between 1-11,700DPI. This high resolution is reached using the 32-bit ARM processor to double the usable resolution above 5700 to give the extremely high DPI ranges the Sensei has. Users can set two separate DPI settings and easily switch between them using the switch above the scroll wheel. SteelSeries also gave users the ability to change any of the three LED zones to one of 16.7 million colors. Along the LEDs, SteelSeries allows users to use the integrated tool to upload 128 x 32 bitmaps to be viewed on the Sensei's integrated LCD panel. On the right, users have a whole host of options to change. Starting from the top SteelSeries has a slider to control what they call FreeMove, which controls the amount of movement prediction used. Next SteelSeries provides a slider to allow controlling the amount of acceleration that the Sensei has using the ExactAccel slider. The SteelSeries ExactAim option is an interesting feature that works like reverse acceleration allowing user's movement speed to decrease even more quickly as they slow down their movement. Lastly, SteelSeries provides what they call ExactLift, which allows users to configure the cutoff point for liftoff of the Sensei. This allows for configuration based on the surface being used, and how far users lift their mice when moving.
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Comments
If the software was working the way it should be, then the LCD would be a Gimmick. An added unnecessary expense because, IF THE SOFTWARE WAS WORKING, you wouldn't need it. Besides, plenty of other mice and keyboards use profiles and do not require an LCD. It's just a major expense added onto the price of the mouse for a function that other manufacturers can do without an LCD screen.
IMO, that makes it a gimmick.
A mouse that's expected to last a long time would suffer considerable wear. Steelseries anticipated this, which is why it's not rubberized. I'm glad they did not rubberize this mouse, no matter how appealing it may seem in the present. That lousy black rubberized finish, no matter how appealing, wears off rather easily. However, it would be nice to see this mouse offered in different colors, other than silver. I just find int comedic for the writer to focus on the rubberized issue, when true veteran gamers hardly have such feeling on their computer mice.
But, for the name (and price), I really thought that mouse had a steel shell.