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 | Razer Mamba Wireless Gaming Laser Mouse 5600 DPI |
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Product Description
The Razer Mamba features gaming grade wireless technology with a hybrid system that enables instant wired/wireless functionality. Coupled with an industry leading 1ms polling rate, it is the fastest performing mouse both on and off the cord. Delivering true wireless freedom, lag-free speed and ergonomic comfort, the Razer Mamba is in a league of its own.Product Details
- Color: Black
- Brand: Razer
- Model: RZ01-00120100-R3U1
- Format: CD
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 9.50" h x 4.75" w x 4.75" l, 2.00 pounds
- Memory: 128000MB DRAM
- Hard Disk: 1GB
- Graphics: This is the description of the PC Graphics 256MB
- Processors: 1
- Native resolution: 640x480
- Display size: 669.2913385827
Features
- Gaming-Grade Wireless Technology
- Dual Mode Wired/Wireless Functionality
- Razer Synapse¿ Onboard Memory
- Charging Dock
Editorial Reviews
From
the Manufacturer
The Razer Mamba features gaming grade
wireless technology with a hybrid system that enables instant
wired/wireless functionality. Coupled with an industry leading 1ms
polling rate, it is the fastest performing mouse both on and off the
cord. Delivering true wireless freedom, lag-free speed, and ergonomic
comfort, the Razer Mamba is in a league of its own.
Charging Dock
Included
with the Razer Mamba™ is the charging dock which also acts as a
wireless receiver unit.
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With both wired and wireless communication
speeds clocking in at 1ms, the Razer Mamba’s exclusive 2.4 GHz wireless
technology
makes it the fastest mouse both on and off the cord. Combine that with
Razer’s smart wireless channel scanning
and you get the freedom of
wireless with the speed and security of a wired connection—nothing
compromised. |
 | Gaming-Grade Wireless Technology The Razer Mamba's gaming grade wireless technology is engineered to free you from the reins while achieving the highest gaming standards. Its ability to be polled at an interval of 1ms maximizes the frequency at which data is sent to the PC. This also means your command gets executed first even if you and your opponent react at the same time. |
 | Dual Mode Wired/Wireless Functionality The Razer Mamba’s dual mode wired/wireless functionality allows you to switch between wireless freedom and the frenzy of wired play, with zero downtime for charging. By connecting the Razer Mamba™ via its USB cable, it converts into a wired mouse eliminating battery life concerns and recharging in-game while in wired mode. |
 | Razer Synapse™ Onboard Memory With its upgraded Razer Synapse™ onboard memory, the Razer Mamba enables you to store more profiles and longer macro strings on your mouse without software. You can now take your custom mouse settings to a tournament or LAN party without any hassle. |
Charging Dock
Included
with the Razer Mamba™ is the charging dock which also acts as a
wireless receiver unit.
- Razer Mamba Gaming Mouse
- Charging Dock
- Rechargeable Lithium-ion Polymer Battery
- Battery Door
- USB Cable
- Certificate of Authenticity
- Quick Start Guide
- Master Guide
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Razer
Lycosa™ Gaming Keyboard Backlight Illumination
Non-slip rubber finish for optimum tactile comfort,
fully-programmable keys with macro capability | 
Razer
Megalodon™ Gaming Headset 7.1 Suround Sound
The definitive headset for gamers today, utilizing next-gen
technologies and a DSP system with unheard-of power | 
Razer Megasoma™ Professional Gaming Mat
A
hybrid of a hard and a soft mouse mat with a comfortable feel and
smooth glide |
Customer Reviews
Everything and More
Pros: This mouse does
everything that I've read in all the reviews including the slight
jittering of the mouse. However that is easily fixed by removing the
silver/embossed ring around the sensor that reads 5600 dpi sensor, etc. A
quick e-mail to the support at Razer will net you a teflon ring to
place into the ring (the mouse however will work fine with nothing
there). I have always preferred wired mice being a very competitive
gamer, I would never have chanced my batteries going out on me at a key
time in game play. However this mouse allows you to have the best in
both wired and wireless gameplay.
Cons: I wish it weren't so
expensive, but you can't always have it your way. I'm a little leery of
having the Razer software update the onboard mouse memory, Synapse,
every time I open it to make a change; but that is a fairly minor
problem as long as it works.
At the writing of this review, a
firmware update is available from the Razer website that solves the
problems that many have been experiencing with the battery not charging
to full capacity. I can confirm that this update solves the problem.
Thumbs up to Razer.
The "DREAM"
mouse I have been waiting for despite it's quirks and bad reviews
This is the mouse I have been
waiting for. One that has the body of a Razer DeathAdder, and the high
customizable DPI of the Razer Lachesis.
Pro's
-Highly
customizable DPI
-Wireless
-Can be used as a wired mouse
-5
Stage Sensitivity Changes (i.e. 800,1600,1800,2000,5600)
-Sensitivity
change buttons can be re-mapped to key buttons
(if you don't know
what the buttons are they are the two small one's next to the left
click)
-X & Y DPI can be changed to increase vertical or
horizontal DPI speed of your choice (this is great to move your mouse
down to hold gun recoil down with machine guns and STG44/BAR recoil in
Day Of Defeat Source or any other FPS game)
-Software can manage
multiple profiles for different games
-Software can create/record
macros (I haven't extensively tried it so I can't comment on this yet,
just got the mouse today from Amazon)
-You can turn off the lighting
for Charging Dock/Mouse Wheel/& Battery Level indicator
-It turns
off the battery indicator lights and lights on the wheel when you are
not using it to preserve battery life
-Jitter problem is fixed if you
use a well flat textured surface, I can confirm it works nearly perfect
on a Razer eXact Mat (I use the speed side)
Con's
-It jitters
on the Razer Destructor mouse mat, I own the Destructor Special Edition
white version and it jitters a lot
-Jitter is caused by poorly
textured surfaces so the laser doesn't track well, this is why people
are complaining about the jitter and when they left click the mouse
jitters
-1.02 firmware has problems with battery life, update to 1.03
firmware, I had a problem updating in Windows XP so I updated my
firmware in Windows 7
-Cost, most people will not be able to afford
this mouse,this mouse is purely marketed towards the hardcore FPS
players, it's not a mouse that you would use to play World of Warcraft
or online Bingo on a Saturday night with your grandma
-Thumb buttons,
this might be bad if you have big hands, I have small hands so I find
the placement of the thumb buttons to be fine but if you have large
hands you might complain that the buttons are placed too high
I
believe if you contact Razer they will give you a teflon ring to fix
part of the jitter problem. I suggest a well textured surface to use
with the Mamba. I created my own ring using lamination sheets and used a
dime to trace a circle and cut it with a scissor. What people don't
understand about laser mouses is that lasers are PRECISE. Any little
movement will cause the laser to move, this results in jitter because
many people don't have a solid steady hand so they complain about a
technology they know little of and if you think you have a steady hand I
dare you to think again. Hopefully Razer will continually release
firmwares to correct the jitter problems even further.
I don't
think anyone needs a mouse over 2,000 DPI. Don't believe the marketing
hypes of any company that advertises a mouse with high DPI, not even
Razer's competitor. Not many people can control 5600 DPI. I have used
Razer mouses since 2005, so that's about 4 years of usage. It took me at
least 6 months to get very good at 1600 DPI. After that I went to 1800
DPI and 2000 DPI; as far as I can tell it's very difficult to control
anything over 2000 DPI. I find 1800 DPI to be the sweet spot for gaming.
I
own 1 Razer Diamondback Red (Original non-3G), 1 Razer Diamondback
(Original non-3G) Plasma Blue Limited Edition, Razer Diamondback
Chameleon (Original non-3g), 1 Razer DeathAdder 3G, 1 Razer Copperhead
Laser Mouse, 1 Razer Lachesis, 1 Razer eXact Mat with Gel wrist pad, 1
Razer Destructor Special Edition White mouse pad. So you can see, I have
a trailing history of Razer products. If you loved the DeathAdder then
you'll definitely love the Mamba.
Again, I will stress this
again, this mouse is for the hardcore only. Don't cry saying you wasted
$130 for a mouse. Know exactly what you are buying before you buy it.
But I will say this, it works excellent with eXact mat and a custom ring
around the laser. The boxing of the product is clever and very nice.
You have to see it for yourself. Don't be discouraged by other reviews
to buy this mouse. Buy it and try it out for yourself. Buying a mouse is
like buying a car, we all like different things, some like
Lamborghinis, some like Ferrari's, some just want something to get from
point A to point B. Even if you don't like it and want to return it,
Amazon has a great return policy.
*UPDATE* APR-19-2009
After
further testing I was able to update my Mamba to firmware 1.03 by
running the 1.03 executable file in Windows 98/ME compatibility mode.
Running the software in compatibility mode was the only way I could get
rid of the InstallShield 1628 Error which says that the application
wasn't able to install itself. You have to manually install the firmware
which gets extracted to C:\Program Files\Razer\Mamba\Mamba Firmware
Updater from there you can manually run the updater and follow the
directions. I tested it on the Razer Destructor Special Edition White
Mouse Mat and the jitter is now gone. I can confirm that it works
without jitter on Razer eXact Mat, Razer Destructor Mouse Mat, and
tested on two different colored cloth mouse pads (blue and black) and
there is no jitter at all.
I wanted to
love it, but..........
Pros
Great looks and one
of a kind packaging. Feels good in the hand and similar to the fantastic
Death Adder. That being said, 2 additional buttons are pretty easy to
assign a macro to and were big selling point for me. I wanted a mouse
with more buttons than the Death Adder (which I love) and the Razer
Mamba was a dream come true before I received it. When working properly,
there is no noticeable lag in the wireless part of it. Overall build
quality is top notch. This mouse does not feel flimsy at all and the
materials are of good quality. Probably the most impressive build
quality I have come across in a mouse.
Cons
Battery issue is
true and annoying. Had full charge did not get much use before the
battery was showing that it was dying. The mouse is pretty heavy in my
opinion and made my hand tired the first night. I have rather big hands
and I was surprised with the heft of this mouse.
The first night
with the mouse began with trouble right off the bat. My software kept
crashing when I tried to open it. I, uninstalled, re-downloaded, and
then I was able to open it in wireless mode only. The software was
glitchy and synapse memory saving painfully slow. It seemed as if
everything needed to write to the synapse memory even if just closing a
menu with no changes. However, in the middle of gaming, my Mamba
software crashed and was nice enough to put me to the desktop to tell
me. At this point, I decided to try the wired mode after a reboot and
could not open the software as it would say that it could not detect the
mouse, but the mouse saved much of the settings and in wired mode, felt
okay to use. Going wireless solved this problem of getting back into
the software, but I was left me scratching my head.
One odd item
is that I could not find an option in the software to use 5600 dpi and
lower the mouse pointer speed. Other mice put the windows slider in
there to make it easy to adjust. I personally like to use full DPI
available and adjust the speed of the pointer to suit my taste. I feel
this enhances precision in games and the DPI is sort of what I am paying
for. This software uses DPI as the speed and I thought this was silly.
When my software crashed, the mouse would be extremely slow and a pain
to use.
Second day, bad problems began. I had charged the mouse
overnight to make sure the battery was fully charged. I could almost
live with the software issues with the hope that they could be ironed
out. The real issues began when getting the freezing of the mouse
reminiscent of my G7 years back. My hope was that this mouse with its
"advanced" channel scanning feature would be different that the G7
experience I had (note: G7 worked for months before the freezing. I
thought it was broken at the time and not environment related). I,
uninstalled, re-downloaded, and installed multiple times. I tried nearly
every USB port in the back of the computer and it would work for a
second and freeze for 5 seconds. I tried syncing it and everything I
could think of. There was nothing online to help to give me any
direction. Razer's site is not helpful and a bit too self promoting. I
uninstalled the Mamba and reinstalled the Death Adder and had no issues
at all with that mouse. My conclusion was that there were some defects
with either the mouse or software or both. The only thing I did not seem
to have problem with was packing it up and sending it back to Amazon.
Summary
Overall,
I had a bad experience with this mouse. Will it happen to you? Who
knows. Since most reviews online I have read seem to be slam dunks
(makes me question the source honestly), I think the odds could be in
your favor. I might just have issues with the 2.4ghz frequency where I
live since the G7 gave me the same type of problem after 6 months. One
other thing noted often about other products is that Razer support is
weak. They responded to my detailed account of what happened, but the
response was "try a different USB port on the mainboard directly". I
asked if others had the same problem and whether it could be fixed with
update etc. No responses to those questions only the try other USB
ports, which I already did. I did not have the patience to "hope" it
would be fixed later on.
The packaging is nice and I had people
from all around me at work marvel at it. You really need to see this in
person to appreciate it. However, I would rather have simple clamshell
packaging and save a few bucks in the process.
The mouse has
great potential and I wanted to love it. I rate it 2 stars for the
apparent build quality and the packaging. I am not trying to bash Razer.
If you read my reviews, you will see that the Death Adder is thought of
highly by me. I also have a Tarantula keyboard that I like a lot, so I
do like Razer products. However, this experience was so bad in so many
ways, I was shocked and disappointed with them. I ended up sending mine
back to Amazon for a full refund of everything including return
shipping. So I did not lose any money in the process. This is why Amazon
is my go to retailer for almost anything that I can wait a day or two
to get. They stand behind what they sell and treat the customer
properly. In the end, I wanted a mouse with more buttons than my Death
Adder. I eventually went with the G9 and generally pleased with it and
had no problems whatsoever installing and using it. Looks like Razer
will have to win back my loyalty from Logitech, again.
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