Product Details
 | SteelSeries Xai Laser Gaming Mouse |
| List Price: | $89.99 |
| Price: | $82.27 |
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Product Description
The technology, shape, size, weight and surface of the SteelSeries Xai were designed with one purpose: to enhance the users performance. The sensor offers huge improvement over current laser mice, processing 12,000 Frames Per Second at movement speeds of 150 Inches Per Second. SteelSeries Xai can be fully configured via a LCD menu system on the back of the mouse, while supporting advanced macro capabilities of up to 200 strokes per button. Advanced software allows configuration of SteelSeries FreeMove, SteelSeries ExactSens, SteelSeries ExactAim, SteelSeries ExactRate, plus automatic lift distance calibration. SteelSeries Xai is a tool - not a gadget.Product Details
- Color: black
- Brand: SteelSeries
- Model: 62012
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 20.50" h x 5.00" w x 14.00" l, .80 pounds
Features
- Laser gaming mouse
- 8 programmable buttons
Customer Reviews
Great Mouse Bad software
Let me start off by saying
that this is an awesome mouse. From the moment I took it out of the
package, I loved the way it felt in my hand. I hold my mouse in a kind
of hybrid style, I will actively switch between a "claw" style grip and a
"palm" style grip while gaming/surfing or whatever i'm doing, and it
feels great no matter how I grip it.The buttons have a nice sold click
too them, not too hard, but just enough to eliminate any accidental
clicks, which has been a problem for me with many mice (mouses?). the
scroll wheel is great too, has a good solid feedback and has a nice
clicky feel to it (no audible click but you can definitely tell when you
have gone up or down a notch). The side buttons are well placed on the
left side of the mouse, the right side, I had some issues with
mis-clicking for the first day, and after that my grip had self adjusted
to put my fingers just far enough away from it to prevent mis-clicks (I
mean self adjusted as in i made no conscious effort to adjust my grip, i
just noticed after the second day that I had stopped accidentally
clicking the buttons). The DPI switch button is well placed, easy to
press and fairly hard to mis-click. The glides on this mouse are some of
the best that I have ever used, very smooth without feeling too
slippery. The laser is dead accurate, I run a mid-high DPI setting for
most of the things that I do, typically in the 1700-2100 range. While
photoshopping I find it effortless to hold the cursor withing 1 pixel,
while drawing a line, over seemingly endless distances without the
slightest bit of jitter or pull (this is without using any of the
software aides that make the cursor move "smoother" or "straighter").
However,
the greatness of the hardware does not translate into the software for
this mouse unfortunately. With the first Xai I got from amazon (it had a
USP issue and kept turning off and resetting itself every 5 minutes or
so) I installed the software from Steelseries' website and found it to
be, well, crap. I found values kept resetting themselves and the
hardware update that it installed into my mouse seemed to create more
issues that had not been there before. So with my second Xai, i decided
to forgo the software, and simply set up the mouse using the LCD on the
bottom of the mouse. The process was fairly intuitive considering you
are only using the scroll wheel to navigate the menu, although it did
take a little longer to set it up this way. Overall this is an amazing
mouse with the only real negative being the software. I give the mouse a
6/5 from the hardware standpoint and a 1/5 for software.
OK, if
you don't want to read that wall of text, here's a sum-up
Pros:
+Great
overall feel to the mouse
+Buttons have a good click to them and are
well placed
+Great glides
+Best laser engine I have used
+Able
to easily adjust settings without software
Cons:
-Software
sucks
I would strongly recommend to anyone buying this mouse to
avoid the software like the plague, just take the time to set it up
using the handy LCD screen on the bottom and you will be much happier!
Won't be needing a new mouse for awhile
I am a big fan of
ambidextrous mouse, and Xai is a great replacement for the Logitech G3
that I've used for a long time.
Pluses:
- very smooth tracking
and movement
- mouse settings mostly configurable thru the LCD and
without driver
- 4 side buttons that are customizable, including
macros (using driver software)
- customization is stored on-board, up
to 5 profiles, so no need to have driver software on all your computers
-
Can be comfortably used for both claw/palm grip
- Has rubber coating
that feels very nice and comfortable to the touch
- Buttons are well
built and nice clicks with good feedbacks yet not too firm
- Good
quality teflon feet for gliding
Possible cons that I don't mind:
-
some may say the middle wheel is too stiff to scroll
- some may get
annoyed by the placement of side buttons, though I find them well placed
and un-obtrusive.
Cons:
- Slightly buggy on firmware
upgrade**
**When I ran the firmware upgrade, it returned an error
message warning that the firmware has NOT been upgraded. After which,
the mouse becomes irresponsive. Un-plugging and re-plugging in the mouse
makes it work again and the software says the firmware is up-to-date.
Weird. It did scare me that I may have "bricked" the mouse for a moment.
Knock off one star.
ATTENTION MAC USERS
I purchased this mouse for
Mac OSX because I needed an ultra-precise and premium wired mouse.
I
finally got this mouse to work with OSX by setting the "ExactRate"
feature of the mouse to "125". Doing so gives the precision necessary
when operating the mouse at slow speeds to avoid the jittering effect
that most third-party mice have with OSX. Now I can say the mouse works
totally fine with OSX. It took weeks of trying different mice and
different mouse pads until I finally landed on this combination. If you
can imagine my frustration as I tried to get third-party products to
work with the new computer. In the end, it has to do with a very
particular way that OSX communicates with mice. They support their
settings and not much else.
As for the mouse, it is very premium
in design and construction. It has a perfect size and shape that most
mice do not have. However you should get the version of the mouse that
doesn't have buttons along the sides, because these are frequently
getting clicked accidentally.
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