Top positive review
You don't know what you're missing. AMAZING mouse pad!!
By Andrew on Reviewed in the United States on January 8, 2016
I had been looking at this for a long time. I had no idea what I was missing. I have a logitech laser mouse (sorry, I don't know they model) and had been using the surface of a Lifetime table for the last five months. The table worked well until one day when I scrubbed the surface to clean it off. After I did that the mouse never worked the same way on the desk surface. Then I moved on to a shoe box that I had had sitting in the closet for the last two years. That actually worked very well. However, having your mouse pad six inches higher than your elbow or keyboard was not a permanent solution. Not being a fan of mouse pads in the first place, I relented and bought this. The whole time it was shipping I just told myself I was going to return it. I took it carefully out of the packaging incase I actually did return it. I played one round of CS:GO and told myself "Wow, this is what it feels like to game on a PC." I have never used such a smooth surface. Normally when I aim the texture of the surface the mouse sits on makes me have to really concentrate on hand movement. Not on this. This thing is slick as butter. I have used plastic mouse pads in the past at places I have worked. I was never amused or desirous to see if there was anything better out there. What I had used would slide all over the desk making it very annoying to the point where you just want to throw it away and partly blame your mouse at the same time. This mouse pad doesn't feel cheap, it stays in place, the rubber on the bottom feels the way you would expect it to feel. I didn't expect it to be so slim. It almost looks like it is part of the desk when you step back and look at it after having used it. To those asking about durability, I can tell this thing is going to last. Back to the plastic mouse pads, the cheap ones that you might have used actually has a plastic film on top that eventually wears out. Those are the ones where you see the plastic curling up at the edges. When you look closely at those pads you rally that there are a minimum of three layers. The top layer is more of a surface to slide the mouse over, the second layer provides the reflective properties that that an optical or laser mouse needs, and the third layer is more of a foam that it is rubber. Fabric pads are basically solid rubber with a fabric surface on top. When that fabric on top starts to wear the mouse starts to lose precision. This pad had a solid plastic top with good quality rubber on the bottom. In terms of quality, if you are using it as a mouse pad and just for that, this thing will last for years. I have only used this for a day, but I can tell you that this is not a dirt sponge. Cleaning it should be infrequent if you are using it on a daily basis. If you do need to clean it you can probably just dust it off (unless you spilled something on it, then water would be just fine). The last thing about quality is that this thing is solid. It doesn't really flex at all. If you pick it up on the edge, it isn't going to flop anywhere. If you take it to LAN parties, you will want to make sure to be cautious of how you are moving it. I could see this snapping if you aren't being mindful about your handling of this pad during transit. Anyways, if you leave it on your desk, this things will last for a long time. Again, this is solid plastic and you are not going to find s surprise in the middle after six months of heavy gaming.It is plastic and rubber. I have gone on long enough. If you need a good, positive experience with a mouse pad, this is not one to miss. I don't really see how a pad can get any better. I know steel series use to make an aluminum pad that was close to $70. This is a very high quality product with a low entry price. If you need a better experience when you are gaming you should be rushing to buy this.
Top critical review
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Does not work well with Gamdias Erebos Laser mouse
By Zac on Reviewed in the United States on April 19, 2015
Basically, Amazon requires one star; and this pad gets another one for the comfortable movement, staying flat, and remaining where I put it. Unhappily, I'm not willing to give it any more because of tracking inconsistencies. The couple of other complaints I have are relatively minor in comparison. I bought this pad and a Gamdias Erebos laser mouse at about the same time. A recent display upgrade (from 1600*1200 to 2560*1600) had me picking up the mouse a lot to move, and I wanted better than the 800DPI I was getting from my previous mouse (directly on the desk surface). The mouse moves very consistently on this pad. The motion is smooth, with the amount of effort taken to move the mouse at a roughly steady pace across the pad feeling very consistent through the move, and all over the pad. the starting friction is about right (I can, if I try, move only a few pixels from a dead stop with the mouse set to 2000DPI, which I am finding to be a comfortable resolution). The pad does not drag near the end of movement (the friction does not spike as movement slows). The pad is rigid and stays flat, unlike some pads I have tried that will eventually bow and have to be glued or weighted down to be useful. The pad is stable, sitting still on my desk under use that varies from aggressive (for me at least) gaming down to word processing and web browsing. I have not had it wander around my desk. I like those aspects so much that I'm looking for a different hard surface mouse pad with a good rubber backing. Why a different one? Unhappily, the problems I have encountered far outweigh the motion performance, flatness, and stability (but I'll hit them in increasing severity). The surface texture is noisier than I expected when you move the mouse. Not loud, but you can hear the mouse moving on this in a quiet room. But this was not a major issue to me; I don't know whether other hard surface pads will be similar here or not. The surface texture is hard to clean (I finally gave up and just use a small vacuum or an air duster). The surface texture accumulates dirt easily (and a little dust/dirt on the surface compromises its consistent motion -- a spike in the friction that feels like you are running over a bit of sandpaper). This was, at least, a distraction. I found myself keeping an air duster in reach for use during long sessions. I suppose that at the resolution I want, more cleaning is to be expected. The tracking is horribly inconsistent. Even right out of the box, and right after cleaning (vacuum, lint roller, air duster, &c), there are places where the tracking is perfect, places where the tracking is spotty (the cursor moves at a very different speed even if the mouse speed is constant), and places where I can move the mouse 2mm or more and it does not register at all. It is possible to move the mouse back and forth across these places and recreate the tracking issues consistently. Such spots exist all over the pad, and seem to be randomly placed. This was the big problem for me, since I bought the precision mouse and pad for high resolution tracking. This causes me to miss things or hesitate when gaming, but it also provides annoyance when I'm doing things like web browsing or arranging files, since the mouse might stop tracking just as I think I am getting to where I need to be. I have lost count of the number of times I have clicked somewhere wrong only to find the mouse is in the middle of a dead zone where I have to move some distance in any direction before it starts tracking again. This applies whether I have the mouse set to 300DPI or 8000DPI or anywhere in between. I have used that mouse now on a cardboard box, a pad of paper (top page and rigid backing), a cloth-surface mousepad, the desk surface, and this pad. This pad provides the best movement attributes of those surfaces (when it is clean), but it also provides the least consistent tracking of those surfaces (whether it is clean or dirty). The inconsistent tracking is completely unacceptable to me, and a particular disappointment considering the price and purpose placement of this pad.
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