Razer Mamba Wireless 5600DBP Gaming Mouse

Got this mouse and never looked back!

I have also the logitech G9, which has its flaws but that in another review.

Pros:

- intuitive software; synapse works great if you have windows 7; mouse settings are saved to the mouse
- great look and feel
- dual wired / wireless mode
- short recharge times
- bios can be set to allow hibernate and or / charging when your computer is off so the mouse can be charged when your computer is off / sleeping
- re-wake is short, in the milliseconds
- high quality materials used ONLY
- you can use this mouse on your carpet
- exceptional wireless range / not bluetooth
- you'll love the wheel
- has a switch off button, since you need to eat lunch in-between battles
- great packaging, useless after, but nice artifact; i'm gonna keep it!
- you wont regret buying it. seriously, you wont.

Cons:

- no weight control; is standard in mice in the same league; having said that, the weight is perfect
- battery life could be longer with intensive use (only about a day); however, you can then switch to wired mode and play on and charge at the same time
- no phone support in the u.k. not that you should ever need it but after spending this kind of money, you'd expect razer to provide you with a butler to offer you a tray of chocs after losing a round of MW2 multiplayer

in any case, if youre on a budget, you may not want to save months to buy this mouse. have a look at the logitech MX series or the razer deathadder family. there you will find some BANG for your BUX - it just wont be BANG, BANG, BANG! It doesn't always have to be :)

if you have the money left over / spare, buy it now. if you generally dont like razer, look at the competition: logitech G9 (great mouse for half the price), roccat kone(+) and the cyborg RAT series. i still have the two latter and they are really very good mice.

in short: a quality gaming grade mouse, which will have you happy for years! LOVE razer.

Had nothing but trouble with this mouse since day 1.

1) The battery life appears to be random. It can stop responding at any time for no obvious reason, even after being on the charging dock for a full night. I can always plug the cable in, but that seriously defeats the concept of wireless.

2) Software, several iteration of it that I've had the pleasure to use, is pretty bad. Each time you launch it - the mouse freezes for about 15 seconds while the software is "Reading the settings". Not even writing, just reading them. Every time you assign a key or a macro, you need to wait the 15 or so seconds again, while it writes the settings into the mouse, before you can try it out. This happens regardless of whether you're wired or not.

3) Setting up game profiles just didn't work for me. Maybe I'm an idiot and missed something obvious, but I couldn't get the right profile to switch on at the right time and to actually work. It seemed to be mixing up which sensitivity settings and macros belong to which profile.

4) Macros were a bit tricky. Couldn't get them to work initially, but it seems the problem was me failing to add manual delays between macro keys. Maybe this bit helps someone.

5) The worst thing about this mouse is that it seems to freeze and lose all the settings, macros and profiles about once a month on average for me. I can tell by all the lights on the docking station and the mouse itself lighting up, even though they're disabled. And then I get to deal with software again...

Technically, not the worst mouse I ever had. The Logitech MX Revolution, from the dodgy early batch that would lag and temporarily freeze the PC when moved, takes the crown.

I've spent the good part of 10 years with a Razor mouse, i've got through around 4 different devices and up until now, thought Razor represented quality.

I've had the Razor Mamba for over a year now and have had nothing but problems. The main complaint is the mouse tracking, I've had times when the mouse completely stops responding to the left and right movements of my hand. The mouse will NOT track at all on anything but a Razor mousemat but the most annoying thing of all is that if you lift the mouse from the mat, even by a couple of millimetres it will have to 'retrack' which pauses the mouse for a second.

It may seem like a really small problem however i bet you don't realise how many times you move your mouse from the mat each time you reach the end. Until i got used to it it caused the mouse to stop responding about 10 times an hour.

Other than the tracking problems, the mouse is excellent. Disconnecting the wire to make it wireless is fiddly at best, which basically means i've given up and kept it wired. But while i was using it as a wireless mouse, it worked fine (except again for the tracking).

Eitherway, My advice? Don't spend the money - It does nothing a normal mouse doesn't do and it does it worse. The best mouse i ever owned was a Razor Copperhead for half the money, something that i'll be returning too in a couple of months after i throw this thing against a wall!