Razer Pro Click v1.6--1600 dpi Mouse for Mac/PC
by Razer
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Customer Review: Would be great but has technical problems.
Summary: 3 Stars
The mouse sensitivity randomly goes back to the lowest setting, even with the newest drivers installed. There is a weird disconnect between the Razer control panel sensitivity and Apple's Mouse system preference. Both have to be set to highest sensitivity for the mouse to perform at highest sensitivity. The problem is that Apple's system preference randomly resets to the slowest setting in-game. This makes the mouse useless since I have to minimize the game to reset it.
Customer Review: Doesn't work in so many ways, it's almost impressive
Summary: 2 Stars
Cons:
The side buttons are absurdly small, fiddly, too close to the back.
The programmable side buttons won't learn show desktop or task switch macros because, if you press them in the programming menu, your PC will either show desktop or task switch.
I have programmed backspace for one of the buttons for web-browsing. It doesn't work but pressing backspace on my keyboard does.
When I turn the PC on, I sometimes have to unplug and replug the mouse otherwise it remains 'off'.
It's too small and flat. The Microsoft/Razer Habu is about perfect in this regard - if you really want a Razer mouse, I recommend that. The buttons programme correctly on the Habu as well.
It doesn't work on my desk - maybe something to do with the white surface. So I have an optical mouse for which I have to buy a mousepad.
It feels cheap.
Pros:
It looks nice.
Er, that's it...
Customer Review: Jumpy cursor, nearly unusable for Macintosh.
Summary: 2 Stars
This blog post documents exactly what's wrong:
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I can confirm that the driver software kicks in inconsistently. The cursor is jumpy. The physical shape and proportions are great and comfortable. The software must have been an afterthought.
This is very dissapointing.
Customer Review: Perfect example of form over function, style over substance
Summary: 1 Stars
My trusty Microsoft IntelliMouse Optical finally wore out, so I bought this one based on Razer's reputation and because it has seven buttons. Alas, inspite of all the claimed technical wizardry, this mouse is absolutely absymal and I returned it pronto.
1. The mouse requires an odd, unnatural grip.
2. I hold the mouse with my index and middle fingers resting on the left and right buttons, respectively, and those are so soft that when I clicked one, the slight sympathetic downward movement of the other finger clicked the other one as well.
3. The four programmable buttons on the sides are tiny and impossible to find, and unlike the main buttons, are so hard that you really have to grip the other side of the mouse, so again you end up clicking two buttons, one each on opposite sides.
4. This is a personal preference, but I hate hardware that installs useless proprietary software on my PC: Razer's proprietary driver is no better than the built-in Windows driver, which works just fine; moreover, Razer's driver starts two background processes, which is ridiculous for a mouse and adds to the startup time. The driver does allow programming the extra buttons, but the programming options are limited, and given the impossibly small buttons, quite useless.
5. This mouse only works with a USB port, and won't work with a USB-to-PS/2 adapter, so it won't work with a PS/2 KVM switch.
My suggestion: buy something else until Razer fixes these problems.
Customer Review: Mac users beware.
Summary: 1 Stars
This mouse is marketed as a high precision mouse with good drivers for Apple Computers. This mouse fails on both counts. The drivers only partially work with several newer operating systems. The most annoying drivers related problem is that every time you plug in this mouse or restart your computer, the drivers will reset the system sensitivity to slowest. This means that when the computer is started, the user has the chore of resetting their sensitivity to a comfortable level. I can tell you firsthand that both 10.5.2 and 10.4.11 are not fully compatible with Razer's drivers. If you check their website's list of drivers for this mouse you will see that they only offer drivers for 10.4 and 10.5. This means that you may need to downgrade your operating system to use this mouse.
Software problems aside, the mouse I received also has very inconsistent clicking especially in the left button. It requires multiple clicks before it registers anything, sometimes it double clicks things after one click, once in a great while it will perform up to par. The side buttons are also poorly placed. the ones on the right side of the mouse are difficulty to reach, this reduces the usable number of mouse buttons to 5 counting the wheel.
I do not reccomend buying this mouse to anyone, Mac users in particular.