Features and Design

The DeathAdder is a right-handed gaming mouse designed to look cool and offer superb comfort and accuracy. It doesn’t have ten buttons or an LCD, as it is seemingly just a darn good mouse without the fancy stuff. It is designed for gaming though, and as the website says, it’s “not for noobs.”

The mouse features a minimalist design. You get two buttons on the left-side, a mouse button, and left-and-right click buttons; in other words, just the basics. We don’t mind this approach, as most of the “extra” buttons on mice these days go unused - at least by us. The only buttons that are conspicuously absent on this gaming mouse are those for switching the mouse sensitivity on the fly. If this is a big deal to you, we suggest checking out the Razer/Microsoft Habu as it has the same design as the DeathAdder but has the DPI buttons.

Of course, all buttons are programmable. You can assign anything from a letter on the keyboard to a macro to each button. You can even assign on-the-fly DPI switching to any of the keys too.

The DeathAdder features an 1800dpi 3G infrared sensor, and it can be toggled to any resolution below that, though the software provides presets at 450 and 900dpi. You can also adjust the polling rate of the mouse, which is how often the mouse cursor’s location is updated. Most mice update every 8ms, but the DeathAdder can be as fast as 1ms.

Image Courtesy of Razer