A mode switch next to the left-click button lets you instantly toggle among three different configurations.
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In total, the mouse has five programmable buttons, plus a vertical scrollwheel and a rather unusual horizontal thumb-scroll stick. It isn’t flawless–the left- and right-click buttons seem a little too far from each other, and they aren’t tweakable–but the customizable design is neat nonetheless. This feature alone makes the Cyborg RAT 7 a particularly safe buy if you’re choosing a gift for a gamer, or if you’re buying a mouse online without having tried it out in person yourself. All in all, I liked being able to tweak the mouse to the exact shape and size that I preferred. Since the palm rest sits on an adjustable rail, you can make it shorter or longer as well I have big hands, so I found it most comfortable when it was extended slightly.
The pinkie rest has a textured-rubber version, a smooth plastic version, and an extended “wing” version that lets you rest your little finger on it instead of keeping your pinkie on the side of the mouse or letting it hang on your mouse pad (thus causing more drag).Īfter trying all the combinations, I decided to stick with the grip-style pinkie rest and the smooth low-profile palm rest. The palm rest comes in a low-profile smooth version, a low-profile version with a textured rubber layer for additional grip, and a high-profile smooth piece that extends about a half-inch higher than the low-profile flavors and feels similar to an Intellimouse (or the SteelSeries Sensei) in shape. The palm rest and pinkie rest each have three different options. You can adjust the length of the thumb rest, add and remove weights from an internal compartment, and–most important–swap out the stock palm rest and pinkie rest for your preferred versions. Aesthetically, this mouse isn’t my cup of tea, but that’s more my personal preference than anything else–PCWorld desktops editor Nate Ralph is convinced it looks like The Future.īuilt into the mouse itself is an Allen wrench that you can pop out and use to make adjustments to the input device’s physical shape. It’s a radical departure from competing mice such as the SteelSeries Sensei, which looks as if it were cut from a single block of steel in comparison. The first thing you’ll notice is that it resembles a thrown-together collection of plastic and metal plates that vaguely form the shape of a computer mouse. Now Mad Catz is making a splash in the PC-peripherals business with the Cyborg RAT 7 gaming mouse, which is physically customizable in ways I’ve never seen before. The company changed its reputation for cheap, subpar gaming gear a few years ago with the MadCatz FightStick Tournament Edition, a high-quality (and high-priced) arcade stick for fighting-game enthusiasts.
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Mad Catz used to be the game-controller maker you turned to when you needed a spare console controller or memory card, and you didn’t want to pay full price for the official Nintendo/Sony/Sega-branded accessory. A good gaming mouse is practically an extension of the body–and the Mad Catz Cyborg RAT 7 Albino ($100 as of December 6, 2011) lets you tweak and interchange different parts to make it a perfect fit. But if you spend your nights and weekends gaming on your PC, you probably want more than two buttons and a scrollwheel.
An ordinary, pack-in Dell or HP mouse is probably good enough to get you through the workday.
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