SteelSeries Rival Review @ Vortez

This article (aside from reviewing a very gorgeous optical mouse) hits on an interesting point during their review about modern mice posting crazy DPI figures.  I've been wondering the same thing.  Is the latest seeming one-upsmanship with DPI simply a case of posting numbers for the sake of bragging that you have the highest number regardless of if it's even usable.  I saw a laser mouse the other day with a 16k dpi setting, and I wondered would anyone even be able to control it to use it accurately at that speed?

At what extreme point does it all simply become too much, too uncontrollable, and fall off into the upper tail-end of the standard curve?  To examine that question from another angle, is this why many optical mice are feeling more like laser mice recently, because their polling and DPI settings have gotten them up into that comfortable sweet spot where precision meets speed for a mass majority of the population at large.

The SteelSeries Rival is an optical mouse but could quite easily be mistaken for a laser device for the figures match up to many laser devices. Couple this with SteelSeries know how when making a gaming device and the Rival presents us with, on paper at least, a very well specced peripheral suitable for any gamer from any level.

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