Comments on: SteelSeries Ikari Laser Mouse Review

By: Haryanto

Haryanto — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 07:11:08 +0000

Looking forward to get it since I’m now only using Razer DeathAdder (which you have discarded) and Logitech MX Revolution.
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By: Michael Aulia

Michael Aulia — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 14:35:51 +0000

No problem. Sorry, I installed a caching system on this blog. So sometimes you have to wait for some minutes to be able to see your comment. It’s to protect this blog from massive traffic spikes

I use a Razer Goliathus mousepad and it works great. Maybe it’s the clothing on your Talent pad?

By: Bsten

Bsten — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 07:37:07 +0000

._. Looks like both of them appeared. Do longer comments take a while to appear? Now I feel silly.

By: Bsten

Bsten — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 04:15:01 +0000

Wow my comment disappeared. -_-

Anyways, I forgot to mention that I also got the Puretrak Talent a few weeks ago. I don’t know if that’s the issue but I think it’s stupid if it is. I used to use the Steelseries QCK pad. They’re both cloth pads, but I think the Talent is a lot smoother. I think the only difference between them are the materials and the fact that the Talent has a pattern on it. It has a dark blue background with a small light blue hexagonal patterned outline on top. I thought patterns helped mice read the surface…

I think it’s a huge problem if their mice can’t function properly on patterned/textured pads.

For now I’m just using my QCK on top of the Talent. I’ve been using it for about half an hour and it hasn’t jumped yet. I don’t know if it’s because it’s random like always and I haven’t gotten to that point yet, or it’s because it is in fact because of the pad. I really hope it’s not the pad’s fault since I really prefer the Talent. I’ll use the QCK for a bit longer and see if that’s really the problem.

By: Bsten

Bsten — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 04:08:26 +0000

Hmm. Well I just ran CCleaner to clean things up and it still has that problem. But one thing I forgot to mention; I bought the Puretrak Talent mousepad about 2-4 weeks ago. In case you don’t know about it, it’s a large cloth pad similar to Steelseries QCK Heavy. I previously owned the QCK mousepad, but I compared to the Talent, the Talent seemed to me to be a lot better.

I don’t know if it’s because of the laser not reading on the pad or not. I really don’t see why that would be the problem considering that it’s a cloth pad that consists of a pattern of a dark blue background with light blue hexagon outlines on top of it. From my understanding, patterns are supposed to help mice read the surface better because of the texture being consistent and such. It may be the material since I think the Talent is smoother but since it’s still a cloth pad, it shouldn’t be a problem…

For now I’ve just placed my QCK on top of the Talent since it’s a lot smaller. Strangely I’ve been using it for about half an hour and it hasn’t jumped yet. I don’t know if it’s because it’s random like normal and I just haven’t gotten to that point yet, or whether or not it’s because of the pad that it jumped. I guess I’ll try using this pad for the rest of the day and see.

If it’s because of the pad I think that’s pretty stupid. I thought laser mice were designed to be able to read faster movement and were able to be used on almost all surfaces. If their mice can’t work properly on other companies’ pads, that’s pathetic IMO.