Customer Reviews

Razer Copperhead (Blue) Mouse

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This is the best mouse on the market. Mice are peripherals that often get looked over in favor of graphics boards and LCD monitors. But the mouse is at least 50% of your interface with the computer, so why bottleneck yourself? If you're a gamer, the mouse isn't just an interface, it's a tool. And the Copperhead is amazing.

2000dpi means that if you want sensitive pointer movement, you don't have to artificially ramp up the sensitivity settings in Windows, which costs you vital precision in exchange for speed. The Copperhead gives you 2000dpi precision down to a single dot, so that's not an issue. The 1000Hz polling time means that the mouse sends data to the computer nearly ten times as often as conventional mice. The result is ultra-smooth movement. It's something you will only notice after trying it out. But believe me, you'll be able to tell the difference if you try to switch back.

As for switching back, I'm afraid I'm a dedicated Copperhead user now. After getting used to the luxurious rubberized side rails, the teflon feet and the pulsing blue LEDs, I've been spoiled.

I just wanted to jump on to say a few things really quick.

1.) I've had this mouse for a year using it with my PC and it's great. Best mouse razer has made yet, and my prefered mouse.

2.) It doesn, infact, work with mac computers, IF you go download the SteerMouse drivers (available from apple and many websites, just google SteerMouse. It works great with my new macbook pro, every button.

I know I know... Razer doesn't profess to support mac with their mice (despite recently marketing at mac events)... but I've tried tons and tons of mice, and they all essentially work. Granted, you might not be able to program all the buttons to do everything you want right out of the box (though you can use a shareware program/driver called usb overdrive to regain this ability), but you can still use the mouse and program the other buttons for various expose' functions.

I got my Razer Copperhead today via UPS and was very excited to start using it. (Nice packaging btw. They don't package it so that you have to mutilate yourself to open it.) I kinda missed not having a case to come with it like my Viper did, but no biggie. (My dad stole my Viper but not the case for it.)

I plug the mouse into my Powerbook G4. What comes up? The OS thinks it's a keyboard... After cancelling all that, I tried moving the mouse. Nothing. Can't move. Can't click. Can't scroll. Nothing. Now, it lights up all pretty... but it's unusable. So, I check out their site where they link to USB Overdrive for mac drivers (and IMO they should be making native drivers for their product especially if there's no working replacement).

I install USB Overdrive... no fix. I'm looking at a very pretty and very expensive paper weight. I emailed Razer about this (mentioning that I'd tried USB Overdrive and it didn't work). To their credit, I received a reply in a couple of hours. On the other hand, they sent an email stating that they don't support the mac and that I should use USB Overdrive as "You can use the mouse on a Macintosh using these USB Overdrive drivers, but you will not be able to program the buttons."

Thanks alot... I know reading the same stupid questions over and over again every day must be really annoying, but part of customer service involves actually reading those emails. Life sucks, what can be said.

Anyhow, like I said, this is the first mouse I've run into (out of... like... 5 different brands... one including a Razer) that didn't work at all on my Powerbook. I've sent another email to Razer and one to USB Overdrive's writers. Hopefully something will fix this. The mouse actually has firmware, but of course, the software to update the firmware runs on Windows only. Classy...

Assuming the mouse worked:

It's very nice looking. The blue really glows. It looks way better than my viper did (and that's not just because I prefer blue to red).

It's very light and fits in the hand well. I do have small hands though. I've heard people say Razer mice tend to be too small. The Copperhead is bigger (wider) than the Viper. I don't like the newer Logitechs for gaming due to their shape and size. I love Logitech's G7 battery pack idea, but it's not portable of course, and like I said, I don't like the shape. (On a vaguely related note, why can't someone make a bluetooth mouse that works without skipping all the time??)

It's ambidextrous.

The scroll wheel turns easier than my old Viper. The scroll wheel is notched. (It might not be that it turns easier as much as it's notched and is thus easier to grip with the finger. On the Viper, I had trouble switching weapons using the scroll wheel at times due to my finger slipping.)

An annoyance for me is that the left button on this mouse (maybe just mine) feels loose. It has a solid click, but before the click you can move the button. It reminds me of the macmice bluetooth mouse (though nowhere near that bad... that mouse (all of them) was horribly loose feeling). The right button does not have this problem.

The front thumb button feels easy to use, but the rear one hits right on the edge of my thumb nail and is uncomfortable. The thumb buttons on the side opposite of your thumb are of course useless. Basically, calling this a seven button mouse isn't really true. It has 5 useable buttons (4 for me). Which 5 depends on which hand you're using.

Anyway, I really wanted to love this mouse, but the fact that it's useless with my Powerbook (and I suspect any mac) makes it near worthless to me.