SteelSeries Aerox 9 Wireless RGB Gaming Mouse

I have been trying for a decade to get away from Razer. I can’t stand them, but I can’t go back to not having an “MMO” mouse. The buttons are useful for all manner of games. I was really excited to try the Aerox 9, having been impressed with Steelseries’ Apex Pro keyboard. I’m sorry to say this thing is awful.

The biggest problem here is that the mouse both expects you to have very light, small hands, and very large, freakishly long thumbs.

The main attraction of an MMO mouse is the side buttons. I have fairly large hands, at about 8 1/2 inches from the base of my palm to the tip of my middle finger, and about a 9 inch wingspan. Unless you’re an NBA player, good luck reaching those keys. The side buttons are so far toward the front of the mouse, and add some ridiculous staggered angle, I cannot comfortably reach the 1, 2, 3, or 6 buttons. They’re so hard to reach, I have to shift my grip to get at them. Palm and claw don’t work. I can’t reach the buttons in palm. When I do claw, I invariably add more weight on my index finger. That’s when the second major problem shows up.

The actuation force on the clicks is absurdly low. This trend in recent years to reduce actuation force / distance is really, really stupid. Speed switches on keyboards, with ~1.2mm actuation, as opposed to the standard 2mm, have shown to have ZERO improvements in actuation speed. It’s a gimmick that makes you bad at typing. It seems we’re doing this with mice now, too. If you so much as look at the mouse funny, it will click. Unless you have baby hands, you can’t rest your finger on the button at all. Having a neurological condition that causes me to shake, I have no choice. My large hands, not large enough to reach the side buttons, are also too large to comfortably use the mouse as a mouse. Lovely.

I measured the actuation force of the click at the tip of the button at around 30g. I’m using a scale, so it’s not as accurate as a proper force gauge, but it got the job done. My Naga Pro actuated at 45g at the tip. The thing is, with the Naga, I don’t have to rest my finger on the end of the button. Not only is it 50% more required force, but I can rest closer to the axis, which means my 70-80g force of a resting finger is less likely to actuate the click. The actuation force is fine when I palm grip, but again, I cannot do this AND use the side buttons, because this thing was designed by Salad Fingers.

For perspective, Cherry Brown keyboard switches are 55g. Blue are 60g. Red, being a pretty light switch, is 45g. Keyboard switches are also usually not required to bear the weight of a finger unless you’re actively pressing a key. The mouse has to. 30g is too low.

Lastly, they replaced their old Engine software with this bloated GG thing. I didn’t use it long enough to form an opinion on it, but lighter companion applications are almost universally better.

Buy a Naga Pro if you’re willing to spend this much. Buy a Logitech G600 if you want to spend 1/4 the money. Hell, I’d recommend a Corsair Scimitar over this thing, and the side buttons on that thing suck, too.

Steelseries, you can fix this mouse by moving the buttons closer to the back, making them shorter in length for denser placement (see Naga), and stiffen up the click a bit. If you do that, you have a winner. Unfortunately, you designed the worst of both worlds.

Excelente mouse.

Otro poco y llega al año, la rueda del ratón ahora en lugar de subir baja y viceversa, a ver que procede con assurant que son los del seguro ojalá sirva para esto el haberlo comprado.