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who has a razer boomslang 2000?

Why bother paying for that expensive mouse when you can just get an optical one. Its response has to be better than any ball mouse.
 
I played with one once. Incredibly smooth, nice feel, great mouse buttons, but the ball is too far to the rear. This makes it so you have to move too much wrist to get a nice flick, in my opinion. With practice, it probably would feel good and be a true fragging companion, tho
 
I have a Boomslang 1000. It is NICE! I will never buy anything else, as long as I have the money to buy a Boomslang.

I think the ball placement is perfect. It fits my hand and mousing style perfectly.

My friend has an optical, but I don't like the shape or the feel.

Everyone has their own opinions, though.

btw- my wife loves it to. She has small hands (actually mine are small as well) and she really likes it. She wishes she could get one at work.

amish
 
Hey, I have one and it's alright. After a few months it started to stick up on me whenever I moved it slowly, wish I could rma it. I've heard from other ppl the 1000 is all you really need.
 
I've tried them at stores, and I have just one thing to say. I don't ever want to meet the freakish alien handed person that says that that mouse is comfortable. It's like they hired someone to speciffically make it non-ergo, it almost hurt me to use it...like trying to use the thumb buttons.
 
yea...the thumb buttons are a little weird, but ive gotten used to them. My friends thought I was a dumb@$$ for buying it. Oh well....
 
I've got the 2000 and love it... gotten several ppl to covert to it from their optical mice and love the difference... and for all the people that say they have problems with holding it it's because they don't know HOW to hold it 😛
You don't hold it like a regular mouse you kinda have your wrist off the back of the mouse and put just your fingers/finger tips onto the buttons... strange at first but you learn to love it 🙂
 
It's a great mouse, but it creaks whenever you move it which can be kinda annoying. I RMA'ed my first mouse because of this problem and my replacement did the same thing so I think they all probably do it. However, other than that its a great mouse and I highly reccomend it.
 
I've had the Razor 2000 for about six months now, and must say I couldn't go back to a regular Microsoft/Logitech mouse. However, I must add I have never tried an optical mouse.

It took me quite some time to get accustomed to the mouse. Mutilator is right - you have to hold this mouse different from most mice. Your hand is farther back with your fingertips touching the buttons. Most of the mouse movement is actually done with just the tips of the fingers.

Also, the sensitivity takes a little to get used to. I started out with the sensitivity set to 7 and slowly worked my way up to the full 10.

It will take about a month to get accustomed to it, but after that the smoothness and precision will have you hooked. Or at least it did me....

Now if only someone would make a four button, cordless, optical mouse with this precision..... (I can dream, right..)
 
I'm not too keen up on running my balls across a table. Mouse or otherwise 🙂

Too much dirt builds up and with padded mouse pads, it's even worse.

I've been using my optical for about 2 months and I'm hooked on it. Unfortunately I'm running mine on a PS2 port till I get a USB hub, but the logitech I ran off USB was ungodly smooth I couldn't believe it.
 
I used a Boomslang 2000 for 7 days (my friend told me to give it all the time I could before I said I didn't like it, so I did) and promptly went back to my opitcal mouse.

Yet, it's not for the movement or smoothness or anything, it's the uncomfortable feel the mouse has. I simple HATE the design of the boomslang. The mouse itself is smoother and much more accurate than even my new optical mouse (and I've tried them all). I just wish they'd adopt a more ergonomic design.

If you want a good optical mouse, I suggest the $30 one at your local Best Buy, or the Logitech one (it's blue.. can't miss it, blinking red light on the box). I've used both and while I like the feel of the MS mouse, the Logitech's isn't much worse, and it seems to be a bit smoother when I play Half life.

Hope that helps..
 
_Silk_

It's called the Microsoft Optical Mouse or Microsoft Explorer Optical :] Both are awesome IMHO... and i dislike Microsoft. :]
 
I love my boomslang and i will never get rid of it, The only thing i did was buy 2 of em in case i broke the primary boomslang2k.
 
you bought 2? why would you invest $200 in a mouse? get some ram! some games! but a mouse? well, i guess if you like it so much. but why did you get 2 right away? shouldn't you wait till (if) it breaks? when (if) it does, there will probably be a better one at the same price...
just curious,
joe
 
Joe, First of all I bought 2 just in case the first one breaks or LAN party use. Now you say invest that 200 bucks into ram or whatever? I can tell you probably haven't even used a Boomslang very often. Gamers probably update there mice every year or so(Rounding Off). Some ppl buy nvidia cards around every 6 months for about 250 bucks and up. So why is it so shocking for someone to put money into a long term investment?
 
i guess i just don't get new mice every year.... it makes sense (to buy 2) if you do. how was it getting used to the shape of the mouse? i heard it is impossible for some people. how popular are LAN parties?
oh yea, how would a boomerang comepare to, say, a mouseman wheel (logitech optical)?
i know you'll say "inferior", but just curious...
 
I wouldn't say that the mouseman wheel is inferior, The mouseman wheel has the best egromnics.As far as overall architechure, the Boomslang has the competition beat with the 2000dpi encoder and the drivers itself by far better than some drivers that you would see with some other system hardware. But as far as the learning curve of the boomslang i hear ppl say it takes about 2 to 4 weeks. For me it only took about 6 to 7 hours of consistant practice with it. LAN parties, They get popular as long as you live in decent distance of your friends. For a basic LAN party i would say anything under 5 or 6 ppl is pretty boring. Anything greater than 6 is tremendous and fun. The mouse is called Boomslang not Boomerang. 😉
 
The Boomslang is so accurate I found myself less accurate at first because I was still compensating for my older MS optical mouse. The learning curve for me look longer than a couple days, and by the 7th day, I still didn't feel right so I took it back and went to a Logitech Mouseman Optical which is (in my experience) far more accurate than the MS optical mice. I loved the feel on screen of the Boomslang, but it's contour left alot to be desired. I still don't understand why they went so drasticly afar from what alot of the companies use. Perhaps a Boomslang person could elaborate if they actually found the design of their mouse better in the long run? I dunno..
 
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