Razer Death Adder Author:  Rafael Rios Date:  2007.04.17 Topic:  Peripherals Provider:  Razer Manufacturer:  Razer

 The backside of the box shows you the key features you are to find when you use this mouse.

 As can be clearly seen in the image above, the new Death Adder is not symmetrical in shape as has been the case in Razer's mouse product line in the past, which allowed for both left and right handed gamers to use equally; Razer has made this mouse to fit the right-handed player only this time. This change will benefit the right-handed players as the form of the mouse allows for a more comfortable relaxed fit within your hand.
 Due to this change in shape, the new Razer Death Adder looks a lot like the more comfortable mice on the market as it curves inwards slightly to accommodate your thumb and the two additional side buttons. The people at Razer have obviously taken notice of either their customer feedback or requirements for comfort and have produced a mouse with much better comfort for right handers.
  The same rubbery material that is used on their previous mice, is used to make the top side and buttons of this mouse.The top buttons are concave which allow for your fingers to naturally fall into the recesses. Between the two main buttons is the large scroll wheel which is illuminated and has small protrusions for a non-slip feel with your finger.
  There are two extra programmable buttons on the left side in the thumb recess area, that are larger and protrude more than those presented on Razer's previous mice. This perhaps was also a listen from the users as they are easy to work with and have a very discernable "click" sound when depressed allowing you the tactile and audible indicators that you have hit the buttons which is very nice indeed.

 On the underside of the Death Adder you can see that there are three Teflon pads and the 3G sensor, powered by Razer Precision. This new infra red sensor cannot damage damage your eyes like other lasers and cannot even be seen by the human eye unlike the more common red LED’s used in mice. This is a very safe feature for one to have at a lan event. This 3G sensor allows for some improvements over the normal Red LED optical design, such as; a higher resolution can be obtained when using the infra red sensor allowing the optical resolution to be 1800dpi which was previously hard to come by. The new reduced ‘lift-off’ feature distance has also been a welcome sight. The lift-off feature comes into play when a gamer has to lift the mouse, move it and then put the mouse back down in another location. In the past, the lasers used in most all mice had a lot of vertical range and gamers were inadvertenly not lifting their hands high-enough to break the readability of the laser from the surface, causing them to have serious downside effects to this quick gaming motion that is commonly used. The action of lifting your mouse and moving it to another location rapidly would also move the cursor on your screen, this results in inaccuracy and the people at Razer knew that this was yet another customer feedback issue that they had to conquer. This has been accomplished successfully with the Death Adder, as its lift-off is shorter, which means that less movement is detected in the lift, hovering and drop movement back to the mousing surface resulting in a much more stable cursor position that all serious gamers must have.
 The 3G sensor powered by Razer Precision allows you to play at very low sensitivities as well as it works for faster mousing in game since the new infra red sensor is better equipped in working with any negative acceleration induced by the serious gaming enthusiast. Finally, located on the underside is a small button called the 'profile change button' which allows the user to quickly change profiles between 5 preset profiles you create using the software interface and drivers located on the supplied CD should you want to change the Death Adders settings from a FPS profile to an RTS or RPG type of profile.. Changing profiles can also be done from within the software interface, should you choose not to use the button on the underside.

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