Topic: Accessories Date: August 11th, 2006 Product: Razer Krait Mouse and Mantis Gaming Surface Provided by: Razer Author: Kevin Elliott Prices: Krait $39.99 - Mantis Gaming Surface $24.99 ea.
To say that I am a big fan of Razer's mousing gear is an understatement, as a matter of fact I use nothing but Razer mice on all of my computers and I put the lesser brands on my wife and son's computers. The thing that has always set Razer apart from the rest of the mouse manufacturers is the quick response
time and precision with which they operates. I basically have two computers that I use most of the time, one of them is used primarily for working on the my web site and for doctoring photographs both for my web site as well as professionally and there is no better mouse around when it comes to pin-point accuracy than one of Razer's products.
The second machine is the gaming machine and it to has a Razer
Daimondback on it when your my age you need all the speed and
accuracy that a product can give you.
Today I have the pleasure of reviewing their newest additions to their line-up which goes by the name of 'The Krait' (Bungarus species), for those of you unfamiliar with the way Razer names their mice. You will find out that they give each one of the products a name whose origin comes from a reptile. The Krait for example is a snake that is found in India and South-East Asia and having seen one before I can attest to the fact that they are really a rather timid snake and is not prone to attack unless cornered or stepped on at night.
The other item we will be looking at is the Razer Mantis 'Speed Edition' and 'Control Edition' which appears to be two very nice mousing surfaces.
Razer is the world's leading brand in high-end computer gaming peripherals. We reinvented the computer gaming industry by bringing the competitive edge to gamers when professional computer gaming was in its infancy. In the mid 90s, with the advent of networked gaming and competitive first-person-shooter (FPS) games, gamers found that their legacy peripherals were inhibiting rather than enhancing their gameplay.
In the late 90s, after years of research and development, the Razer Boomslang™ gaming mouse, the stuff of gaming legends, was launched. Featuring an unprecedented precision of up to 2000 dpi when other mice maxed out at 400 dpi, the Razer Boomslang™ offered up to five times the accuracy of other gaming mice of its time. The Razer Boomslang's™ precision technology was powered by proprietary opto-mechanical technology developed by the Razer engineering team and its sleek design and profile sculpted by ergonomics experts of its day.
And the rest is history. The Razer Boomslang™ is now part of gaming culture and legend with some of the top gamers of its time adopting it as their weapon of choice. Jonathon Fatal1ty Wendell, Sujoy Roy, Hakeem and Xenon, some of the many professional gamers that have sworn by their Razer Boomslang™ gaming mice.
While the Razer Boomslang™ has been succeeded by the Razer Viper™, which featured a 1000 dpi optical engine, the next quantum leap in computer gaming peripherals arrived when Razer unveiled the Razer Diamondback™ in San Francisco at the Grand Finals of the World Cyber Games 2004.
The Razer Diamondback™ is the world’s first 1600 dpi optical gaming mouse. Powered by Razer Precision™, the Razer Diamondback™ was the first gaming mouse in the world to sweep all the major gaming awards available at that time. It also outclassed an entire genre of gaming hardware to be awarded the highly coveted Gamespot's Gaming Hardware of the Year 2004 accolade. The Razer Diamondback™ was considered the de rigueur gaming mouse of its prime with most of the leading gaming professionals adopting it as their weapon of choice.
Having led the technology arms race and overpowering its competitors for the past few years, Razer has stamped its leadership in gaming technology in the fall of 2005 again. In the hallowed tradition of the Razer Boomslang™ and the Razer Diamondback™, we decided to revolutionize the gaming mouse again in 2005.
The Razer Copperhead™ is the world's most advanced mousing peripheral today. It’s the world’s first laser gaming mouse, the world's only thinking mouse and the world's fastest gaming mouse.
Featuring a laser sensor Powered by Razer Precision™, the Razer Copperhead™ has an unparalleled tracking precision of up to 2000 dpi. It is also the fastest mouse today utilizing a full speed USB bus when other mice are still low speed USB devices. The Razer Copperhead™ is up to 8 times faster in terms of data polling and is also the first mouse in the world to feature onboard memory capabilities Powered by Razer Synapse™. Each Razer Copperhead™ can also be personalized in terms of weights and buttons to meet the demanding standards of professional gamers.
Undoubtedly, Razer is the worldwide leader in terms of professional gaming peripherals. While we are light years ahead of our competitors in terms of technology, design and ergonomics, we are not resting on our laurels but are developing other key products and peripherals with the gamer in mind to bring that competitive edge to gameplay that Razer is synonymous with.
Razer is headquartered in San Diego, California and is distributed worldwide in all major countries in the Americas, Europe and Asia-Pacific.
Razer designs, manufactures and markets cutting-edge gaming peripherals that provide professional computer gamers with the competitive edge through a combination of proprietary technology, innovation and ergonomic industrial design. Razer’s research and development team collaborates with leading professional gamers to develop proprietary technology for next generation gaming peripherals. Razer’s superiority in gaming peripherals stems from its ability to understand and conceptualize peripherals that gamers need and thereafter bring the product from drawing board to the retail shelves.
In short, we are a company of gamers who build products for gamers. Each Razer peripheral bears the invisible signature of hundreds of professional gamers, gaming enthusiasts and engineers and each Razer™ gaming product is built from single components; pieced and assembled with care and precision so as to optimize the gameplay for all professional gamers worldwide. Engineered to near perfection, Razer's reputation of being the leaders in gaming technology is embodied in every single Razer product.
For Gamers. By Gamers™.
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