Razer Announces Lachesis 4000 DPI Gaming Mouse

This past week, Microsoft announced their new Sidewinder gaming mouse (expect a review within two weeks), but Razer wasn’t going to sit around and take it. No, they wanted to up the ante. While their new Lachesis mouse lacks some of the bells and whistles of the Sidewinder, it has a massive 4000 DPI sensor for gamers who enjoy the ultimate in sensitivity. This strikes me a little funny. We spoke to Razer CEO Robert Krakoff earlier this year, and he mentioned that the DPI race was a little foolish just as the megapixel race is for cameras. But the even more humorous thing is that this mouse will sell well, for that simple fact, regardless of it’s overall usefulness.

That all aside, it is a feature-packed mouse, featuring an ultra-fast 1000Hz polling rate and 1ms response time, nine programmable buttons and Phantom White or Banshee Blue LEDs. For those curious, yes, Lachesis is the name of a snake.

Razer also uses the familiar on-the-fly sensitivity adjustment with one notable improvement, rather than using software to adjust the sensitivity levels, all adjustments on the Lachesis are done with hardware. That means you get true sensitivity settings, not settings resulting from interpolation.

Source: DailyTech