OCZ Equalizer Laser Gaming Mouse

When I said small I meant it.  Check out the mouse next to a quarter below for some scale.  The OCZ Equalizer mouse is offered in a standard sized model but our review unit is the notebook model which is approximately 25% smaller.  Another small item is the six foot USB connection cable.  Check out how thin the cable is.  Now we didn't have any problems with the cable however, it was so thin to give me a "dainty" feeling about the Equalizer mouse making us fear breaking the cable if not careful.  The cable proved to be sufficiently tough but the subconscious feeling you get took some getting used to.

The Equalizer is a seven button mouse scroll mouse.  You have your normal right and left mouse buttons with a clickable scroll wheel.  The thumb area has two more buttons that default as forward and back.  Button six is the orange insert that stands out below.  This is the Triple Threat button.  Pressing it is reported as firing off a three round burst saving you from a three tap on button one in a FPS game. 

Button seven, immediately behind the scroll button, controls the mouse sensitivity.  Having this on the mouse is infinitely preferable to having to open up a control window to change things, which can be damned awkward in a game.  Six dpi settings are available; 600, 800, 1200, 1600, 2000 and 2500.  The 600 dpi setting is about as responsive as a standard mouse to give you a point of reference while the 2500 dpi setting was just too fast for me to really control well.  This is a subjective point as I know folks who play and prefer settings of 2500 dpi and beyond.  One last point about the adjustable dpi before we move on is that the scroll button lights up with different colors depending on what setting you have selected.  White for 600 dpi, green for 800, yellow for 1200, red for 1600, reddish-yellow for 2000 and greenish-yellow for 2500.  This way the end user can tell if they are at their preferred setting at a glance.

The underside of the OCZ Equalizer looks pretty standard until you look more closely at the laser.  There are actually two there not just one.  The twin lasers allow for more precision on a wider variety of surfaces because of the intersecting beams.  I actually tried it on a clear piece of plastic along with a single laser Microsoft mouse.  The MS mouse just flipped around whereas the OCZ mouse with it's twin laser setup would track just like it was on a mousepad.  Wow!

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