Razer Diamondback - Review 2022 - Hubbard Whatefteld

The latest Razer Diamondback ($89.99) is a high-end ambidextrous gaming mouse with fully customizable lighting and programmable buttons. Its quality build and high-sensitivity sensor provide a smooth playing experience, and the lighting effects look slap-up on its unique wraparound strip. The ambidextrous pattern isn't the nigh comfortable, however, making it a scrap too narrow to fully support your hand. The Razer Mamba remains our top choice for gaming mice given its unmatched features, including adjustable click feedback and comfortable design.

Design and Features
With a slimmer, narrower design than most gaming mice, the Diamondback measures 1.xviii by 2.64 past 4.92 inches (HWD) and weighs 3.i ounces. That'southward lighter than, but similar in size to, the Razer Mamba, which measures 1.67 past 2.76 by 5 inches and weighs 4.32 ounces. The body is shallower, however, and doesn't curve fully into your palm—information technology fails to really cradle your paw, and combined with the narrow design that doesn't offer support on the sides, it'southward somewhat uncomfortable overall. The device is for ambidextrous employ—which is part of the reason it lacks finger-specific support on either side of the mouse—and as such, both sides have a pair of buttons for your thumb or pinky finger, depending on which hand you're using. The Logitech G303 Daedalus Apex is a similarly sized ambidextrous mouse, but it includes thumb buttons on simply the left flank. The Diamondback is wired only, with a 7-pes braided fiber cablevision.

The body is made entirely of black plastic, with a safety grip on each side. A unmarried LED light strip runs around the outside of the mouse, curving effectually the bottom and lit up with customizable lighting furnishings and colors of your choosing. The scroll wheel and the Razer logo on the palm glow with customizable effects too. You can customize the colors and patterns through Razer's Synapse software, the same program used for Razer's other mice and keyboards. Information technology's one of the easiest to learn and empathise, and makes picking your preference from 16.8 1000000 colors and lighting furnishings, like pulsing and color rotating, very straightforward. The lights are vibrant, and the default effect is very eye communicable, constantly running the color spectrum from i end of the strip to the other.

Razer Diamondback