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Not happy with your current gaming mouse? Well, the SteelSeries Sensei Fnatic is a limited edition Gaming Mouse from SteelSeries. It sports its own 32-bit ARM processor and has been branded “The world’s most customizable mouse”, but at £80 is it worth it? Let’s take a closer look…
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It’s amazing to think that we once all gamed with a rollerball mouse. Then most of us transitioned through optical, eventually ending up utilising either infrared or laser based rodents. Today I’m looking at one of the latter, a new gaming peipheral from Steelseries, the Sensei.
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Der Spezialist für Gaming-Peripherie Steelseries überraschte die Öffentlichkeit gegen Ende des letzten Jahres mit einer innovativen Maus für Spieler in Form der Sensei, die sich durch einzigartige Features von der breiten Masse abheben soll. Dazu implementiert der Hersteller einen 32-Bit-ARM-Prozessor unter der Schale und ermöglicht dem potenziellen Käufer die Konfiguration des Nagers gänzlich ohne Treibersoftware über ein integriertes Display. Natürlich umfasst die Liste der Besonderheiten auch eine detaillierte Steuerung der Beleuchtung. Wir prüfen, ob Steelseries ein ausgewogenes High-End-Gerät für Gamer und Enthusiasten entwickeln konnte.
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The trackball, a related pointing device [to the mouse], was invented by Tom Cranston, Fred Longstaff and Kenyon Taylor working on the Royal Canadian Navy's DATAR project in 1952. It used a standard Canadian five-pin bowling ball. It was not patented, as it was a secret military project." (Source: Wikipedia). Is it scary to think that the concept of a computer mouse is almost 50 years old? Back then, it was a very primitive and bulky device; nowadays, it even comes with its own processor. Well, at least the SteelSeries Sensei comes with its own built-in processor, and many other features which I will get into later. As a gamer, the mouse is an absolute critical part of when playing almost any game. In fact, only a select few games can be played without a mouse, and even fewer of them are played competitively. In the click-centric world of PC games, it is obvious that if you want to dominate in games, you will need to have a good mouse, and certainly a good keyboard wouldn't hurt either. The Sensei offers seven mouse buttons, which for many non-gamers might sound absurd, but any serious gamer understands the power of having extra buttons. Looking back, I almost find it funny how I used to think two buttons on a mouse was plenty for my Pentium computer, or even further back, the one button mouse on the Apple II. While the horror of using a one button mouse without a scroll wheel sinks in, let's take a look at the SteelSeries Sensei and its seven buttons.
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Steelseries have one of the most loyal followings in the gaming peripheral business, they're one of the names that are synonymous with quality, performance and they're well known to be a popular choice on and off of the eSports scene. So I feel somewhat privileged today to have the opportunity to play around with their ever popular Sensei range, one of the companies most versatile and successful product ranges that has seen numerous iterations since its release. However, the edition that I'll be taking a look at today is the Sensei Frost Blue Edition, a special limited edition colour scheme with icy blue LED lighting.
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Whether we're talking about car manufacturers, software developers or in our case electronics and PC hardware/peripherals manufacturers there have been plenty of times when we've seen many of them release the same product they had in the past with just minor improvements (facelifts and slightly improved specs for cars for example) which most of the time are not really that crucial to warrant the introduction of a brand new product/model. Personally i never liked that kind of business since in a way means that the previous owners of the same pretty much product paid the same amount of money to get something inferior (even if just by little) than what others have now. I am fine however when sometimes (although not very often) we get to see the introduction of an improved product version which sits on top of a particular line (such as factory OC’ed cards and fast car editions) and the latest gaming mouse by SteelSeries called the Sensei MLG (Major League Gaming) is exactly that.
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SteelSeries just released a new gaming-grade mouse inspired by the Japanese martial arts called the Sensei (master) that reaches 11,400 dpi of resolution. The Sensei is powered by a 32-bit ARM processor that controls the ExactTech settings for enhanced movement calculation without having to rely on installed software, even on the user's PC. All this firepower is software adjustable, from button configuration to the choice of 16.8 million colors to personalize the lightning of the mouse. Let's go over its physical aspects prior to reviewing its performance.
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Steelseries have built up a reputation over the years for producing some of the finest mice available to the gaming audience. Their Xai has been my gaming mouse of choice for the last year as I immediately bonded with the shape, weight and size. Today we are looking at their latest mouse, the ‘Sensei’ which features a 32 bit ARM processor and a staggering sensitivity rating up to 5,700 CPI.
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Today we have the latest SteelSeries mouse attached to our system. The Sensei has a familiar look and feel but this masks some impressive component upgrades inside such as one of the most precise gaming sensors we have ever tested... powered by a CPU as powerful as the original Pentium. Read on to find out what we thought of the mouse during our time testing it.
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Sensei is one of the latest high performance mice from SteelSeries, coming with some features from its predecessor like the shape and the LCD underneath and its power is now doubled with the included 32bit ARM processor. The SteelSeries Engine application helps us customize easier features like ExactSens, ExactAim, ExactAccel or FreeMove and for the top LEDs we can choose one of the 16.8 million possible colors.
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