SteelSeries Sensei 310 Review
Some manufacturers work the concept of branding very carefully, with every product they release in a family maintaining evidence of physical continuity with its ancestors. Nearly all of the late Mad Catz's mice, for example, looked like mechas designed by Japanese animators. All of Samsung's Xpress consumer printers, like portable toasters that have evolved feet over time to chase smaller mammalian prey. If you liked the style of one Mad Catz RAT or Xpress printer you'd previously owned, chances are you'd feel reassured looking at others in the same lineage for potential purchases in the future. It felt like coming home. That's what branding is all about. Some companies, however, forego branding altogether—and yet a third group uses it as a catch-all. SteelSeries' Sensei mice would appear to fall into this last category. Among them are the Sensei 310 ($59.99)
A glance at several products in the Sensei line—the original Sensei of 2011, the Sensei [RAW] of 2013, and the Sensei Wire...
We like the guts and the ambidextrous design of the Sensei 310, but a few advances in the configuration software would make this mouse something really special.
Shaped for lefties and righties alike; Attractive, solid design, yet light; Hair-trigger Omron switches and good optical sensor; Support for acceleration, deceleration, angle snapping
Only two DPI settings; No lift-distance control; Best for big hands; Non-braided cord; Ho-hum macro editor; Can't sync lighting for both light zones easily