Also known as the SST-RVM01.
Looking at that very odd mouse in the picture (and there's more photos in our gallery here), you'd expect it to almost be tearing around a track - thanks to the carbon fibre shell of course. Why a mouse needs it, well, why wouldn't it?
Aesthetically the mouse is a bit of a personal choice, with large rubberised left and right mouse buttons, a scroll wheel and dpi adjustor buttons, two silver buttons that are programmable, a forwards/back button, a giant plastic wheel that also acts like a scroll and another button on that wheel! Unfortunately with all that stuff there things get a bit complicated, and the entire left side of the mouse is awkward to use accurately. That button on the wheel changes the dpi settings through five programmable steps (shown in the middle of the mouse via a VFD, very cool), but we bumped that button all to often in use, throwing our mousing out of whack.
The sensor goes all the way up to 3200dpi in increments of 400-800, and there is a switch underneath the mouse to change from "gaming" to "normal" that just changes out the slots of preset dpi levels, with five levels per setting.
It's pretty comfortable to hold in use though, and fits large hands just as well as smaller hands - so long as you're right-handed. Overall this is a pretty decent mouse, and if you like the look enough to ignore the awkwardness, you'll be decently happy with the Raven SST-RVM01 - even if it is a mouthful.
Issue: 133 | February, 2012