Comments on: Steelseries Xai review

By: Kerch

Kerch — Tue, 10 Apr 2012 17:30:16 +0000

Only £26 on amazon.co.uk at the moment.

By: Arie

Arie — Sun, 01 Apr 2012 18:53:36 +0000

It’s not hard to test z-axis tracking. Simply lifting the mouse and putting it down a couple of times will make obvious z-axis problems very visible, especially with a mouse like the Imperator or the Mamba.

The point of the jitter tests is not to make the same movements each time, but to draw a straight line up/down or left/right.
Sure each line is going to be slightly different, but obvious cases of jitter are going to be very visible, like this: ariekanarie.nl/wordpress/wp-co...

By: kaidus

kaidus — Sat, 31 Mar 2012 16:41:37 +0000

His name is arie.

Therefore we obey.

By: Twiggy

Twiggy — Sat, 31 Mar 2012 16:18:41 +0000

Hi Arie,

I wonder what is your test protocol about these mouses. I mean when you test z axis tracking how can you be sure that it’s not your hand which is slightly moving right or left?

Same thing about jittering tests : its hard to do EXACTLY the same movement several times with all the mouses isn’t it?

By: Arx

Arx — Mon, 27 Jun 2011 14:51:21 +0000

Love the Xai, not a big fan of it’s reliability. Had 4 so far, two of them work (one of them barely) and one the USB connection broke, the other the mouse 1 plastic thing underneath snapped rendering it useless.

When it’s working, it’s my favourite mouse.

By: Shek

Shek — Sun, 26 Jun 2011 17:52:24 +0000

Fucking weird, but atm i’m using the DA 3.5 & works great

By: Koeitje

Koeitje — Sun, 26 Jun 2011 17:10:11 +0000

My pc had serious troubles booting with an abyssus plugged in.

By: Shek

Shek — Sun, 26 Jun 2011 17:04:43 +0000

There is another problem on the mouse, people who have the new generation of the motherboard’s Gigabyte/Asus will see directly the issues – u cannot start the OS/Windows untill u plug the mouse out else ur pc will just restart everytime,
Tested 2 Xai and I decide to replace it…
Do not touch on this mouse it’s is also really sensitive to dust [it's will stop work&get crazy else u clean it] / Also not work’s aswell in the Steelseries SX ”What they’re recommanded to use” and like SS said? The best pad ever? fucking bullshit…

By: Koeitje

Koeitje — Sun, 26 Jun 2011 16:54:13 +0000

This, but without the Deathadder looking at sky/floor issue + skipping on QcK (last is not really needed, because QcK is trash anyway :P). Kinzu shell with Xai feet and DA sensor with above fixes would also be sweet.

By: Arie

Arie — Sun, 26 Jun 2011 15:29:52 +0000

The Xai’s shape and buttons with the Deathadder’s sensor. :P