A couple months ago I wanted to buy a second Copperhead for use at work so I could bring my primary one home. Much to my (then) chagrin they no longer produced the Copperhead. After a little research I decided on purchasing the Lachesis, which seems to be the spiritual successor to the Diamondback/Copperhead line.
As I mouse left-handed, getting an ambidextrous mouse was critical. Kudos to Razer for continuing to make high quality Ambi mice (though their latest high-end offering is righty-only, I hope this trend doesn't continue).
The packaging is typical high quality Razer, not much needs to be said about it.
The mouse is just...perfect. While the Copperhead took a little getting used to (I found the side buttons in an odd location at first) the Lachesis' are flawlessly placed. They require just the right amount of pressure to push. I love the soft plastic coating on the whole mouse, it gives it a great grip and it just feels really nice to touch. The coating on my Copperhead started peeling after a couple of years so I'm hoping that they improved this process and it wont happen on this mouse.
They also drastically improved their teflon pads since the Copperhead. They are now thicker and wider so you don't get the "scraping" problem that the CH got once the pads started wearing down/sliding around.
Years of Quake and Starcraft taught me to grip a mouse with my fingertips "claw" style. This mouse is perfect for that. If you get a little lazy you can palm it but it's sub-ideal.
I use Mac OS X as my primary operating system. Configuring my mouse required booting up VMWare and figuring out some magic to get the mouse passed to the VM as a USB device [...] but once I did that everything worked just fine across all OS's. Love Razer's onboard memory system.
After a couple months of the Lachesis at work I couldn't stand going home to my CH anymore and had to buy a second one so I could enjoy the same experience in both locations. HIGHLY RECOMMENDED!
Note: I took one star off of Ease of Use because the Razer software is still pretty cluttered UI-wise even though it works like a dream, just has stuff in a bit of a weird place (the profile management takes a bit to get used to). Everything else is perfect.Get more detail about Razer Lachesis 4000 dpi Laser Gaming Mous--Banshee Blue.
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