Introduction

With “TRON: legacy” the sequel to the Disney science fiction film “Tron” from 1982 in Germany celebrated a major success at the beginning of the year. In search of his missing 20 years father Kevin Flynn, son Sam Flynn randomly enters the virtual world of the “grid”, on which computer programs in the form of humanoid beings in gladiatorial duels fight for their survival and persistence. Most powerful figure on the grid is CLU, digital image of Kevin Flynn and former ally of the missing programmer, in order to create the perfect system. Fundamental differences of opinion breakdown between CLU and Kevin Flynn, so that is it had to keep hidden in the virtual world, without opportunity again in the real world to escape, resignedly before his mighty opponent over two decades. Together with his son Sam, who could be on the grid with cleverness, perseverance and luck against the struggling programs and Clus men and eventually find his father and Quorra, the last remaining “highlights algorithm”, for whose survival Kevin Flynn committed contrary to Clus views to perfection, he is however embarks on an adventurous last battle by the system that allows saving escape from the virtual world at least Sam and Quorra.

If a story ever deepest inside the computer world plays, cineastisch is accompanied with some with impressive 3D scenes and thus thematically like visually many followers from the PC Player Gemeinte can win, a more processing offers of course. It is with “TRON evolution” (computer base test) as a suitable computer game appeared just in time for the theatrical release. Also peripheral manufacturer Razer would leave the TRON fans not in the rain and consisting of published an own gaming-equipment-series to the film Tron legacy style keyboard, mouse and mouse pads.

We looked, somewhat temporal distance to the film release, once more the anyway just under 120 Euro expensive bundle from mouse and pad and want to clarify whether the expensive hardware is only something for the showcase of big Tron fans or can certainly justify the lush price with performance.

Technical data

• Tron legacy gaming mouse Razer
  • Symmetric mouse for right or left-handers
  • Dimensions approx.: 110 x 33.5 x 61,3 mm (W × H × D)
  • Weight: 88 grams (without cable)
  • Colour: Gloss black, anthracite,
  • Buttons: Button seven incl. wheel as a medium-sized
  • 2-Way mouse wheel roller
  • Nylon sheathed cable, length: 2 m
  • 5600 dpi Razer precision 3.5 g laser sensor
  • Transfer rate: 1,000 Hz, response time: 1 ms
  • Light and sound effects
  • Compatibility: Windows XP / Vista / 7; Mac OS X.
• Razer Tron legacy mouse pad
  • Dimensions approx.: 290 × 3 × 207 mm (W × H × D)
  • Hartplastikpad with phosphorescent surface
  • Very low friction
• Sales and price: Caseking (about 120 Euro bundled with pad)
• Manufacturer’s website

Scope of delivery

The TRON-bundle is delivered in a very elaborate cardboard packaging. In addition to visually decorative details, laser mouse, as well as the matching mouse pad the user doing before Razer typically a lot of paper offerings in the form of the product guide, a product catalog, a certificate of authenticity and a Razer logo stickers.

The configuration software required to use the full capabilities not found in however the expensive bundle. Here, a visit to the home page, Razer is necessary to obtain the corresponding current version of the software for Windows or Mac OS.

Mouse in detail

Artistically, the Razer mouse reminds thematically aptly implemented, more on the “Lightcycles” from the film as on a typical PC rodents. The futuristic design with black mirror gloss surfaces combined with some carbon look and the eisblauen illumination dispels the unmistakable character of Tron unerringly to the local desktop. Here, the TRON mouse is suitable with its narrow, elongated shape and flat stretched, symmetric body shape both left and right-handed. Clear lines and dominant guided edges define the shape of desk runabout and generate a surprisingly good and pleasant Edition for the hand. Is the mouse, whether their low volume primarily between the fingertips held and led, without touching the Palm of the hand (“fingertip grip”).

The TRON can be very well taken and implemented conditionally by the distinctive material transitions, the good balance and the narrow design. Low weight of approximately 88 grams (without cable) of course also benefit you in this context.

Razer mouse Bolide has seven native key functions in the Tron-style. In addition to the two main buttons without transition bears the cover and the mouse wheel as a traditional medium, the thumb in Central pad position gets applied two large navigation buttons. Due to the symmetrical design of the mouse body, these are of course available with somewhat limited accessibility for ring or little finger also at the thumb opposite side. A very short road to stop, a crisp displays, but not too powerful Auslösewiderstand and a very pleasant, subdued, quiet clicks is common to all buttons. Overall, the buttons give equivalent, the price of the mouse, very quality control feeling without compromising on the basis of precisely controlled mechanisms.

The item on offer is rounded off by the wheel embedded deep in the overhead panel, which looks rather like a tyre roller with its width of about eleven millimeters, its diameter of about 23 millimetres and his slick gumming. For this it offers a high level of grip and allows to the light, slightly spongy grid, accompanied by relatively quiet “Ratter”-Geräuschen, without significant effort scrolling. Overall, mouse wheel, and its suspension but give a less stable impression, as the remaining buttons.

Bariatric and feel removes the TRON peripherals to the part of the usual Razer creations in the points. You are largely in vain looking for satin-finish rubberized soft-touch surfaces. Make instead of the TRON fan with smooth plastics must be friends, which present themselves not particularly welding flow resistant in active use and pollute quickly sticky. Variety and richness of discovery for the bottom hand is primarily generated by the charakteritischen edges, as well as the satin-finish coated side buttons of the mouse. Add the carbon look-like honeycomb procurement at some intermediate positions and the underside of the mouse joins.

High, the TRON mouse produced in China brought a very neat, although not perfect impression. Despite the low weight is pleasant robust chassis and is neither hollow nor fragile. For some material transitions are between the plastic of upper and lower shell, not ideal.

Four very effective Teflon sliding feet provide fully glide on the underside of the mouse. But they are relatively flat, so that on Textilpads or minimal uneven hard plastic versions unwanted loops and setting up with the bottom of the mouse when progressive wear of the feet can be excluded not completely.

In addition, are installed at the bottom of the TRON gaming mouse two LEDs, which support the upper light effect shells. Those in the rear position creates an optical drive effect with their white and blue lighting while the second, shining down “black light model” for special luminescent properties in cooperation with the bundle mouse pad keeps (more on this at the meeting of mouse pads).

The opening of the laser scanning is in a central position. So the TRON-mouse Razer opts his current Razer precision 3.5 g laser sensor, which scans up to 5600 DPI and thus represents the current flagship of the Californian gaming specialist.

Softwarebesprechnung

After the unpacking and connect the mouse, the first way on the support page should lead the Razer website, to obtain the latest driver software and a possible firmware update for the mouse. In our case, we could find the approximately 14 megabytes heavy download for the Windows driver 1.00, as well as the software complete about 17 megabytes for the firmware update to version 1.01.

Visually the configuration menu, with which it is possible to control the TRON mouse as well as the corresponding Razer keyboard (if you acquired this), modelled on course given in the film, ubiquitous color. The individual setting options are grouped into familiar groups and can be reached on tab.

The beginning makes the “assign buttons”-Overview. Not surprisingly, new functions can be assigned to here all buttons and the scroll wheel, depending on the selected mouse profile Buy Research Paper. Also individual keys or macro assignments are possible in addition to the defaults. Former keyboards work but not with special functions, for example, the multimedia keys, any. Also the use of DPI or profile Switcher is, for the counterparts of the navigation keys, sense possible.

“Tweak Performance” enables the adjustment of the possible sampling rates of Razer precision sensors. 100 Dpi increments to be elected here in the range from 100 to 5600 dpi on request depending on the axle. Also, you can define which serve as the basis for the “on-the-fly” selection on the fly dpi up to five levels. To use them by appropriate key settings, also the optical information of the current dpi option in the form of a short bar displayed on the right of the screen of interest might be. Little attention should, however, are attributed to the possible Zeigerbeschleunigungs option of the Razer driver (similar to OS defined).

Unfortunately, Razer is no access to the laser intensity and lets pushes it slightly the manual adjustment of lift-off distance before a stop.

First unlimited, independent profiles can be (include keymap dpi setting including levels, lighting settings,) with the Profile Manager to create and save. Each profile may be a specific application, such as a game, be assigned to, their call to it is automatically loaded. Either a short overlay of the newly activated profile name is possible also. Unfortunately, the previous profile will not automatically be recorded after the termination of the assigned application.

A macro Manager must not be missed of course at the TRON gaming mouse. In virtually unlimited quantity key sequences can this fully long (standard keys of the keyboard, as well as some advanced commands from the guideline) be included. If necessary, also a recording of the pauses between each event takes place. Enjoyable: It is possible to even a subsequent edit of individual events and precise adjusting of the breaks.

The driver configuration is rounded off by the light setting. Profile zugehörig lighting of F3, the topside and the underside of the mouse can be disabled here separately.

Mouse pad and everyday experience

In addition to the mouse, a Tron-style designed, coordinated mouse pad is an essential component of Razer bundles. With its compact 290 × 207 mm, it is slightly smaller than an A4 sheet and thus secure no spacious playground for low sense users. This convinces the Hartplastikpad the wrist-friendly, relatively low height of only three millimetres.

The probably most interesting property of Tron mouse pads is its surface design. Thematically it has picked up again the honeycomb in addition to the typical colouring, which is also the base of the mouse. However, the Electroluminescent enabled coating is clearly effective. Inspired by the UV surface LED of the mouse a quite important especially in the dark, decaying within two to ten seconds light strips is their movement over the pad. The phosphorescence effect is of course through other UV sources.

Away from this optical gimmick, the rough surface of the pad by really very good antifriction properties relating convinces with the TRON mouse. The player must spend almost no power to set the mouse on the move – we have so far rarely seen such convincing sliding properties. Also acoustically the TRON combo is no nakedness, allows quick mouse movements without loud scraping or rumbling and presents itself, at least in the three weeks of our use, much quieter than the most player mice on hard plastic records.

The sliding properties of the top of the mat are so good, his grip on the desktop is so compelling. Strong rubber Combs at the bottom of the TRON pad provide enormous grip even in brenzlichen situations.

In the everyday and wagering Razer Tron combination despite initial skepticism whether the headstrong mouse ergonomic and effects-heavy design convinced very us. First of all, this impression is based on the high quality appearance and resulting pleasant usability of keys and of F3, on the other hand on the absolutely reliable and pixel-accurate digitization of predetermined movements on the basis of good laser sensors. Even at extremely high speeds, does not fail the scanning and navigates pointer or crosshair, without significant corrective intervention such as “Angle Snapping”, precisely to the desired position. Rarely we could develop a such marksmanship with a new mouse within a very short settling time, such as with the Tron clone of Razer. An experience, but subjective nature and is closely linked to personal preferences.

In view of the underground compatibility it is relatively unwählerisch Tron mouse in normal. Away from the bundle pads it harmonizes also with textile, wood or coated glass materials. Only transparent surfaces make to create her – on glass or plexi are no cursor movement abzuringen. Also highly reflective materials should be avoided, because even then the function is limited.

The lift-off distance of Razer Tron mouse implementation moves with about one to two millimeters in low areas. The two underground LEDs of the mouse go out as an optical indicator for the crash of scanning times during lifting of investment. Striking in the test: despite the small lift-off height, the pointer in another setting up significantly more tends of skip, as, for example, when other laser mice, about Roccats Kone. May be a certain adaptation of laser intensity on lifting (or general change of reflectance of the document) are responsible. At least the behavior suggests the mouse in experimental game with various documents and slow lifting it, that the intensity of the laser source with demolition of the signal within a certain framework will be raised automatically easy. Such a character is noticeably problematic course for users of low-sense community, who very often use of Umsetzens of the mouse.

Speaking problems. This could have some users with which, for our liking something about schießenden the goal, initialization sound of the mouse. When each system reports that during the boot process with a loud, slightly plastic-sounding engine main sound and thus ensures the one or the other moment of horror on the unprepared user. We would have like to seen for Razer to allow at least a disable this feature in the driver. Away from them, we could while no problems or abnormalities that every now and then come up for Razer products in boot behavior, watch our tests on multiple computers.

Review

In our (only as a supplement to the written judgment to seen) be point ends review we present the Razer-Tron gaming mouse as broadly established, objectively predictable criteria against so far tested references. It should be noted, that the scoring as only a gross, comparison-forming target cannot be seen and would be weighted differently depending on the individual sense.

Conclusion and recommendations

Combining featured mouse mouse pad Tron-style, the Californian gaming specialist Razer delivers a futuristic and very potent peripherals company, which must be interesting not only for fans of the movie. Based on an exceptionally designed, high-quality chassis thanks to quieter and precisely adjusted key mechanisms mediated a very pleasant work and feeling for left and right-handers. In harmony with the bundle mousepad, the refreshingly lightweight Razer bolide achieved this excellent sliding properties and high agility.

The background scanning and digitization of the movements is based on the built-up Razer precision 3.5 g laser sensor technology extremely reliable and even at high speeds and accelerations perfectly accurately. Also compatible with the used mouse pads is of course not limited to bundle copy. Easily other hard plastic or textile materials can be used.

The software support of the mouse is relatively clearly designed and comprehensive thanks to Razer experience in this area. May still access other scanning parameters away from the dpi sensitivity, as other manufacturers some now offer him, as well as the option to disable the sound effect of the mouse would be desirable.

Overall the TRON mouse implementation of Razer has presented much better itself, as one might have expected it of a merchandising articles. Unfortunately, it is the scheduled sale price 120 Euro for the shown bundle and almost €100 for the mouse individually (price) so that the bottom line, but only die-hard Tron trailer access are clearly too high.

Useful links

• Razer-homepage
• Sales and price: Tron mouse pad bundle
• Price: Tron mouse without pad
• Computer base-mouse-FAQ