Razer Pro Click V2 Vertical Overview: A Hybrid Gaming Mouse

Switching to a vertical mouse is a tough promote. Having to vary how you employ a mouse fully may be an intimidating process, particularly with how unnatural the brand new hand place feels at first—you’re going fully towards the muscle reminiscence you’ve spent years increase.

One of the biggest challenges to the change is the preliminary lack of pointer accuracy. If you’re in an workplace setting, it’s possible you’ll end up wandering round a bit or struggling to maneuver your new mouse as rapidly as you probably did earlier than. But in a slow-paced setting like that, all you wrestle with is a couple of mis-clicks or barely slower navigation. If you attempt to make this transition with gaming, it’s way more jarring, and the results are way more instantly noticeable.

But even when it’s troublesome to adapt to, may vertical mice be the way forward for gaming? Razer’s new Pro Click V2 Vertical Edition is a hybrid productiveness and gaming vertical mouse. Vertical mice sometimes cater to workplace staff, however the concentrate on gaming efficiency makes the $120 Pro Click V2 one among a sort.

Desk Presence

The Pro Click V2 Vertical appears, greater than the rest, like a contemporary gaming mouse. It has the textured exterior, metallic highlights, and barely natural, H.R. Giger-esque curvature typical of Razer’s design language. But all the pieces has been shifted round. The curved, chopping thumb relaxation sits on high of the mouse as a substitute of on the aspect. A flare juts out from the precise aspect as a spot to relaxation the underside of your hand. The gunmetal spotlight sits on the peak of the mouse relatively than between the 2 buttons. Even the USB port is vertical, a humorous consideration to element.

It’s deliberately designed as a gaming mouse that simply occurs to be vertical. Aesthetically, the one draw back is the minimal RGB lighting. With just one part of lighting that runs alongside the underside of the mouse, RGB lighting followers would possibly really feel disillusioned. Still, it is vibrant, reactive, and has nice colour accuracy. It’s greater than sufficient for me, particularly with how customizable it’s with Razer’s Chroma software program.

The Pro Click V2 Vertical has the identical specs as the usual Pro Click V2, with a 1,000-Hz polling charge, a 2.4-GHz dongle that may be saved on the underside, Bluetooth multi-device connectivity, and a reprogrammable button on high. The solely options misplaced are the mouse wheel’s horizontal scrolling and toggleable non-ratcheted rotation.

This mouse contains two main productiveness options: app-specific profiles and multi-device connectivity, and each work effortlessly. Razer Synapse instantly detected totally different software program and adjusted the lively profile in response, and urgent the button on the underside of the mouse swapped between paired units instantaneously.

Beyond that, Razer Synapse is as spectacular as at all times. I persistently discover the software program to be the most effective and most intuitive in the marketplace, and that is the case right here. All of the menus are easy and environment friendly, the settings may be modified in actual time, and the changes all have tooltips and explanations to let you know precisely what you’re altering.

Annoyingly, Razer Synapse has ads on the homepage, one thing I’ve complained about when reviewing SteelSeries merchandise up to now. However, not like Steelseries GG, these “recommendations” may be completely disabled within the app’s settings.

Performance and Practice

The general hand place of the Pro Click V2 Vertical is pure, however extremely upright. While some vertical mice, like these from Logitech or Hansker, discover a center floor between a regular and really “vertical” hand place, Razer opted for an almost perpendicular form. While that is technically an excellent ergonomic form, it is going to be tougher to adapt in case you’re transferring straight from a regular mouse, and won’t be as comfy throughout the adjustment interval.

It felt unnatural for the primary week or so, and required follow to make use of comfortably and confidently. Once I had acclimated, my pace and accuracy have been practically on the identical degree as a regular mouse, though constant use nonetheless felt clunky and unfamiliar in comparison with the horizontal mice I’d been utilizing for many of my life.