The plastic body picks up fingerprints easily though and the open-body design is not removable. Overall, the Zephyr Gaming Mouse is comfortable to use and lightweight. Some customisation options would have been appreciated here, too. The scroll wheel also works well, but it feels a bit cheap and hollow for a US$89 mouse. The buttons are well laid out, with our thumb resting nicely on the forward and back buttons as we move the mouse around. The Zephyr Gaming Mouse has 7 inputs, including its scroll wheel. The switches also have a polling rate of 1,000 Hz (1 ms). Similarly, we have no complaints about its OMRON switches, which Zephyr Gaming claims will last up to 50 million clicks. In our experience, the mouse moves smoothly and we encountered no tracking issues. Zephyr Gaming claims that it has added a 400 DPI mode, but this was unavailable on our prototype.Īdditionally, the PMW3389 sensor provides a maximum acceleration of 40g and a peak speed of 400 IPS.

1,600 DPI is enabled by default and you can switch between 5 presets via a button on the top of the mouse. The sensor supports between 100 and 16,000 DPI, although our mouse can only operate between 800-16,000 DPI.

The mouse is based around a Pixart PMW3389 optical sensor, which Razer used in the DeathAdder Elite. In the same vein, the cable on our unit has already started fraying, despite its limited use. The cable is lightweight and flexible, but it feels rather cheap. It has a non-removable 1.8 m cable that has a braided finish.

As we reported when the Zephyr Gaming Mouse launched on Kickstarter, the mouse measures 121.60 x 65.15 x 40.70 mm and weighs 68 g.

Zephyr mouse