Optical laser when you pick your gaming
mouse you make sure you pick the right thing Optical mice use one or more LEDs
to take what are essentially pictures of the surface underneath to track the
mouse's movement across the surface this is in stark contrast to the previous
generation ball mice which used an actual physical ball that rolled around
under the mouse in order to detect movement they have a much broader range
of surface compatibility compared to older ball mice and are typically known
compared to lasers for having lower DPI sensors um usually around 200 to 800 DPI
but they can go as high as 4,000 DPI
with gaming grade Optical mice which some Gamers find they prefer to laser
mice laser is the newer technology and has a few advantages compared to Optical
number one is that depending on the type of laser it can be used on a much wider
variety of surfaces Optical mice can only be used on opaque surfaces whereas
laser mice can even be used on specular surfaces such as glass in fact
logitech's anywhere Mouse it uses an infrared laser in order to work on
pretty much anything they are also more accurate they are able to achieve dpis
up to as of the time of filming this 8,200 which is significantly more than
any Optical Mouse on the market and are generally regarded by Gamers to be more
precise so the last thing to note is that some people claim that depending on
the DPI sensitivity that you want to use you may be better off buying a mouse
that that is more optimized for the DPI so for example if you want a game at
3,000 DPI you may not want to buy an
8200 DPI top-of-the-line laser mouse and
turn it down because it may skip frames or whatever else we haven't been able to
verify this objectively so take it with a grain of salt but that is why some
Gamers do prefer Optical even though laser mice tend to as I said before be
more precise more accurate and of course more expensive to go along with that
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