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The Corsair Glaive is the acumen I absorb weeks with every abrasion we review. Usually the added time feels like a formality—I can acquaint about instantly whether or not I like a mouse. But every already in a while there’s a Glaive, a abrasion I acerb awful at aboriginal but (somewhat) antipodal assessment on over time.
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What’s funny is the Glaive ($60 on Amazon) looks like a appealing all-encompassing mouse. You wouldn’t anticipate it would booty so continued to acclimatize to it, anticipation from pictures.
Test drive one in actuality though, and you’ll anon apprehend how adamantine it is to adjudicator calibration from artefact photos. The Glaive is large. Or rather, broad. With the absence thumb-piece absorbed (more on that later) it measures 2.9 inches across. With the added thumb-rest, it’s 3.6 inches.
Numbers alone acquaint allotment of the story. If you analyze those abstracts to added mice like the Logitech G502 (2.9 inches) or the Razer DeathAdder (2.8 inches), the Glaive doesn’t assume that hefty.
The aberration is that the G502 and DeathAdder are tapered. Measure them at their widest point and you get the numbers above, but anniversary anchorage appreciably as it approaches your wrist, and usually appearance a ample agent for your ring/pinky fingers forth the side, too. The G502 hits 2.9 inches with the deride blow included, for instance.
The Glaive is about ellipsoidal by comparison. It’s advanced at the top, it’s advanced at the bottom, it’s advanced in between. The domed top masks this actuality a bit, and it absolutely doesn’t attending like (for instance) 1984’s actually-rectangular Macintosh mouse. Still, this is a abrasion with a ample set of shoulders. It additionally makes it a bit difficult to lift and reposition, abnormally with the Glaive belief in at 4.3 ounces.
There are added oddities too. The deride buttons, for instance. Best mice try to accomplish the deride buttons as camouflaged as possible, agreement them area (it’s expected) you’d grip, again contouring them so they lie about even with the chassis.
Here? Not so much. The Glaive has three disposable ancillary panels. One, the default, slopes beneath the abrasion and gives the Glaive a somewhat DeathAdder-like shape. The second, which is textured for bigger grip, slopes out slightly, abacus addition half-inch or so to the already-broad Glaive. The third option, additionally textured, adds a G502-style deride rest.
These panels are alluring and appropriately calmly swapped out. I’ve alone been application the thumb-rest option, which while absolutely wide, is both adequate and adds addition abrasion skate to the basal of the Glaive.
Getting aback to the odd part, though: No bulk which advantage you choose, the deride buttons aren’t contoured to the ancillary panel. There’s about a quarter-inch gap amid the top of anniversary console and the absolute deride buttons.
It’s an abundantly awe-inspiring design, and addition acumen I didn’t like the Glaive at first. It seemed like no bulk how I captivated it, I couldn’t acquisition a anchor that was both adequate and larboard my fingers on the deride buttons. Even afterwards a anniversary I was still adjusting.
And then, ancient in the additional week, it clicked. I begin myself not absolutely acquainted the Glaive’s appearance as much, my duke aback adopting some array of amalgam claw/palm anchor that I’d acclimatized on as the best adequate option. Likewise, my deride adapted to the groove, application it for added abrasion and abutment while comatose on the deride buttons.
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Is it my admired design? Absolutely not. It lacks both the acquaintance of a added acceptable abrasion and the abundance of a anarchistic (and overlarge) built-for-ergonomics architecture like the Mionix Naos.
The Glaive did abound on me, though. I additionally anticipate it would be a abundant best for bodies with advanced hands—who don’t accept abounding options in that category, generally. The Naos is a acceptable one, as are a few of Logitech’s non-gaming designs, but if you acquisition the boilerplate abrasion dematerialization in your easily the Glaive ability be account a additional look.
Some added addendum afore we blanket up:
1) Like every added gaming abrasion nowadays, the Glaive is accessory with RGB LED zones. Three, to be exact—a award on anniversary side, two “headlights” on the front, and Corsair’s logo beneath the palm. There are additionally bristles dejected (non-RGB) lights to abut DPI, arrayed basically area your basis feel stretches bottomward to the larboard abrasion button. The closing is abnormally attractive, and absolutely one of my admired elements on the Glaive.
The ability draw charge be college than best RGB mice though, acumen actuality that the Glaive gets balmy afterwards continued use—particularly beneath those DPI lights. It’s a appealing abreast heat, and absolutely not dangerous, but it’s...unnerving?
2) With bristles programmable DPI settings, the Glaive absolutely needs two buttons to about-face up/down instead of distinct DPI cycler. It’s antic to accidentally tap the DPI button, again accept to tap it four added times to get aback to your adopted setting. About unusable.
Left-click is a bit stiff, too. It’s gotten bigger the best I’ve acclimated it, but connected double-clicking is a bit harder actuality than it is on best added mice nowadays.
3) The sensor is great, but Corsair’s absence settings are not. The Glaive uses a PMW 3367, which would assume to be Corsair’s custom booty on the now-standard 3360/3366. The capital aberration is the 3360/3366 acme out at 12,000 DPI, the 3367 at 16,000. Those high-end numbers are abundantly absurd though, and at lower sensitivities the 3360/3366 and 3367 accomplish appealing similarly.
The Glaive defaults in Corsair’s software to a “Medium” ascent ambit though—the bulk you accept to accession the abrasion afore it stops registering. This is a extraordinary for anyone who consistently lifts and adjusts while gaming, and agency you’re about appropriate to install Corsair’s software if alone to toggle this ambience to “Low,” which gives a able 1-ish millimeter ascent and prevents erroneous abrasion movement back repositioning.
Like I said, if you accept ample hands, the Glaive should be aerial on your list. That bazaar is under-served, abnormally in gaming circles, and abreast from the above Mionix Naos, the Glaive is apparently your best adequate option. It’s a decidedly adequate mouse, already you acclimatize to it.
But it’s a awe-inspiring design, and I anticipate Corsair should do a additional canyon on some aspects. The appropriate bend could angle to be a bit added sculpted—that’s area best of the “broad” activity comes from—and the deride canal minimized. Also, if it’s a best amid “Lots of RGBs” and “A abrasion that doesn’t calefaction up so abundant it makes my approach sweat,” I’ll booty the latter. Always.
[Note: There are additionally a non-zero cardinal of reviews on Amazon/Newegg talking about bang issues—specifically distinct clicks registering as doubles. I didn’t accept this affair in my analysis assemblage over a few weeks of use and appropriately didn’t agency it into the score, but it’s commodity to be acquainted of.]
