Roccat KONE [+] Review
Initial Look
Published: 29th November 2010 | Source: Roccat | Price: £67.99 |
Kone [+] First Look
The packaging is up to the normal extremely high Roccat standard. Matt black with the Roccat logo in gloss and some lovely blue highlights of the important elements. The front of the box flips open to allow you to both test fit the mouse in the palm of your hand, and also take a close look at the various button assignments available.
The rest of the box does the always tricky job of expressing a huge amount of information in a clear manner with aplomb.
As more and more mice at this price level have a very similar specification it becomes more vital that the little touches are perfect to help your product stand out. Roccat have got this completely nailed. Everything in the box is designed exactly the same as the packaging and drivers. Black with the white panel and the electric blue Roccat logo. To see it on the CD, which normally are completely unlike the rest of the design, is especially satisfying.
One of the things Roccat do well, especially when it comes to multi-function buttons, is having a handy quick-reference guide available. So many companies rely on PDFs for their manuals which are all well and good until you're actually in need of the information right then. So it's great to have a CD sized guide readily to hand.
Most Recent Comments
The only issue is that it doesn't support my pinky (no biggie
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There is a very small aperture on the bottom leading to two sensors. If you get any dust/fluff/eyelashes in here (and it does seem to suck them in) then the responsiveness goes to hell and the mouse becomes very jumpy at any resolution.
There is no easy way I can see to dismantle the mouse and give it a good clean. So I'm forever blowing into the bottom of the damn thing.
No, it isn't drivers. As soon as I remove the obstacle the mouse works fine. Just wish it didn't suck muck in, and be extremely difficult to clean.
And compared to some rig/desk shots I've seen on here I have a pretty clean environment.
I have a really old logitech mouse on my other PC, which on inspection also seems to have an eyelash stuck in it, but becasue the aperture is so much wider the sensor is not impacted.
I might well ebay this and get something else. It's a pain.
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Looks nice too, could deffo see me using it. Can't say it's cheap though
Thanks for the review. I've been waiting for a VB review for a while, always makes for pleasurable reading