ROCCAT Kone Air - Wireless Ergonomic Gaming Mouse With 800-hour Battery Life, 19K DPI Optical Sensor, Double-Injected Rubber Side Grips, Programmable Button Design & Titan Optical Switches - Black

Dateline: A Desktop Under Siege, Late Sunday Night. In this strange new era, the world of gaming mice has been taken over by a bizarre cult of minimalism. A strange obsession with "ultralight" designs that feel like you're holding a hollowed-out bird's egg. They are flimsy, soulless things. But I am here to tell you that the rebellion is alive and well, and its champion is a glorious, white beast called the ROCCAT Kone Air.This is not a mouse for the faint of heart or the weak of wrist. This is a tool with substance. It has a satisfying heft, a comfortable, ergonomic shape that fills your palm with a sense of authority. This is a mouse that feels like it could survive a fall, a frantic, rage-fueled gaming session, or a direct hit from a small piece of space debris. It is a solid, confidence-inspiring piece of machinery.But the real genius lies under the hood. This thing is a versatile monster. It gives you options. You want the lightning-fast, no-nonsense connection of a 2.4GHz RF dongle? You got it. You want to connect it to your laptop on the road without sacrificing a precious USB port? Flip a switch, and the Bluetooth comes alive. It even works flawlessly on Linux, a land where so many other pieces of hardware fear to tread. Yes, the official software snubs the penguin, but who needs it? The glorious, open-source commandos at OpenRGB have cracked the code, giving you full control over the lighting.And the buttons… good heavens, the buttons. The Titan Optical Switches give you a crisp, clean, and immediate click. But the secret weapon, the little ace up its sleeve, is the Easy-Shift[+] button. With a single press of your thumb, your entire button layout gets a second layer of commands. Your six-button mouse suddenly becomes an eleven-button command center. It’s a tactical advantage so profound it feels like cheating.Then there's the power plant. This is not some weak, sealed-in battery that will wither and die after a year, turning your expensive mouse into a paperweight. No, this beast runs on good, old-fashioned AA batteries. And the engineering is brilliant—it can run on a single AA for a lighter feel, or two in parallel for an absolutely absurd, 800-hour battery life. It is a marathon runner in a world of sprinters.For the money, the Kone Air is an incredible value. You are getting a hefty, comfortable, well-built mouse with a top-tier sensor, dual-wireless connectivity, and a level of customizability that is second to none. It is a five-star champion for those of us who still believe a tool should have some soul, some substance, some damn heft.

The mouse is solid built. It does not feel flimsy or cheep in your hand. Despite it large size, the mouse feels comfortable at least I believe for those who like to rest your palm on the back of mouse. For those with small hand may not like the size.All the switches on the mouse feel good to click on. They are not stiff but they do not feel soft. I really like where the forward and backward buttons on the mouse are placed and both are long. That makes it easy to press them. Some mouse needs you to lift your right thumb backward to press the back button. These buttons at least for my hand are just the right place.I also like the using regular batteries (which you can also use rechargeable ones in place as well) for longer life plus it has an option to either use one AA or two AA. This is good for productivity use case that you would like to have a longer batter life.Overall, this is a good mouse if you are comfortable using it. This is personal thing whether you feel comfortable with the mouse or not.

I've been using it for a month and it is all I wanted. Best description I could make is that it feels like a slightly larger G703 but mostly wider.Has great side grips, no messy stickers needed.Great tactile main and side buttons and scroll wheel that are located at the perfect place.It Has both wifi and Bluetooth and can store its dongle internally between the 2 batteries.Has long battery life.Can have up to 5 onboard profiles in wifi mode, no need to have a driver running in the background while using it.Does not feel cheap, looks and feel like quality built to me.Doesn't break the bank for what you get.I just put 2 AAA lithium batteries with some adapters in it and only time will tell how long they will last and how long the buttons will hold. (I'm currently using it as my gamming/main mouse). Batteries still at 100% due to the nature of lithium batteries.Only con I could find is I just wish the DPI button was reprogrammable.

The mouse itself is great. I have big hands and need a big mouse and this does that job well. The plastic of it feels a bit cheap, but still reasonable enough. The couple extra buttons are nice, and the texture on the thumb grip is some of the best I've felt IMO. The coolest feature in my opinion is the way this mouse handles weight management. It has 2 battery slots, but works with just 1 so you have the option to have a lighter or heavier mouse. Only downside there is if you like a lighter mouse, you get less battery life.The biggest problem with this one is the software. Its not great. It works ok enough, and seems to save to hardware so you only have to run it the once. However changing bindings is clunky, and theres no way to change the amount of dpi settings, so despite me wanting 2 settings I'm required to cycle back and forth between 5 settings.Overall nice mouse for big hands, but not the greatest software experience ever.