Razer Orochi Bluetooth Notebook Gaming Mouse

10 Review to this product

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  Levi Haag
  October 21st, 2009 on 2:37 am

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  By far the best portable mouse i have ever owned, on the fly sensitivity, 7 buttons to configure, and mac drivers to boot! If you play games on a laptop, do yourself a favor and buy this mouse. It is easy to use for long gaming sessions and feels solid without being heavy, works on most normal surfaces without trouble, and glides like a dream!
  
  The addition of usb connectivity just adds to the greatness of this mouse. Playing WOW and dont care about a little mouse lag here and there wireless works great, want to play some Team fortress and need it to be accurate, plug it in and immediately it switches over to wired mode!
  
  I say with no hesitation that this mouse is one of the best i have ever owned, wired, wireless, portable, or desktop.
  
  Buy it now!
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  C. Andaya
  November 11th, 2009 on 11:56 am

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  I’m not a gamer, I just wanted a nice bluetooth mouse with right-click, forward, and back buttons for my MacBook running on Boot Camp. I found those in the Razer Orochi and more.

  The connection is very robust. I read about some problems with the mouse going to sleep and having a slight lag when waking up but I did not notice that at all. The buttons are responsive and provide good feedback. I’m sure the wired connection will come in handy when the batteries run out and there aren’t any handy.

  The only fault I could see with this mouse is that the forward and back buttons are a little too recessed and not quite easy to get to. They’re still usable though and I may just need to get used to their placement.

  I love this mouse! The price is on the high side but I think it’s well worth it.
  
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  The Me Tree
  November 17th, 2009 on 10:56 am

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  this device allows for precise gaming controls while plugged into USB (which features high quality gold plating and a fabric cord) or you have the option to unplug to bluetooth control. it features 4 side buttons and the regular 3 top buttons with scroll wheel. the scroll wheel is smooth as is the top skin of the device (it has that rubberized/shark skin feel). its portable and accurate. this mouse is def the way to go if you have a gaming laptop.
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  Swine
  November 19th, 2009 on 10:02 am

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  Love the mouse. Really good feel, it has a bit of heft. I dont use this for gaming but it does come with a really nice braided usb cord. I bought it mainly for the bluetooth since I dont like having wires everywhere.
  
  Pros: everything

  Cons: for mac users the Razer drivers do not let you assign tasks to the side buttons and scroll wheel button so it is essentially a three button mouse (the scroll wheel button is only useful in programs like internet browsers). It is possible to down load thrid party software but I dont want to pay $20 more to be able to use the mouse as it is designed.

  I still gave it a high rating because it was not meant for a mac. Maybe razer will bring out better drivers soon!!!!
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  Peter Sierra
  December 11th, 2009 on 7:09 pm

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  I purchase this mouse for my Macbook Pro (unibody).

  Having tried several mice (including Apples’ Magic Mouse) I can say the Razer Orochi is simply an amazing mouse.

  It may be a bit small for some, but as a notebook mouse, it’s perfect. The bluetooth connectivity is so smooth and precise, I have yet found the need to use the cable connection.

  It’s designed almost perfect. The batteries give it a perfect weight. And using it for design (I’m a heavy photoshop user) it’s just pixel perfect.

  The Bad: Poor Mac Drivers. The mouse werks perfect, with the exception of the additional buttons. I hope Razer will build on the mac support. Oh yeah and I could of done without the gratuitous packaging.

  But other than that it’s truely the best mouse I have used. Dare I say I may even replace my intel lazer mouse at home with it.

  I hope this helps.
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  Zachary N. Samuels
  December 18th, 2009 on 3:08 pm

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  very nice gaming mouse, one of the best mouses i have ever owned.

  Looks very sleak, and even more sleak when you download the drivers and turn on the mouse wheel light.

  Very high performance and great sensetivity.

  Fully customizable.

  Goes great with my toshiba qosmio x505 q850. With gaming laptops, mouses are a must have. This mouse is perfect for the job.

  My only con was that for some odd reason amazon wont ship mouse pads to iraq? so i couldnt get the kabuto to go with it.
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  R. Sturgeon
  February 13th, 2010 on 12:05 pm

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  I have been using the Orochi mouse now for the last 3 days. I had some reservations about buying this mouse because of some of the reviews regarding ‘jumpiness’ when the mouse goes into battery saving mode while on bluetooth, and although I can sympathize with those that feel that way, I think their complaints are really exaggerated despite the fact that it does go to sleep really fast. Once the mouse is asleep it does a pretty nice job reconnecting to the computer. I would recommend this mouse to anyone that wants a high quality bluetooth mouse with above average features.

  Pros:
  
  Small Size
  
  Design
  
  Quality
  
  Bluetooth
  
  Wired
  
  Software (you download from Razer)
  
  Effect Light

  Cons:
  
  Quick Sleep (on bluetooth)
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  M. Smith
  February 13th, 2010 on 11:00 pm

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  This is a very interesting mouse. The onboard memory is probably the best part about it. The manuals and help doesn’t do a great job of explaining it through. It basically works like this, you can store up to 5 different profiles on the mouse, with there own DPI sensitivity settings (even multiple stages of DPI controlled by buttons) and button mapping settings and macros. Mac users get slightly screwed, I’m dual booting on a Macbook with XP and OSX, and only in Windows can you set up the profiles and move between them with the “Configurator” program. However, it is possible to allow the buttons on the mouse to change to a different profile at any time, without using the Windows program. So even though I can’t set profiles from the Mac OS on my computer, I can use the profiles I set on the PC side, but I can’t easily change between profiles on the Mac OS.

  Using Bluetooth still uses whatever setting your current profile has, just like wired mode, except the polling rate drops to the lowest setting and the DPI can’t go beyond 2000. Your profiles and button mapping all stay, on Bluetooth, wired, on any computer. I think that is very very nice. Unfortunately, the mouse doesn’t provide any feedback on what profile your on, although you can probably figure it out by investigating DPI and button mapping settings when using the mouse. Right now, I’m in Mac OSX, using a Bluetooth connection, with a profile I set up while the mouse was connected by USB to the computer while I was in Windows XP. You can only edit the mouse’s profiles while using the Windows-only Configurator program and only while connected by USB. The mouse is powered by USB when it is connected by USB, which is great in case your batteries die. One important note, the Configurator program seems to have a problem sometimes. Whenever you create a new profile or change a profiles name, make sure to hit “Apply” to save that profile to the mouse before you start setting up its settings, otherwise the mouse kind of messes up and treats that profile as having just default settings.

  Overrall I’m very impressed with the mouse, especially with the fact that I can use it on any computer, with the USB cord or Bluetooth, and it will keep my settings. The options in the Configurator program for setting up profiles were pretty extensive, macros, can assign a button to switch to a profile on the mouse, can assign a keyboard key to a button on the mouse, and can move between different levels of DPI sensitivity. I was afraid the mouse would be a bit too small for me, but even though it’s smaller than my other mouse, it’s still comfortable. It comes with a traveling case and a nice braided USB cord.
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  Robert R. Barba
  February 21st, 2010 on 3:12 pm

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  Unlike most people, while I game, I bought this mouse for its precision (I’m a graphic artist by trade) and found that gaming peripherals tend to have the specs that I require. So when my laptop mouse died on me, I borrowed a friend’s Orochi and found it to be perfect. It felt perfect, so I went and splurged on one for myself. I was not disappointed. The control is silky smooth and far beyond any mouse I’ve had before. The power consumption of the bluetooth mode works very well and the programming for the mouse allows me to set up shortcuts both in games and programs.

  I’m completely sold on this mouse. In fact, I will now be begging Razer to come up with a gaming tablet. If they can do mice (and other peripherals) with this much quality, I’d love to see what they could do with a high-precision tablet.
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  Anh Lai
  April 27th, 2010 on 8:30 am

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  Razor’s support site for this mouse has updates for the mouse’s firmware and the driver.

  You need to update the mouse’s firmware via Windows unfortunately. Find a machine to update the mouse to version 1.06 or later. The update will fix the auto connect issues some people complain about. After the update, the mouse auto connects to OSX on reboot, or when you power on/off the mouse. It just works as its supposed to.

  Razor also updated the OSX drivers to update all the settings for the mouse. Version is 1.03. Download it and install it.

  This is a GREAT mouse for OSX. Finally found the perfect bluetooth mouse that is very accurate and tracks as quickly or as slowly as you want.

  Just buy it, but make sure you update it.