Roccat KONE [+] Review
Introduction and Technical Specifications
Published: 29th November 2010 | Source: Roccat | Price: £67.99 |
Introduction
It's rare for a company to burst on the scene with an endless stream of excellent products. Normally they have one great idea, form a company and then, like a rock band, have the sophomore slump of trying to follow it up.
Roccat most definitely aren't in this group of companies as their products have been innovative, well built and have always impressed us to such a degree that we actually anticipate their next product.
For their next one their actually returning to their roots. Back in June last year we reviewed the 3200dpi Roccat Kone and found it to be a great performer with everything we threw at it and about the only thing we could find to complain about was the pricing being in line with the big names of the industry for a first product. Of course we know now that Roccat are one of those big names.
So now we have the update to the best-selling Kone, let's see what's new with the Kone [+].
Technical Specifications
The main changes between the two models are the natural updates we'd expect in 2010. The laser has been upgraded from 3200dpi to 6000dpi. The acceleration has been upped from 20G to 30G, and the onboard memory has been vastly improved from the previous 128KB to 576KB to take the much larger settings available with the EasyShift[+].
- Pro-Aim Laser Sensor R2 with up to 6000dpi
- 1000Hz polling rate
- 1ms response time
- 11750fps, 10.5megapixel
- 30G acceleration
- 3.8-5m/s (150-200ips)
- 16-bit data channel
- Tracking & Distance Control Unit
- 72MHz TurboCore processor
- 576kB onboard memory
- 2m USB cable
Features
- 6000DPI PRO-AIM LASER SENSOR - for maximum precision
- EASYSHIFT[+] BUTTON DUPLICATOR - for 22 directly accessible mouse functions
- 4-LED LIGHT SYSTEM - for individual colors + effects
- TRACKING & DISTANCE CONTROL UNIT - ultimate tracking; minimizes pick-up-flight
- ROCCAT™ DRIVER + MACRO MANAGER - incl. Macro Presets for games & apps
- ONBOARD MEMORY (576KB) - store 5 Game Profiles with macros
- 4 EASY-TO-CLIP-IN WEIGHTS (4X5G) - for individual weight adjustment
- 8 MOUSE BUTTONS - programmable + solid 4D mouse wheel
- ULTRA QUIET - low friction mouse feet
Most Recent Comments
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
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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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You must be unlucky, my brother has had one for 7months and i just got one too, let's hope it doesn't break |
Actually this is my 2nd mouse. I had to return my first due to scroll wheel issues, which roccat said it sounded like a defective sensor.
So far this 2nd one's wheel issues haven't surfaced.
Another issue I had was when I turned on my PC the other day, the mouse erased itself. All my custom profiles, dpi settings, everything gone. It was by chance I made a backup of the profiles the night before and restored it. But still, worrying.
Another problem is that the easyshift, can no be bound to certain keys.
I know its just me being picky, but I wanted it to be the scroll wheel right movement. Only main buttons can be easyshift. Not sure why, what difference does it make?
I love the mouse, don't get me wrong and I upgraded from a razer imperator to this.
I'm so tired and bored of paying out loads of money for razer products which aren't that great. I'm typing this on a razer blackwidow ultimate keyboard, and it keeps doing double S or L. I've spent about 15 minutes typing this, removing the double letters. Oh, and punched it twice.Quote
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