optical or laser

[Killersprotection79]

Well I can't choose what's better in this 2

[Shd0w2]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GoFjDZkU088

FIRST <3

[CoolBeans]

Optical doesn't have any acceleration

[Izaya Orihara]

Optical is better. Unless you need the 8000+ dpi. 

[Heisenbleurgh]

Optical is better. Unless you need the 8000+ dpi. 

to expand on this, those extremely sensible mice with very very high (past 6,000) dpi are laser, but I personally feel optical mice feel smoother on screen.

[Izaya Orihara]

to expand on this, those extremely sensible mice with very very high (past 6,000) dpi are laser, but I personally feel optical mice feel smoother on screen.

The higest dpi mouse i know that uses a optical sensor is the Deathadder 2013 with 6400 dpi. 

[Lil Chillbil]

I use optical and a larger tracking area. 

[BrightCandle]

having tested a lot of mice I have to completely disagree with Linus on this, he is dead wrong. The grand majority of mice on the market today suffer a series of severe problems where they don't track your movements. Ignore the 3000+ DPI settings, that is far to sensitive for any reasonable person to use 1:1 and its wholey irrelevant.  The real problem with mice is all around tracking and how precisely it converts your movements into actual movement. Ideally what you want is to turn off acceleration, this allows you to build accurate muscle memory and its what most FPS pros use. The issue is that almost all laser mice accelerate by default, its built into the mouse and it can't be turned off. They also tend to have quite low movement speeds before they do funny things and they often snap on angles, artificially straightening a line despite the fact your movement is not a line.

 

Since there is not a single known truly flawless laser mouse its hard to say that laser is better. It in theory could be, they tend to be less picky about surface and if the sensor package was setup for decent gaming then that could be a great mouse, but there hasn't (that I know of) been a single flawless laser mouse. That compares to optical mice which are currently undergoing a host of releases of highly accurate good non accelerating, no snapping, no jittering releases. Right now optical is vastly superior for an FPS gamer, so long as you pick one of the decent mice.

[Toby]

FIRST <3

 

...and worst.

 

"They are also more accurate...and are generally regarded by gamers to be more precise" is the opposite of reality. He repeats it later in the video and he also implies higher DPI equates to better accuracy/precision, which is also completely wrong. I wish he'd take that video down, because aside from the surfaces bit, it's false information and risks misleading people.

 

 

Fact is, unless you want something that only exists on laser mice right now (lots of buttons, wirelessness, certain aesthetics etc.), there's no reason not to go with an optical gaming mouse.

[BrightCandle]

I would say that laser is a marketing gimmick along with other features like lights and programmability that are there to bamboozle people into buying a product that on paper looks better but in practice is not. A mouses primary function is converting your movements into as perfect as possible reproduction on screen, if it doesn't do then its rubbish and not a single laser mouse does do that. Guess we know one thing, don't follow Linus' mouse reviews!