The palm rest and pinkie rest each have three different options. You can adjust the length of the thumb rest, add and remove weights from an internal compartment, and–most important–swap out the stock palm rest and pinkie rest for your preferred versions. Aesthetically, this mouse isn’t my cup of tea, but that’s more my personal preference than anything else–PCWorld desktops editor Nate Ralph is convinced it looks like The Future.īuilt into the mouse itself is an Allen wrench that you can pop out and use to make adjustments to the input device’s physical shape. It’s a radical departure from competing mice such as the SteelSeries Sensei, which looks as if it were cut from a single block of steel in comparison. The first thing you’ll notice is that it resembles a thrown-together collection of plastic and metal plates that vaguely form the shape of a computer mouse. Now Mad Catz is making a splash in the PC-peripherals business with the Cyborg RAT 7 gaming mouse, which is physically customizable in ways I’ve never seen before. The company changed its reputation for cheap, subpar gaming gear a few years ago with the MadCatz FightStick Tournament Edition, a high-quality (and high-priced) arcade stick for fighting-game enthusiasts.
Mad Catz used to be the game-controller maker you turned to when you needed a spare console controller or memory card, and you didn’t want to pay full price for the official Nintendo/Sony/Sega-branded accessory. A good gaming mouse is practically an extension of the body–and the Mad Catz Cyborg RAT 7 Albino ($100 as of December 6, 2011) lets you tweak and interchange different parts to make it a perfect fit.
But if you spend your nights and weekends gaming on your PC, you probably want more than two buttons and a scrollwheel. An ordinary, pack-in Dell or HP mouse is probably good enough to get you through the workday.