Gaming: Latest Mchose L7 Pro+ Review
The Mchose L7 Pro+ is a wonderfully lightweight competitive gaming mouse that has an absurdly cheap price tag for what it offers, despite its clicks being a little stiff to release and it lacking some battery life. Its software is fantastic, too, offering tons of customisability.
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Mchose has introduced me to the smaller-brand mouse 'clone' market, and it's changed how I look at gaming mice pretty significantly. I was aware of brands such as this one before, of course, but after having my hands on one of the company's mice and realising it's actually good and costs just $60… well, that kind of changes things, doesn't it?
It's also rather fitting that I'm writing these words after having spent an inordinate amount of time testing and writing about the new $180 Logitech G Pro X2 Superstrike, a mouse that is literally 3x the price of this very good L7 Pro+. That's not me dissing the Superstrike—it packs in some genuinely new and promising tech—but it does go to highlight exactly what brands like Mchose offer: genuine value for those on a budget.
Mice like the L7 Pro+ tend to replicate the shape of popular competitive gaming mice from bigger brands. In this case, the closest match is the much more expensive Pulsar X2 CrazyLight Medium, which I recently reviewed and found pretty solid to use, despite its flaws.
The Pulsar has a bit of a hump towards the back, as does the L7 Pro+, making it great for claw grip gamers. The Plus version that I'm using is for medium or large hands, while the regular version is for smaller hands or those who just want a smaller mouse.
Buttons: 5 (Plus underside DPI Connectivity: USB-C, Wireless 2.4 GHz, or BluetoothSensor: PixArt PAW3395Switches: Omron Optical or Kailh Black Green Dot opticalFeet: PTFEMax DPI: 26,000Weight: 43 g (measured)Max acceleration: 50 GMax speed: 650 IPSPolling rate: Up to 8,000 HzBattery life: 70+ hours @ 1 kHz (estimated)RGB lighting: NoPrice: $60
Unfortunately, I don't use a full claw grip, so my opinion is naturally tinged by this. The shape isn't completely unamenable to palm grip or the kind of relaxed and hybrid palm-claw grip that I use, but the hump on this one does feel a little distracting. Crucially, I found this to be much more the case for the Mchose mouse than the Pulsar one.
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Source: PC Gamer
