As promised, here's a quick review. 
Taking it out of its minimalist and well presented box, you realise that a lot of thought has gone into this mouse. Unlike the Naos 5000, the Naos 3200, 7000 and 8200 no longer have the tuneable weight system. This was no problem for me – as I personally feel that the mouse is perfectly balanced, with the centre of mass being low and central – but you may prefer a mouse that allows that little extra customisation.
Setting up the mouse is as simple as plugging it in, then using it. Nothing more needs to be done unless you’re after changing the settings, which requires downloading the software from Mionix’s website. This allows you to tweak a range of settings from the well laid out and well presented options within the software, which is clear to understand and easy to get to grips with.
The mouse has two side buttons and two top buttons, along with the usual left click, right click and mouse wheel. Each of these can be set to a desired action within the software – the standard actions are shown below – but can be set to swap between mouse profiles, of which there are a maximum of five, perform a recorded macro or be disabled completely.
The LED’s are RGB, meaning you have 16.8million individual colours to choose from. Each LED lit part of the mouse can have its own colour or it can be disabled completely in the mouse software. There are also lighting mode options where you can choose between pulsating lights, ‘breathing’ lights, blinking lights – which I find slightly off putting – and my preferred solid lights, which mean they’re on constantly.
Using the mouse is a very nice experience. It’s a perfect fit for a palm grip user that is also right handed, with no left handed Naos available – a possibility in the future, but no signs of one as of writing this – but an Ambidextrous Mionix mouse of the same specification called the Avior.
The Naos 8200 is powered by a 32-bit ARM processor running at 72Mhz, paired with an Avago 9800 sensor that is capable of up to 8200DPI, putting it on par with some of the highest spec mice on sale. It has four large PTFE (Teflon) feet, a reasonably soft 2 meter braided cable that has a gold plated USB2.0 connector. It has polling rates of 125/250/500/1000Hz meaning reaction times as little as one millisecond, about three hundred times quicker than blinking. That’s quick.
It glides very smoothly on any surface. My leather desk mat – Ikea Knös – is rated at 90% on the SQAT tool. This is their “Surface Quality Analyser Tool”, which gives you an indication of how well the sensor is able to pick up and track the mouse movements on your surface. I also achieved 90% on the Mionix Ensis 320 and Razer Scarab mats.
Using the mouse in games instantly shows you just how well the mouse tracks. Tracking targets in World of Tanks was easier than ever, with a flick of the wrist you found them, with no error from the mouse at all. A very similar experience was found on Skyrim, Battlefield, Metro..., it’s just a very slick mouse that works brilliantly with first person games. Very few buttons are able to get in the way, but enough are there to allow a quick frag, a quick reload, then a flick of the wrist and that all important kill.
Even though I can only say good things, I can only give it a 9/10. Why? Well, updating the firmware wasn’t as plain sailing as everything else has been. It took me over an hour to get it to work, trying on multiple machines, multiple different Windows OS’s, before it finally decided to work. It got stuck in the updating mode while at it too. Once it finally worked – for no apparent reason – it has been an epic experience. But, if you’re not as unlucky (read:Hopeless if you wish) as I am, then you’ll find it can only be a perfect 10.
Taking it out of its minimalist and well presented box, you realise that a lot of thought has gone into this mouse. Unlike the Naos 5000, the Naos 3200, 7000 and 8200 no longer have the tuneable weight system. This was no problem for me – as I personally feel that the mouse is perfectly balanced, with the centre of mass being low and central – but you may prefer a mouse that allows that little extra customisation.
Setting up the mouse is as simple as plugging it in, then using it. Nothing more needs to be done unless you’re after changing the settings, which requires downloading the software from Mionix’s website. This allows you to tweak a range of settings from the well laid out and well presented options within the software, which is clear to understand and easy to get to grips with.
The mouse has two side buttons and two top buttons, along with the usual left click, right click and mouse wheel. Each of these can be set to a desired action within the software – the standard actions are shown below – but can be set to swap between mouse profiles, of which there are a maximum of five, perform a recorded macro or be disabled completely.
The LED’s are RGB, meaning you have 16.8million individual colours to choose from. Each LED lit part of the mouse can have its own colour or it can be disabled completely in the mouse software. There are also lighting mode options where you can choose between pulsating lights, ‘breathing’ lights, blinking lights – which I find slightly off putting – and my preferred solid lights, which mean they’re on constantly.
Using the mouse is a very nice experience. It’s a perfect fit for a palm grip user that is also right handed, with no left handed Naos available – a possibility in the future, but no signs of one as of writing this – but an Ambidextrous Mionix mouse of the same specification called the Avior.
The Naos 8200 is powered by a 32-bit ARM processor running at 72Mhz, paired with an Avago 9800 sensor that is capable of up to 8200DPI, putting it on par with some of the highest spec mice on sale. It has four large PTFE (Teflon) feet, a reasonably soft 2 meter braided cable that has a gold plated USB2.0 connector. It has polling rates of 125/250/500/1000Hz meaning reaction times as little as one millisecond, about three hundred times quicker than blinking. That’s quick.
It glides very smoothly on any surface. My leather desk mat – Ikea Knös – is rated at 90% on the SQAT tool. This is their “Surface Quality Analyser Tool”, which gives you an indication of how well the sensor is able to pick up and track the mouse movements on your surface. I also achieved 90% on the Mionix Ensis 320 and Razer Scarab mats.
Using the mouse in games instantly shows you just how well the mouse tracks. Tracking targets in World of Tanks was easier than ever, with a flick of the wrist you found them, with no error from the mouse at all. A very similar experience was found on Skyrim, Battlefield, Metro..., it’s just a very slick mouse that works brilliantly with first person games. Very few buttons are able to get in the way, but enough are there to allow a quick frag, a quick reload, then a flick of the wrist and that all important kill.
Even though I can only say good things, I can only give it a 9/10. Why? Well, updating the firmware wasn’t as plain sailing as everything else has been. It took me over an hour to get it to work, trying on multiple machines, multiple different Windows OS’s, before it finally decided to work. It got stuck in the updating mode while at it too. Once it finally worked – for no apparent reason – it has been an epic experience. But, if you’re not as unlucky (read:Hopeless if you wish) as I am, then you’ll find it can only be a perfect 10.
