9/18/2023 0 Comments Artisan mousepad speedsThe Artisan Zero is a high quality cloth mouse pad and you can tell from just picking it up that it’s well made. I’ve given it a quick run with Diablo 3 and Borderlands 2 and had no trouble adjusting to it, although I’m not exactly coming from a vastly different mouse pad. I use setting 3 (1000dpi) almost exclusively and only change it if I’m playing a game that has stupid mouse sensitivity values. Here are my setpoint settings for those interested: The mouse seems to glide across the pad nicely and I certainly noticed a difference in pointer speed between my Hien and the Zero, the Zero requiring much less effort to move the pointer. The top layer is obviously the most important, and it hasn’t let me down so far. This doesn’t seem to happen just wresting my wrist on the pad though, so no problems there. I think this foam has some sort of memory retention too because I sometimes rest my elbow on the pad while supporting my head and it leaves a nice divot in the pad which slowly disappears. In my case, I have the Hien and the Zero which are both rated as ‘Soft’ pads. The middle layer is foam and I guess that the level of hardness for each of Artisan’s mouse pads is probably determined by the hardness of the foam. My desk is wood and I’ve never had problems with the mouse pad moving, but I think overall, a glass surface is probably going to hold this pad still the best. The bottom layer is a rubberised mat and it sticks very well to everything I tried it on wood, vinyl, plastic and glass. The Zero, like the Hien, is comprised of three layers. Nothing much to say for the appearance of the mouse pad itself other than it’s black (although other colours will be available) and has the branding in the bottom right corner. There is nothing wrapped around the pad itself but the packaging was the same for the Hien and it wasn’t a problem for me. It comes sealed in a cardboard envelope with typical branding and descriptions adorning it. Pretty simple packaging, but it does the job. Obviously I won’t be able to test its durability over the course of a few hours, but if the durability of the Hien is anything to go by, this pad should get some good mileage. I expected it to falter early like the g2 did but it’s still going strong…today I received a new contender for the title, the Artisan Zero X Soft (Medium). I got this beast in December 2011, just in time for a ruthless Australian summer – the ultimate mouse pad sweat test. My prayers were answered in what is my current daily mouse pad, the Artisan Hien Soft (Medium) (HI-SF-JB-M). Other than that though, performance wise it was the best mouse pad I’d ever used so overall it was a bitter-sweet purchase for me and I really longed for another Artisan pad that addressed my issues. The first was that the corners would lift up over time, and the second was the dreaded peel issue at the front which really was a letdown for me. My initial impressions of the mouse pad were good, but there were still some problems. I was lured in by the OP’s post about durability and quality and got myself a g2. So my G9 and I suffered with this Razer eXactmat for many years until I eventually heard about Artisan on this Geekhack thread. In winter it wasn’t too comfortable to use either. The reason was grit/sand/dirt would get on the mouse pad and it shredded the feet and scratched the bottom of the mouse. Once Razer and all the gaming brands started making hard surface mouse pads I thought to myself “Finally! Mouse pads that won’t wither away on me within a few months”…alas, while this was true, hard surface mouse pads were not right for me. For a long time this has meant that cloth mouse pads are absolute rubbish for me because the front edge where my wrist sits gets eaten away as the adhesive that holds the surface down slowly succumbs to my acid sweat.
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