Razer Atheris Ambidextrous Wireless Mouse: 7200 DPI Optical Sensor - 350 Hr Battery Life - USB Wireless Receiver & Bluetooth Connection - Classic Black

I’ve been using the Razer Aetheris Bluetooth Mouse for a couple of weeks now, and I have to say it’s been a pretty smooth experience. What drew me to it initially was the compact design — it’s sleek, portable, and fits nicely in my hand without feeling too cramped or too flimsy. It’s lightweight enough to toss in my bag for travel but still has a bit of heft that makes it feel solid.The Bluetooth connectivity has been reliable so far. I didn’t run into any pairing issues, and it reconnects quickly every time I boot up my laptop. The battery life has also been impressive — I’ve been using it almost daily, and I haven’t had to swap out the batteries yet. I also like that it supports both Bluetooth and a wireless USB dongle, so I have options depending on what I’m working with.In terms of performance, it’s responsive and tracks well on most surfaces. It’s not a gaming mouse, obviously, so you won’t find crazy DPI options or extra buttons, but for everyday use — web browsing, work, and light editing — it does exactly what I need it to do.Overall, I’d recommend it to anyone looking for a simple, dependable wireless mouse with a clean look and no unnecessary frills.

I originally bought this mouse back in 2021, and it's been one of the best mice I've ever owned. I lost it for a while after travel and had to buy a temporary replacement, and the newer (fancier) mouse was so disappointing by comparison that I'm literally about to purchase a spare Atheris just in case this one ever dies.I do have small hands, so a small mouse has always been a desired feature for me. Working in IT for so long has made me irrationally despise wires and cables of all kinds, and both the dongle and bluetooth capabilities of this mouse work fantastically. Has a good DPI range and I don't even have to crank it up all the way to be happy with its performance. Batteries last for what feels like AGES. It has an excellent weight and feel to it, especially for its small size, and that's without the need to go adding weird extra weights or inserts of any kind. Just the mouse with its batteries give it a comfortable heft.I use this for gaming, work, everything. Even in high-performance quick-reaction gaming situations, it's never let me down. If Razer ever makes a version of this exact mouse with even more buttons? Goodbye paycheck, because I'll want a stockpile of 3-4 of them.TL;DR: This is my favorite mouse. Ever. Of all time. It will be ridiculously difficult for any other mouse to top how much I like this one. I've been using it for 3 years and like it so much I'm buying a spare. Small-handed people looking for a comfy daily driver wireless option that does everything you want? Get it. Get it right now. It's durable, reliable, responsive, and comfy as heck.It might be a glowing rosy review, but no one paid me for it. I just seriously heckin' love this mouse and there are so many terrible options out there that finding a good mouse in a sea of trash can be difficult. Especially if you don't have giant hands.

I really like this mouse. I have bought 2 of them. They have a very long lasting battery life due to not having LED lighting on it anywhere. Very responsive & accurate, light touch mouse click which I like. The reason I have only given it 4 stars is because I have gone through 2 of them. They only seem to last a total of 1-2 years. They always end up breaking. The mouse itself stops working. It will still be connected, with brand new batteries but will not work. For a $40 mouse I would expect it to last a lot longer than 1-2 years. My second one just broke after 1.5 years, & I ended up going with a different brand because I am tired of my mouse breaking all the time. But if the quality was better, I would have stuck with this mouse because I really like it.

This may be the best travel mouse I have ever used. Heavy, solid, pairs easily and never drops connection with either the wifi or BT. Its weight is primarily affected by the 2 AA batteries carried internally.Some opinions on weight:If you game or do basic office work, you will never be more accurate than with a heavy mouse than with a light one. Why? It simply gives your brain a starting point and allows you to calculate an exact end point because you have a known weight with which you are moving allowing you to end up in the exact location that you intend to be at the final destination. Headshots are much easier with such a tool.There is one advantage with a light mouse however in that you will move much more quickly from the start but you will trade accuracy as a result for that twitch factor, so take your pick. Lets just say you will never be accused of cheating if you use a light mouse because your movements will be more erratic and far less accurate. In addition, if you game with a light mouse, expect to hate the transition to a heavy mouse for a while until you get used to it. Only when you start seeing some of the incredible shots you pull off will you start to appreciate it.Pro's:-Heavy;-Solid construction;-Smooth accurate glide surface;-Easy to pair with solid non-dropping connections;-Works equally well on Linux as it does on Windows without hunting for drivers.-Includes both wireless and BT so it works on anything;-Very comfortable fit for a small mouse.Cons:-You will hate this mouse if you have big hands so don't buy it;-You won't like it if you prefer a light mouse;-Razer software wants to link to a real person / email address before you can use it. I have not tried to load it yet so I don't know if the current version is still doing that but it is almost a guarantee;-Marketing prey's on Consumers who don't understand DPI and I hate that about mice manufacturers as they all do it these days.I better elaborate on the last one. DPI on this mouse is an astronomical 7200 DPI (note this is not the industry highest either). What does that mean exactly? Well, it stands for Dots Per Inch. To put that into perspective on why you really don't need it, you might first want to understand that mice that were 600 DPI back in the 90's and 2000's and they still work perfectly fine and were like that for years. That is all you could ever buy until Razer changed that game with a product called the Boomslang mouse. Matter of fact, I think I still have a Boomslang around here somewhere, but this is off subject and you can probably read that history yourself. To make this easy, DPI of 7200 means in exactly 1 inch of travel, your mouse has the resolution to move 7200 dots worth of travel. This is simple enough. Now lets analyze your monitor. The majority of monitors are still 1080p which means you have 1920 dots across. If you do a literal translation of this mouse to your desktop screen at 7200 DPI, that means your mouse would traverse from left to right of your entire screen 3.75x is the space of 1 inch. If we were moving vertically, you would traverse the entire screen 6.67x!!! Even if you have a modern 4K monitor, 1 inch of travel would mean you would still be traversing the monitor nearly 2 times! If you are starting to visualize this, this mouse would be pretty much unusable if it were not dampened by software and no longer running at its native resolution. When razer released it's Boomslang way back when, if you didn't dampen it's 2,000 DPI, it was already unusable right out of the box. These days, it seems to be expected that manufacturers are doing this and Windows will dampen it right out of the box for you. Let's just say while your mouse may be 7200 DPI capable, you are not really using that capability.The point of all this is simple... Marketing hype for these super high resolutions is just that, hype. You are not going to be a better gamer if this thing was 2,000 DPI or 20,000 DPI. You cannot possibly use these resolutions effectively. With that said, the way the mouse feels and moves physically means everything and that is what will win the day, and boy does this mouse feel right when moving it. I hope all this makes sense.What I have not tried:I have not loaded the Razer software which allows you to tweak the mouse like polling rate and DPI. I might load it to check out what the latest tools looks like but there is no need to load anything special to make this mouse work and I likely won't use the tools after the initial look.Update 1/19/19: Mouse has a major con.... My wife liked it so much she took it. Just had to buy another one to replace it.In the approximately year I have owned it, I have never had a single disconnect / dropped signal as mentioned here by other reviewers. My only thought is that there is a problem with the bluetooth on their laptop, a problem with drivers on their laptop, the mouse entered some sort of sleep state which it will do after a certain amount of inactivity, or they got a bad mouse. Note that I have never used the official Razer drivers either so it could be a problem with Rzer software that I am not aware of.