At first look, the Glorious Model O appears to be like like it will be an absolute nightmare for PC gaming pet house owners. With extra holes in its extremely light-weight chassis than a block of Swiss cheese, I can already see myself making an attempt to tweezer out clumps of cat hair from it which have someway managed to waft in to one in all its many honeycomb-shaped hollows.
But when the Glorious Model O and its even lighter Model O- sibling, which I’ve acquired on take a look at right here from the parents over at Overclockers UK, are this beautiful to make use of, I reckon I’d be okay with it. I didn’t suppose it was doable to make a gaming mouse that was lighter than Razer’s 69g Viper, however Glorious’ holey honeycomb shell means the Model O is ready to get all the way down to a mere 67g, whereas the smaller Model O- is an much more spectacular 58g. And man alive does it really feel good to swish round your mouse mat.
It’s simply so mild and breezy and responsive beneath my fingers, as if it’s poised and able to dash throughout my mouse mat at a second’s discover. Its symmetrical (however sadly nonetheless right-hand oriented) design was additionally tremendous cozy, and I by no means had an issue with the honeycomb holes rubbing or grating in opposition to my palm, both. Once I had my hand on it, it felt simply as clean as a daily gaming mouse – and most significantly, it didn’t make my palms really feel all sweaty and gross after I’d completed taking part in games on it.
And what a looker it’s, too. I’m usually not massive into my mouse’s RGB lighting, largely as a result of it appears like such a token effort within the first place. After all, what’s the purpose of getting an RGB emblem when it’s simply going to get lined up by my hand? The Glorious Model O, nevertheless, actually goes to city on it, and I don’t suppose I’ve ever been extra in awe of a mouse’s dedication to turning into a full-blown radioactive Skittle.
As properly as an RGB scroll wheel, for instance, you additionally get an RGB swish down either side of the mouse, as if it have been a radiant, rainbow-infused extension of the luscious locks of Glorious’ bearded emblem man. However, these swishes additionally bleed out into the remainder of the mouse by advantage of its holey chassis, which I believe appears to be like actually moderately dashing in opposition to the white matt shell of my Model O- assessment pattern. Yes, numerous it’s nonetheless going to get lined up by your hand more often than not, however there’s nonetheless sufficient of it that’s seen spherical the sting of my hand to deliver a smile to my face every time I catch sight of it.
That mentioned, I might think about that these with bigger arms than myself could discover the Model O (and by extension the Model O-) a bit too small for his or her liking, because it actually is kind of a diddy factor certainly. As talked about above, I used to be despatched the Model O- for assessment, and this stands simply 36mm off the bottom and 120x63mm at its widest, longest factors. That’s even titchier than the 37.5mm excessive Model O, whose footprint is available in at 128x66mm. Personally, that’s a implausible dimension for me, however I doubt that would be the case for everybody.
Still, supplied you’re down with that type of dimension, the Model O and Model O- make for some actually nice gaming mice. Their Pixart PMW-3360 sensors have a DPI vary of 100-12,000, and it comes with 4 default profiles which are set to 400, 800, 1600 and 3200 DPI out of the field. For me, I discovered its default velocity of 1600 DPI was greater than sufficient for gaming and desktop duties alike, however you too can allow an extra two profiles, in addition to regulate mentioned profiles to no matter DPI velocity you want, by downloading Glorious’ free Model O software program.
Annoyingly, there’s no approach of telling which DPI profile you’re really on until you flip the mouse over and have a look at the color of its little DPI mild subsequent to the sensor. Even after putting in the software program, for instance, I hoped it would observe within the footsteps of different gaming mouse software program and present me a bit of onscreen notification once I modified DPI velocity, however alas it was to not be. As I mentioned, although, I used to be more than pleased to go away it at 1600 DPI throughout my testing, so it didn’t find yourself being a very massive a deal for me.
I’d nonetheless advocate downloading its software program pack, although, as that is the one strategy to customise its six programmable buttons. The two aspect buttons are set to ahead and again by default, for instance, however these together with the 2 fundamental clickers, scroll wheel and central DPI button might be modified to all method of various capabilities. These embody different mouse buttons, a triple click on, keyboard combos, macro instructions, multimedia controls, or a particular DPI velocity for so long as you maintain it down – a bit just like the Sniper capabilities accessible on different gaming mice for gradual, straightforward panning when lining up headshots and the like. You can solely set the latter function to a specific set of speeds sadly, the bottom being 400 DPI, but it surely’s nice to see this DPI Lock perform included nonetheless.
There are additionally choices for altering the Model O’s RGB lighting, together with turning all of it off if you happen to desire, in addition to its lift-off distance, polling price and debounce time, however most of those might be left just about alone until you’re a hardcore aggressive kind.
The neatest thing in regards to the Glorious Model O and Model O-, nevertheless, is the worth. The latter goes for simply £45 / $50 at time of writing, whereas the marginally bigger Model O might be had for £50 / $60. That’s less expensive than the just about as mild Razer Viper, and I a lot desire it to the equally priced Steelseries Rival 310 and Roccat Kone Pure, too. The Roccat has the added benefit of much more customisable capabilities, however for me, the Model O’s ultralight chassis far outweighs having a few additional controls at my disposal.
Its small dimension and honeycomb shell gained’t be for everybody, after all, and there’ll little doubt come a time once I find yourself cursing myself for having ever let my two cats close to it. But up to now I haven’t needed to get the tweezers out simply but, and that’s after a superb couple of weeks of getting it plonked on my desk, too. Maybe it’s the smouldering appears to be like of Glorious’ long-haired god man on the aspect that’s stored my cats at bay, or perhaps they’re simply cautious of the infinite parade of colors pouring out the aspect. Who can say. What I’ll say, although, is that I like the Glorious Model O- a lot that I’m going to create a brand-new class in my best gaming mouse rankings for it, giving it the illustrious title of being my greatest mouse for small arms advice. A beard that highly effective deserves no much less.
