104 TECH ADVISOR • NOVEMBER 2019GAMING SPECIALkeeping the fingertips and rear of the palm in contact.
This allows for quicker button pressing and slightly
quicker movement, but puts more strain on your wrists.Fingertip grip: The most agile grip also puts the most
strain on your wrists. Fingertip grip, as the name
implies, involves guiding the mouse with only your
fingertips – no palm contact at all. Generally, a mouse
that works for a claw grip will work for a fingertip grip.
The main distinction is between palm and claw grips.Other factors
Button count: You’ll pretty much never find a three-
button gaming mouse. Even the budget-friendly
devices we’ve tested have five to 10 buttons.Sensor: Dots per inch, or dpi, is a measure of how
many pixels the mouse moves on-screen per each inch
of desk you move it across. Some people prefer to
make large, sweeping motions with a lot of precision,
necessitating a low dpi. Others want fast, jerky motions
that start and stop on a penny – high dpi. The latter
group will want to pay particular attention to each
mouse’s limit.
At this point, the dpi arms race has become largely
meaningless. Manufacturers push numbers that are so
high as to be impractical for most people’s day-to-day
use. Is that 16,000dpi mouse more useful to you than
the 12,000dpi mouse? Probably not.Shape: There are three main categories here, too: right-
handed, left-handed, and ambidextrous. We’ve looked104 TECH ADVISOR • NOVEMBER 2019
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keeping the fingertips and rear of the palm in contact.
This allows for quicker button pressing and slightly
quicker movement, but puts more strain on your wrists.Fingertip grip: The most agile grip also puts the most
strain on your wrists. Fingertip grip, as the name
implies, involves guiding the mouse with only your
fingertips – no palm contact at all. Generally, a mouse
that works for a claw grip will work for a fingertip grip.
The main distinction is between palm and claw grips.Other factors
Button count: You’ll pretty much never find a three-
button gaming mouse. Even the budget-friendly
devices we’ve tested have five to 10 buttons.Sensor: Dots per inch, or dpi, is a measure of how
many pixels the mouse moves on-screen per each inch
of desk you move it across. Some people prefer to
make large, sweeping motions with a lot of precision,
necessitating a low dpi. Others want fast, jerky motions
that start and stop on a penny – high dpi. The latter
group will want to pay particular attention to each
mouse’s limit.
At this point, the dpi arms race has become largely
meaningless. Manufacturers push numbers that are so
high as to be impractical for most people’s day-to-day
use. Is that 16,000dpi mouse more useful to you than
the 12,000dpi mouse? Probably not.Shape: There are three main categories here, too: right-
handed, left-handed, and ambidextrous. We’ve looked