Razer Mamba TE Chroma

A comfy device, with lots to recommend it.

There are two versions of this mouse. The Luxury Edition doubles the price and adds optional wirelessness, customizable click force through a couple of hex nuts on its base, and comes with a recharging stand that lights up. Nnngh!

The Tournament Edition is the basic model, and the more successful of the two. It’s a large mouse that fits well in the hand, with a humped back to increase comfort. Like every other mouse in this test, it’s permanently wired to your PC. There’s a lighting strip that, by default, slowly cycles through its colours. The large Razer logo also lights up — a feature the Luxury Edition lacks — and if you’ve got a full house of Razer products on your desk, you can synchronise the lighting across headset, keyboard and mouse using the Razer software.

The Mamba is lovely, a really nice mouse to use all day. So nice that we’d call the Luxury Edition unnecessary. It’s not overburdened with switches, with only two extra buttons either side, and no way of making it ambidextrous, but the wheel clicks left and right, and rolls satisfyingly under the middle finger, with big notches so you know when it’s clicked into place.

It’s a bit backheavy, but the rubberised area below the side buttons is a good thumb rest, allowing a decent grip, no matter what hand position you prefer.

The sensor is a 16,000dpi laser unit, all nine buttons can be reconfigured, and the sevenfoot cable feels generous.

The Mamba is a great allround package that does everything it sets out to do.