Mionix Naos 5000 Mouse Review

Playing with the Naos 5000

The Naos 5000 has a fantastic grip and it’s very comfortable. We usually go for lighter, leaner and finger-controlled mice, and never put too much trust in fancy ergonomic designs, but the Mionix peripheral just changed our minds. It’s very good to be able to play with the hand fully rested over the mouse.

Thanks to the easiness of use, we readily tuned the mouse to play Modern Warfare 2, World of Warcraft and work with texts and photo editing. But we missed having a single button to change the profiles instead of having to waste a programmable button to that particular function. Sometimes we forgot to change the profile and had to Alt+Tab to Windows to open the Mionix software and then make the change. That was a drag. Another minor gripe is that the wheel doesn’t do horizontal scrolling. Of course that’s not a high priority for most users, but still makes it easier to navigate through large PDF files, for instance.

Figure 6: Lights on.

As for the performance, this is a subjective experience. The first matches felt awkward by the full hand rest over the mouse, but as soon as we got the hang of it, we achieved our usually (great) gaming performance (the headshots just kept on coming). The Naos responded well to the sensitivity changes and it’s unbeatable in the comfort issue. As we said in the intro, it’s already our official mouse. Highly recommended.