MCHOSE L7 Pro

[pzogel]

The ambidextrous MCHOSE L7 Pro is a strong budget contender: at a weight of 40 g without any holes, it comes with PixArt's PAW3395 sensor, Omron optical switches, Bluetooth support, and 8000 Hz polling in both wired and wireless operation.

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[Chrispy_]

Wow.

Puts all these $150+ mice in their place, without making any of their mistakes either.

 

[LocutusH]

Nice specs, and results, but... McHosé ? Really?
How do you even pronounce it, without sounding like a mexican immigrant gardener.

 

[Onasi]

Now put those same specs in more shapes at the same price and we are cooking. Shame about the sub-par skates, but a sheet of Tiger ICEs or Jade Dots is, what, 10 bucks for a lifetime supply on Ali? Just grab that and replace, you are still massively ahead of the usual pricing.

Edit: I also smirk every time when @pzogel describes a cable as stiff to the point where “playing when charging is impossible”. It isn’t, not really. I have been in the trenches, I used early 2010-s Trust and A4Tech mice with their hilariously inflexible braided cords that literally could hold a shape when bent. I used a G9X for years with its famously dogshit cable. Nothing is really “impossible”. Unless one insists on playing veeeeeery low sense on a mudpad.

 

[Chrispy_]

Edit: I also smirk every time when @pzogel describes a cable as stiff to the point where “playing when charging is impossible”. It isn’t, not really.

I see it as a nitpick that probably irrelevant to most people but still worth mentioning.

With a heavy mouse, the stiffness of the cable is mostly irrelevant. On a 40g featherweight it's far more noticeable. The important thing is that it's not a dealbreaker because it's just USB-C, you can change it for the flimsiest, most flexible and limp cable in the world if it really bothers you.

 

[Hakker]

I don't really get the whole the mouse needs to be lighter movement. I mean mine is a hefty 120 gram one and I found it on the light side as the previous one I had was weighted down as much as I could which probably made it more in the range of 170 gram.

 

[Onasi]

@Hakker
Playing low sens in competitive FPS (constant lifting and resetting of the mouse is far easier with lower weight) and anything involving fingertip grip. Even that aside, there really isn’t much reason for mice (especially wireless) to be heavy. I get that there ARE people who legitimately for some personal reasons PREFER a heavier mouse, but I would say that the market and trends sort of proven that for the majority of users lower weight is better.

 

[JIWIL]

Some of the early Logi's had removable lead weights that went into a compartment underside. I'd fill that bad boy up and get my inertia on. That's a firm handshake son.

McHosed McFly.

 

[Wirko]

What's the resolution of the scroll wheel?

 

[pzogel]

What's the resolution of the scroll wheel?

By resolution, do you mean the number of steps? They're 24, much like on the vast majority of other current releases.

 

[Wirko]

By resolution, do you mean the number of steps? They're 24, much like on the vast majority of other current releases.

That's what I mean, thanks. For office work and programming, I find that insufficient and would love to have about 2x as many steps, but yeah, those primitive encoders are everywhere.

 

[LocutusH]

That's what I mean, thanks. For office work and programming, I find that insufficient and would love to have about 2x as many steps, but yeah, those primitive encoders are everywhere.

I am waiting for an infinite scroll option. I hate browsing with a rattling wheel. Loved the free scroll back then with my G900/G502, and mx master in the office.
But it seems like none of the new lightweight mouses offer this.

 

[Luckz]

@Hakker
Playing low sens in competitive FPS (constant lifting and resetting of the mouse is far easier with lower weight) and anything involving fingertip grip. Even that aside, there really isn’t much reason for mice (especially wireless) to be heavy. I get that there ARE people who legitimately for some personal reasons PREFER a heavier mouse, but I would say that the market and trends sort of proven that for the majority of users lower weight is better.

I'm particularly weird: since my 115g G502LS started misclicking too much, I've been forced to retreat to some random 80g Zowie, and the weight difference doesn't register for me - using fingertip grip.
Other people buy different mice because of a mere 4g difference.


@pzogel the L7 Ultra offers doubled battery capacity, in the basic white and black colors anyway.

 

[192kbps]

Some self-media in the Chinese community used XLAT to test L7 and found that when testing click latency while moving, the click latency is very high, seemingly due to load issues. Have you verified this?

 

[pzogel]

Some self-media in the Chinese community used XLAT to test L7 and found that when testing click latency while moving, the click latency is very high, seemingly due to load issues. Have you verified this?

Some self-media in the Chinese community used XLAT to test L7 and found that when testing click latency while moving, the click latency is very high, seemingly due to load issues. Have you verified this?

As mentioned in the review, click latency increases moderately by 0.14 ms (from 0.22 ms to 0.36 ms) when moving the mouse at 8000 Hz. This increase is slightly larger compared to other mice under the same conditions, but certainly doesn't amount to what could be deemed "very high" click latency.