**Introducing the Proteus Core Gaming Mouse**
The Proteus Core is a high-performance gaming mouse that boasts an impressive array of features and specifications. With 11 programmable buttons, including tilt left and right on the scroll wheel and a click on the scroll wheel, users can customize their gaming experience to suit their preferences. The mouse also has two additional buttons for individual key strokes or multi-key macros, making it easy to create complex in-game commands.
One of the unique features of the Proteus Core is its ability to enumerate as both a keyboard and a mouse when plugged in. This allows users to play games without switching between keyboards and mice, making it easier to navigate complex menus and controls. The switch under each key is made from mechanical switches, providing a tactile and precise typing experience.
The Proteus Core features a new wheel design with a rubber tire, which has been replaced by a full metal wheel in the latest model. This change provides a more precise and durable scrolling experience, with improved ratchet force to help users feel the detents between different scrolling positions. The hyper-fast mode also spins the wheel at an incredible speed, providing a thrilling gaming experience.
**Individual Keyplates for Improved Performance**
One of the key innovations in the Proteus Core is its use of individual keyplates on the left and right mouse buttons. This design feature eliminates the problem of monolithic keyplates flexing or warping under repeated clicks, which can lead to inconsistent performance and reduced durability. By using separate keyplates, users can enjoy a perfectly perpendicular click with improved precision and feel.
The Proteus Core also features PTFE polytetrafluoroethylene feet, which provide a commercial-grade surface for the mouse to glide across. These feet are rated to 250 kilometers of travel, making them incredibly durable and resistant to wear and tear. The sides of the mouse are made from rubber, providing a comfortable grip and helping to prevent fatigue during extended gaming sessions.
**Sensor Technology: A Game-Changer**
The Proteus Core boasts one of the most advanced sensors available in the market today. Developed from the ground up with the aim of being the most accurate sensor ever created, it features a range of innovative technologies that set it apart from other gaming mice. The sensor has a tracking speed of 300 hips inches per second, making it capable of capturing even the fastest and most complex movements.
One of the key benefits of the Proteus Core's sensor is its ability to track at accelerations of up to 40 g's, which is incredibly high for a mouse. This means that users can enjoy smooth and accurate tracking even in the most intense gaming situations. The sensor also features zero smoothing, allowing it to maintain a consistent response speed across the entire DPI range.
**DPI Range and Features**
The Proteus Core has a DPI range of 200-12,000, with no compromise on performance at higher speeds. This means that users can enjoy precise and accurate tracking even at the highest DPI settings. The sensor also features zero pixel rounding, which helps to improve the overall accuracy and responsiveness of the mouse.
In addition to its impressive specifications, the Proteus Core also features a range of innovative technologies designed to enhance the gaming experience. These include surface heating, which allows the mouse to maintain contact with the surface even at high speeds, and advanced acceleration handling.
**MSRP and Availability**
The Proteus Core is priced at $79.99, making it an affordable option for gamers looking for a high-performance mouse. With its impressive specifications and innovative technologies, this mouse is sure to be a hit among gaming enthusiasts.
**Conclusion**
The Proteus Core gaming mouse is a powerful and versatile device that offers a range of features and specifications designed to enhance the gaming experience. From its 11 programmable buttons to its advanced sensor technology, this mouse is built for serious gamers who demand the best performance from their equipment. With its individual keyplates, durable feet, and impressive sensor capabilities, the Proteus Core is sure to be a favorite among gamers for years to come.
"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enhey everyone this is steve from gamersnexus.net and we're here at pax east 2014 at the logitech booth right now i'm joined by chris pate product manager for gaming mice and we are talking about the proteus core mouse that we actually just posted about hit a link in the description below for the news announcement today we're looking at the actual mouse in person it's got a couple new changes can you give us a uh just a an elevator pitch of what the core features are sure so proteus core is really about tuning uh tunability right so we want to give gamers the ability to make the mouse work for them exactly the way they want to and we started by developing a sensor from the ground up that has zero smoothing has zero pixel rounding is incredibly fast it cracks it up to 300 inches per second and it has the best accuracy that we know of in addition we added a new feature called surface tuning which allows you to configure the mouse for the surface that you're on you could actually just say okay tell the software tell them how it's okay this is the pad i'm on and it will reconfigure itself change the um uh the parameters of the of the sensor so that it gets the optimal light and reflective uh behavior off of the surface that uh that you're using it's able to be tuned to pretty much whatever service you want to use it on not glass but pretty close to everything else and this is all done through the logitech gaming software so the logitech gaming software is the uh is what we use to actually do the tuning process but the tuning happens and is stored on the sensor itself and uh from what i understand doesn't mean we're capable of moving the mouse from system to system and retaining the settings exactly we've got uh three on-board memory profiles uh the onboard memory is uh driven by a 32-bit arm processor uh and you can store up to you can store your your um your surface tuning you can score multi-key macros you can store up to five dpi settings uh the report rate of the mouse can be stored on the onboard memory so you can completely configure the product and then either take it to another computer or uninstall the software and it'll just keep working the way you want it to or use it on a non non-windows os and with buttons which are of course pretty important for a mouse is it 11 buttons we have 11 programmable buttons uh two of them are the tilt left and right on the scroll wheel and one of them is clicking the scroll wheel um but we have 11 programmable controls that you can uh set um with again mouse functions or individual key strokes or multi multi-key macros when you plug the mouse in like most like a lot of gaming mice uh it enumerates as both a keyboard and a mouse so when you're playing back keystrokes it's actually coming over the keyboard channel so it looks to the os like a keyboard is typing stuff right and with how about the switch is under the surface so we use mechanical switches under every key the left and right tilt and the scroll wheel are not micro switches left and right tilt are a very nice kind of square tack switch and the and the wheel click is a standard metal dome switch how has the wheel changed from the g500s so we've uh changed it from a uh a metal wheel with the with the dual mode scrolling to that has a rubber tire on it to a full metal wheel uh in addition we've improved the ratchet force so that you can easily uh more easily feel the detents between the different scrolling positions so it's easier to tell when you've scrolled from one two three or whatever and then in the in the in the hyper fast mode it still spins you know for sure and in the marketing text from the initial press release it was a key feature that we're using individual keyplates now on left mouse and right mouse right can you explain for everyone why that's important sure so with a monolithic keyplate design which is used by a lot of gaming mice right now it's it's easy to get into a situation sometimes where you're you're clicking the button in such a way that the the key plate will flex or warp which causes it to not um actuate the uh the switch perpendicular to the plane of the uh to the surface it's on so if you get it coming in at a shear you get a less good click feeling and it has effects on durability as well so we get a much more perfectly perpendicular click which feels better which is more precise and it's more durable can you run us through the endurance specs the the distance and key clicks uh sure so we got 20 million clicks on each of the left and right keys um the feet are ptfe polytetrafluoroethylene um which has a commercial name that we don't use uh it's uh it's they're they're super slick they're rated to 250 kilometers of travel um uh the sides are uh are rubber and not a paint so they're much more durable than than mice have been in the past um you know it's a it's a it's got a braided cable uh you know it's it's uh it it's got a three-year warranty and it'll live up to it so one of the most important features with any gaming mouse is the sensor this sensor has been boasted as one of the best or the best that you guys have at least ever made or worked with can you tell me why sure so we actually worked really hard to develop this new sensor from the ground up with the idea that it was going to be the most accurate sensor on the market um it has the highest tracking speed available in the market right now so it goes up to 300 hips inches per second it has the ability to track even at accelerations of up to 40 g's and that's not acceleration in the sense of the word that that people believe that a sensor has acceleration this is the sensor's ability to handle being accelerated or decelerated is rated at 40 40 gravities which is incredibly a lot that's a lot imagine weighing 40 times what you do right now i'd rather not yeah would suck um uh it is uh it has zero smoothing so we get a huge dpi range but we do it without any smoothing and without any extra calculation so it does go from 200 to 12 000 dpi but we don't compromise on performance at 12 000 dpi you are just as accurate and responsive at 12 000 as you are down to 200. uh has zero pixel rounding uh which is uh uh which makes the tracking more uh again makes everything is designed around making the tracking more accurate and more responsive so it's got a lot of features inside the sensor that haven't been implemented before uh in addition to the the surface heating feature very cool so msrp is 79.99 so 80 hit links in the description below for full article coverage and it is the proteus core we'll be reviewing it soon so do check back for a full review i always do a tear down of these mice so we can see what's inside and we will see you all next time peacehey everyone this is steve from gamersnexus.net and we're here at pax east 2014 at the logitech booth right now i'm joined by chris pate product manager for gaming mice and we are talking about the proteus core mouse that we actually just posted about hit a link in the description below for the news announcement today we're looking at the actual mouse in person it's got a couple new changes can you give us a uh just a an elevator pitch of what the core features are sure so proteus core is really about tuning uh tunability right so we want to give gamers the ability to make the mouse work for them exactly the way they want to and we started by developing a sensor from the ground up that has zero smoothing has zero pixel rounding is incredibly fast it cracks it up to 300 inches per second and it has the best accuracy that we know of in addition we added a new feature called surface tuning which allows you to configure the mouse for the surface that you're on you could actually just say okay tell the software tell them how it's okay this is the pad i'm on and it will reconfigure itself change the um uh the parameters of the of the sensor so that it gets the optimal light and reflective uh behavior off of the surface that uh that you're using it's able to be tuned to pretty much whatever service you want to use it on not glass but pretty close to everything else and this is all done through the logitech gaming software so the logitech gaming software is the uh is what we use to actually do the tuning process but the tuning happens and is stored on the sensor itself and uh from what i understand doesn't mean we're capable of moving the mouse from system to system and retaining the settings exactly we've got uh three on-board memory profiles uh the onboard memory is uh driven by a 32-bit arm processor uh and you can store up to you can store your your um your surface tuning you can score multi-key macros you can store up to five dpi settings uh the report rate of the mouse can be stored on the onboard memory so you can completely configure the product and then either take it to another computer or uninstall the software and it'll just keep working the way you want it to or use it on a non non-windows os and with buttons which are of course pretty important for a mouse is it 11 buttons we have 11 programmable buttons uh two of them are the tilt left and right on the scroll wheel and one of them is clicking the scroll wheel um but we have 11 programmable controls that you can uh set um with again mouse functions or individual key strokes or multi multi-key macros when you plug the mouse in like most like a lot of gaming mice uh it enumerates as both a keyboard and a mouse so when you're playing back keystrokes it's actually coming over the keyboard channel so it looks to the os like a keyboard is typing stuff right and with how about the switch is under the surface so we use mechanical switches under every key the left and right tilt and the scroll wheel are not micro switches left and right tilt are a very nice kind of square tack switch and the and the wheel click is a standard metal dome switch how has the wheel changed from the g500s so we've uh changed it from a uh a metal wheel with the with the dual mode scrolling to that has a rubber tire on it to a full metal wheel uh in addition we've improved the ratchet force so that you can easily uh more easily feel the detents between the different scrolling positions so it's easier to tell when you've scrolled from one two three or whatever and then in the in the in the hyper fast mode it still spins you know for sure and in the marketing text from the initial press release it was a key feature that we're using individual keyplates now on left mouse and right mouse right can you explain for everyone why that's important sure so with a monolithic keyplate design which is used by a lot of gaming mice right now it's it's easy to get into a situation sometimes where you're you're clicking the button in such a way that the the key plate will flex or warp which causes it to not um actuate the uh the switch perpendicular to the plane of the uh to the surface it's on so if you get it coming in at a shear you get a less good click feeling and it has effects on durability as well so we get a much more perfectly perpendicular click which feels better which is more precise and it's more durable can you run us through the endurance specs the the distance and key clicks uh sure so we got 20 million clicks on each of the left and right keys um the feet are ptfe polytetrafluoroethylene um which has a commercial name that we don't use uh it's uh it's they're they're super slick they're rated to 250 kilometers of travel um uh the sides are uh are rubber and not a paint so they're much more durable than than mice have been in the past um you know it's a it's a it's got a braided cable uh you know it's it's uh it it's got a three-year warranty and it'll live up to it so one of the most important features with any gaming mouse is the sensor this sensor has been boasted as one of the best or the best that you guys have at least ever made or worked with can you tell me why sure so we actually worked really hard to develop this new sensor from the ground up with the idea that it was going to be the most accurate sensor on the market um it has the highest tracking speed available in the market right now so it goes up to 300 hips inches per second it has the ability to track even at accelerations of up to 40 g's and that's not acceleration in the sense of the word that that people believe that a sensor has acceleration this is the sensor's ability to handle being accelerated or decelerated is rated at 40 40 gravities which is incredibly a lot that's a lot imagine weighing 40 times what you do right now i'd rather not yeah would suck um uh it is uh it has zero smoothing so we get a huge dpi range but we do it without any smoothing and without any extra calculation so it does go from 200 to 12 000 dpi but we don't compromise on performance at 12 000 dpi you are just as accurate and responsive at 12 000 as you are down to 200. uh has zero pixel rounding uh which is uh uh which makes the tracking more uh again makes everything is designed around making the tracking more accurate and more responsive so it's got a lot of features inside the sensor that haven't been implemented before uh in addition to the the surface heating feature very cool so msrp is 79.99 so 80 hit links in the description below for full article coverage and it is the proteus core we'll be reviewing it soon so do check back for a full review i always do a tear down of these mice so we can see what's inside and we will see you all next time peace\n"
