I'm a big right hander, and after purchasing both the Lachesis and Sidewinder over the holidays (some overt spending thanks to a gift card), I'm mostly using the Sidewinder now. This GS review places a little too much emphasis on the DPI settings. Any accomplished gamer will find the Sidewinder's 2000dpi peak to be totally sufficient. 3 weeks into using it, I love those vertical side buttons. Other mice's side buttons feel limp and unresponsive now. The Sidewinder looks bulky, but sort of feels like a console controller in its tactileness. Between that and the SW's awesome metal mouse wheel (so nice for clicks / weapon changing, has a great, great feel), I'd definitely recommend it to big righties. About the swappable mouse feet... they're OK. There's one clearly best type to use. MS should've just gone with one best type, and reduced the no. of feet. Love it otherwise.
I'd certainly suggest 2 GB of ram if a) you have a dual-core CPU, and b) you have broadband, and c) you play a lot of modern online games, whether stuff like BF2 or WoW. To put it succinctly, providing such a wide resource (2 GB) means a lot less system paging and accessing...less delay in the pipeline. If you have multiple apps going, your CPU loves the extra resources. Your game loves the extra resources. The broadband connection + game loves the ram. With Vista, we'll probably want 3 to 4 GB for '07-08 Windows games. Hot damn! Then again, memory is cheap.
I always choose my PC for first-person shooters. You'd be mad not to, if your PC has the nutz to run modern games well. Mouse and keyboard, 'specially a G7 or something from Razer, are completely unmatched in FPS. Console reticule targeting feels simultaneously coddling and clunky compared to mouse & keys.
It will still sell out. Western consumerism is unquenchable during this particular era of man. The price will not deter 2 million (initial offering) PS3s from practically evaporating off store shelves, launch day.
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