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9/23/12 at 3:07pm
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I recommend the Steelseries 9HD. This thing is. Awesome. First plastic/non cloth pad, and it just works. Insanely well.
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9/23/12 at 3:07pm
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The surface also has to be flat; on a surface which has a ridged texture, it will not track properly. Also, mine appeared to have tracking issues on surfaces that had multiple colors, like my desk, but that was probably part of the sensor problems I was having.

Interesting, Only issues I had was the slight movement of the mouse pad while clicking would cause the pointer to move. made double clicking very hard.
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9/23/12 at 3:22pm
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I recommend the Steelseries 9HD. This thing is. Awesome. First plastic/non cloth pad, and it just works. Insanely well.

I have the 4HD and it doesn't work very well with the RAT 7.
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9/23/12 at 4:40pm
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I recommend the Steelseries 9HD. This thing is. Awesome. First plastic/non cloth pad, and it just works. Insanely well.

I have tried 4 different mouse pads, razer ironclad and scurb, both are TERRIBLE, but the 9HD pro is amazing, especially with the sensei biggrin.gif
but he cant buy a sensei in his country frown.gif
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9/23/12 at 5:14pm
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I have tried 4 different mouse pads, razer ironclad and scurb, both are TERRIBLE, but the 9HD pro is amazing, especially with the sensei biggrin.gif
but he cant buy a sensei in his country frown.gif
I have an XFX warpad, which I bought entirely because of the wrist rest. it works perfectly with my optical mouse, but PTE sensors don't work on it at all.
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9/24/12 at 11:38am
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Ordered the Rat, should be here by tomorrow. I'll be posting back if I find any issues or if I need any help. Thanks to everyone who replied.
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