Installation, Testing and Comparison:

Installation is easy, just find some space on your desk and put the Thunder9 there. I'm a big fan of quality cloth mousepads, but I had forgotten what it was like to use a nice quality hard surface mousepad. Going from the cloth to the hard surface is actually a big transition in terms of responsiveness of your mouse, and the speed at which you mouse can glide over it. I have quite a few mice here that I use for testing, my two main mice are the Logitech G5 and the MX1000, these are the two that I use the most.

I've been trying to get back into doing a bit more gaming, I recently purchased a whole bunch of newer and older games that I just never got for whatever reason, and getting the Thunder9 really game me a reason to play them.

Gaming with the Thunder9 is a joy to behold, your mouse just glides over the surface like it was ice, adding the included mouse skates improves on this performance exponentially. My mice just seem so much more responsive and much easier to use on the Thunder9. None of the mice I tried missed a beat while tracking across the pad, while playing Quake4, BF2142, BF2, or any other other games I played.

I've been using the Thunder9 for about two weeks now for everything I do, and it has made everything seem effortless. The mouse just seems to float across the pad, and I remember what I like about hard surface pads.

The mice I tested made no sound as they moved on the Thunder9, some hard surface pads make a scratching sound, but not the Thunder9, it seems to be the prefect mousepad.

Tracking on the Thunder9 is superb, the addition of the mouse skates just makes the Thunder9 all the better to use.

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