Presentation and Usage
The Corepad comes in rather understated packaging which wouldn't do much to enamour you to a sale in a store, but since the Corepad is only currently sold online, as long as it gets to you in one piece, the packaging needs to do little more than protect it from initial damage and hold the supplied spec sheet and any Corepad Skatez ordered with it.
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Using the Corepad
The Corepad is excellent in use, especially with the Skatez installed on your mouse. Optical mice have no trouble picking up a decent image from the perforated surface layer, the layer also stopping the top surface from getting too cold, a bane of other glass-based mousing surfaces.
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If I were to have any complaints at all, it's that with the neoprene sheet underneath, it's maybe a tiny touch too high for my girly wrists, and that it could do with being a little bigger in the other two dimensions.
The second complaint is being rectified in the form of the over-sized Corepad Meltdown, to be launched soon.
Otherwise, I have no faults. In games that require deft, rapid flicks of the mouse to change direction, such as Counter Strike, Unreal Tournament and other games of that ilk, the Corepad is fine. It allows you to track and change direction quickly without resistance from the pad, and your mouse is able to track your movements fine (even with an optical sensor).
That it doesn't get cold is an added bonus for a glass surface. My final piece of praise is again due to the choice of glass as the material, since it'll never bend or bow out of shape like a plastic surface will, something my old Everglide did over time.
