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Ozone Neon mouse and Lepton Mousepad review

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Ozone is a rather new face in the world of eSports and gaming peripherals. They have a lot of endorsements from professional gamers, but not much brand recognition and trust. Luckily for them, I’ve had a play with their new Neon range of mice and I’m happy to say that it’s very good for the price point. Not many online stockists are selling it right now, but the price point is $49 (AUD) so about R480. For that price, you don’t really expect too much, but I was pleasantly surprised.

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The first thing I noticed was its simplicity. No overly flashy lights, no glossy black, just a simple 8-button mouse with a fantastic laser. It comes in a range of colours; I got the black and white one sent to me, but it’s available in red, blue and entirely black.  It’s ambidextrous for those who happen to be left handed, which unfortunately means no claw grip like I’m used to. This made the Neon feel rather small in my hand. However, the long arching back makes it feel just as comfortable as my Logitech G9X, which is my normal mouse.

It’s coated with a matte rubber that feels a little too much like plastic for my taste, as I usually desire more of a textured feel. Only when you really move your hands across it does it feel like rubber. The rubber scroll wheel has a soft click to it as it rolls and is considerably more grippy than the mouse itself. The four glossy buttons on the side are slightly squishy, needing a harder press to register, which is nice considering the amount of times I’ve hit more rigid side buttons accidentally. The plastic pads on the bottom look like glossy brushed stainless steel. They are very slippery and possibly have some sort of oleophobic coating to help it slide across surfaces. Overall, the mouse has a surprisingly excellent feel for such a simple design. 

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Using the included Windows drivers, you can set up the mouse exactly how you want it. I was able to customise mine and make it feel a lot like my existing mouse. You can change acceleration, scroll rate, polling rate, DPI, and key bindings. If you prefer to have several setups, you can save them via five different profiles. The profile button light can be changed to green, cyan, blue, and red. Not as much colour customisation as Steel Series mice, but a nice feature nonetheless.

At 6400dpi, there are more powerful mice with less input lag. The input lag is at 2ms which is absolutely fine for what I use it for.

Enotus Mouse Test v0.1.4
Model:    Ozone Neon
Resolution:    8800 dpi    \excellent\
Polling speed:    962 Hz
Max speed:    0.51 m/s (177591 points/s)    \ok\
Precision:    96.8 % (0.06 m/s)    \good\
Smoothness:    11.2 %    \ok\

The mouse test yielded good performance results. It lost out a little bit on smoothness, but I purposely didn’t use a mouse pad so I could test the difference with a gaming mouse pad also sent to me by Ozone: the Lepton gaming mouse pad. At a RRP of around R360, it’s almost as expensive as the mouse!

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The mousepad is coated with a lightly textured surface that feels similar to teflon on a non stick pan. It’s very large, measuring at 360mm x 260mm x 2.5mm. It doesn’t fit on my tiny desk, but the incredibly low height allowed it to slip under my raised keyboard with no issues. The back of the pad is non slip textured coating which gripped nicely on my wooden desk. The pad brought the smoothness of the neon up to eight percent, giving it a ‘good’ rating as opposed to an ‘ok’ rating. Poll rates remained mostly the same, almost hitting 970hz.

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It’s not the biggest difference, but ignoring the tests it’s a high quality surface and the Neon glides really nicely. Is it worth R360? In my opinion, no. Despite the quality of the material, I couldn’t really justify the price unless you’re very particular about mouse pads; if so, then Ozone has you covered because it’s easily the best I’ve ever used. It’s not a crappy, floppy piece of fabric, it’s a pad that keeps its shape and is unlikely to wear after repeated use.

Overall, the Neon and the Lepton are of very high quality. The Neon I can recommend more due to its affordability and high performance, the Lepton, not so much. If it was a lower price I would be happy to give it my thumbs up. Unfortunately, for R360, all you’re getting is a rigid board of rubber and plastic, a high quality one at that, but not worth the price.

Spec sheet for Ozone Neon:

6400 DPI laser sensor.
8 programmable buttons
On-the-fly adjustable DPI: 6400/3500/1800/800
128kb built-in memory
Included Software for personal configuration (Windows only)
Adjustable polling rate: 125/250/500/1000HZ
Adjustable response rate: 2/65/125/190/255ms
Cable length: 1.8M
Compatible OS: Windows® 8/ Windows® 7 / Windows Vista® / Windows® XP
Ambidextrous design
Braided cable
Rubber coating top surface
Weight: 120g (with cable)

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Last Updated: February 25, 2014

39 Comments

  1. It doesn’t fit on your tiny desk? I thought Gavin was going to upgrade you from your shipping container to apple crate? He lies!

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    • Alien Emperor Trevor

      February 25, 2014 at 15:41

      I thought Zoe got the apple crate, as a joke.

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      • RinceandLeSIGH

        February 25, 2014 at 15:43

        Ah. Therein likes the confusion. I thought the dog box was going to Darryn, Snook was getting the apple crate and Zoe the Barbie Mansion 101 Party Kit.

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        • Alien Emperor Trevor

          February 25, 2014 at 15:44

          & Geoff gets the kitty litter?

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          • RinceandLeSIGH

            February 25, 2014 at 15:45

            *Used kitty litter. Correct. What was Gavin getting again? A modest 10 acre mansion?

          • Alien Emperor Trevor

            February 25, 2014 at 15:46

            Well he needs the space to store his hate mail.

          • RinceandLeSIGH

            February 25, 2014 at 15:46

            WINNER right here 😉

      • Hammersteyn

        February 25, 2014 at 15:49

        No, she got the Apple Air as a joke

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        • RinceandLeSIGH

          February 25, 2014 at 15:50

          Harsh joke…

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          • TiMsTeR1033

            February 25, 2014 at 15:50

            I like it!

    • Stephen Snook

      February 25, 2014 at 15:54

      My desk is stupidly small, I barely fit two screens on it. I’d take a picture, but i’m embarrassed of it.

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      • RinceandLeSIGH

        February 25, 2014 at 15:56

        If you want man I can gather the might of our Lazygamer readers and raise like $4 to help you out?

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        • Alien Emperor Trevor

          February 25, 2014 at 15:58

          Whoa slow down there, you don’t just call upon our powers for something so trivial. If you exhaust them on something like this we won’t be able to defeat the COD fish AI.

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          • General JJ the annihilator

            February 25, 2014 at 15:59

            Since when does Rince care about people who game on desks anyway? (ie. pc gamers)

          • Alien Emperor Trevor

            February 25, 2014 at 16:00

            Since he got 1 billion upvotes for defending the master race. I think he likes the attention.

          • General JJ the annihilator

            February 25, 2014 at 16:01

            Makes sense

          • RinceandLeSIGH

            February 25, 2014 at 16:01

            Since my 83 thumbs up. I need to keep up appearances 0-O

          • General JJ the annihilator

            February 25, 2014 at 16:03

            Damn it. Where was I? I would’ve given you a downvote to bring balance to the force.

          • RinceandLeSIGH

            February 25, 2014 at 16:11

            🙁 I was being nice to you over inflated motha 0-O I Mean you humble master race PC people things!

          • General JJ the annihilator

            February 25, 2014 at 16:28

            We’re not mean, we’re logical. (because that maths of mine made perfect sense, of course).

          • Alien Emperor Trevor

            February 25, 2014 at 16:04

            Most people would be happy with less appearances O_o

          • RinceandLeSIGH

            February 25, 2014 at 16:09

            Fewer 😉

          • RinceandLeSIGH

            February 25, 2014 at 16:00

            Point taken!

        • Stephen Snook

          February 25, 2014 at 16:19

          I’m getting a new desk soon. The mouse pad is really quite big.

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          • Admiral Chief in Vegas

            February 25, 2014 at 16:22

            I used to complain about a big thing, but the missus is happy about it, so I made peace with it XD

      • General JJ the annihilator

        February 25, 2014 at 15:57

        That’s what she said.

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    • General JJ the annihilator

      February 25, 2014 at 15:58

      I inherited an old desk from my grandfather. Thing takes up a quarter of my study. There is definitely something like too big.

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      • RinceandLeSIGH

        February 25, 2014 at 16:01

        That’s what she never said? *RUNS

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        • General JJ the annihilator

          February 25, 2014 at 16:02

          *sigh*
          🙁

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          • RinceandLeSIGH

            February 25, 2014 at 16:09

            Sorry! It was just too easy! And bring the misses on Sat if she isn’t too scared.

          • General JJ the annihilator

            February 25, 2014 at 16:27

            She’s with me, there are few things more scary out there.

          • RinceandLeSIGH

            February 25, 2014 at 16:29

            HAHA! Also, if she is there this time, it lends credibility that there weren’t strippers the last time we met up 0-O I mean…

          • General JJ the annihilator

            February 25, 2014 at 16:37

            Exactly.
            Judging by who was all there, I think it’s safer that no one stripped though.

  2. Alien Emperor Trevor

    February 25, 2014 at 15:43

    Hooray for an ambidextrous mouse!

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  3. Admiral Chief in Vegas

    February 25, 2014 at 16:11

    Cool mousepad

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    • Stephen Snook

      February 25, 2014 at 16:20

      It’s a really nice mouse pad, just so expensive.

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      • Admiral Chief in Vegas

        February 25, 2014 at 16:21

        R360? Nah, seems legit

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        • Stephen Snook

          February 26, 2014 at 05:51

          Perhaps i’m just out of touch lol.

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  4. Rags

    February 25, 2014 at 17:26

    I love the shape! Will have to read up on the sensor. It could be a good alternative to SteelSeries Kana.

    Also LMAO@ those who buy those R2k+ RAT mice.

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