Mountain Makalu Max

A great wired gaming mouse, but sometimes a frustrating wireless one

- DAVE JAMES

HOW YOU HOLD your mouse can be as personal to you as your fingerprints. Mountain’s Makalu Max comes with a host of customization options, meaning it appears to be well suited to a range of different hand sizes and grips. This strategy of user customization is what has made the company’s keyboards so successful, after all.

We really want to like the Makalu Max. And most of the time, we really do. It’s got a classic PixArt sensor, offering up to 19,000dpi should you need such a level of sensitivity, but it also comes with interchangeable weights. That’s not hugely innovative on its own—many other mice have done this in the past—but few have gone with the sort of weights that enable you to balance that weight around different areas of the mouse body.

You get a set of three rings to use as clip-in weights: One solid, for the heaviest option; one cut out, for the lightest; one with a third filled in and the rest cut out. This last one can be dropped in with the heaviest part of the ring at any point positioned around the circle, skewing the heft toward different sides.