SteelSeries SteelPad 5L Review - Open the box!
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Opening the package results in, well, a mouse pad. As stated on the previous page, there is a hard plastic layer which keeps the mouse pad rigid. Here's a couple shots of the pad after I opened it.
The first picture is obviously the top of the pad, while the second picture is the same pad just flipped over. The small white blobs on the pad are pieces of sticky rubber. These pieces keep the otherwise smooth plastic bottom of the mouse pad pretty securely fastened to your desk. Now, they aren't adhesive. The mouse pad can easily be picked up and removed from the desk with no issues. But the mouse pad did not budge a millimeter, even during a pretty heated game of Doom 3.
The above is a close-up of the pad itself. In this light, you can make out the uniform texture of the pad itself. When SteelSeries claim that this pad allows good tracking, they aren't kidding.
Here's another shot showing the texture of the pad, as well as the different layers of materials that make it up.
I took this picture merely to show the raw size of the mouse pad. I've got pretty big hands, big enough to engulf more than half of a normal sized mouse pad. But on this pad, I've got plenty of room to use and travel the mouse without the need to pick it up and re-center it on the pad. This is a huge plus, in my book.
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