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optical laser when you pick your gaming mouse you make sure you pick the right thing optical mice use one or more LEDs to take what are essentially pictures of the surface underneath to track the mouse's movement across the surface this is in stark contrast to the previous generation ball mice which used an actual physical ball that rolled around under the mouse in order to detect movement they have a much broader range of surface compatibility compared to older ball mice and are typically known compared to lasers for having lower dpi sensors usually around 200 to 800 dpi but they can go as high as 4,000 dpi with gaming grade optical mice which some gamers find they prefer to laser my laser is the newer technology and has a few advantages compared to optical number one is that depending on the type of laser it can be used on a much wider variety of surfaces optical mice can only be used on opaque surfaces whereas laser mice can even be used on specular surfaces such as glass in fact Logitech's anywhere Mouse it uses an infrared laser in order to work on pretty much anything they are also more accurate they are able to achieve DP is up to as of the time of filming this 8200 which is significantly more than the optical mouse on the market and are generally regarded by gamers to be more precise so the last thing to note is that some people claim that depending on the dpi sensitivity that you want to use you may be better off buying a mouse that is more optimized for the dpi so for example if you want a game at 3000 dpi you may not want to buy an 8200 dpi top-of-the-line laser mouse and turn it down because it may skip frames or whatever else we haven't been able to verify this objectively so take it with a grain of salt but that is why some gamers do prefer optical even though laser mice tend to as I said before be more precise more accurate and of course more expensive to go along with that thanks for checking out this tech quickie as fast as possible on laser mice versus optical mice particularly for gaming don't forget as always to share subscribe like the video and I'll see you guys again next time