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Row of identical optical sensor modules sliding down a glass funnel into a pile of black gaming mice with glowing red sensor windows

Cheap mice now ship last year's Hero and Focus Pro sensors

Budget gaming mice inherited last year's flagship sensors and 8,000Hz polling. Here is what still separates the price tiers, ranked by what you feel.

Navy and white FMS FCX18 II Ford F-100 RC crawler climbing over a tree root and slate rocks on a forest trail

A lower chassis costs the FCX18 II some ground clearance

FMS FCX18 II swaps portal axles for straight axles and a low chassis. It gains magnetic bodies and metal gears but loses ground clearance on rocks.

Gateron KS-20 magnetic switch with a smoky housing and amber base seated on a green keyboard circuit board, an orange keycap hovering above its cross stem

Your keycaps fit Gateron KS-20 magnetic switches just fine

Magnetic switch hot-swap compatibility is narrower than the box implies. Keycaps fit, most switches do not, and magnet polarity decides the rest.

Two stone monoliths in a desert at dusk, one dark with a glowing violet glyph, one pale with an indigo glyph, above a broken keyboard

Double-shot and dye-sub legends both outlast your keyboard

Double-shot vs dye-sub legends both last for years on quality keycaps, so let RGB backlight support and legend color decide which set you buy.

Bambu Lab AMS filament feeder, a KliTek nozzle changer with three spare brass nozzles, and a Prusa CORE One with the INDX toolchanger on a workshop bench

INDX, KliTek and AMS all print color a different way

INDX vs KliTek vs AMS: three multi-material 3D printing systems compared on filament waste, colour-change speed, alignment risk and repair cost.

Glossy black ABS keycap with a rainbow glow beside a matte grey PBT keycap, both giant monuments touched by passers-by

PBT keycaps dodge the greasy shine that creeps across ABS

PBT keycaps resist the greasy shine ABS develops from finger oils and UV, but ABS and PC still win on shine-through RGB. See the full trade-off.