Ice Leopard, a brand from Germany, gives people the impression that the product appearance design has its own characteristics, and the game performance is good. With the launch of the Owl Eye engine, Ice Leopard has also brought us a new product for selling lights - Kone AIMO.
Unpacking and appearance
The packaging of Ice Leopard Kone AIMO continues the irregular design of the brand's medium and high-end products, with black as the main theme and a rendered image of the product on the front.
There are multi language selling points of the product on the back of the package. Compared with previous Ice Leopard products, Kone AIMO has introduced a new OWL-EYE optical engine, RGBA multi zone lighting system, and 50 million clicks of blue dot inching. Compared with previous Kone products, the performance is more powerful and the appearance is more cool.
There are no extra accessories in the package. There are simple product descriptions and belief stickers of the Ice Leopard logo.
The product size of Kone AIMO is 125 * 70 * 42mm, and the weight is 130g. It belongs to the "burly" type in shape. The size feeling is more suitable for European and American users, and some small hand users may feel great pressure. We got the black Kone AIMO, which costs 649 yuan. The white version has different materials. The mobile phone costs 699 yuan, and the performance of the two is completely the same.
The comfortable scroll wheel is the unique skill of the Ice Leopard mouse. Kone AIMO uses a scroll wheel named "4D Titan", which has the function of swinging the keys left and right. Two default functions behind the scroll wheel are DPI conditions, but the author is more accustomed to defining them as other functions.
The side keys are identified by T1 and T2, which are set to the previous page and the next page when used daily by ordinary users. Below the side keys is a very comfortable skin like coating, and the fingers are naturally placed on it.
One of the features of Kone AIMO is that compared with ordinary mobile phones, the thumb area has added a button, which is located under the skin like coating. The default function is the EASY-SHIFT [+] function of Ice Leopard.
On the top of the mouse is the iconic leopard logo of Ice Leopard, but this logo will not light up.
From the tail of the mouse, the whole structure is divided into three parts: left, middle and right. RGB light bars are sandwiched between each two parts. The visual effect is very good after lighting up.
The right side of the mouse also has skin like material, which can play a certain role in anti-skid. The ring finger and tail finger can find a more comfortable position here.
There is an owl eye pattern on the bottom, which means that it uses the Owl Eye optical engine. The specific model is the original PMW3361, which is a customized version of PMW3360. The parameters are 12000dpi and 50G acceleration. The foot pad of Kone AIMO is divided into five areas, which are relatively large and have a slight impact on flexibility.
The wire material adopts the knitting wire commonly used by the E-sports mouse, and the logo of Ice Leopard Kone is also on the USB interface.
After powering on, it can be observed that the large light bars on both sides of Kone AIMO have a gradient effect, which is highly eye-catching. With the drive, it can achieve the backlight linkage of light bars and rollers, gradient and other effects. The play method of light effects is relatively variable.
The light bar extends to the center of the mouse, and the width is also increased, greatly enhancing the overall visual effect.
Ice leopard Kone AIMO (right) and Logitech G Pro (left) with moderate size can make you feel the difference in size.
Logitech G Pro (left) and Ice Leopard Kone AIMO (right) can be seen that the latter is significantly higher in height and width.
user's experience
In terms of appearance and feel, the Kone AIMO still continues many features of the Kone series. However, because the overall outline of the mouse is relatively "burly" and wide, it may not be so friendly to users with small hands. The left and right sides of the mouse are made of skin like material, which is different from the coating on the top cover and can play a good anti slip role. However, the black Kone AIMO is more likely to be contaminated with fingerprints. The added side keys have no impact on daily use. However, when clicking this key, it is not forced to the center of the mouse as the traditional side keys, but it is forced perpendicular to the angle of the mouse pad. This key has a clear feel and bounces back quickly. The two side keys are larger, higher than the normal mouse side keys, and have a longer key path. Compared with other Ice Leopard products, the scroll wheel may appear less compact, leaving a little space on the left and right. That's because Kone AIMO uses 4D Titan scroll wheel, which can also achieve the corresponding key function by swinging left and right. There are also two function keys below the scroll wheel. These two keys are fleshy and slightly loose, so it is not recommended to set them as function keys in the game. They are suitable for daily web browsing or multimedia shortcuts. With the EASY-SHIFT [+] function, in theory, Kone AIMO has 23 different function keys, and with five sets of configurations, I believe that no user will feel inadequate. In terms of game experience, this mouse is very accurate in terms of positioning. After all, the 1:1 Owl Eye engine is not a fuel efficient light, and the left and right keys bounce back quickly, and the feel is quite consistent. However, for high intensity games or scenes requiring high-speed movement, the large size, large foot pads and large side keys of Kone AIMO will be a bit cumbersome. It is estimated that a large hand of more than 20cm will adapt to it for a period of time if you want to play it well.
The driver is still the familiar Ice Leopard Swarm. There is nothing wrong with this set of driver functions. The later version has also been added in Chinese, which is relatively friendly for domestic users. However, if the driver is updated, the download speed is slightly impressive. Swarm will download the response configuration file and update the firmware in the mouse according to the different models of iced leopard mouse inserted.
Like other game mice, Kone AIMO can set DPI, pointer speed, scroll speed, comfort, etc. in the driver. In addition, more professional distance control unit sensitivity and angle correction are required, but we recommend that these options remain default.
Go to the function module of "lighting", you can see a very rich range of options. With the three area backlight of the Kone AIMO and two gradient light bars, you can combine a variety of different light effects, such as SNAKE, Heartbeat 2.0, Breathing 3.0, etc.
When we get to the AIMO module, we can see that there is an activation switch. We can turn it on and then apply it. AIMO can immediately feedback different light effects according to different operations of users. For the time being, only three products of Ice Leopard's Horde AIMO keyboard, Kone AIMO mouse and Khan AIMO headset are supported.
AIMO lamp effect display
Even if the AIMO mode is not turned on, the light effect of Kone AIMO is cool enough. The two huge light bands together with the gradient light effect are very high-profile, but the corresponding driver needs to be installed before use.
Heartbeat 2.0 light effect.
Snake Light effect.
Breathing 3.0 lighting effect, we can see that the default lighting modes are cool enough, but this is not all.
The above two GIF images are demonstrations of the AIMO light effect, which can "respond" to different user operations. For example, when you click the left or right button, the responding light bar will immediately change the light color, so that users can feel that the light is echoing their own operations. In addition, when you move the mouse, there will be corresponding light effects. However, in order to complete the AIMO, it is also necessary to cooperate with the relevant keyboard and headset products, so as to realize the real linkage of light effects.
summary
As far as the product hardware is concerned, Kone AIMO can hardly find any problems. The latest engine and micro motion ensure its basic performance. The mouse coating, especially the touch of the left and right sides, is excellent, which is also the specialty of Ice Leopard. The feel of the 4D roller is also good. In terms of keys, theoretically, there can be as many as 12 user-defined keys, which is a product with rich functions. However, because of its huge size, many people may be unable to use it as the main mouse of the game. Maybe it is designed for Europeans and Americans. The two large light bands together with the AIMO system make the Kone AIMO light effects have many playing methods and cool effects. If you only play games occasionally or need only cool "hand-operated mice" all the time, then Kone AIMO is definitely a good choice.
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