Icemat 2nd Edition (Black)

List Price: $39.99

Features:

• Provides amazing precision and accuracy
• Made of durable tempered glass
• Ideal for users favoring low-sensitivity mouse settings
• Will never bend or loose its shape
• Dimensions: 10 x 12 inches (WxH); attractive black color

Accessories:

3-Year Extended Service Plan - Covers Electronic Items $0-$200 - Repair

Customer Reviews:

Icemat 2nd Edition [Posted on 2007-05-07]
If you want consistency and accuracy, get this item. There is no other product that can give you this. I've tried quite a few mouse pads already... Steelpad 5L, Razer Mantis (Control and Speed), but none of them gives consistendy and accuracy like the Icemat does. The only downside is that the mouse is too small to play FPS. My mouse is set to low sensitivity that I'll have to move my mouse to do a 360 degree turn. And that pretty much takes more than 3/4 of the mouse pad.

Well worth the $$ [Posted on 2007-05-21]
This mat is well worth the money. Before I was using a ratpadz which ended up wearing out leading to me using my desk. The icemat is nice and big and gives great accuracy for online gaming. Using the plastic feet that are included it really is surprisingly slick and accurate. Although like someone above me said, without them I did notice more of a screeching sound from the worn out feet on my mouse.

Pretty Decent [Posted on 2007-07-27]
I received this mouse pad and at 1st I was skeptical.

Pros:

The rubber feet on the bottom of the pad are awesome, this thing goes nowhere. The texture is -just- right. Looks like they took the time to choose the perfect texture, which is awesome.

The logo is inside the glass on the back panel, which means it will not be removed by wear.

It's big, really big. More than enough room. Personally, the extra real estate on this thing is useless for me, since I am a sniper and I use very - VERY, low sensitivity. But this is still a good thing, if ever I want to be infantry, which obviously requires a higher sense, and hence, a bigger mouse area.

The pad is not too slippery or too rough, but just -perfect-. You have to try it to believe it, thats the only way I describe it. It's texture could be used by anyone, really. Either sniper or infantry.

This thing will not wear out. I am upgrading from a Ratpadz XT, which was good until it wore out. The ratpad lost it's texture, and began to shave/chafe. Since this is glass, not plastic, I don't think it will really ever wear out, which for any gamer means a great investment. I don't want to have to re-adjust to a new mousepad every 6 months!

Cons.

A bit pricey.

It does get dirty and dusty, and expect to be cleaning it at least once a week. (Though not a huge issue for me. I just keep a bottle of Clorox Disinfecting wipes by my desk.)

If it is dirty or dusty, you will get the finger nails on a chalkboard feeling.

The mouse feet are pretty much useless for the G5, unless you wanna remove the stock feet, which already are great.

Bottom Line:

This mouse pad is truly a great investment for the serious gamer. For an average user I must say look elsewhere, since this is really designed with the Pro gamer in mind. A bit pricey, and a dust magnet, but by far the best mouse pad I have ever used.

It will remain on my desk for a long, long time.

Good, but has compatiblity issues. [Posted on 2007-08-07]
The icemat is a very nice surface, it's smooth, solid, good looking, easy to clean and long lasting. It's nice and thin, so it has a low profile (making the pad a little more comfortable), however over very long periods of time it can begin to hurt your wrist. The rubber pegs on the bottom of the pad do a very good job keeping it static on a desk; not once have I had the pad move accidentally. As a gamer, this is probably the best thing you can get due to the fact that it won't wear out or bend. If you use something like the func surface 1030 then in a short period of time you'll need to start adjusting to the rapidly changing mouse surface. In other words, it's good to have something that you know will always react the same given a certain movement (this is one reason why good gamers always turn off mouse acceleration; it creates unpredictable results). However, the major flaw of the surface, which also happens to be its major advantage, is that it's glass. Many mice don't work with the surface and you might not realize it right away. The easiest way to tell is to move the mouse very rapidly from one side of the surface to the other, incompatible mice will just freeze and make some erratic movement (like my MS laser mouse 6000). From what I hear, the new blue logitech g5 with upgraded firmware works perfectly on this surface, and given that my laser mouse 6000 is fairly old, that's probably what I'll be getting next. Anyways, the reason the icemat got a 4 is because of these compatibility issues with mice, I think the easiest thing for icemat to do would be to create a list of mice that are 100% compatible with the surface, it's the least they could do given the amount of money being spent of these things.

Not as good as I hoped [Posted on 2007-09-30]
I've been a professional level gamer for many years, this was the only surface I havent tried tried. The noise it made when you move your mouse along with how easily it gets dirty wasnt worth the use for me. Id recomend this for players who play quake or pain killer. But if you want a steady mousepad with precision id go with the steel pad 5L. That was my old pad and the one i went back to now after 2 weeks of trying to make it work. Not bad for accuracy though, just not as good imo.

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