Mountain Makalu 67 Gaming Mouse Review

A Closer Look & Performance

The first thing you notice about the Mountain Makula 67 is just how incredibly light it is. Honestly, you don’t realise just how heavy gaming mice are until you realise how light they can be. I’ve used some very lightweight mice in my time, but honestly, this thing is in a league of its own. 67g is just astonishing, especially considering the mouse feels quite large in your hand.

The weight savings continue on the cable too, it feels very flexible, extremely flexible actually, but also lightweight and strong; so everything you want in a cable.

Actually, there’s more, it’s luxuriously soft too, that braiding is lush!

The mouse is very well constructed, and while it is extremely lightweight, there’s a level of quality that you can feel the moment you pick it up. It has a dedicated button for the left and right mouse button too, each on their own spring so there’s no feedback from one to the other.

What does stand out the most in that ribcage design, with loads of ventilation. That’s where they’ve removed so much weight from the mouse, by literally hogging material away from it. However, because of the design, it hasn’t lost its strength at all. You can push down pretty hard on this thing and it doesn’t flex or deform.

The left side navigation buttons are a good size, and each has a groovy texture on the side, ensuring it feels comfortable and stable under your thumb.

I like the design too, it’s a funky thing to look at. However, that design also means you’ll have a nice flow of air around your hand, which could reduce getting sweaty palms. That being said, it also allows dust and debris to drop inside the mouse, so maybe not a mouse for those who continuously eat and smoke at their desk.

The overall shape of the mouse is really nice too, it reminds me of the classic IntelliMouse shape. It’s very ergonomic, at least for right-handed people. It curves and swells in all the right places to make it fit the palm of your hand really well, but also ensure you can easily grip and lift the mouse too.

The mouse leans over to the right a little bit, ensuring your wrist is at a more natural position. That’ll make a big difference in those long gaming sessions, or even for those long work hours.

The top of the mouse features a DPI toggle switch, as well as a good quality scroll wheel with a soft rubber grip. There’s also a nice oval shape around them, which is RGB lit; we’ll test that in a moment.

On the bottom, the weight saving has continued, with even more holes cut through the body of the mouse. There are two large PTFE pads here too, ensuring the mouse has excellent glide. Albeit, it’s so light, I doubt it even need them.

When you plug in the USB cable, the mouse works really well, but… the RGB does not. It seems to have no default profile such as a colour cycle. You absolutely have to download their software to set it. Honestly, I’m OK with that, perhaps I’m just used to the rainbows, and perhaps they should start off by default.

Update: Turns out I should just read the manual, as you can hold the side button and turn the scroll wheel to adjust the RGB directly!

I do like these four little LED lights, they show you your current DPI selection, all four lit is maxing out the optical sensor at 19,000 DPI which is pretty darn swift. It’s a very nice sensor though, although it’s a high-end PixArt sensor, so I wasn’t expecting anything less.

The mouse grips really well, and as I said before, it has a shape that just naturally lends its self to a comfortable grip. It’s a nice larger body mouse, so it fits my large hands in a palm grip and feels responsive in both claw and hybrid grips too. It’s just a very good design overall.

The mouse glides extremely well, as I said, it’s super light and it has those large pads on the bottom. For those who like to play at higher DPI levels and use fast twitchy movements, it’s really awesome for it. I actually played some Quake 3 Arena on this, because I’m old school, it worked great.

That being said, at the lower DPI levels, you can drag this thing at 400 IPS, so if you want to get your big mouse mat game on, it’s well suited to either style.

The Omron 50M switches feel as good as you would expect, and the individually mounted mouse button top panels feel snappy and responsive while working and gaming.

As for the RGB, it’s a little less rich than some. I find it tilts more into the pastel colour range rather than deeper colours, at least when it’s on the RGB settings. It still looks nice though and there are a couple of basic effects to play with.

However, I found it looked its best when set to a single colour, but of course, that’s subjective.