The new Logitech G Pro X Superlight 2 gives me serious mouse envy

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I called it the real magic mouse, but I can no longer look at my award-winning Logitech G502 Lightspeed quite the same way — because I’ve just been spoiled by a new mouse that’s roughly half its weight.

Logitech has just announced the G Pro X Superlight 2, the fastest and lightest mouse the company’s ever made, and after spending a very long Labor Day weekend blasting baddies and clicking desktop files, I’m already finding it hard to go back.

The $159 Superlight 2 weighs just 60 grams (2.1 ounces), down from the original 63-gram mouse and way lighter than my 114 gram G502 Lightspeed, all with no ugly holes punched in its simplistic sculpted black plastic frame. But unlike the original, which presented as a cut-down G Pro Wireless, the new Superlight 2 is actually Logitech’s most advanced mouse yet.

It’s the first with a 2kHz wireless report rate, and the first with a new Hero 2 sensor that tracks at 500 inches per second (and up to 32,000 DPI), with a “unique dual array design that increases working range and maintains tracking performance, even when lifting or tilting the mouse.” It also boasts 95 hours of battery life, up from 70 hours with the original Superlight. (That’s if you’re using its power-saving modes; the company’s G Hub software estimates I’ll get 51 hours without.)

I’m happy to say it’s still compatible with my beloved Logitech Powerplay wireless charging mousepad so you never run out of juice — only now I can more easily take it on the