Alienware Pro Wireless Gaming Mouse Review

The Alienware Pro Wireless Gaming Mouse (available at Amazon for $149.99) is exactly what the name suggests: a mouse built with high-performing components suitable for high-level gaming. That means reliable switches, fast tracking, and an ultralight design that allows for fast reaction times. The combination of these features makes for a pricey mouse at $150, but it’s not unusual for this sort of hardware. Ultralight mice trim often a lot of features to save weight, and the Alienware Pro Wireless Gaming Mouse being so new puts it at odds with earlier mice on the scene that have seen their prices drop, but it’s still an elite option with only a few hang-ups.

Editor's note: An earlier version of this review erroneously stated that the Alienware Pro Wireless Gaming Mouse lacks a dedicated DPI switch. Pressing the button on the bottom repeatedly will cycle through DPI presets.

About the Alienware Pro Wireless Gaming Mouse

Alienware Pro Wireless Gaming Mouse specs

• Price: $150
• Connectivity: 2.4 GHz wireless, detachable USB A-to-C wired (cable included)
• Dimensions: 4.9 x 2.5 x 1.6 inches
• Weight: 59 grams (2.08 ounces)
• Sensor: 26,000 DPI optical sensor
• Colors: Lunar Light, Dark Side of the Moon
• Material: Plastic
• Polling rate: 4,000Hz wireless polling rate, 8,000Hz wired polling rate
• Battery life: Up to 120 hours at 1,000Hz polling, up to 32 hours at 4,000Hz polling
• Buttons: 6
• LED Lighting: Single indicator light
• Special features: 650 IPS max speed, 50G max acceleration, optical switches (rated for 70 million clicks), built-in slot for 2.4Ghz dongle
• Warranty: Limited 2-year warranty

The Alienware Pro Wireless Gaming Mouse is a simple but fairly powerful tool for gamers. It has a barebones design lacking any RGB lighting and offering the most basic buttons—the standard left and right clicks, a pair of thumb buttons on the left side, a clickable scroll wheel, and a profile button on the underside—and an unpretentious, ambidextrous shape. Alienware has built a handy dongle slot into the back edge of the mouse that latches on firmly to the small USB-C dongle. A compact USB-A adapter is also included.

While most of the common buttons you’ll want for gaming are present, Alienware opted to put the DPI switch to cycle between sensitivity levels on the bottom of the mouse, making it difficult to hit while gaming. Compounding the issue, the Alienware Command Center app ran into an error multiple times that would eventually prevent the app from launching without reinstalling it.

Even Dell’s own solution didn’t work. This means changing DPI on the mouse is a tedious prospect in the heat of combat, and I couldn't get the feature that maps different DPI presets to specific games to work.

Once your desired DPI is dialed in, though, the mouse has a lot to offer. It supports wireless connectivity that can provide up to 4,000Hz polling (how often your PC checks for input, with the standard 1,000Hz equaling once a millisecond) for highly responsive inputs. That leaps up to 8,000Hz over a wired connection. With its high-grade sensor and lightweight design (measuring 59 grams), the Alienware Pro Wireless Gaming Mouse is ready for the twitchiest gameplay.

Different DPI settings can also be linked to different polling rates in Alienware Command Center, which may be helpful for creating different profiles for work and play, as enabling the 4,000Hz polling rate lowers the 120-hour battery life to just 32 hours.

Annoyingly, I never noticed any indicators to warn me the battery was low before it died. The small indicator light at one corner is almost too discreet.

Running the mouse through KovaaK’s aim trainer, I managed a high score of 676 points with 91.3% accuracy in the ‘1wall 6 targets small’ scenario. This is a hair shy points-wise of what I’ve been able to reach on the SteelSeries Aerox 5 Wireless—a mouse I’ve personally used for a long time—and better than my score with the similar Razer Viper V2 Pro. My accuracy was higher with Alienware’s mouse than either of these two competitors.

It’s undeniably a high-performing mouse in the right hands and didn’t falter through a handful of Overwatch 2 matches, several sieges in Chivalry 2, and my first dozen hours of Helldivers 2.

The left and right clicks on the Alienware Pro Wireless Gaming mouse are snappy and consistent, and the thumb buttons don’t feel too mushy. Alienware’s efforts toward a lightweight design have certainly been successful, though there’s a lot of creaking noise from the mouse during everyday use.

The Alienware Pro Wireless Gaming Mouse doesn’t lack when it comes to performance. It’s geared up well to compete or exceed most of its rivals in the ultralight space like the Logitech G Pro X Superlight 2 (2,000Hz polling peak), Corsair M75 Air (2,000Hz polling and shorter battery life), Razer Viper V2 Pro (4,000Hz polling requires an extra dongle and reduces battery life), and the Asus ROG Harpe Ace (1,000Hz polling rate, shorter battery life), but it’s quite a bit more expensive than some of these rivals. If the utmost performance isn’t on demand—which for most non-pro gamers, it likely isn’t—then that may not be enough to merit the extra price.

Should you buy the Alienware Pro Wireless Gaming Mouse?

Maybe, if the competitors don’t quite fit your needs

The creaky build leaves some questions about durability, but otherwise, the Alienware Pro Wireless Gaming Mouse can keep up with high levels of play. Though at $150, that should be expected. Alienware also needs to sort out its app issues.

The newness of the Alienware Pro Wireless Gaming Mouse doesn’t help it against the competition. It gives the Logitech G Pro X Superlight 2 (which it bares more than a spitting resemblance to) a fairly even match for the price. The Razer Viper V2 Pro may fall a little short in battery life, but it’s otherwise a highly competitive mouse that’s been available for $100 recently. It’s a similar story for the Corsair M75 Air Wireless, which is even cheaper still.

Outside of the ultralight realm, the fantastic and versatile Logitech G502X Lightspeed is another great alternative that may be heavier at 99.7 grams but has competitive battery life and often goes on sale for closer to $100.

The Alienware Pro Wireless Gaming Mouse has a lot to offer but, it could use a little more polish to be truly worthy. If you can’t live without its 4,000Hz wireless polling rate or 100+ hours of battery life (neither of which you can have simultaneously) and don’t switch DPI that often, it could be worth your while, but the alternatives have a lot to offer.

Alienware Pro Wireless Gaming Mouse

Alienware’s Pro Wireless Gaming Mouse is a contender with a few minor issues that hold it back from greatness.

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