The Steelpad S&S is wafer thin with a height of only 2mm so it doesn’t feel much different than using the mouse straight on the desk surface and avoids the discomfort of big spongy or tall pads can cause. The base of the S&S has no feet, but rather is splattered with small specs of rubber across the entire surface which does a great job at keeping the pad flat and still, there is no way this pad is going to move when you don’t want it to.

The Base of the SteelPad S&S

Closeup of the Base

We’ve tested the surface of the S&S with several different mice, namely a Cyber Snipa Intelliscope (Laser) Logitech G5 2007 (Laser) and Microsoft Basic Optical Mouse (Optical) and all of them performed perfectly, no jitters or odd movements on any part of the pad surface, and with the gaming/laser mice the response to both slight and fast movements was excellent, even on the ultra-high resolution mode of the Intelliscope which can cause the mouse to move a little erratically when used on average surfaces, such as my wooden/laminate desk. However there was no noticeable difference to the Cyber Snipa Game pad we used in the Intelliscope test a few weeks ago, but you have to realise it’s only a mouse mat, how much difference can it make? Unfortunately I didn’t have a ball mouse on hand to test, not like anyone uses them these days, anyway.

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