yep, i bought the new optical razer viper. it's nice, light, and well, cheap looking. it's 1000dpi (however they rate these things) and it got an overall good review at tom's hardware.

my opinion of it is that it's a really nice mouse, very precise and definitely a no-frills job: there are only two buttons and a roller. and these buttons are styled in exactly the same way they were on the boomslang, e.g. long and wide. it's not as low as to the table as it's ball-driven relatives were, in fact, it's about the same size and feel as the standard ball-driven ms intellimouse was (v1.0 - 1.2). my only qualm is that if you don't keep your finger in the relative center of the left button, it will sometimes catch the lip of the right-hand button; and vice-versa.

so, the verdict: who gives a fuck. it's only me talking.