I?ve come across many people who think that think any mousepad is as good an any other mousepad, they just think it doesn't matter. A friend of mine just stopped using a mousepad and used his desk and recently asked me why his mouse wasn't working correctly and skipping all over the place. Granted the mouse was one of those that comes with the system, so it wasn't the best to start with but the surface under the mouse was not flat anymore and worn down from using the mouse, so the optical sensor couldn't track correctly so it skipped. The point is that if you?re a gamer or not, a good mousepad can make a world of difference in your computing experience. A good mousepad can, for the most part, make a cheap mouse track better from my experience.

Today for review I?ve got the latest gaming mousepad from XtracGear called the Carbonic. The pad gets it's name from the carbon fiber appearance on the surface of the pad, it's not carbon fiber, it's what would be considered a cloth pad, but it's not cloth as you might expect. The surface is shiny and what Xtrac calls a polished textile surface making it have the rougher surface of a cloth pad for more control but also making it slicker than most traditional cloth pads are. The Carbonic has what I would call a hybrid surface, it's flexible like cloth but yet slick like plastic. Read on to learn more..