Essentially, Razer is selling you three high-end gaming mice for the price of one. The Naga isn't cheap, but it justifies its high price with tremendous customizability and with part-swapping that couldn't be easier or more intuitive. If you play MMOs but still need a more traditional mouse for FPS, RTS, RPGs or simply getting work done, the Naga is simply the best mouse for the job.

Design

It's hard to ignore the religious implications in the Naga Trinity's name since it, too, comprises three distinct entities in one body. You can swap out the thumb panel at will, thanks to some well-placed and fairly powerful magnets. It takes a minimum of force to pop off the panel, but unless you specifically try to remove it (or accidentally drop the mouse), the Naga's left side isn't going anywhere.

The 12-button layout is the most straightforward of the three; the hex layout has seven buttons surrounding a central, ridged thumb rest; the simple layout has two curved buttons and a large, ridged thumb rest underneath them. All three panels are easy and comfortable to hold, although you've seen them before on other Razer mice.

You can even use the Naga Trinity without a side panel — although you probably shouldn't, because you'll just be resting your thumb on exposed metal.

Features

The most important — and most distinctive — feature of the Naga Trinity comes in its swappable side panels. However, there's not that much to actually write about them. They simply work beautifully, successfully turning the Naga from a genre-specific one-hit wonder into a versatile powerhouse.

Beyond that, the Naga Trinity works with the Razer Synapse 3 software, which is still in beta, but looking better all the time. With the software, you can reprogram buttons, create profiles for individual games, change the RGB lighting, adjust the DPI (between 100 and 16,000) and tinker with a bunch of other technical settings.

The best word for the Naga Trinity's interface in Synapse is "polished." You can swap out the side panels at any time — not just between games — and the software will instantly recognize which panel is attached. You can reprogram buttons in either list or pictorial form, and open up a set of "Hypershift" buttons to completely change the key map when you hold down a button of your choice. You can also program macros, which is, of course, very useful when dealing with MMOs.