so today the cameraman's very tired and he'll be sitting in a chair and I'll be
standing for a change so we're doing a little bit of rule reversal but he won't
be appearing in front of the camera and I won't be behind it today we have a
very exciting product to unbox it is a blizzard license product it is made by
Steel series and it comes with World of
Warcraft cataclysm branding on it do you
think you can guess which product it is yes it is finally the updated wow Mouse
now the original wow Mouse was a fairly similar looking product but the
improvements that have been made are all really cool so let's start with uh
opening up we've got a little magnetic clasp here so that's what closes the
package we've got like a cool sort of packaging on this where it's like burned
away and then you you know pull it open and you can see there's a bunch more
information here covered in blizzard artwork of course which is always
awesome all right develop four World of Warcraft players by blizzard and steel
series cooperatively The cataclysm MMO gaming mouse invokes the iconic imagery
of Deathwing the Destroyer leader of the black dragon flight and okay so this is
just marketing Spiel all right that's not going to tell us too much here we go
multiplatform compatibility Mac and PC just like uh blizzards games game
Library official in-game support so you can bind all 14 buttons within the game
so it's built right into wow support for this mouse Advanced macros with 14 fully
programmable buttons we have onboard memory to store your
custom settings Advanced illumination with 16 million colors and four
intensity settings very cool um the original wow Mouse had like the same
sort of deal where you could change the color of it and up to 10 unique profiles
uh linked to the Armory your custom profiles linked to the Armory so I'm
guessing that's for different characters all right then let's actually have a
look at the back of the box here and here we go so frames per second that is
the FPS that can be recorded by the mouse is 11.75 five self adjusting okay
inches per second is 150 counts per inch
is 90 to 5040 so the CPI seems to be
quite a bit higher than the original wow Mouse acceleration true 16bit these are
all very highly technical specifications I mean you got to understand steel
Series has been building mice for a long time this is not a Cheesy like wow
branded product that is just designed to sort of take a cheap Mouse throw a label
on it and sell a bunch of mice they've actually been building gaming
peripherals for as long as we've uh we've had awesome professional level
peripherals so
um let's see if there's anything else that I want to cover that is uh talked
about on the back of the box now the software for the original wow mouse was
pretty good and as far as I know we're using a very similar software layout but
what I'll have to do is I'll have to update you guys once I have a chance to
actually use the mouse So today we're going to focus on the physical aspects
of it so first of all what we have included in the package yeah cameraman
couldn't care less but it's basically a little thing that tells you to download
the latest drivers you know oh quick start guide wow okay we might find some
more info in here it's quite thick which I guess is because there's a lot of
languages to configure the mouse you launch the gaming mouse software via the
start menu adjust speed and sensitivity you can program the buttons you can
adjust the color intensity and pulsation effects so it does have the pulsation
that the original wamos had you can choose up to 10 profiles with 14
different buttons and and let me
see buttons and default settings here we go so here they map out all the
buttons okay well there's not a whole lot in there actually it is a quick
start guide all right so let's have a look at the wild mouse itself first
thing is it's an MMO Mouse so it's all about buttons let's show you guys where
all of the buttons on this mouse are so we'll start on this side we have 1 2 3 4
five buttons on the left side so I'm not going to count this one I'll count that
as a the top button five here next we have 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 eight on the top and
then finally on this side we have an
additional one so that is a total of 14
buttons on this mouse now personally I
did not find the ergonomics of the original M wow Mouse to be quite to my
liking it was more of a um more of an
ambidextrous shape so it wasn't really fitted for our right hand whereas the
new WoW Mouse the cataclysm Mouse actually borrows a little of the shape
from my personal favorite Mouse the aari laser so you've got this same shape here
to rest your two fingers on and then over on the other side the thumb buttons
are actually in a much better position
for someone like me to actually reach them the original wow Mouse had some of
the buttons were a little bit weird like you could kind of accidentally hit one
when you mean to hit the other cuz they were all on kind of a a single button
and it was more like a rocker switch and I didn't really like that all that much
but this is a much much better layout so these are going to be your back and
forward buttons and Windows and I guess the other ones are mostly intended for
games use all right so the overall finish of it now this is not quite a
production sample Mouse uh but this should be pretty close to what we're
expecting so it's kind of a A Worn armor look finish to the uh to the top of the
mouse and then this is final so this is a pretty much a steel series staple this
kind of rubberized uh grippy feeling
thing okay so let's uh flip the mouse over here we find the steel series
gaming grade engine as well as nice large slippy pads on the bottom of the
mouse so it's going to take you a long time to wear those guys out uh we have a
very nice looking braided oh cameraman wants to see that I guess we have a very
nice braided cable here so you can see that they're using a very high quality
sleeving when the cameraman finishes looking at the uh gaming grade engine
all right so they use a great quality C cable sleeving you can't see through
that to the cord at all and then we'll have a look at sort of how long it is so
yeah it's about wow it's actually really long cord and then we've got a
goldplated USB connector at the end to
make sure that you're always making good connection between The Mouse and the USB
port so I'll just show you guys the
couple more views of the mouse itself cuz it really does look pretty sharp so
what I want to show you guys in I guess I'll do an upcoming video on this is I
want to show you guys the driver configuration as well as the uh what it
looks like with all the lighting effects enabled so don't forget to subscribe to
Linus Tech tips for follow up on this mouse more unboxings more reviews all
that kind of good stuff and thank you for watching