welcome to my unboxing of the Rat savu this is a midsize hybrid gaming mouse
which I'm not exactly sure what hybrid means but I guess we'll get to that
later Pro optic sensor so this is using an optical sensor not a laser sensor but
still capable of 4,000 DPI the DPI is
honestly it's more of a factor if you're running a very high resolution screen or
like a multim monitor setup than anything else um because Beyond that
really the the the accuracy of the tracking is more important than the DPI
okay button duplicator easy shift plus okay we'll figure out what that is
later customizable lighting multicolor so you can change the lighting to
whatever color you want I guess that's what the rainbow here means no sweat
side grips excellent rat driver and macro presets for games multimedia and
apps 5 plus two buttons 12 functions via easy shift a okay that sounds kind of
neat high quality components for solid build for long life okay Optical sensor
12 Mouse functions rat easy shift ultr light light system drivers and macros
let's go ahead and open this bad boy up because rat is starting to get a lot of
attention in North America they hadn't really been present here before but they
are now and people are really talking about it so let's find out what all of
the fusses about Optimum midsize design
with perfectly balanced weight I do
appreciate having adjustable weight on mice but I understand that that's not
everyone's preference and and while I okay okay I should disclaim that because
while I said I do like to have adjustable weight my actual favorite
Mouse does not have adjustable weight so my second favorite mouse ever is the G9
and I haven't tried the g9x so I don't I don't know but it's probably more of the
same and it's good um but my favorite
Mouse is actually the steel series aari laser which is not weight adjustable so
let's go ahead and have a look at the Aesthetics of the mouse so this is
excellent grip material on the side here you can tell right away it's basically
like sandpaper but not uncomfortable it's like rubber sandpaper so you'll
have what it allows is for the sweat to sit in between the uh the bumps so you
can still maintain grip on it and uh it's not absorbent at all but it should
be pretty durable as well it doesn't feel like the kind of thing that you could just scratch off easily in terms
of mouse buttons you've got two here so there's your backs and forwards you've
got your left and right click you got your middle click and let's find out
what easy shift is this is my at ID card it should be
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that somewhere else okay okay moving right along easy shift actually kind of
cool so what it does here these are all the default assignments however once you
install the software you can change them so here I'm going to demo on the mouse
itself rather than so left click right click okay this is the easy shift button
so here check this out browser forward
shift browser back okay so scroll up
scroll down shift volume up volume down
so basically shift allows you to to press this and then press any of these
other buttons for different functionality so they give you a map of
the default assignments with no driver installed but you can install the driver
and you can change everything you want they also give you some examples of what
you might want to do and for example Counter Strike or wow or multimedia or
browser or whatever else the case may be kind of neat I think it would take a
little while to get used to but once you do you could actually effectively have
far more buttons on your mouse than you than you actually have which is sort of
neat okay so the sensor can deliver 400 800600 or 4,000 DPI optimized tracking
that fits any style also has an ultra 2D incremental step wheel for perfect
control during weapon changes and other critical decisions let's
see yeah feels pretty solid okay I'm down high quality build ah yes more
German engineering excellent so this goes along with our theme of German
engineering in on our unboxings today which included the be quiet! dark power
dark Power Pro power supply and my
rabbit German engineering okay let's
have a look at the mouse itself physically so you got your slippy pads on the front and the back you got your
Optical sensor right there in terms of the size they're calling this a midsize
Mouse I'd say this is more on the smaller side I have pretty small hands
and this is a very very comfortable size for me uh in terms of the grip I'd say
it's somewhere between you can Palm it if you want but what you'll find is I
think your pinky will fall off a little bit so you might want want to uh claw it
and I don't think it's really suitable for fingertip although you could
probably do it cuz it's got enough of a contour here and enough of a contour here that you could probably get away
with it uh but I'd say this is more of a claw grip than anything else um in terms
of how it's most naturally used the top is is a little bit more smooth but still
grippy compared to the sides where it's more like that sandpaper finish and the
overall Comfort is pretty good actually like I'm I'm liking it I don't quite
like the positioning of these I wish they were a little bit lower but
um they're still once you actually put it down they're very reachable and it's
not going to interfere with your ability to use the mouse otherwise even if
you're holding down one of them as a shift so I think that pretty much covers
it you know we should plug it in and check out the lighting effects actually
just to see I think it's Blue by default let's just plug this in there you go
actually I'm going to go turn off the light so that you can here we'll put it
next to the Corsair M60 so you can see
what a mouse with lighting effects looks like compared to a mouse without
lighting effects if you aren't already aware of what a mouse with lighting
effects looks like oh it's kind of neat so in the driver you should be able to
configure things like the colors pulsation and all that good stuff so
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