today I'm going to be unboxing uh another gaming peripheral this is the
Microsoft Sidewinder X8 wireless gaming
mouse so you can see in the packaging here we've got 4,000 DPI the cameraman
is closing the door to his office cuz there are people oh just close the door hurry up
jeez it is a 4,000 DPI gaming mouse with
play and charge and it runs at 13,000
frames per second so that means that the little laser camera in this mouse is
taking an of the surface under it 13,000
times per second in theory so that
should mean very very smooth performance okay so we have a resolution of up to
4,000 DPI Max acceleration of 75 G's max
speed of 120 in per second and up to 30
hours of Wireless play time which is pretty good cuz even the most hardcore
wow um what are they called raids raid
player is probably not going to be playing for 30 hours straight
I think I hope okay so the box of this
opens in kind of a creative way that is going to make it very very hard for me
to put this back together afterwards and
there we go it comes out just like that so we just unfold these little tabs here
and I'd love to have a look at the mouse in person so there it is that's the X8
up at the top we've got three buttons here and then we have a button here on
the side we have our back and forward buttons that's that's actually pretty
ergonomic usually you see the the back and forward buttons like in this kind of
orientation but this is kind of cool it's like a little rocker button here we
have a third button on the left hand side here it's nice to see more buttons
on the left because I mean some mice kind of go Overkill with it whereas
others I mean it feels like yeah you could have a lot more back there without
interfering with anything this kind of looks like it comes off but maybe it
doesn't Okay so on the right side you've got kind of an ergonomic uh Groove for
your for your pinky I'm just going to show oh actually it's not it seems like
the way this mouse is intended to be used is with your pinky resting here
because if you try to hold it this way it's kind of uncomfortable it leaves a
lot of your hand exposed down here while we're here we can look at the bottom so
you've got little uh stick uh nonslip
nonslip slipping pads okay non-stick
pads then you have the power switch at the bottom and inside here is the blue
track technology so The Sidewinder X8 actually doesn't use a red laser it uses
a blue laser which is in theory better
okay and then this seems to be battery holder yeah so that's where we put the
battery inside so why don't we have a look at what else is included with the
X8 okay a double A battery this one is a
rechargeable nickel metal hydride battery and so we can charge it by using
and this is a cool feature because this is one of those uh Wireless swi mice so
you can plug this Puck which is just a
wrapper for the cord for the mouse in by
USB to the back of your computer okay so there's a USB cord there and then you
can either use the mouse in Wireless mode and this is your receiver for that
or you can plug this in oh check that
out and it's a little magnetic charging SL wired interface for the mouse so
thank you for checking out my unboxing of the Microsoft Sidewinder X8 gaming
mouse