now I've actually wanted to try this mouse pad for a very long time one of my
co-workers actually has one and swears by it this is the steel Series 5 L and
the 5 l means five and the L means
layers so this is a unique mouse pad in
that it is constructed from both hard and soft materials for a unique gliding
experience now I'm actually a cloth user
for the most part I I prefer a little bit more friction but but there are
certain things I don't like about cloth like how quickly it wears out and I
think I mean it could be a little bit improved so I've wanted to give this a
try for quite a long time basically how this works is they start with a rubber
with rubber junk at the bottom to keep it from slipping around then they have a
hard plastic compound as the next layer then the next layer is a
soft poly isoprene okay awesome so
that's layer number three and then they have a cloth a durable extremely strong
cloth layer just over top of that and last but not least they put a thin
plastic coating that gives you the texture of the underlying cloth which is
what I like about a cloth Pad but it also gives you in theory the durability
of a plastic surface now I'm going to try and get this seal broken here so we
can get the mouse pad itself out I realized there's not a whole lot to
unbox about a mouse pad but once I've had a chance to game with this one a
little bit I'll try and update the video with annotation to give you my thoughts
on it so first of all we find pretty much nothing inside in terms of
accessories hello there and I think oh
here we go we've got a couple things inside with the mouse pad itself so
first of all we have their steel series product guide showcase thing where you
can see other steel series products great and then we have a steel series
sticker professional gaming gear and then we have a piece of paper which
seems to oh it covers the aha so this is the
rubber like kind of textured it looks
kind of like monkey art you know when they hold the paint and they throw it at the canvas it looks kind of like that so
I've actually used pads with this stuff on the bottom before it works very well
for keeping it from slipping around and then let's have a look and here I don't
know how well this is going to show we do have HD but I still don't know how
well you're going to be able to see it so you can see we have our rubber junk at the bottom then we have the hard
plastic and you can see that's what gives this pad its rigidity is this
thick hard plastic layer then we have like a thick kind of rubbery layer okay
and then we get down to a much thinner cloth layer and then over the whole
thing is kind of a is a plastic coating
that's kind of it feels almost like a cloth that's been sprayed with that
waterproofing plastic so I've been looking forward to trying this out for
quite a while thank you for checking out my unboxing of the steel series 5l and
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