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In the last 10 years, if you were looking for top-end gaming peripherals,

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you might not have first thought of the name ASUS, but that might be changing.

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ASUS sponsored this video uh and sent us over five of their Harp mice. One of

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them is actually a Caris, including the Harp 2 Ace Demon 1 Edition. This is not

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the box you will get at your house, unfortunately. This is like an

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influencer box, but it includes this brand new mouse that is designed by

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Champions. uh and is kind of their competitor in the high end for like top

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tier gaming mice. And if the specs and our initial Labs report or anything to

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go by, this might be a contender, a real

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contender from Asus. This is actually a really cool box. I want to spend more

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time in here. If you want to see more ASUS mouse products, let us know in the

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comments down below. They even have kind of a sizing chart and sort of grip style

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thing, uh which would make me think that I want the Harp Ace Mini, but that's not

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what we're talking about today. Screw that. Get out of here. We're talking

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purple baby. Demon one. You thought I was an angel. Turns out I'm a devil in

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love with a demon. This is called the Demon One edition because it was designed in conjunction with Demon One,

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who's a Valerant Pro, as well as other esports pros to kind of design the

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shape. What makes this one special is obviously the color and the styling, but

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also the biiobased nylon shell uh that differentiates it from like the Aim Labs

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edition uh that we could talk out about at a different time. That means that

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this is supposed to be repellent to kind of hand grease, which is nice because

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this is a beautiful color, but I think that if they don't uh put the work and

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the design in, it could be pretty nasty looking. It's got a pretty nice premium

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feel. It's sort of got that velvety uh luxurious feel without being too

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rubbery. So, I don't think it will degrade. I think it'll hold up quite well. You can feel the print of the

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Demon One, which I don't think is a big deal. Your finger will rest and be

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there, but I worry about where kind of especially where your finger will land

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depending on how you do it. Um, and the way my hand lands on it, I'm right on

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the one. So, mine's just going to be demon. It'll no longer be a demon one,

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if you know what I mean. Asus designed this to be both a fingertip and claw

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type grip mouse, which I can see that

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working for me. It's definitely lands more in the claw, uh, which puts my

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fingers right on the edge, but the buttons do feel good even right at the

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back. Uh, I think I could definitely use the mouse like this. They're using the

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ROG exclusive optical buttons that are rated for a 100 million clicks. They

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feel pretty good. They're quite clicky.

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Fairly consistent. Although at the front it's a little more travel, which is

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pretty fine cuz it's still very clicky and responsive right at the back. Scroll

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wheel very reminiscent of a Gro style.

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It's clicky. It's not designed for scrolling through a million data items.

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It's designed for scrolling through your inventory. Although I'm a big fan of

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using numbers on the keyboard to do that. It's also the only RGB on this

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mouse, which uh is either a positive or a negative depending on your opinion.

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I'm the RGB hater. If there's one RGB hater left on this world, it is me. And

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if there's none left, I am dead. But you know what? That's pretty cool. I don't

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hate it, especially cuz it's it feels pretty good. I am not a hater of that

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amount of RGB. I also not a hater of side buttons. The way I claw grip it,

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these buttons are a little far forward for me. If I had slightly bigger hands

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and I was more palming it, I think they would land in a better spot. So, these

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is very personal preference kind of thing for me. Slightly forward, but not

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dealbreaker, nothing like that. On the front, we have our type-C port. It is

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not recessed, which I'm a big fan of. On this side, we just have the Ace

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branding, not HARP 2 ACE, which is interesting. Uh, also, that's three

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lines. That's not two. Get with the program. You know what I'm saying? On

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the bottom, we have our glide skates. uh with their proprietary 2.5D edges to

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make them smoother. It's a decent amount of glide space. Glide experience is very

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good. Uh we also have glide pads around the sensor which is pretty standard

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these days. I dig it. The glide

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experience is also extra smooth because it is a 48 g mouse which is on the

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lighter side. It is not the lightest mouse of all time, but it is definitely lighter than most gaming mice. And

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that's an especially impressive weight count because it's not a perforated

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body. It's solid. Um, I know a lot of people don't care about that, but I like

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the solid body mice, and so the fact that it is this light is a pretty

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impressive feat of engineering. Back to the bottom, we have our try mode switch,

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Bluetooth, wired, and uh the dongle

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mode. We have our DPI switch and our pairing button. I feel like if you're going to have your DPI button on the

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bottom, it's almost not even worth having, but to each their own. We also

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have a little slot for our dongle, which I'm a big fan of. The last thing on the

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bottom is the ROG Aimoint Pro sensor. It's a pretty impressive sensor

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specs-wise with 42,000 DPI, 750 IPS, and

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50gs of acceleration force. Those last two are kind of the more important ones.

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Uh, but it also has track on glass technology. I think lots of gamers have

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deskpads. Um, but you might not. And that sensor pairs nicely with the 8K

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polling rate on this mouse. Your mileage may vary. I think that a 1000 Hz polling

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rate is adequate for most people. Uh, but if you're someone that's really

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chasing the cutting edge of gaming performance, 8K is a great feature to

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have. And if you want to get extra battery life, you can take it down to

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1,000 anyway and get like a 100 hours with this thing. That's pretty good for

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a freaking mouse this light. Man, I'm really excited to try this thing. Let's

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plug it in and see how it does. Oh, what a treat. There's no software to

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download. You just go right to the gearlink.asus.com website. Automatically

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detect my mouse. Even using the wireless dongle, cuz there's a lot of mice you

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have to plug in to configure. Big fan of this, especially after the nightmare

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that has been several of the mice we've unboxed recently. I've downloaded the

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software. I've connected the mouse. No, continue pairing. I want a pair. Why do

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I need advertisements for more products inside of my We can set our five

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profiles, which is interesting because I don't see a profile switch button, but

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maybe there's a combination. The first option is our button assignment. We can

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assign buttons to do different things, which I do not want to do. But we also

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have our hotkey instructions which we have all our different uh [music]

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functions that we might want to do. It's kind of neat to have it all very clear.

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Profile switch hotkey. Press the DPI button and scroll wheel simultaneously.

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So you can switch profiles just using the mouse. So you make your profile save

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to the mouse. That's great. Next we have our speed shift settings which seem to

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basically assign a button to get your mouse in top performance mode. Get

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everything cranked all the way. Uh, I don't really want to do that. I want to

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leave everything manual. Next, we have our performance settings where we can

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change our DPI. We can also remove the ones we're not going to use. So, if you

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know you only want to switch between 400 and 800, you could just have those two.

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It looks like you have to have two to switch between, although presumably you

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could set them to be the same. Yeah. So, you can kind of trick it that way. If

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you only want to have one DPI, I know I want 800 when I'm testing. That's good.

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I can turn on and off ankle snapping. Bye-bye. I can change my polling rate

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and I can turn on and off motion sync, although in this pre-release version it

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looks like I cannot. The next thing that's really cool is uh this angle

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feature. Uh so it'll adjust presumably

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the way it's measuring your hand movements based on the angle. I think

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the way I hold my mouse best matches the minus 10 uh on the top down somewhere

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between 20, I think, and 10. We'll do 10. Uh, this is very interesting, but

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this is not the kind of video where we're going to do a deep dive on this to see how it impacts gaming. Instead,

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we're going to move on to lighting. Ooh, yeah. And my favorite RGB setting, off.

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This one's actually pretty useful because you can show how much battery

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life is left um using the color, but um

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no, I I just want off. I want as much battery life as possible. Next, we can

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calibrate. Oh, so you can do a mal manual calibration depending on your

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surface or choose from several preone

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ones. We're going to go hone ace. Seems

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exactly like an LTT Store deskpad. You know what I'm saying? Come on, ASUS. You

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should have a LT deskpad preset. You know, you know, you know what I'm

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saying. Next, we have our liftoff distance, which will change how much it's compensating for the adjustments

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when you lift the mouse to move. Um, usually this is a slider, so it's

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interesting that it's just [music] low or high. power. We have 96% battery.

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That's great. Uh we can set the light to flash when we're low on battery. And we

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have our our power saving mode where we can turn off the mouse faster. Uh next

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we have zone mode which is sort of like a separate thing from your profile. It

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sort of overrides it so you can set it exactly what you want so that no matter

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what in game you can [music] hit the button combo and get there real quick.

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And then we have our companion which we need to download and is not [music]

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really part of this. Oh, it has quick access to co-pilot. No, this mouse was

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doing so good. There was no AI features. To be fair, they didn't advertise this.

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Uh, it's just going to deepen a menu. I'll give that a pass. The last thing

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that I realized I didn't talk about is what will be in your retail box, uh,

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which we will have listed here. And it includes some grip tape, which is pretty

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cool. I like the fit and finish of this mouse texture, but uh, it's nice that

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they include that option. Know what I'm saying? Let's play some games.

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This feels very responsive, very snappy. That makes sense. We actually tested the

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mouse latency at our Labs and in wired mode, this is the second lowest latency

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we've ever measured. And in the wireless mode, uh it is among the top tier uh

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that we have tested. In its Bluetooth mode, it's uh normal Bluetooth. So,

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don't use Bluetooth if you're planning on going gaming. But both wired and with

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the dongle, this is a really, really good, snappy, responsive mouse. And I

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can feel that. I can feel that pretty good. I did switch the liftoff distance

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to high because I was having some weird tracking issues when I was moving the

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mouse and I'm having a better result. It's hard to comment on the performance of mice because so many of them are so

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good. Um, and it's nice that this is a

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really solid option for you to explore.

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Um, I'm just impressed that ASUS is kind of

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clawing their way into the top tier gaming peripheral market and I feel like

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this is a really solid option for you to explore uh and look more into. go to a

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local store and see if you can try it because so much of what makes a good

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mouse is just your comfort and your preference. Um, but this one has the

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juice. This one has what it takes uh to be very very good. The one important

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detail uh whenever you're making a purchase decision is price. It's $170,

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which is not out of the realm of other top tier gaming mice. And this has the

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juice, it has the good stuff, all the bells and whistles you could want, but

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it is not in the category of bang for your buck. And so if that's what you're

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looking for, this is the mouse for you. But if you're someone who's after the

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best stuff they got and you like purple like me, this is a really good option to

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explore. So check out the ROG Harp 2 Ace at the link in the video description.

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The Demon 1 version is coming out in 2026, but you can get the regular black

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one right now. And if you want to check out some of their other mice, they have

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a cool little campaign going on called the Find My Ace, which will help you

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find the ROG mouse that might best suit you. So check that out at the link in

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the video description.

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