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so today I'm going to be having a quick look at the Microsoft Arc Mouse now I

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unboxed The Arc keyboard quite recently

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and while I had thought it was new it turns out that was one of my co-workers

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playing a prank on me I didn't even think to look it up and find out that

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the art keyboard is not a new product at all but I figured hey since I've you

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know gone and unboxed the keyboard I might as well do the mouse too so it

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works with Windows 7 Windows Vista Windows XP

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OSX and that's pretty much it as far as what it says on that side it is designed

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for comfort and folds for portability so that's pretty cool then it has a picture

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of the mouse and then on the back we find the mouse folds on a strong metal

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hinge to 60% of its fully expanded size

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the fooling motion turns the mouse on or off and the microtrans snaps into the

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bottom of the mouse just like the keyboard I'm assuming the advanced

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performance includes laser tracking for precision and 2.4 GHz Wireless with up

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to 30 foot range so something like this would be perfect like I said with the

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keyboard that isn't new for something

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like a media PC you know if you want something that just kind of you can sit

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on the couch it doesn't take up a lot of space that sort of thing so here is the

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mouse itself so it has kind of a neat shape to it and I'm still kind of

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puzzling about how to get the Box open like this almost looks like something

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that should sit on a retail like a retail hook if it had a little thing

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here like where it would just sit like this that would kind of work for it too

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I think that's okay let's open it up

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okay and here the have the little test pry thing Ms color bar

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V5 okay that's not important all right inside we find documentation including

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the Microsoft product guide which tells you how to avoid damaging it how to

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select an appropriate power source how to use a mouse and keyboard without

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injuring yourself how to not look directly into the laser all right all

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the useful information download software hey hey Microsoft has it figured out

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look at this they don't include a software DVD all you do is you download

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the software from microsoft.com Hardware this is what I always tell people to do

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anyway brilliant okay so then that's

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pretty much all it oh no it has more information so oh you need to install

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the batteries insert the transceiver and then fold for portability when you're

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not using it so that's a very simple very simple setup guide there we

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go I don't know what's going to be in here this is a mystery but you open this

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up and then inside we find B batteries

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so this accepts AAA batteries and it includes a couple of durol ones by

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default I'm guessing this pouch is for the mouse it's kind of a um like a suy

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sort of leathery material seems

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reasonably durable there's like little stiffener pieces in the top and I'm oh

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it's they're magnetic strips look at

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that so that keeps the bag closed even though it's actually quite easy to open

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because they're like those flexible magnets very cool

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okay um and inside here so I figured out

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how to get the mouse up you take these two little tabs you fold them down and

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then once you do that the whole plastic tab will fit up through the top and then

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the mouse will come out just like that now that was simple okay so here at the

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bottom of the mouse we find the little USB transceiver which clips into place

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with a magnet so appropriate use of magnets on this particular product it's

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very very small and the mouse itself is actually also very very small cameraman

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just got an SSD so he wants me to compare it in size to his SSD which

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he'll be using to not take forever to load games while we wait for him in the

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uh in the lobby okay so there's his SSD and here is the mouse so here we have a

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scroll wheel we have a left and a right click so it's nothing too complicated as

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far as that goes the ergonomic shape is actually it's not bad considering how

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small it folds up so why don't we take the mouse and put it inside the little

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pouch cuz that's where it's supposed to go so the mouse is going home there it

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goes and then you can close it up and then you can throw that in your laptop

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bag I guess it actually has quite a bit of strength even when it's folded like

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you you wouldn't worry about breaking it you can see how it's it's braced quite

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well against itself there so let me have a look oh it's got non-slip pads here

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and here so if you're using it on a Surface where you know it's not

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particularly slippery you still don't have to really worry about that the

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Laser's in not a centered location but I'm going to go ahead and assume that it

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still works fine let's get the battery compartment open so if we were going to

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install the batteries you'd put them in here and I think that pretty much covers

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it you know what before we before we wrap this up why don't I just go over to

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cameraman's desk here put it next to his other Microsoft mouse which I hate this

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mouse it's so like laggy um but this one

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seems like it would probably be pretty good oh it has another button check this out it's uh got what I'm going to assume

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is a browser back button which in my opinion is an essential button on any

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Mouse these days I can't remember how I lived without it it's like going back to

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a mouse that doesn't have a scroll wheel like that's that'd be the worst thing

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ever so it actually has four buttons 1 2 3 four so you can press the middle click

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it feels not bad I'm actually really surprised and I I'm kind of harping on

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this issue but it actually feels surprisingly good the mouse buttons have

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a good clicky tactile feel to them this is a little bit Out Of Reach for me like

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if I had if I had bigger hands you can see my thumb isn't even close to

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reaching that button but I don't don't think it'd be a problem for me if I had

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bigger hands either way thank you for checking out my unboxing and first look

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at the Microsoft art foldable portable mouse