WEBVTT 00:00:00.160 --> 00:00:06.560 I just got my cast off after breaking my hand and I need some help to get back to 00:00:04.560 --> 00:00:12.480 mouse and keyboard gaming. So, I'm looking at the Razer ProClick V2 00:00:09.679 --> 00:00:18.160 Vertical, which is a vertical style ergonomic mouse built for gaming. 00:00:15.519 --> 00:00:22.240 Surprisingly, there is not a lot of those out there. So, I am very excited 00:00:20.240 --> 00:00:28.000 to see if this is going to help me be able to play video games again. I I have 00:00:24.720 --> 00:00:30.000 been This thing just unboxed itself. 00:00:28.000 --> 00:00:33.600 That was incredible. We're done. Ready to go. I've been able to play controller 00:00:32.160 --> 00:00:37.920 games, but mouse and keyboard games have been very uncomfortable uh with my wrist 00:00:35.680 --> 00:00:42.320 over. And that is the big benefit of vertical mice is it's a more natural 00:00:40.719 --> 00:00:46.079 ergonomic shape. The way that the bones in your forearm are aligned, it makes 00:00:44.320 --> 00:00:49.520 way more sense to have your hand in a vertical shape than like this where the 00:00:47.760 --> 00:00:55.120 bones cross. And so for a lot of people, you know, if you game too much, you can get that carpal tunnel. And this form 00:00:52.960 --> 00:00:59.680 factor has been the king uh of ergonomics in the productivity space. 00:00:57.199 --> 00:01:03.840 But we surprisingly haven't seen many vertical gaming mice. Inside this box 00:01:02.160 --> 00:01:15.119 that unboxed itself, there is a smaller box that includes what looks like a 00:01:09.600 --> 00:01:17.360 4ft type C to A cable. Sure, that's good 00:01:15.119 --> 00:01:22.240 for charging. And then I'm guessing there's a dongle somewhere. Is it in the 00:01:19.920 --> 00:01:27.840 mouse? Oh, that's fantastic. The mouse has its own little dongle slot. Oh, 00:01:24.400 --> 00:01:31.360 that's great. This is very simple 00:01:27.840 --> 00:01:35.360 packaging. Huh. Even this instruction 00:01:31.360 --> 00:01:38.079 manual. Feels kind of recycled papery. 00:01:35.360 --> 00:01:43.040 Cool. Stickers. We have waste. We did it. Once we get to the star of the show, 00:01:40.159 --> 00:01:47.600 which is the actual mouse, uh, it has a pretty sleek look. I would not describe 00:01:45.280 --> 00:01:52.960 it as particularly gamey, which is definitely a benefit. It has a 00:01:50.159 --> 00:01:57.200 texturized rubber on this side, which feels pretty good. Although I feel like 00:01:55.360 --> 00:02:01.680 this is the kind of finish that's going to degrade pretty fast. This side is the 00:01:59.040 --> 00:02:08.080 smoother plastic that feels uh more normal for most common mice. There is a 00:02:04.960 --> 00:02:13.280 third type of plastic here uh that leads 00:02:08.080 --> 00:02:14.720 to the DPI switch/ AI button because AI 00:02:13.280 --> 00:02:19.280 is so cool. It won't matter. None of us are going to have jobs in 4 years because the robots are going to be 00:02:17.599 --> 00:02:24.400 taking care of us, right? We're going to be okay. Normally, I kind of do a 360 of 00:02:22.720 --> 00:02:28.480 the mouse, but it's sort of disorienting on a vertical mouse. It's like, is this 00:02:26.239 --> 00:02:32.480 the top? Is is this the top? I don't know anymore. I'm so lost. Uh, if you 00:02:30.879 --> 00:02:36.000 flip the mouse this way, which is the right side. Uh, it's very much like a 00:02:34.800 --> 00:02:41.440 regular mouse. You got your left click, your right click. Those don't feel good. 00:02:38.879 --> 00:02:47.440 Oh, that's not good. That's a bad start. They feel fine, but there's like 20% too 00:02:44.480 --> 00:02:52.080 much mush uh in the click. Scroll wheel feels okay. the click on the scroll 00:02:49.519 --> 00:02:57.040 wheel is almost uh non-existent. There's also no free scroll mode, which uh or 00:02:54.879 --> 00:03:01.680 tilt input, which is kind of essential for productivity settings. Um, but 00:03:00.080 --> 00:03:05.680 that's okay. I'm not a huge vertical mouse guy, so maybe that's just like the 00:03:03.280 --> 00:03:09.519 normal feeling for vertical mouse, but coming from regular gaming mice, if I 00:03:07.360 --> 00:03:13.040 had a gaming mouse that felt this kind of clicky, um, I would be pretty 00:03:11.599 --> 00:03:18.720 disappointed. Maybe it's designed this way so you're not like pressing so hard 00:03:14.720 --> 00:03:20.640 that you're adjusting. Um, I don't know. 00:03:18.720 --> 00:03:25.599 We got a little pinky scoop that brings your pinky along for the ride. I think 00:03:22.879 --> 00:03:28.959 it's fine. I think I'd want my pinky free, though. H I don't like this side 00:03:27.040 --> 00:03:32.720 of the mouse too much. As always, ergonomics are certainly a preference 00:03:30.720 --> 00:03:36.799 thing. This is a smaller vertical mouse than I've seen. The one I've used the 00:03:34.400 --> 00:03:42.000 most is the MX Vertical, which has a bigger, more angled shape uh that I 00:03:39.440 --> 00:03:47.280 think is a more natural fit for my hand. But this is not uncomfortable in any 00:03:44.720 --> 00:03:50.560 way, shape, or form. I just am not a big fan of this pinky scoop. You might like 00:03:48.959 --> 00:03:55.120 it, though. Coming over to this side where the texturized rubber kisses my 00:03:52.799 --> 00:03:58.720 thumb, we have two thumb buttons. Instead of having kind of a forward and 00:03:56.720 --> 00:04:02.799 back button, we have sort of a top bottom button. I think that will take 00:04:01.120 --> 00:04:06.080 getting used to because I'm used to kind of slight adjustments in my thumb when 00:04:04.879 --> 00:04:10.799 I'm gaming. But I don't think that's necessarily a bad thing. I think that makes sense. There's quite a lot of 00:04:09.040 --> 00:04:16.799 distance your thumb has to travel to go between them. So I think if you're planning on using these buttons in a 00:04:13.599 --> 00:04:20.000 high speed game, um it might take some 00:04:16.799 --> 00:04:22.720 getting used to, but the clickiness is 00:04:20.000 --> 00:04:27.120 fine. I wouldn't say that it's like the nicest, most satisfying click I've ever 00:04:24.400 --> 00:04:33.360 felt. Um but it certainly does the job. On the front, we have our USB type-C 00:04:29.600 --> 00:04:35.040 charging port. Uh, very far recessed in. 00:04:33.360 --> 00:04:38.400 I'm guessing that's a weight balance thing where they want to have the actual 00:04:36.560 --> 00:04:40.800 circuitry closer to the center. If it's too close to the front, it's going to 00:04:39.600 --> 00:04:47.280 kind of be front weighted and be harder to move around. On the bottom, we have our wired and wireless toggle instead of 00:04:44.720 --> 00:04:51.520 calling it off unless it's plugged in and on. I think that's an interesting 00:04:49.919 --> 00:04:55.600 choice. Then, we have our mode switch between Bluetooth, uh, which is always a 00:04:53.759 --> 00:05:01.040 nice little addition, and our 2.4 GHz dongle. We also have our dongle down 00:04:57.759 --> 00:05:03.199 here. And even though it's uh very snug 00:05:01.040 --> 00:05:06.400 in there, it comes out very easy. That's actually a pretty welldesigned thing. 00:05:05.120 --> 00:05:10.080 Then we have our sensor, which is the Razer Focus Pro 30K optical sensor, 00:05:08.960 --> 00:05:17.039 which is the same that we have in the Death Adder V3 Pro and the Viper V2 Pro, 00:05:13.120 --> 00:05:20.000 uh, which is a very solid sensor, 30,000 00:05:17.039 --> 00:05:24.639 DPI, which is also good for 550 IPS, which is adequate. Uh, just like the 00:05:22.800 --> 00:05:28.639 1000Hz polling rate. I'm kind of surprised Razer didn't go for the 8000Hz 00:05:27.280 --> 00:05:33.759 pulling rate as sort of a selling feature as like an ultimate uh gaming 00:05:30.800 --> 00:05:37.520 mouse, but it also probably allows this mouse to not be exceptionally 00:05:35.840 --> 00:05:41.360 overpriced. And so I'm okay with that kind of balance. I think most people 00:05:39.360 --> 00:05:45.360 looking at this mouse are probably people that take gaming seriously, but 00:05:43.440 --> 00:05:49.680 are more concerned with the health of their wrist and hand uh rather than 00:05:47.759 --> 00:05:56.720 getting those extra little uh little bits of sensitivity and speed. This is 00:05:53.199 --> 00:05:58.479 not the smoothest mouse I have felt. And 00:05:56.720 --> 00:06:04.479 part of that might be that these skates aren't super great quality. Uh they're 00:06:01.840 --> 00:06:09.440 fairly large, but it doesn't feel too smooth. Um and part of that might just 00:06:06.400 --> 00:06:12.479 be that it is pretty damn heavy. It's 00:06:09.440 --> 00:06:14.400 150 g, nearly three times more weight 00:06:12.479 --> 00:06:18.720 than a lot of gaming mice that you see on the high end these days. Having 00:06:16.160 --> 00:06:22.880 looked at it briefly in the specs, this is not going to be the highest end 00:06:20.560 --> 00:06:27.600 gaming experience. But the key question is, is this more comfortable than a 00:06:25.520 --> 00:06:31.360 regular gaming mouse? I am so used to the regular stance, and I don't really 00:06:29.600 --> 00:06:35.440 have that carpal tunnel. I don't play as many games as I used to. Um, that this 00:06:33.280 --> 00:06:40.400 is slightly more comfortable, and I'm kind of not used to it in this way, and 00:06:39.120 --> 00:06:44.080 I don't like the way that part of my hand is dragging on the thing. I also 00:06:42.240 --> 00:06:48.319 don't like the way that it really fits in my hand. I feel like it's asking more 00:06:46.160 --> 00:06:51.759 my third and fourth finger. It's always tough with ergonomic products to really 00:06:50.080 --> 00:06:56.160 give a first impression because it just takes a while to get used to it. Uh, and 00:06:53.919 --> 00:06:59.759 so I could see myself getting used to it, but yeah, the side of my hand is 00:06:58.240 --> 00:07:03.039 really dragging. And that's actually part of where I'm most sensitive. You 00:07:01.280 --> 00:07:08.000 can see where the pins were in my hand. So for me, this isn't an ideal shape or 00:07:06.000 --> 00:07:11.520 experience, but it's not bad. Let's freaking game though. That's where we're 00:07:09.759 --> 00:07:13.919 going to really find out about this, just like you're about to find out about 00:07:12.880 --> 00:07:19.199 our sponsor, >> Zidax. 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We're going to go deeper into the menu and find out what's going on. Okay, if I 00:08:00.080 --> 00:08:06.639 turn up my brightness to 100, it's on for a moment. 00:08:04.080 --> 00:08:10.800 Okay, if I turn it to 41. There it is for a moment. Okay, cool. Uh, we have 00:08:09.360 --> 00:08:15.039 our brightness. We have our quick effects and advanced effects. Chroma 00:08:13.199 --> 00:08:19.120 studio. There's another piece of software for this. I shouldn't need a 00:08:16.560 --> 00:08:24.000 tutorial to set the RGB on a house. Okay, Razer, get it together. This is 00:08:21.680 --> 00:08:28.960 ridiculous. It's so cool that I can finally control 18 zones with like 00:08:25.919 --> 00:08:31.039 millions of colors. Uh, 00:08:28.960 --> 00:08:35.200 that's what I think about that. Okay, lighting done. 00:08:33.200 --> 00:08:39.519 There's more lighting. Why do I need advertisements for more 00:08:37.039 --> 00:08:44.560 Razor products inside of my This is the worst. I'm actually so incensed. I did 00:08:42.800 --> 00:08:49.839 not open Chroma. So, somehow from Synapse, they hijacked my control and 00:08:47.600 --> 00:08:53.600 gave me Chroma so that I can see ads for more of their products. Oh, look, more 00:08:51.279 --> 00:08:57.360 ads for more of their products. Once we're into Synapse, we can customize 00:08:55.600 --> 00:09:01.920 each of our buttons to do all kinds of things. the usual uh macro stuff, 00:08:59.920 --> 00:09:05.839 different mouse functions, uh you can assign different buttons. I guess you 00:09:03.920 --> 00:09:10.240 can make it a sensitivity clutch or a DPI switch on any button. I'm fine with 00:09:08.560 --> 00:09:13.440 that kind of control. The fact that you can even disable a button on the kind of 00:09:12.080 --> 00:09:16.240 mouse that uh would have a bunch of buttons. This one only has six and so I 00:09:15.279 --> 00:09:23.920 don't think that that's going to be necessary. We get our first look at the AI launcher. So AI prompt master. 00:09:22.160 --> 00:09:27.600 This will open an overlay where you can input AI prompts before sending it to a 00:09:26.320 --> 00:09:31.279 chosen service. >> I want to be on this planet anymore. 00:09:29.600 --> 00:09:37.120 >> Okay. Yeah, we can assign all our buttons. We can have our hypershift 00:09:32.959 --> 00:09:39.680 mode. Um, and so you can get it to also 00:09:37.120 --> 00:09:43.040 have like alt modes. That's neat. You can switch between your profiles for 00:09:41.360 --> 00:09:46.160 different apps. And then we have our sensitivity. If you have it on basic, 00:09:44.399 --> 00:09:48.399 you kind of just set it once. Polling rate, which I'm going to set to a,000 00:09:47.519 --> 00:09:54.959 even though it's going to kill my battery life. And then wireless power saving. uh anywhere from 15 seconds to 00:09:53.040 --> 00:09:58.560 10 minutes. I'll turn to 30 seconds. But sensitivity also has this advanced 00:09:56.880 --> 00:10:02.240 toggle which allows you to have multiple modes. I've heard in vertical mice uh 00:10:01.040 --> 00:10:06.959 you actually want your sensitivity a little bit higher because you the way 00:10:04.160 --> 00:10:10.320 you move it um your movements are a little bit smaller and so you actually 00:10:08.240 --> 00:10:19.279 want a little bit more sensitivity. I am exhausted just looking at this app. Why 00:10:13.200 --> 00:10:21.110 is there so many tabs? What is going on? 00:10:19.279 --> 00:10:23.440 Netflix time. 00:10:23.440 --> 00:10:30.880 The mouse is pretty good though. I have not used a Razer product in a long time. 00:10:28.079 --> 00:10:37.600 I can't believe how much system resources this mother is using. Almost a 00:10:34.720 --> 00:10:43.120 gigabyte of memory. In the other tab, I am screen capturing 00:10:40.399 --> 00:10:48.959 recording everything that's happening using less memory than this mouse 00:10:46.480 --> 00:10:53.680 configuration app is using. This is ridiculous. Are you kidding me? Can I at 00:10:51.760 --> 00:10:58.880 least close it and like still have everything I set? 00:10:55.920 --> 00:11:02.560 Okay, it looks like my DPI stuff's still there. So, I guess you can close it, but 00:11:00.480 --> 00:11:06.160 like let's let's freaking game. I I don't want to think about Synapse no 00:11:04.000 --> 00:11:09.600 more. I don't want my Synapses to fire no more. 00:11:08.160 --> 00:11:15.120 Although it feels different. This mouse is fairly comfortable for my hand size. 00:11:12.880 --> 00:11:19.519 It fits neatly uh where I don't have to like overreach or overextend. Uh it's 00:11:18.160 --> 00:11:23.839 not the perfect shape, but it's definitely not too bad. My precision is 00:11:22.160 --> 00:11:27.120 off, but that is not necessarily a fault of the mouse. That's just me not being 00:11:25.279 --> 00:11:30.640 used to this form factor or the sensitivity. The nice thing is that it's 00:11:28.480 --> 00:11:35.839 a very responsive mouse. I can feel that there's no input lag or kind of delay on 00:11:33.200 --> 00:11:41.279 the sensor. And as our Labs tested, this is well within the zone of very good, 00:11:38.959 --> 00:11:44.640 which is fantastic. So, this is truly a gaming mouse. And there really just 00:11:42.800 --> 00:11:49.440 isn't many vertical gaming mice. So, that's just nice right there. Let's go a 00:11:47.360 --> 00:11:54.160 little bit more in depth than how this feels. It's always going to be hard to 00:11:51.440 --> 00:11:59.839 overcome, you know, 30 years of PC gaming where I'm used to moving the 00:11:56.800 --> 00:12:01.920 mouse in a certain way. It's a different 00:11:59.839 --> 00:12:05.920 motion to kind of go like this. And I'd even be curious if the sensor was 00:12:03.360 --> 00:12:10.959 further up, it would feel more precise. I feel like to get the movements I want, 00:12:07.839 --> 00:12:13.360 I have to do big wrists movements, which 00:12:10.959 --> 00:12:18.240 is not necessarily ideal. I think if it was further up, I could do kind of 00:12:14.880 --> 00:12:20.160 finger controls as my fine adjustment, 00:12:18.240 --> 00:12:23.839 where now, like even sniping, I really have to kind of like lock in my whole 00:12:21.600 --> 00:12:31.760 arm. So, I just feel like the precision isn't quite what I want. But, 00:12:29.360 --> 00:12:35.680 I might get there. It's always going to be tough to overcome that giant 150 g 00:12:34.160 --> 00:12:40.240 size, though. It's a very heavy, very large mouse. Uh, I know some people dig 00:12:37.680 --> 00:12:45.279 that, but I find for shooters at least, this isn't ideal. But 00:12:43.040 --> 00:12:49.200 it's vertical, but I actually don't have the most experience with vertical gaming 00:12:46.800 --> 00:12:54.320 mice. So, we have vertical gaming mouse uh, expert, Mr. Bell, coming in to try 00:12:52.160 --> 00:12:57.040 it and tell us what he thinks. So, I don't actually use a vertical gaming 00:12:55.440 --> 00:13:01.279 mouse at home, but I've been wanting to because I use a vertical mouse here at 00:12:58.959 --> 00:13:04.240 work and uh, this is the the Logitech Lift. Don't look at how grimy it is. 00:13:02.959 --> 00:13:08.480 Don't get a white mouse. It's disgusting. >> Disgusting. >> But I I love it and I've been looking 00:13:07.040 --> 00:13:12.240 for a vertical gaming mouse. So, when I saw this, I knew I had to try it because 00:13:10.880 --> 00:13:16.000 I don't usually actually mind the weight. And I do get the wrist pain 00:13:14.240 --> 00:13:19.519 after a while of gaming. Uh especially on a smaller desk cuz my wrists are kind 00:13:17.920 --> 00:13:23.920 of like this the whole time. >> This is quite a bit bigger than the Logitech Lift I've been using. 00:13:22.079 --> 00:13:28.800 >> I don't know if I really mind it. I do like how easy this is to like pick up 00:13:26.320 --> 00:13:32.720 and move compared to this. And I don't know if I would really ever use these 00:13:31.040 --> 00:13:35.600 buttons cuz like you said before, it's it's very they're very far away. But it 00:13:34.800 --> 00:13:41.680 also means you're not really going to accidentally click it. The top one maybe actually cuz like again I I pick up my 00:13:40.160 --> 00:13:45.360 mouse a lot to >> do sweeping motions. Uh maybe I should 00:13:43.360 --> 00:13:48.639 just change my DPI. But that makes it a little bit easier to hit that. But the 00:13:46.959 --> 00:13:54.240 clicks are much better. Like listen to this. 00:13:51.200 --> 00:13:56.160 >> That's not That's not a click. 00:13:54.240 --> 00:14:00.000 >> Much more satisfying. Yeah. You know what? I actually really like this uh as 00:13:58.480 --> 00:14:02.800 a again a vertical mouse user is more used to it. I don't mind it at all and I 00:14:01.600 --> 00:14:09.279 guess maybe I have smaller hands or I just hold my mouse differently, but my hand is not dragging on the deskpad like 00:14:07.040 --> 00:14:12.480 it is for for you which is a big difference. 00:14:10.320 --> 00:14:16.320 >> It's the challenge of doing mice unboxings is every hand is different and 00:14:14.880 --> 00:14:23.680 ideally you can go to a store where you can kind of get your hands on it and feel how it how it lands in your hand. I 00:14:20.320 --> 00:14:25.760 have meaty palm, short sausage fingers, 00:14:23.680 --> 00:14:29.839 uh, and so it's not ideal for my hand shape, but I will say it's a premium 00:14:28.399 --> 00:14:34.959 product and it feels like a premium product. >> And the RGB, this is crazy. That's got 00:14:33.040 --> 00:14:37.199 to be like 16.8 million colors. >> Oh my god. >> All right, I'm out of here. 00:14:36.720 --> 00:14:42.880 >> Bye >> bye. >> And now for the worst part of this video. 00:14:40.959 --> 00:14:46.320 Once you've summoned your AI, you have all these things you can kind of 00:14:44.720 --> 00:14:50.639 pre-prompt it to do. So you can have like it rephrase or summarize or compose 00:14:48.399 --> 00:14:55.920 email. Uh, so it basically just gives you a faster access to either chat GPT 00:14:53.760 --> 00:15:00.399 or Copilot. Looks like you'll need to log into Chad GPT to generate images. 00:14:57.519 --> 00:15:05.680 Nope, I hate you. Back to if this is the gaming mouse for you. It's kind of an 00:15:02.720 --> 00:15:10.880 interesting scenario. It is a fairly expensive mouse. It's $120, which means 00:15:08.320 --> 00:15:14.880 that it's into the premium product territory. And I think that there's 00:15:12.639 --> 00:15:19.360 better gaming products out there. Uh, Razer's own lineup has some pretty cool 00:15:16.880 --> 00:15:24.480 ones. the Hitscan Hyperlite. Uh there's the Gro X Superlite 2. There's all kinds 00:15:22.480 --> 00:15:27.839 of great gaming mice, but there really isn't many vertical gaming mice. And if 00:15:26.959 --> 00:15:33.680 that's something that you've been looking for, this is quite a good 00:15:30.000 --> 00:15:36.959 option. Uh it's basically this or the 00:15:33.680 --> 00:15:38.800 Keyron M5 for wireless gaming mice. And 00:15:36.959 --> 00:15:43.600 I think that there's a few advantages, at least on paper, of the Keyron M5, but 00:15:41.199 --> 00:15:46.000 I haven't had hands-on with that. So, if you're curious about that, leave a 00:15:44.880 --> 00:15:50.399 comment down below and maybe we can unbox it on ShortCircuit. As for this, 00:15:49.199 --> 00:15:55.199 I don't think it's something you should rush out and buy. I think you should get your hands on this, see if it's 00:15:53.519 --> 00:15:58.800 comfortable for you. Uh, and if you really do plan on doing vertical gaming, 00:15:56.959 --> 00:16:04.639 it might be the right product for you, but it's not got me super excited. Uh, I 00:16:01.759 --> 00:16:09.519 hate the Razer software. I don't love this finish, but it is a premium product 00:16:07.279 --> 00:16:12.880 at a premium price. And so if that's something that appeals to you, just like 00:16:11.120 --> 00:16:16.399 watching more short circuits should appeal to you, uh why don't you check 00:16:14.399 --> 00:16:19.759 out the time we unbox the Razer Signature Viper Mini.