I just got my cast off after breaking my hand and I need some help to get back to
mouse and keyboard gaming. So, I'm looking at the Razer ProClick V2
Vertical, which is a vertical style ergonomic mouse built for gaming.
Surprisingly, there is not a lot of those out there. So, I am very excited
to see if this is going to help me be able to play video games again. I I have
been This thing just unboxed itself.
That was incredible. We're done. Ready to go. I've been able to play controller
games, but mouse and keyboard games have been very uncomfortable uh with my wrist
over. And that is the big benefit of vertical mice is it's a more natural
ergonomic shape. The way that the bones in your forearm are aligned, it makes
way more sense to have your hand in a vertical shape than like this where the
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
factor has been the king uh of ergonomics in the productivity space.
But we surprisingly haven't seen many vertical gaming mice. Inside this box
that unboxed itself, there is a smaller box that includes what looks like a
4ft type C to A cable. Sure, that's good
for charging. And then I'm guessing there's a dongle somewhere. Is it in the
mouse? Oh, that's fantastic. The mouse has its own little dongle slot. Oh,
that's great. This is very simple
packaging. Huh. Even this instruction
manual. Feels kind of recycled papery.
Cool. Stickers. We have waste. We did it. Once we get to the star of the show,
which is the actual mouse, uh, it has a pretty sleek look. I would not describe
it as particularly gamey, which is definitely a benefit. It has a
texturized rubber on this side, which feels pretty good. Although I feel like
this is the kind of finish that's going to degrade pretty fast. This side is the
smoother plastic that feels uh more normal for most common mice. There is a
third type of plastic here uh that leads
to the DPI switch/ AI button because AI
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
taking care of us, right? We're going to be okay. Normally, I kind of do a 360 of
the mouse, but it's sort of disorienting on a vertical mouse. It's like, is this
the top? Is is this the top? I don't know anymore. I'm so lost. Uh, if you
flip the mouse this way, which is the right side. Uh, it's very much like a
regular mouse. You got your left click, your right click. Those don't feel good.
Oh, that's not good. That's a bad start. They feel fine, but there's like 20% too
much mush uh in the click. Scroll wheel feels okay. the click on the scroll
wheel is almost uh non-existent. There's also no free scroll mode, which uh or
tilt input, which is kind of essential for productivity settings. Um, but
that's okay. I'm not a huge vertical mouse guy, so maybe that's just like the
normal feeling for vertical mouse, but coming from regular gaming mice, if I
had a gaming mouse that felt this kind of clicky, um, I would be pretty
disappointed. Maybe it's designed this way so you're not like pressing so hard
that you're adjusting. Um, I don't know.
We got a little pinky scoop that brings your pinky along for the ride. I think
it's fine. I think I'd want my pinky free, though. H I don't like this side
of the mouse too much. As always, ergonomics are certainly a preference
thing. This is a smaller vertical mouse than I've seen. The one I've used the
most is the MX Vertical, which has a bigger, more angled shape uh that I
think is a more natural fit for my hand. But this is not uncomfortable in any
way, shape, or form. I just am not a big fan of this pinky scoop. You might like
it, though. Coming over to this side where the texturized rubber kisses my
thumb, we have two thumb buttons. Instead of having kind of a forward and
back button, we have sort of a top bottom button. I think that will take
getting used to because I'm used to kind of slight adjustments in my thumb when
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
distance your thumb has to travel to go between them. So I think if you're planning on using these buttons in a
high speed game, um it might take some
getting used to, but the clickiness is
fine. I wouldn't say that it's like the nicest, most satisfying click I've ever
felt. Um but it certainly does the job. On the front, we have our USB type-C
charging port. Uh, very far recessed in.
I'm guessing that's a weight balance thing where they want to have the actual
circuitry closer to the center. If it's too close to the front, it's going to
kind of be front weighted and be harder to move around. On the bottom, we have our wired and wireless toggle instead of
calling it off unless it's plugged in and on. I think that's an interesting
choice. Then, we have our mode switch between Bluetooth, uh, which is always a
nice little addition, and our 2.4 GHz dongle. We also have our dongle down
here. And even though it's uh very snug
in there, it comes out very easy. That's actually a pretty welldesigned thing.
Then we have our sensor, which is the Razer Focus Pro 30K optical sensor,
which is the same that we have in the Death Adder V3 Pro and the Viper V2 Pro,
uh, which is a very solid sensor, 30,000
DPI, which is also good for 550 IPS, which is adequate. Uh, just like the
1000Hz polling rate. I'm kind of surprised Razer didn't go for the 8000Hz
pulling rate as sort of a selling feature as like an ultimate uh gaming
mouse, but it also probably allows this mouse to not be exceptionally
overpriced. And so I'm okay with that kind of balance. I think most people
looking at this mouse are probably people that take gaming seriously, but
are more concerned with the health of their wrist and hand uh rather than
getting those extra little uh little bits of sensitivity and speed. This is
not the smoothest mouse I have felt. And
part of that might be that these skates aren't super great quality. Uh they're
fairly large, but it doesn't feel too smooth. Um and part of that might just
be that it is pretty damn heavy. It's
150 g, nearly three times more weight
than a lot of gaming mice that you see on the high end these days. Having
looked at it briefly in the specs, this is not going to be the highest end
gaming experience. But the key question is, is this more comfortable than a
regular gaming mouse? I am so used to the regular stance, and I don't really
have that carpal tunnel. I don't play as many games as I used to. Um, that this
is slightly more comfortable, and I'm kind of not used to it in this way, and
I don't like the way that part of my hand is dragging on the thing. I also
don't like the way that it really fits in my hand. I feel like it's asking more
my third and fourth finger. It's always tough with ergonomic products to really
give a first impression because it just takes a while to get used to it. Uh, and
so I could see myself getting used to it, but yeah, the side of my hand is
really dragging. And that's actually part of where I'm most sensitive. You
can see where the pins were in my hand. So for me, this isn't an ideal shape or
experience, but it's not bad. Let's freaking game though. That's where we're
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multiple separate pieces of software to get to Synapse, I'm finally in this
crappy piece of software. I'm so mad. We're going to go deeper into the menu and find out what's going on. Okay, if I
turn up my brightness to 100, it's on for a moment.
Okay, if I turn it to 41. There it is for a moment. Okay, cool. Uh, we have
our brightness. We have our quick effects and advanced effects. Chroma
studio. There's another piece of software for this. I shouldn't need a
tutorial to set the RGB on a house. Okay, Razer, get it together. This is
ridiculous. It's so cool that I can finally control 18 zones with like
millions of colors. Uh,
that's what I think about that. Okay, lighting done.
There's more lighting. Why do I need advertisements for more
Razor products inside of my This is the worst. I'm actually so incensed. I did
not open Chroma. So, somehow from Synapse, they hijacked my control and
gave me Chroma so that I can see ads for more of their products. Oh, look, more
ads for more of their products. Once we're into Synapse, we can customize
each of our buttons to do all kinds of things. the usual uh macro stuff,
different mouse functions, uh you can assign different buttons. I guess you
can make it a sensitivity clutch or a DPI switch on any button. I'm fine with
that kind of control. The fact that you can even disable a button on the kind of
mouse that uh would have a bunch of buttons. This one only has six and so I
don't think that that's going to be necessary. We get our first look at the AI launcher. So AI prompt master.
This will open an overlay where you can input AI prompts before sending it to a
chosen service. >> I want to be on this planet anymore.
>> Okay. Yeah, we can assign all our buttons. We can have our hypershift
mode. Um, and so you can get it to also
have like alt modes. That's neat. You can switch between your profiles for
different apps. And then we have our sensitivity. If you have it on basic,
you kind of just set it once. Polling rate, which I'm going to set to a,000
even though it's going to kill my battery life. And then wireless power saving. uh anywhere from 15 seconds to
10 minutes. I'll turn to 30 seconds. But sensitivity also has this advanced
toggle which allows you to have multiple modes. I've heard in vertical mice uh
you actually want your sensitivity a little bit higher because you the way
you move it um your movements are a little bit smaller and so you actually
want a little bit more sensitivity. I am exhausted just looking at this app. Why
is there so many tabs? What is going on?
Netflix time.
The mouse is pretty good though. I have not used a Razer product in a long time.
I can't believe how much system resources this mother is using. Almost a
gigabyte of memory. In the other tab, I am screen capturing
recording everything that's happening using less memory than this mouse
configuration app is using. This is ridiculous. Are you kidding me? Can I at
least close it and like still have everything I set?
Okay, it looks like my DPI stuff's still there. So, I guess you can close it, but
like let's let's freaking game. I I don't want to think about Synapse no
more. I don't want my Synapses to fire no more.
Although it feels different. This mouse is fairly comfortable for my hand size.
It fits neatly uh where I don't have to like overreach or overextend. Uh it's
not the perfect shape, but it's definitely not too bad. My precision is
off, but that is not necessarily a fault of the mouse. That's just me not being
used to this form factor or the sensitivity. The nice thing is that it's
a very responsive mouse. I can feel that there's no input lag or kind of delay on
the sensor. And as our Labs tested, this is well within the zone of very good,
which is fantastic. So, this is truly a gaming mouse. And there really just
isn't many vertical gaming mice. So, that's just nice right there. Let's go a
little bit more in depth than how this feels. It's always going to be hard to
overcome, you know, 30 years of PC gaming where I'm used to moving the
mouse in a certain way. It's a different
motion to kind of go like this. And I'd even be curious if the sensor was
further up, it would feel more precise. I feel like to get the movements I want,
I have to do big wrists movements, which
is not necessarily ideal. I think if it was further up, I could do kind of
finger controls as my fine adjustment,
where now, like even sniping, I really have to kind of like lock in my whole
arm. So, I just feel like the precision isn't quite what I want. But,
I might get there. It's always going to be tough to overcome that giant 150 g
size, though. It's a very heavy, very large mouse. Uh, I know some people dig
that, but I find for shooters at least, this isn't ideal. But
it's vertical, but I actually don't have the most experience with vertical gaming
mice. So, we have vertical gaming mouse uh, expert, Mr. Bell, coming in to try
it and tell us what he thinks. So, I don't actually use a vertical gaming
mouse at home, but I've been wanting to because I use a vertical mouse here at
work and uh, this is the the Logitech Lift. Don't look at how grimy it is.
Don't get a white mouse. It's disgusting. >> Disgusting. >> But I I love it and I've been looking
for a vertical gaming mouse. So, when I saw this, I knew I had to try it because
I don't usually actually mind the weight. And I do get the wrist pain
after a while of gaming. Uh especially on a smaller desk cuz my wrists are kind
of like this the whole time. >> This is quite a bit bigger than the Logitech Lift I've been using.
>> I don't know if I really mind it. I do like how easy this is to like pick up
and move compared to this. And I don't know if I would really ever use these
buttons cuz like you said before, it's it's very they're very far away. But it
also means you're not really going to accidentally click it. The top one maybe actually cuz like again I I pick up my
mouse a lot to >> do sweeping motions. Uh maybe I should
just change my DPI. But that makes it a little bit easier to hit that. But the
clicks are much better. Like listen to this.
>> That's not That's not a click.
>> Much more satisfying. Yeah. You know what? I actually really like this uh as
a again a vertical mouse user is more used to it. I don't mind it at all and I
guess maybe I have smaller hands or I just hold my mouse differently, but my hand is not dragging on the deskpad like
it is for for you which is a big difference.
>> It's the challenge of doing mice unboxings is every hand is different and
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
have meaty palm, short sausage fingers,
uh, and so it's not ideal for my hand shape, but I will say it's a premium
product and it feels like a premium product. >> And the RGB, this is crazy. That's got
to be like 16.8 million colors. >> Oh my god. >> All right, I'm out of here.
>> Bye >> bye. >> And now for the worst part of this video.
Once you've summoned your AI, you have all these things you can kind of
pre-prompt it to do. So you can have like it rephrase or summarize or compose
email. Uh, so it basically just gives you a faster access to either chat GPT
or Copilot. Looks like you'll need to log into Chad GPT to generate images.
Nope, I hate you. Back to if this is the gaming mouse for you. It's kind of an
interesting scenario. It is a fairly expensive mouse. It's $120, which means
that it's into the premium product territory. And I think that there's
better gaming products out there. Uh, Razer's own lineup has some pretty cool
ones. the Hitscan Hyperlite. Uh there's the Gro X Superlite 2. There's all kinds
of great gaming mice, but there really isn't many vertical gaming mice. And if
that's something that you've been looking for, this is quite a good
option. Uh it's basically this or the
Keyron M5 for wireless gaming mice. And
I think that there's a few advantages, at least on paper, of the Keyron M5, but
I haven't had hands-on with that. So, if you're curious about that, leave a
comment down below and maybe we can unbox it on ShortCircuit. As for this,
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
comfortable for you. Uh, and if you really do plan on doing vertical gaming,
it might be the right product for you, but it's not got me super excited. Uh, I
hate the Razer software. I don't love this finish, but it is a premium product
at a premium price. And so if that's something that appeals to you, just like
watching more short circuits should appeal to you, uh why don't you check
out the time we unbox the Razer Signature Viper Mini.