is it okay for a YouTuber to make a
product in a category that they review I
say yes but only if it's really really
good random prank P then is taking some big
risks today if his Mouse isn't great it
means one of two things either he sold
out and agreed to slap his brand on a product he doesn't truly believe in or
he never figured out it sucks and he loses all his credibility as a mouse
reviewer meet the Pulsar X2 random Frank
P edition due to the obvious conflict of interest Frank can't be here to review
it himself so instead he gets the sphincter tightening experience of
watching us compare it to the biggest names in the game the good news is that
it is 72 times more precise than one of
these name brand competitors but the bad news is that based on his videos we're
not sure that he knew that so did he get lucky here and if so how lucky not lucky
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we don't normally spend much time on the unboxing experience but for a YouTuber
product we consider it absolutely critical to nail it and although it's
not exceptionally fancy removing this top cover is pretty satisfying mostly
because of the awesome random Frank P design on the mouse this looks sweet
and it better because the paint accounts
for over six percent of the weight of this mouse don't stress though it sounds
like a lot but with a total weight of just 56 grams it is still one of the
lightest mice on the market he cheated a little this is the Mini version but
there's a larger one that comes in at just 59 grams for those of you who
prefer a palm grip also inside here we find a wireless adapter
are you kidding me Frankie nowhere to
store it boo
there's a braided USB type-c to a cable very nice lightweight and
trading card did we get a holographic one
do you know you don't know
does he have holographic ones signed holographic
Frankie seriously it's me well
that's gonna impact kidding kidding kidding kidding along
with the upgraded paint job Mr Frank P has also selected different switches for
his version of the X2 he went with wano blue shell pink dot switches and a TTC
gold encoder for the scroll wheel
it's delightfully satisfying isn't it at least I hope you're satisfied because
the ride is over now this is where the random Frank penis of this mouse ends
but we've gotten ahead of ourselves a little bit here who the heck is pulsar
founded in 2020 Pulsar is a Korean company with impactable as the key word
for the brand and affordable Innovation is their motto and that's about the
entirety of the useful information on their about page what I was also able to
track down though was that they've been reviewed extraordinarily well by
multiple Publications but can they stand up to our lab
for comparison we chose three wireless gaming mice in the same price band and
were immediately impressed by how much
lighter the Pulsar was the model O2 Wireless comes in second at a relatively
bloated 68 grams and this lightness of
the X2 makes it feel nearly effortless to use outside of products that cost two
to three times as much this is the first flyweight class mouse that I felt that
doesn't make some pretty brutal compromises it also feels like Pulsar has
unnaturally low friction on the mouse pad but that might just be the inertia
kind of screwing with me so we're going to put it to the test X too many random
Frank p O2 Wireless G Pro I use the super light
day to day this one it's quite a bit heavier and then Viper ultimate okay
ready oh Viper ultimate with the win
oh
and there goes the Jeep wrap it's worth noting that regardless of these results
all of these mice feel great gliding across a pad sure the Logitech might
have a tiny bit more friction than the rest but it is still an exceptional
gaming tool all four use PTFE feet and
if you aren't satisfied there are companies including Pulsar actually that
sell glass feet so your mouse regardless of which model it is will slide better
than any of these for the sensor Pulsar went with the
Pixar paw 3395 Pixar's current Flagship
that features 26 000 CPI sensitivity 50g acceleration and
motion sync motion sync is a new feature that synchronizes when the mouse reads
the sensor with the polling rate of the mouse in theory making movement feel
more consistent in practice though basically every high-end gaming mouse in
the last couple of years has come with a functionally Flawless sensor so unless
the makers were stupid enough to try to change the behavior of the sensor and
then botch it the differences should be negligible
speaking of that the Glorious model O2
glorious calls the sensor in this mouse the bamf 2.0 but we couldn't help
noticing that it has identical specs to the Paw 3395 and also very likely is the
Paw 3395 just with some custom tweaks
from glorious to help them get to their claimed 110 hours of battery life which
would be really impressive if it didn't come at a terrible cost to
evaluate sensor performance our Labs team mounted each of our mice to a robot
that's programmed to move exactly and exactly two inches while the attached PC
registers each count or Dot from the mouse
in theory if we move a mouse at 800 DPI
two inches it should return 1600 counts
this test is useful for measuring both the accuracy and the Precision of each
Mouse with the Precision being the one that's more important since accuracy
only really matters if you're switching between mice along with his Mouse Frank
also sent along a glass mouse pad so we ran all of our results on both the glass
Super Glide and the LTT mouse pad lttstore.com
the Logitech Razer and Frank's Pulsar all performed at what I would consider
to be S tier returning both precision and accuracy that are good enough we can
confidently say if you're missing your flick shots it ain't your gear bro now
of the three the Pulsar did have the highest click latency but at 5.9
milliseconds we still consider that good enough for a grade what wasn't good
enough was the Glorious model O2 a 16.2
millisecond click latency simply isn't acceptable on a gaming mouse at this
price or even a gaming mouse at half this price more concerningly the
accuracy and the Precision were both by
far the worst in our field so bad that
we redid All of the results on three separate mouse pads to verify that yes
the Glorious model O2 sucks
there is a single bright spot for it though strangely the Precision is quite
good on the glass super glide through some Quirk of the sensor but the
accuracy was still terrible and most people don't enjoy a glass mouse pad
now we want to make it clear that all of our testing on the model O2 Wireless was
done on the latest firmware and software there was a previous version that had
connectivity issues that's all been solved but these test results go to show
that they've taken this mouse from broken to bad to confirm that we didn't
have some glorious specific problem with our testing we even grabbed the original
model o a mouse that scored very well on ratings and tech power up but we got a
new problem with that one we couldn't get the original model o to be
recognized in software on three separate computers yeah it sucks
it sucks and as it turns out we're not the only ones with the problem since
glorious doesn't have older versions of their software on their site we had to
risk computer herpes by using a sketchy link online in order to get it working
which it fortunately did but unfortunately for glorious the original
model o annihilated the O2 which is very
awkward so on the whole we're just gonna hard not recommend either the model
though or the O2 until glorious makes some serious changes
but why are we talking about glorious right now ah because the O2 Wireless happens to be
the first mouse that random Frank P reviewed since releasing his own Mouse
and while he and I came to the same conclusions do I recommend this mouse no
don't buy it we don't have the same reasons for it and this is weird to me
because the safest path he could have taken with this thing especially given
the proximity to his own product launch would have been to criticize it for its
piss-poor performance and then say don't buy it but he didn't seem to notice the
piss-poor performance in Ford's overall performance I personally had no issues I
know there have been some reports out there I guess of like the current software for people who got like
reviewed units early and stuff that was causing some like lag or stutter but my
unit felt just fine which kind of makes us wonder is the excellent performance
of his co-branded Mouse by Design or is
it just a happy accident I mean it's possible he just saw a lot
of things he really liked from pulsar and trusted them to do a good job which
frankly pun intended seems to have worked out for him and what's definitely
not accidental is the subjective experience of using the X2 mini everyone
who has touched it here which includes Alex our peripheral specialist for the
lab and me loves the feel of this thing
I mean we can't say for sure that your experience will mirror ours but what we
can say is that all three of us come from different mice as our daily drivers
and thanks Alex have very different hand
sizes this is a darn nice ergonomic design the
switches feel great the rated 70 hours of battery life had Alex using it all
week without needing to charge it once and all of this somehow happens without
an influencer tax on the very competitive 95 price
so what can I say outstanding job Mr Frank p
but Linus you might say are you just Shilling for your YouTuber bro what
about that extra latency and the worst performance in your movement benchmarks
my response to that is a I don't know him basically at all for
one thing no offense and B I just want to reiterate that three of
our four mice here were s-tier and the deciding factor should be how it feels
in your hand or how it looks on your desk as opposed to the point zero three
percent Precision difference now sadly I can't yet pass these through
the screen to you for you to experience for yourself we don't have the
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