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- Today, we're gonna answer the question, is the Zaunkoenig M1K i the world's lightest mouse?

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Spoiler, the answer is yes.

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All right, this comes in a box that honestly feels lighter than a lot of mice that I've held.

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So that's a good sign. This is a crowdfund and nice, and the whole purpose

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was to make the world's lightest mouse. It's very specific. It's not an all purpose mouse.

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In fact, as you can see right here no scroll wheel, no side buttons.

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All it is, is sensor two buttons. So for some games, it's gonna be fine,

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for others it's gonna be bad, but as I play mostly FPS, I am the target audience for this.

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So I'm excited to see how this does. Like the mouse is no frills this box is very no-frills.

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It's literally a mouse, some foam, that's it. It's a nice box though.

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You can put some stuff in there. That's a pretty long cable.

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That's not bad. As you can see part of how they reduce the weight

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as instead of having plastic it's actually the world's first carbon fiber mouse

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you can see the kind of texture underneath. They also accomplish it by having a honeycomb plastic

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underneath. The creators don't like honeycomb on the hand, I get it just like Logitech,

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it kind of feels weird if it gets dirty but underneath, as you can see

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they have done that to shed some weight. And man, look how tiny this little PCB is.

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So it doesn't even extend past here. It's really just tiny little PCB, sensor and buttons.

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And then they're Omron ones, I think they're rated for 2 million made in Japan.

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These are pretty good switches, very common, they feel fine, there's no side buttons

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and there's no scroll wheel. Some people think that's a contentious issue

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but honestly I think the perfect gaming mouse would have no scroll wheel.

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For all the games I play, I select my weapons using the numbers. So I don't ever use the scroll.

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And if as a third button it's kind of the (beep) button

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of the three. And so I'm into the idea of no scroll wheel.

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However, I want a third button and the side buttons and really on the body in terms of lightness

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there's not much to comment on. Because they're trying to shed weight there's not much glide pad.

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So I'm excited to see if that is a less smooth experience. It might be and lightness isn't everything,

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as we're about to discover, there's other factors that make a good mouse like shape.

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As you can see, this looks like one of those tiny little Microsoft mice

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you could buy in the 2000s or little wireless ones that my mom used and they were good for her, but not for gaming.

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This is a very particular shape. It's insanely light.

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Like having it here it doesn't even feel like I'm really moving something. My hand feels like more of a burden than this mouse.

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Honestly, it's pretty crazy. Holy smokes. And it's because it's so light.

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Those tiny little glide pads kind of do the job. I mean, to achieve 21 grams

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which is how light this mouse is, we'll measure it after, they had to make it a wired mouse.

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Obviously, if you put a battery in there you're gonna hit 50, 60 grams pretty quick.

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Even the lightest wireless mouse, G Pro X Superlight is like three times heavier than this.

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Batteries they're heavy. And if you're going for this title

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you can't have a battery. So it's 21, to 22 ish grams

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depending on how much of the cables there. So I'd say yeah, they definitely have accomplished their

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goal of 23 grams or lighter. So they have a cable it's not braided

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but it's a specially designed. So I don't know what the durability is like, but it's light.

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And like even here it doesn't really feel that hard to drag around.

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So I think that's the idea, is it's not gonna be the most that you're gonna have for the rest of your life,

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but they wanted to have the smoothest lightest experience.

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So I don't know if there's much else to say on the mouse

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itself, it's not particularly comfortable although that's the last thing I expected was to

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find it comfortable. I think this is the gold standard in mice. Obviously one difference is it's wireless versus wired.

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It's a lot heavier 61 grams versus 23 grams.

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Although this feels frigging, is this a Superlight? It feels heavier than mine.

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Maybe I'm getting spoiled by this. Now this feels like a dead weight

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like a dumbbell I'm pushing around. This isn't the lightest pad it's got the glide pads

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it's a little bit heavier, but in terms of shape I think the G pro X is clearly more designed

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for the average human hand. There's more buttons. It's a flawless sensor.

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The buttons are very similar and there's way more glide pad.

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And so, although this isn't a bad experience this is way smoother even though it's heavier.

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There's not much else to say about this mouse other than this is the no-frills of mice.

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This is the grocery store you go to they don't even sell plastic bags.

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You got to bring your own cardboard boxes. That's pretty much it let's plug it in and see how it goes

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Oh yeah. So I'm trying to download the software and this mouse proves itself not to be a daily driver.

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'Cause immediately I was trying to scroll as if this was like the magic mouse

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and then it was like a capacitive touch scroll. Nope, this is a not great.

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Let's try and see if this mouse really does do

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what it does best with the old classic Rainbow Six,

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it's new season, time to play. I actually haven't played the new season.

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I haven't had time to practice, get warmed up. And so too scared.

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I wanna be a winner, you know. Maybe this mouse is what makes me a winner.

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So first impression I can already feel my hand kind of

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like tensing up. At least my wrist. It's not a super comfortable shape.

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Like it's certainly not ergonomic. I don't know what the opposite of ergonomic is, but it is

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that. I can already tell I'm going to miss the side buttons but that's not a big deal,

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not everyone uses those side buttons for games. Okay, we're gonna compare to the G Pro X Superlight.

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This is the mouse I have at home, this is what I think is the best mouse money can buy

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right now. You can see by the shape of this mouse there's really only one way you're going to hold it.

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You're going to be clawing this mouse pretty hard. And as I'm kind of a hybrid person

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I get my palm on the mouse and then claw up little bit.

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It's not very comfortable to have my palm nowhere and kind of have to shape it.

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I think that's why my hand tensed up a little bit before. If you're a natural claw

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maybe this mouse would feel pretty good for you but it's not my hand shape.

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Immediately it feels a lot heavier, which is surprising. This felt like the lightest thing I've ever held

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before today. It's still a smoother experience. It's a little bit heavier, but it's still so light.

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There's not a big difference. I was having a pretty hard time making the firmware work

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on the other mouse. Whereas Logitech, it might be a little bit heavier

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of a software, but it's just an executable that you run and then it's working and it's super easy to

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configure all your Logitech devices in one place. So that's definitely a big benefit that it's kind

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of a more refined product. I say that I want to gain mouse without a scroll wheel

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but now that I've tried it I can already tell how it's annoying. You take it for granted how many times you just scroll

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even in a game, like just the menus. I would definitely have to get used to it or like assign

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like a modifier that I could press and drag or something. It's not impossible

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but it feels insurmountable at this moment.

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If I was a flake master this mouse would be frigging insane.

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There's no resistance, I can go like 40 inches in a second.

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I feel like it's pretty accurate to what I'm used to, which is surprising.

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I was worried that I would like overcompensate, overshoot a lot, but feels pretty frigging precise.

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And I mean like the sensor is a flawless sensor so I wasn't too sure worried about it being inaccurate.

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But I really thought that the weight would just throw me off

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but I'm actually liking more than I thought I would.

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All right. All right. Okay, okay.

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Maybe this mouse has something going on. Yeah, it feels like it's really precise.

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Like there's no momentum to your big swings, your flicks, feels like it's just kind of

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like my brain is connected to my hand and my hand is just moving.

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I will say the shape is always gonna get in the way. I think that something, this light

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in a slightly different shape might be better. It might not be possible. This is like such a small shape

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and to get something this weight, but it's more comfortable.

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It's probably just not feasible physically but I wanna give it another go because I'm a surprised

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I thought it would be pooping all over this mouse for the whole video.

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I think this is an incredible proof of concept and that they can make a mouse this light.

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But I think what I would like to see is kind of a compromise, something that uses this technology,

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the kind of breakthroughs they've had but then make some more complete mouse.

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I'm okay with no scroll wheel. I could learn to live with that but no third button, no like side buttons.

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It's kind of hard. The shape's a little bit off, but the precision is real.

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And I didn't really think I was gonna notice a huge difference, but every frigging ShortCircuit I do

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I am realizing how much more I shouldn't have gotten a G Pro X Superlight between 8K

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which this mouse has but we weren't able to get working in this video.

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And the insane lightness, mice are gonna keep getting better.

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And that's exciting. Cause like the Kickstarter, which is over now

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this most cost 249 euros. So that's like 300, 350 US.

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That's pretty (beep) pricey, when you compare it to 150

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for the G Pro X and you're gonna get a complete mouse and this would be the only mouse you need.

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Clearly this becomes a little less appealing but they nailed what they set out to do,

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make what they claim is the world's lightest mouse make it the world's first carbon fiber mouse.

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And now we know it's possible. Maybe that's the next era of mice

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the next little shaving off of weights. This is a really cool product.

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And I'm very glad I to try it today. So thank you for watching.

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