WEBVTT 00:00:00.230 --> 00:00:05.020 - Today, we're gonna answer the question, is the Zaunkoenig M1K i the world's lightest mouse? 00:00:05.020 --> 00:00:08.423 Spoiler, the answer is yes. 00:00:10.370 --> 00:00:15.550 All right, this comes in a box that honestly feels lighter than a lot of mice that I've held. 00:00:15.550 --> 00:00:19.550 So that's a good sign. This is a crowdfund and nice, and the whole purpose 00:00:19.550 --> 00:00:23.584 was to make the world's lightest mouse. It's very specific. It's not an all purpose mouse. 00:00:23.584 --> 00:00:27.840 In fact, as you can see right here no scroll wheel, no side buttons. 00:00:27.840 --> 00:00:32.130 All it is, is sensor two buttons. So for some games, it's gonna be fine, 00:00:32.130 --> 00:00:36.880 for others it's gonna be bad, but as I play mostly FPS, I am the target audience for this. 00:00:36.880 --> 00:00:42.090 So I'm excited to see how this does. Like the mouse is no frills this box is very no-frills. 00:00:42.090 --> 00:00:45.626 It's literally a mouse, some foam, that's it. It's a nice box though. 00:00:45.626 --> 00:00:49.050 You can put some stuff in there. That's a pretty long cable. 00:00:49.050 --> 00:00:52.420 That's not bad. As you can see part of how they reduce the weight 00:00:52.420 --> 00:00:55.690 as instead of having plastic it's actually the world's first carbon fiber mouse 00:00:55.690 --> 00:01:01.300 you can see the kind of texture underneath. They also accomplish it by having a honeycomb plastic 00:01:01.300 --> 00:01:05.130 underneath. The creators don't like honeycomb on the hand, I get it just like Logitech, 00:01:05.130 --> 00:01:08.290 it kind of feels weird if it gets dirty but underneath, as you can see 00:01:08.290 --> 00:01:13.400 they have done that to shed some weight. And man, look how tiny this little PCB is. 00:01:13.400 --> 00:01:19.810 So it doesn't even extend past here. It's really just tiny little PCB, sensor and buttons. 00:01:19.810 --> 00:01:22.832 And then they're Omron ones, I think they're rated for 2 million made in Japan. 00:01:22.832 --> 00:01:27.785 These are pretty good switches, very common, they feel fine, there's no side buttons 00:01:27.785 --> 00:01:31.621 and there's no scroll wheel. Some people think that's a contentious issue 00:01:31.621 --> 00:01:35.680 but honestly I think the perfect gaming mouse would have no scroll wheel. 00:01:35.680 --> 00:01:40.851 For all the games I play, I select my weapons using the numbers. So I don't ever use the scroll. 00:01:40.851 --> 00:01:44.370 And if as a third button it's kind of the (beep) button 00:01:44.370 --> 00:01:48.470 of the three. And so I'm into the idea of no scroll wheel. 00:01:48.470 --> 00:01:54.840 However, I want a third button and the side buttons and really on the body in terms of lightness 00:01:54.840 --> 00:01:58.140 there's not much to comment on. Because they're trying to shed weight there's not much glide pad. 00:01:58.140 --> 00:02:03.752 So I'm excited to see if that is a less smooth experience. It might be and lightness isn't everything, 00:02:03.752 --> 00:02:08.720 as we're about to discover, there's other factors that make a good mouse like shape. 00:02:08.720 --> 00:02:12.380 As you can see, this looks like one of those tiny little Microsoft mice 00:02:12.380 --> 00:02:16.683 you could buy in the 2000s or little wireless ones that my mom used and they were good for her, but not for gaming. 00:02:16.683 --> 00:02:19.910 This is a very particular shape. It's insanely light. 00:02:19.910 --> 00:02:26.105 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. 00:02:26.105 --> 00:02:30.530 Honestly, it's pretty crazy. Holy smokes. And it's because it's so light. 00:02:30.530 --> 00:02:34.560 Those tiny little glide pads kind of do the job. I mean, to achieve 21 grams 00:02:34.560 --> 00:02:38.170 which is how light this mouse is, we'll measure it after, they had to make it a wired mouse. 00:02:38.170 --> 00:02:41.580 Obviously, if you put a battery in there you're gonna hit 50, 60 grams pretty quick. 00:02:41.580 --> 00:02:46.460 Even the lightest wireless mouse, G Pro X Superlight is like three times heavier than this. 00:02:46.460 --> 00:02:50.692 Batteries they're heavy. And if you're going for this title 00:02:50.692 --> 00:02:56.170 you can't have a battery. So it's 21, to 22 ish grams 00:02:56.170 --> 00:03:00.390 depending on how much of the cables there. So I'd say yeah, they definitely have accomplished their 00:03:00.390 --> 00:03:04.790 goal of 23 grams or lighter. So they have a cable it's not braided 00:03:04.790 --> 00:03:09.180 but it's a specially designed. So I don't know what the durability is like, but it's light. 00:03:09.180 --> 00:03:12.296 And like even here it doesn't really feel that hard to drag around. 00:03:12.296 --> 00:03:17.170 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, 00:03:17.170 --> 00:03:20.310 but they wanted to have the smoothest lightest experience. 00:03:20.310 --> 00:03:23.490 So I don't know if there's much else to say on the mouse 00:03:23.490 --> 00:03:28.340 itself, it's not particularly comfortable although that's the last thing I expected was to 00:03:28.340 --> 00:03:33.216 find it comfortable. I think this is the gold standard in mice. Obviously one difference is it's wireless versus wired. 00:03:33.216 --> 00:03:36.760 It's a lot heavier 61 grams versus 23 grams. 00:03:36.760 --> 00:03:40.190 Although this feels frigging, is this a Superlight? It feels heavier than mine. 00:03:40.190 --> 00:03:43.310 Maybe I'm getting spoiled by this. Now this feels like a dead weight 00:03:43.310 --> 00:03:47.780 like a dumbbell I'm pushing around. This isn't the lightest pad it's got the glide pads 00:03:47.780 --> 00:03:52.960 it's a little bit heavier, but in terms of shape I think the G pro X is clearly more designed 00:03:52.960 --> 00:03:56.810 for the average human hand. There's more buttons. It's a flawless sensor. 00:03:56.810 --> 00:04:00.230 The buttons are very similar and there's way more glide pad. 00:04:00.230 --> 00:04:05.580 And so, although this isn't a bad experience this is way smoother even though it's heavier. 00:04:05.580 --> 00:04:10.380 There's not much else to say about this mouse other than this is the no-frills of mice. 00:04:10.380 --> 00:04:14.840 This is the grocery store you go to they don't even sell plastic bags. 00:04:14.840 --> 00:04:19.290 You got to bring your own cardboard boxes. 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Nope, this is a not great. 00:04:56.410 --> 00:04:59.430 Let's try and see if this mouse really does do 00:04:59.430 --> 00:05:03.270 what it does best with the old classic Rainbow Six, 00:05:03.270 --> 00:05:07.210 it's new season, time to play. I actually haven't played the new season. 00:05:07.210 --> 00:05:10.650 I haven't had time to practice, get warmed up. And so too scared. 00:05:10.650 --> 00:05:13.762 I wanna be a winner, you know. Maybe this mouse is what makes me a winner. 00:05:13.762 --> 00:05:17.090 So first impression I can already feel my hand kind of 00:05:17.090 --> 00:05:20.870 like tensing up. At least my wrist. It's not a super comfortable shape. 00:05:20.870 --> 00:05:25.530 Like it's certainly not ergonomic. I don't know what the opposite of ergonomic is, but it is 00:05:25.530 --> 00:05:28.640 that. I can already tell I'm going to miss the side buttons but that's not a big deal, 00:05:28.640 --> 00:05:33.880 not everyone uses those side buttons for games. Okay, we're gonna compare to the G Pro X Superlight. 00:05:33.880 --> 00:05:37.080 This is the mouse I have at home, this is what I think is the best mouse money can buy 00:05:37.080 --> 00:05:42.150 right now. You can see by the shape of this mouse there's really only one way you're going to hold it. 00:05:42.150 --> 00:05:46.140 You're going to be clawing this mouse pretty hard. And as I'm kind of a hybrid person 00:05:46.140 --> 00:05:49.440 I get my palm on the mouse and then claw up little bit. 00:05:49.440 --> 00:05:52.960 It's not very comfortable to have my palm nowhere and kind of have to shape it. 00:05:52.960 --> 00:05:56.910 I think that's why my hand tensed up a little bit before. If you're a natural claw 00:05:56.910 --> 00:06:01.220 maybe this mouse would feel pretty good for you but it's not my hand shape. 00:06:01.220 --> 00:06:05.889 Immediately it feels a lot heavier, which is surprising. This felt like the lightest thing I've ever held 00:06:05.889 --> 00:06:11.370 before today. It's still a smoother experience. It's a little bit heavier, but it's still so light. 00:06:11.370 --> 00:06:16.080 There's not a big difference. I was having a pretty hard time making the firmware work 00:06:16.080 --> 00:06:19.280 on the other mouse. Whereas Logitech, it might be a little bit heavier 00:06:19.280 --> 00:06:24.050 of a software, but it's just an executable that you run and then it's working and it's super easy to 00:06:24.050 --> 00:06:28.180 configure all your Logitech devices in one place. So that's definitely a big benefit that it's kind 00:06:28.180 --> 00:06:32.140 of a more refined product. I say that I want to gain mouse without a scroll wheel 00:06:32.140 --> 00:06:37.120 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 00:06:37.120 --> 00:06:41.100 even in a game, like just the menus. I would definitely have to get used to it or like assign 00:06:41.100 --> 00:06:45.150 like a modifier that I could press and drag or something. It's not impossible 00:06:45.150 --> 00:06:48.770 but it feels insurmountable at this moment. 00:06:48.770 --> 00:06:52.540 If I was a flake master this mouse would be frigging insane. 00:06:52.540 --> 00:06:55.970 There's no resistance, I can go like 40 inches in a second. 00:06:55.970 --> 00:06:59.423 I feel like it's pretty accurate to what I'm used to, which is surprising. 00:06:59.423 --> 00:07:04.750 I was worried that I would like overcompensate, overshoot a lot, but feels pretty frigging precise. 00:07:04.750 --> 00:07:09.451 And I mean like the sensor is a flawless sensor so I wasn't too sure worried about it being inaccurate. 00:07:09.451 --> 00:07:12.960 But I really thought that the weight would just throw me off 00:07:12.960 --> 00:07:16.257 but I'm actually liking more than I thought I would. 00:07:16.257 --> 00:07:20.200 All right. All right. Okay, okay. 00:07:20.200 --> 00:07:24.160 Maybe this mouse has something going on. Yeah, it feels like it's really precise. 00:07:24.160 --> 00:07:27.870 Like there's no momentum to your big swings, your flicks, feels like it's just kind of 00:07:27.870 --> 00:07:31.636 like my brain is connected to my hand and my hand is just moving. 00:07:31.636 --> 00:07:36.680 I will say the shape is always gonna get in the way. I think that something, this light 00:07:36.680 --> 00:07:41.092 in a slightly different shape might be better. It might not be possible. This is like such a small shape 00:07:41.092 --> 00:07:44.326 and to get something this weight, but it's more comfortable. 00:07:44.326 --> 00:07:49.858 It's probably just not feasible physically but I wanna give it another go because I'm a surprised 00:07:49.858 --> 00:07:52.974 I thought it would be pooping all over this mouse for the whole video. 00:07:52.974 --> 00:07:58.960 I think this is an incredible proof of concept and that they can make a mouse this light. 00:07:58.960 --> 00:08:04.610 But I think what I would like to see is kind of a compromise, something that uses this technology, 00:08:04.610 --> 00:08:09.000 the kind of breakthroughs they've had but then make some more complete mouse. 00:08:09.000 --> 00:08:16.220 I'm okay with no scroll wheel. I could learn to live with that but no third button, no like side buttons. 00:08:16.220 --> 00:08:19.580 It's kind of hard. The shape's a little bit off, but the precision is real. 00:08:19.580 --> 00:08:25.450 And I didn't really think I was gonna notice a huge difference, but every frigging ShortCircuit I do 00:08:25.450 --> 00:08:30.330 I am realizing how much more I shouldn't have gotten a G Pro X Superlight between 8K 00:08:30.330 --> 00:08:33.498 which this mouse has but we weren't able to get working in this video. 00:08:33.498 --> 00:08:37.303 And the insane lightness, mice are gonna keep getting better. 00:08:37.303 --> 00:08:40.900 And that's exciting. Cause like the Kickstarter, which is over now 00:08:40.900 --> 00:08:46.110 this most cost 249 euros. So that's like 300, 350 US. 00:08:46.110 --> 00:08:50.440 That's pretty (beep) pricey, when you compare it to 150 00:08:50.440 --> 00:08:54.470 for the G Pro X and you're gonna get a complete mouse and this would be the only mouse you need. 00:08:54.470 --> 00:08:58.950 Clearly this becomes a little less appealing but they nailed what they set out to do, 00:08:58.950 --> 00:09:03.110 make what they claim is the world's lightest mouse make it the world's first carbon fiber mouse. 00:09:03.110 --> 00:09:06.340 And now we know it's possible. Maybe that's the next era of mice 00:09:06.340 --> 00:09:10.540 the next little shaving off of weights. This is a really cool product. 00:09:10.540 --> 00:09:14.339 And I'm very glad I to try it today. 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