1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:08,000 More than 25 years ago, the original Boomslang was released. It was 2 00:00:05,000 --> 00:00:11,480 revolutionary as the first real gaming 3 00:00:08,000 --> 00:00:14,160 mouse at the time. Sure, it sucked. It 4 00:00:11,480 --> 00:00:18,600 was a ball mouse, and in 2025, well, not 2025, and in 2026, 5 00:00:16,600 --> 00:00:25,040 uh you do not want to use a ball mouse for a number of reasons, but here, 27 6 00:00:22,360 --> 00:00:31,760 years later, Razer has celebrated the 20th anniversary of the Boomslang uh by 7 00:00:29,120 --> 00:00:35,240 re-releasing a special edition of the mouse. See, celebrating the 20th 8 00:00:33,720 --> 00:00:39,560 anniversary is a little confusing because the mouse originally came out in 9 00:00:36,840 --> 00:00:45,480 1999, and actually was discontinued in 2007 when the Deathadder started kind of 10 00:00:42,680 --> 00:00:48,040 eating its lunch. Um they re-released it around that time, so I guess that's what 11 00:00:47,000 --> 00:00:54,840 they're celebrating, but maybe I'm getting my details wrong, but you guys can let me know in the details below. 12 00:00:52,040 --> 00:01:00,640 But in the box, one of two boxes you get, we'll look at the other after, you 13 00:00:56,640 --> 00:01:02,160 get a genuinely very cool-looking mouse. 14 00:01:00,640 --> 00:01:08,040 I think this whole product is a little absurd, but this mouse is undeniably uh 15 00:01:05,519 --> 00:01:11,680 pretty freaking cool. We got transparent green, although it's a very different 16 00:01:09,560 --> 00:01:15,400 hue of green than the original, um but we have this leatherette 17 00:01:13,640 --> 00:01:20,400 uh sort of finish elsewhere, and so it's just a very unique 18 00:01:18,360 --> 00:01:22,760 uh looking device, especially the shape. They do not make gaming mice that look 19 00:01:21,720 --> 00:01:27,880 like this, uh and maybe for good reason. Elsewhere 20 00:01:24,960 --> 00:01:33,880 in the box, we have our 8,000 kHz compatible dongle as well as our mouse's 21 00:01:31,120 --> 00:01:39,000 only way of charging wirelessly. There's actually no ports, not a single one. 22 00:01:37,000 --> 00:01:42,960 So, you need this dongle, don't lose it. Although, if you lose this, uh I think 23 00:01:41,440 --> 00:01:50,880 you're trying to lose it. Other than that, we have a very premium green and 24 00:01:46,480 --> 00:01:53,000 black six-ish foot cable. Um this is 25 00:01:50,880 --> 00:01:58,320 about as nice as they make USB-C cables. Holy. I haven't even commented on the 26 00:01:54,920 --> 00:01:59,520 case itself. This is like a collector's 27 00:01:58,320 --> 00:02:03,880 item in itself. It's got like a leatherette exterior. It all goes 28 00:02:02,080 --> 00:02:08,520 together nicely. Lastly, we have our 29 00:02:06,280 --> 00:02:12,720 quick start guide, which includes stickers. 30 00:02:11,200 --> 00:02:18,959 More importantly in here, we have extra glide skates cuz that freaking rocks. 31 00:02:15,560 --> 00:02:20,640 This is a really wide glide skate. 32 00:02:18,959 --> 00:02:25,320 That's because the front of this mouse is so exceptionally wide it makes sense. 33 00:02:23,160 --> 00:02:28,400 But seeing it separated from the mouse is just kind of weird. Ah man, I wish 34 00:02:27,240 --> 00:02:33,320 there was a way I could see all the components of this mouse just separated 35 00:02:30,840 --> 00:02:40,280 from the mouse itself. Thankfully, Razer thought of that. We 36 00:02:36,640 --> 00:02:45,000 have our second box, which is our 37 00:02:40,280 --> 00:02:47,160 admittedly really cool blown-up 38 00:02:45,000 --> 00:02:49,920 mouse with all the parts kind of separated. 39 00:02:48,520 --> 00:02:53,959 You can see, you know, our chassis, we got our PCB, 40 00:02:52,520 --> 00:02:59,080 sensor, we got our wireless charging coil, our skates. I think this is a 41 00:02:56,920 --> 00:03:02,720 really neat addition when you're selling a super premium mouse. 42 00:03:00,840 --> 00:03:07,920 However, I expect that this is a significant driver in the cost of this 43 00:03:05,320 --> 00:03:11,040 product. Normally, we save the price of what we're unboxing for the end because 44 00:03:09,840 --> 00:03:14,640 we don't want to scare you away. We want We want you to judge a product on its 45 00:03:13,080 --> 00:03:18,720 own merits and then decide if it's worth it based on that price. However, this is 46 00:03:17,720 --> 00:03:26,120 a special edition. And when I say special edition, I mean as special edition as 47 00:03:23,480 --> 00:03:30,800 limited as they come. They made 1,337 48 00:03:28,360 --> 00:03:35,040 of these. That's leet, spelled the numbers for you 49 00:03:32,800 --> 00:03:41,600 younglings who might not know. And so, this premium product's package 50 00:03:37,800 --> 00:03:45,880 that comes to you cost leet dollars, 51 00:03:41,600 --> 00:03:49,040 1,337 dollars as well. I appreciate the 52 00:03:45,880 --> 00:03:52,480 commitment to the meme, but I cannot 53 00:03:49,040 --> 00:03:55,360 fathom spending anywhere close to that 54 00:03:52,480 --> 00:03:58,800 on a mouse. I I didn't did did not spend that much on computers. This is cool 55 00:03:57,120 --> 00:04:02,720 because this mouse you can use and this can be 56 00:04:01,000 --> 00:04:07,080 displayed on your wall and I feel like if you're a streamer 57 00:04:04,920 --> 00:04:11,760 who has a cool background, this might actually be something that you're more 58 00:04:08,400 --> 00:04:11,760 interested in the mouse itself. 59 00:04:13,280 --> 00:04:18,519 There is a light bar up here. Let's plug it in. 60 00:04:16,640 --> 00:04:22,520 It's pretty nice. They include another one of these braided 6-ft cable. I 61 00:04:21,000 --> 00:04:26,440 actually don't know if this is the right choice because this cable I want to be 62 00:04:25,080 --> 00:04:31,600 invisible. So I might actually prefer just pure black, but it's really nice 63 00:04:29,560 --> 00:04:36,400 and the light bar at the top is green. I think this is a good little 64 00:04:34,120 --> 00:04:41,040 package. I think I would have preferred if it was more spread out as if it was a 65 00:04:39,320 --> 00:04:44,120 mouse that was being kind of blown apart and the parts were kind of cascading 66 00:04:42,400 --> 00:04:48,280 out. I think it'd be a more attractive look. However, this is much easier to 67 00:04:46,640 --> 00:04:53,640 assemble and then get one of your pieces a little 68 00:04:50,560 --> 00:04:56,240 crooked. Look at the sensor mouse gate. 69 00:04:53,640 --> 00:05:00,200 That's that's a little offset. Someone off camera asked a great question. 70 00:04:58,440 --> 00:05:03,560 Are these components working? Could you presumably build yourself a second 71 00:05:01,440 --> 00:05:06,120 mouse? Maybe even sell it through to another buyer? 72 00:05:05,040 --> 00:05:12,360 Uh the answer is I don't know. I presume that that is not 73 00:05:09,040 --> 00:05:14,640 the case, but when you're charging uh 74 00:05:12,360 --> 00:05:18,080 over $1,300 for a mouse, I guess you can afford to include the 75 00:05:16,120 --> 00:05:22,680 parts for two working mice in there. Only Razer knows. Let's take a closer 76 00:05:20,440 --> 00:05:27,240 look at this mouse itself. It's got the transparent green chassis all the way 77 00:05:24,840 --> 00:05:31,360 around. I think that looks really good. It's a shame on the top you 78 00:05:29,560 --> 00:05:35,560 can't really see electronics. You're kind of only peeking through a black 79 00:05:32,720 --> 00:05:39,440 plastic, so it reduces the coolness factor a little bit. On the bottom you 80 00:05:37,520 --> 00:05:44,560 get a little bit of a peek through at the PCB, but it is still pretty 81 00:05:41,960 --> 00:05:51,640 um plain looking, so bit of a bummer, but uh you know, it is what it is. 82 00:05:47,880 --> 00:05:55,014 This leather is not real leather and I 83 00:05:51,640 --> 00:05:55,040 as a not particularly leather 84 00:05:55,014 --> 00:06:01,400 >> [music] >> uh savvy person can tell, so um 85 00:05:58,880 --> 00:06:05,400 let that inform your decision. On the top we have our two 86 00:06:03,600 --> 00:06:10,520 ginormous buttons. These might be the biggest mouse buttons in existence. We 87 00:06:07,680 --> 00:06:13,880 have our kind of skinny scroll wheel. Uh most scroll wheels these days are 88 00:06:12,880 --> 00:06:21,280 um not quite rectangular, but they're not tapered off. Whereas this old-school 89 00:06:17,800 --> 00:06:23,800 style of mouse scroll is very tapered. 90 00:06:21,280 --> 00:06:26,680 And so that is not my preferred feeling, although it's totally fine in terms of 91 00:06:25,480 --> 00:06:32,720 clickiness uh and tactility. 92 00:06:29,360 --> 00:06:34,280 Um on the bottom, we have our DPI 93 00:06:32,720 --> 00:06:38,520 switch, our on-off switch. We have all our PTFE skates. Uh we can see our 94 00:06:36,880 --> 00:06:43,040 wireless coil. I guess that's the most electronic-looking thing we get to see. 95 00:06:40,320 --> 00:06:47,600 We can also get a look at our uh proof that this is a one-of-one. Every single 96 00:06:46,040 --> 00:06:54,200 one of the Boomslangs has a serial number 1 through 1337. Um but we have a 97 00:06:51,720 --> 00:06:59,680 one-off Linus Tech Tips serial number. That's pretty cool. On the sides, we 98 00:06:57,360 --> 00:07:05,160 have more leatherette. And then we have two kind of sneaky little side buttons. 99 00:07:02,760 --> 00:07:09,360 And you know what? I like these side buttons. These are 100 00:07:07,040 --> 00:07:13,960 hecka clicky and they're in a spot where like I can still move the mouse freely 101 00:07:11,800 --> 00:07:18,560 without accidentally pressing, but easily accessible when my fingers 102 00:07:15,840 --> 00:07:24,480 rest naturally on them. The question is, is this an ergonomic shape for the 103 00:07:20,720 --> 00:07:25,520 modern gamer? And the answer is, no. 104 00:07:24,480 --> 00:07:30,600 This is uh what people in 1999 thought performance 105 00:07:28,840 --> 00:07:36,480 looked and felt like. We have come so far. 106 00:07:32,560 --> 00:07:37,760 This is fine. It's uh the way I want to 107 00:07:36,480 --> 00:07:41,480 grip it, so much of the mouse is extended out for 108 00:07:39,960 --> 00:07:45,600 my fingers. I feel like I would lose so much control. It's not particularly 109 00:07:43,680 --> 00:07:51,200 light, so I feel like it's not that good for whipping around. That being said, if 110 00:07:48,640 --> 00:07:54,320 you are buying this uh to be your actual daily driver mouse, 111 00:07:53,200 --> 00:08:00,280 you have a lot [music] of money. Too much, maybe, in fact. >> [laughter] 112 00:07:57,960 --> 00:08:06,360 >> However, it does, at least on paper, have the stuff to be your daily driver. 113 00:08:03,160 --> 00:08:09,290 It has the Focus Pro 45K Optical Sensor 114 00:08:06,360 --> 00:08:11,160 Gen 2. These sensor names are >> [music] 115 00:08:09,440 --> 00:08:19,120 >> getting more and more nonsensical, baby. Which means it's good for 45,000 DPI, 116 00:08:14,480 --> 00:08:20,400 900 IPS, as well as 85G. That's way 117 00:08:19,120 --> 00:08:26,280 faster than you're going to be moving your arm. And so, in terms of the specs, 118 00:08:23,360 --> 00:08:30,200 this thing is way past overkill, uh as I would hope it is at that price point. Uh 119 00:08:28,560 --> 00:08:35,360 and thankfully, it is actually an 8,000 Hz polling RATE 120 00:08:32,760 --> 00:08:39,320 MOUSE. DAVID. THAT THAT DROP was a on purpose, 121 00:08:38,520 --> 00:08:44,560 you know, I'm just testing the reliability of this mouse. These switches are rated for 100 million 122 00:08:42,560 --> 00:08:47,360 clicks. Uh so, you know, you got to push the limit somehow. 123 00:08:46,240 --> 00:08:51,640 Uh I can feel in the hand that it's not 124 00:08:49,400 --> 00:08:55,760 particularly light, but it's uh Let's see what it actually weighs. 109 125 00:08:53,320 --> 00:09:01,120 g. That's not, you know, the heaviest mouse we've ever tested here, but oh 126 00:08:58,920 --> 00:09:05,720 boy, is that ever a lot heavier than the premium gaming mice I'm used to. The 127 00:09:03,520 --> 00:09:09,839 skates that are The extra ones are actually glass skates, which is cool, 128 00:09:08,480 --> 00:09:16,520 but then it's also like, if you want to put the glass skates on, you have to immediately discard these perfectly fine 129 00:09:13,640 --> 00:09:24,320 PTFE ones. Should I swap them? I feel like it's so wasteful. 130 00:09:19,680 --> 00:09:24,320 Oh, no. Didn't come off clean at all. 131 00:09:25,360 --> 00:09:32,320 Now, let's do the thing I might be the worst at in the whole world, which is 132 00:09:28,960 --> 00:09:32,320 steady hands. 133 00:09:32,360 --> 00:09:38,520 Oh, yeah. That's smooth, baby. I think if you are someone who used the 134 00:09:36,600 --> 00:09:43,720 Boomslang back in the day, this mouse shape might not be as horrendous as it 135 00:09:40,400 --> 00:09:45,000 is for for me. You know what? 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So, head over to our link 144 00:10:15,760 --> 00:10:21,240 in the description today and get 50% off your annual plan. 145 00:10:19,640 --> 00:10:25,720 One of my least favorite things in the whole entire world [music] 146 00:10:22,840 --> 00:10:28,840 is installing Razer software. The way that like halfway through it's like, 147 00:10:27,320 --> 00:10:34,520 "Oh, but you want this Razer software, too, right?" Oh, no, no, no, "You want this Razer software, too." No, I don't 148 00:10:32,640 --> 00:10:39,640 want you. I don't want Chroma. I don't want any of it. I just want to look at 149 00:10:36,840 --> 00:10:42,600 the controls for my freaking mouse. Now that we've installed our software, we 150 00:10:41,000 --> 00:10:47,440 can appreciate that the dock it comes with has its own RGB. We can reassign 151 00:10:45,160 --> 00:10:51,200 our buttons. We have our main button we can't reassign. We got our scroll click, 152 00:10:49,320 --> 00:10:55,000 right click, scroll up, scroll down. We have our side buttons. We have our DPI 153 00:10:53,360 --> 00:10:57,360 button. That's it. We have our Hypershift. 154 00:10:56,520 --> 00:11:03,080 One thing that I haven't really mentioned is that this is a true ambidextrous mouse, which is actually 155 00:11:01,640 --> 00:11:07,240 pretty cool for you left-handers out there. In terms of performance, we can 156 00:11:04,640 --> 00:11:11,480 set our different DPI stages. I don't want anything but 800, please. We can 157 00:11:09,680 --> 00:11:15,080 adjust our polling rate. By default, we're at 1,000 Hz, but we're going to go 158 00:11:12,920 --> 00:11:19,720 to 8,000 because battery does not matter in this situation. We can also have a 159 00:11:16,839 --> 00:11:22,240 smart polling rate switcher, uh which is pretty neat. So, when you 160 00:11:20,680 --> 00:11:27,920 change to a game, it'll actually go to a higher polling rate. That's a good feature because most of the time, 161 00:11:25,280 --> 00:11:33,240 honestly, 250 would be fine. When the original Boomslang peaked at 200 Hz, uh 162 00:11:31,320 --> 00:11:37,760 250's not so bad. Uh we can test our brightness on our RGB 163 00:11:35,600 --> 00:11:42,320 or turn it off like I will. And we got our calibration. 164 00:11:39,560 --> 00:11:46,080 We can enable asymmetrical cut off which would allow us to have a different lift 165 00:11:43,720 --> 00:11:50,400 off and landing distance. In terms of shape of the mouse, it is clearly 166 00:11:47,800 --> 00:11:55,480 designed for the aesthetic, not for the hand. And that's fine, it's a 167 00:11:51,920 --> 00:11:55,480 collector's item. Let's play a game. 168 00:11:56,320 --> 00:12:03,840 This is a good performing mouse and one 169 00:12:00,880 --> 00:12:07,760 of the worst form factors I've ever experienced. It feels like I'm holding a 170 00:12:05,840 --> 00:12:13,560 kettlebell where the weight is like on the outside of my hand and I'm just like swinging it around. That being said, 171 00:12:11,520 --> 00:12:18,000 it's snappy, it's responsive. Our Labs testing shows that it's a very 172 00:12:15,200 --> 00:12:21,200 competitive mouse around 1.59 milliseconds of input latency which is 173 00:12:19,800 --> 00:12:27,560 worlds better than the original Boomslang, although that was really good for its time, but still not gold 174 00:12:24,600 --> 00:12:31,880 standard sub 1 millisecond. And so, it's not like your money's going to giving 175 00:12:29,600 --> 00:12:35,680 you the best, most responsive mouse you can get, not even from Razer's own 176 00:12:33,840 --> 00:12:39,000 lineup, so. The buttons all feel really good. 177 00:12:37,560 --> 00:12:43,920 They're really clicky, they're kind of pingy sounding. 178 00:12:41,760 --> 00:12:48,080 Which kind of makes me nostalgic for the bygone era of crappy gaming mice. These 179 00:12:46,280 --> 00:12:52,320 side buttons rock. These might be my new favorite 180 00:12:50,560 --> 00:12:58,760 side buttons on a mouse ever. Unfortunately, they're attached to a mouse that I would never ever pick. This 181 00:12:56,480 --> 00:13:02,880 is clearly a product for people that are nostalgic for this monumental moment in 182 00:13:01,280 --> 00:13:08,200 gaming where gaming peripherals were changed forever. 183 00:13:04,640 --> 00:13:10,400 Um, and if you were there in '99 or 2007 184 00:13:08,200 --> 00:13:14,800 as Razer wants to pretend like the Boomslang was first released. Uh, 185 00:13:12,400 --> 00:13:18,600 power to you. Except that if you already missed your chance, no power to you, 186 00:13:16,560 --> 00:13:22,800 haha. Uh, they're all sold out and they were sold out immediately and they're 187 00:13:19,800 --> 00:13:24,200 selling for more on eBay because 188 00:13:22,800 --> 00:13:27,520 that's what people do. They buy things not to enjoy them, but to sell them 189 00:13:26,000 --> 00:13:31,440 through to people that do want to enjoy them. 190 00:13:29,680 --> 00:13:37,240 So, while this is a cool nostalgic product that I think they did a pretty good job on and the extras make it a 191 00:13:35,040 --> 00:13:42,880 more compelling package, I don't think you're really missing out on uh burning 192 00:13:39,560 --> 00:13:44,640 $1,300 of your own money for this thing. 193 00:13:42,880 --> 00:13:48,160 There's way better value gaming mice out there. There's the Keychron series. 194 00:13:46,480 --> 00:13:52,240 There's Razer's own lineup. Even like their top-end stuff that's like $300. I 195 00:13:50,960 --> 00:13:57,720 would way rather have that Viper Signature Mini. Way better overall 196 00:13:55,040 --> 00:14:02,640 mousing experience. But, maybe other manufacturers are going to make mice 197 00:14:00,040 --> 00:14:05,960 that we were nostalgic for. Uh there's like those Logitech ones or the 198 00:14:03,760 --> 00:14:09,320 Microsoft ones back in the '90s uh that are not good mice, but you might have 199 00:14:07,600 --> 00:14:12,600 fun memories of. And you know, who doesn't love indulging a 200 00:14:10,640 --> 00:14:15,680 little nostalgia here and there? Just like uh who doesn't love watching 201 00:14:13,960 --> 00:14:20,040 another ShortCircuit? Like the time I unboxed the Viper Mini Signature 202 00:14:17,360 --> 00:14:23,240 Edition. That is still a premium mouse that is beyond what my budget is, but 203 00:14:21,960 --> 00:14:25,880 dang that is a better mousing experience.