WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:08.000 More than 25 years ago, the original Boomslang was released. It was 00:00:05.000 --> 00:00:11.480 revolutionary as the first real gaming 00:00:08.000 --> 00:00:14.160 mouse at the time. Sure, it sucked. It 00:00:11.480 --> 00:00:18.600 was a ball mouse, and in 2025, well, not 2025, and in 2026, 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 00:00:22.360 --> 00:00:31.760 years later, Razer has celebrated the 20th anniversary of the Boomslang uh by 00:00:29.120 --> 00:00:35.240 re-releasing a special edition of the mouse. See, celebrating the 20th 00:00:33.720 --> 00:00:39.560 anniversary is a little confusing because the mouse originally came out in 00:00:36.840 --> 00:00:45.480 1999, and actually was discontinued in 2007 when the Deathadder started kind of 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 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. 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 00:00:56.640 --> 00:01:02.160 get a genuinely very cool-looking mouse. 00:01:00.640 --> 00:01:08.040 I think this whole product is a little absurd, but this mouse is undeniably uh 00:01:05.519 --> 00:01:11.680 pretty freaking cool. We got transparent green, although it's a very different 00:01:09.560 --> 00:01:15.400 hue of green than the original, um but we have this leatherette 00:01:13.640 --> 00:01:20.400 uh sort of finish elsewhere, and so it's just a very unique 00:01:18.360 --> 00:01:22.760 uh looking device, especially the shape. They do not make gaming mice that look 00:01:21.720 --> 00:01:27.880 like this, uh and maybe for good reason. Elsewhere 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 00:01:31.120 --> 00:01:39.000 only way of charging wirelessly. There's actually no ports, not a single one. 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 00:01:41.440 --> 00:01:50.880 you're trying to lose it. Other than that, we have a very premium green and 00:01:46.480 --> 00:01:53.000 black six-ish foot cable. Um this is 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 00:01:54.920 --> 00:01:59.520 case itself. This is like a collector's 00:01:58.320 --> 00:02:03.880 item in itself. It's got like a leatherette exterior. It all goes 00:02:02.080 --> 00:02:08.520 together nicely. Lastly, we have our 00:02:06.280 --> 00:02:12.720 quick start guide, which includes stickers. 00:02:11.200 --> 00:02:18.959 More importantly in here, we have extra glide skates cuz that freaking rocks. 00:02:15.560 --> 00:02:20.640 This is a really wide glide skate. 00:02:18.959 --> 00:02:25.320 That's because the front of this mouse is so exceptionally wide it makes sense. 00:02:23.160 --> 00:02:28.400 But seeing it separated from the mouse is just kind of weird. Ah man, I wish 00:02:27.240 --> 00:02:33.320 there was a way I could see all the components of this mouse just separated 00:02:30.840 --> 00:02:40.280 from the mouse itself. Thankfully, Razer thought of that. We 00:02:36.640 --> 00:02:45.000 have our second box, which is our 00:02:40.280 --> 00:02:47.160 admittedly really cool blown-up 00:02:45.000 --> 00:02:49.920 mouse with all the parts kind of separated. 00:02:48.520 --> 00:02:53.959 You can see, you know, our chassis, we got our PCB, 00:02:52.520 --> 00:02:59.080 sensor, we got our wireless charging coil, our skates. I think this is a 00:02:56.920 --> 00:03:02.720 really neat addition when you're selling a super premium mouse. 00:03:00.840 --> 00:03:07.920 However, I expect that this is a significant driver in the cost of this 00:03:05.320 --> 00:03:11.040 product. Normally, we save the price of what we're unboxing for the end because 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 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 00:03:17.720 --> 00:03:26.120 a special edition. And when I say special edition, I mean as special edition as 00:03:23.480 --> 00:03:30.800 limited as they come. They made 1,337 00:03:28.360 --> 00:03:35.040 of these. That's leet, spelled the numbers for you 00:03:32.800 --> 00:03:41.600 younglings who might not know. And so, this premium product's package 00:03:37.800 --> 00:03:45.880 that comes to you cost leet dollars, 00:03:41.600 --> 00:03:49.040 1,337 dollars as well. I appreciate the 00:03:45.880 --> 00:03:52.480 commitment to the meme, but I cannot 00:03:49.040 --> 00:03:55.360 fathom spending anywhere close to that 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 00:03:57.120 --> 00:04:02.720 because this mouse you can use and this can be 00:04:01.000 --> 00:04:07.080 displayed on your wall and I feel like if you're a streamer 00:04:04.920 --> 00:04:11.760 who has a cool background, this might actually be something that you're more 00:04:08.400 --> 00:04:11.760 interested in the mouse itself. 00:04:13.280 --> 00:04:18.519 There is a light bar up here. Let's plug it in. 00:04:16.640 --> 00:04:22.520 It's pretty nice. They include another one of these braided 6-ft cable. I 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 00:04:25.080 --> 00:04:31.600 invisible. So I might actually prefer just pure black, but it's really nice 00:04:29.560 --> 00:04:36.400 and the light bar at the top is green. I think this is a good little 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 00:04:39.320 --> 00:04:44.120 mouse that was being kind of blown apart and the parts were kind of cascading 00:04:42.400 --> 00:04:48.280 out. I think it'd be a more attractive look. However, this is much easier to 00:04:46.640 --> 00:04:53.640 assemble and then get one of your pieces a little 00:04:50.560 --> 00:04:56.240 crooked. Look at the sensor mouse gate. 00:04:53.640 --> 00:05:00.200 That's that's a little offset. Someone off camera asked a great question. 00:04:58.440 --> 00:05:03.560 Are these components working? Could you presumably build yourself a second 00:05:01.440 --> 00:05:06.120 mouse? Maybe even sell it through to another buyer? 00:05:05.040 --> 00:05:12.360 Uh the answer is I don't know. I presume that that is not 00:05:09.040 --> 00:05:14.640 the case, but when you're charging uh 00:05:12.360 --> 00:05:18.080 over $1,300 for a mouse, I guess you can afford to include the 00:05:16.120 --> 00:05:22.680 parts for two working mice in there. Only Razer knows. Let's take a closer 00:05:20.440 --> 00:05:27.240 look at this mouse itself. It's got the transparent green chassis all the way 00:05:24.840 --> 00:05:31.360 around. I think that looks really good. It's a shame on the top you 00:05:29.560 --> 00:05:35.560 can't really see electronics. You're kind of only peeking through a black 00:05:32.720 --> 00:05:39.440 plastic, so it reduces the coolness factor a little bit. On the bottom you 00:05:37.520 --> 00:05:44.560 get a little bit of a peek through at the PCB, but it is still pretty 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. 00:05:47.880 --> 00:05:55.014 This leather is not real leather and I 00:05:51.640 --> 00:05:55.040 as a not particularly leather 00:05:55.014 --> 00:06:01.400 >> [music] >> uh savvy person can tell, so um 00:05:58.880 --> 00:06:05.400 let that inform your decision. On the top we have our two 00:06:03.600 --> 00:06:10.520 ginormous buttons. These might be the biggest mouse buttons in existence. We 00:06:07.680 --> 00:06:13.880 have our kind of skinny scroll wheel. Uh most scroll wheels these days are 00:06:12.880 --> 00:06:21.280 um not quite rectangular, but they're not tapered off. Whereas this old-school 00:06:17.800 --> 00:06:23.800 style of mouse scroll is very tapered. 00:06:21.280 --> 00:06:26.680 And so that is not my preferred feeling, although it's totally fine in terms of 00:06:25.480 --> 00:06:32.720 clickiness uh and tactility. 00:06:29.360 --> 00:06:34.280 Um on the bottom, we have our DPI 00:06:32.720 --> 00:06:38.520 switch, our on-off switch. We have all our PTFE skates. Uh we can see our 00:06:36.880 --> 00:06:43.040 wireless coil. I guess that's the most electronic-looking thing we get to see. 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 00:06:46.040 --> 00:06:54.200 one of the Boomslangs has a serial number 1 through 1337. Um but we have a 00:06:51.720 --> 00:06:59.680 one-off Linus Tech Tips serial number. That's pretty cool. On the sides, we 00:06:57.360 --> 00:07:05.160 have more leatherette. And then we have two kind of sneaky little side buttons. 00:07:02.760 --> 00:07:09.360 And you know what? I like these side buttons. These are 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 00:07:11.800 --> 00:07:18.560 without accidentally pressing, but easily accessible when my fingers 00:07:15.840 --> 00:07:24.480 rest naturally on them. The question is, is this an ergonomic shape for the 00:07:20.720 --> 00:07:25.520 modern gamer? And the answer is, no. 00:07:24.480 --> 00:07:30.600 This is uh what people in 1999 thought performance 00:07:28.840 --> 00:07:36.480 looked and felt like. We have come so far. 00:07:32.560 --> 00:07:37.760 This is fine. It's uh the way I want to 00:07:36.480 --> 00:07:41.480 grip it, so much of the mouse is extended out for 00:07:39.960 --> 00:07:45.600 my fingers. I feel like I would lose so much control. It's not particularly 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 00:07:48.640 --> 00:07:54.320 you are buying this uh to be your actual daily driver mouse, 00:07:53.200 --> 00:08:00.280 you have a lot [music] of money. Too much, maybe, in fact. >> [laughter] 00:07:57.960 --> 00:08:06.360 >> However, it does, at least on paper, have the stuff to be your daily driver. 00:08:03.160 --> 00:08:09.290 It has the Focus Pro 45K Optical Sensor 00:08:06.360 --> 00:08:11.160 Gen 2. These sensor names are >> [music] 00:08:09.440 --> 00:08:19.120 >> getting more and more nonsensical, baby. Which means it's good for 45,000 DPI, 00:08:14.480 --> 00:08:20.400 900 IPS, as well as 85G. That's way 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, 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 00:08:28.560 --> 00:08:35.360 and thankfully, it is actually an 8,000 Hz polling RATE 00:08:32.760 --> 00:08:39.320 MOUSE. DAVID. THAT THAT DROP was a on purpose, 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 00:08:42.560 --> 00:08:47.360 clicks. Uh so, you know, you got to push the limit somehow. 00:08:46.240 --> 00:08:51.640 Uh I can feel in the hand that it's not 00:08:49.400 --> 00:08:55.760 particularly light, but it's uh Let's see what it actually weighs. 109 00:08:53.320 --> 00:09:01.120 g. That's not, you know, the heaviest mouse we've ever tested here, but oh 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 00:09:03.520 --> 00:09:09.839 skates that are The extra ones are actually glass skates, which is cool, 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 00:09:13.640 --> 00:09:24.320 PTFE ones. Should I swap them? I feel like it's so wasteful. 00:09:19.680 --> 00:09:24.320 Oh, no. Didn't come off clean at all. 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 00:09:28.960 --> 00:09:32.320 steady hands. 00:09:32.360 --> 00:09:38.520 Oh, yeah. That's smooth, baby. I think if you are someone who used the 00:09:36.600 --> 00:09:43.720 Boomslang back in the day, this mouse shape might not be as horrendous as it 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 00:10:15.760 --> 00:10:21.240 in the description today and get 50% off your annual plan. 00:10:19.640 --> 00:10:25.720 One of my least favorite things in the whole entire world [music] 00:10:22.840 --> 00:10:28.840 is installing Razer software. The way that like halfway through it's like, 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 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 00:10:36.840 --> 00:10:42.600 the controls for my freaking mouse. Now that we've installed our software, we 00:10:41.000 --> 00:10:47.440 can appreciate that the dock it comes with has its own RGB. We can reassign 00:10:45.160 --> 00:10:51.200 our buttons. We have our main button we can't reassign. We got our scroll click, 00:10:49.320 --> 00:10:55.000 right click, scroll up, scroll down. We have our side buttons. We have our DPI 00:10:53.360 --> 00:10:57.360 button. That's it. We have our Hypershift. 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 00:11:01.640 --> 00:11:07.240 pretty cool for you left-handers out there. In terms of performance, we can 00:11:04.640 --> 00:11:11.480 set our different DPI stages. I don't want anything but 800, please. We can 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 00:11:12.920 --> 00:11:19.720 to 8,000 because battery does not matter in this situation. We can also have a 00:11:16.839 --> 00:11:22.240 smart polling rate switcher, uh which is pretty neat. So, when you 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, 00:11:25.280 --> 00:11:33.240 honestly, 250 would be fine. When the original Boomslang peaked at 200 Hz, uh 00:11:31.320 --> 00:11:37.760 250's not so bad. Uh we can test our brightness on our RGB 00:11:35.600 --> 00:11:42.320 or turn it off like I will. And we got our calibration. 00:11:39.560 --> 00:11:46.080 We can enable asymmetrical cut off which would allow us to have a different lift 00:11:43.720 --> 00:11:50.400 off and landing distance. In terms of shape of the mouse, it is clearly 00:11:47.800 --> 00:11:55.480 designed for the aesthetic, not for the hand. And that's fine, it's a 00:11:51.920 --> 00:11:55.480 collector's item. Let's play a game. 00:11:56.320 --> 00:12:03.840 This is a good performing mouse and one 00:12:00.880 --> 00:12:07.760 of the worst form factors I've ever experienced. It feels like I'm holding a 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, 00:12:11.520 --> 00:12:18.000 it's snappy, it's responsive. Our Labs testing shows that it's a very 00:12:15.200 --> 00:12:21.200 competitive mouse around 1.59 milliseconds of input latency which is 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 00:12:24.600 --> 00:12:31.880 standard sub 1 millisecond. And so, it's not like your money's going to giving 00:12:29.600 --> 00:12:35.680 you the best, most responsive mouse you can get, not even from Razer's own 00:12:33.840 --> 00:12:39.000 lineup, so. The buttons all feel really good. 00:12:37.560 --> 00:12:43.920 They're really clicky, they're kind of pingy sounding. 00:12:41.760 --> 00:12:48.080 Which kind of makes me nostalgic for the bygone era of crappy gaming mice. These 00:12:46.280 --> 00:12:52.320 side buttons rock. These might be my new favorite 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 00:12:56.480 --> 00:13:02.880 is clearly a product for people that are nostalgic for this monumental moment in 00:13:01.280 --> 00:13:08.200 gaming where gaming peripherals were changed forever. 00:13:04.640 --> 00:13:10.400 Um, and if you were there in '99 or 2007 00:13:08.200 --> 00:13:14.800 as Razer wants to pretend like the Boomslang was first released. Uh, 00:13:12.400 --> 00:13:18.600 power to you. Except that if you already missed your chance, no power to you, 00:13:16.560 --> 00:13:22.800 haha. Uh, they're all sold out and they were sold out immediately and they're 00:13:19.800 --> 00:13:24.200 selling for more on eBay because 00:13:22.800 --> 00:13:27.520 that's what people do. They buy things not to enjoy them, but to sell them 00:13:26.000 --> 00:13:31.440 through to people that do want to enjoy them. 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 00:13:35.040 --> 00:13:42.880 more compelling package, I don't think you're really missing out on uh burning 00:13:39.560 --> 00:13:44.640 $1,300 of your own money for this thing. 00:13:42.880 --> 00:13:48.160 There's way better value gaming mice out there. There's the Keychron series. 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 00:13:50.960 --> 00:13:57.720 would way rather have that Viper Signature Mini. Way better overall 00:13:55.040 --> 00:14:02.640 mousing experience. But, maybe other manufacturers are going to make mice 00:14:00.040 --> 00:14:05.960 that we were nostalgic for. Uh there's like those Logitech ones or the 00:14:03.760 --> 00:14:09.320 Microsoft ones back in the '90s uh that are not good mice, but you might have 00:14:07.600 --> 00:14:12.600 fun memories of. And you know, who doesn't love indulging a 00:14:10.640 --> 00:14:15.680 little nostalgia here and there? Just like uh who doesn't love watching 00:14:13.960 --> 00:14:20.040 another ShortCircuit? Like the time I unboxed the Viper Mini Signature 00:14:17.360 --> 00:14:23.240 Edition. That is still a premium mouse that is beyond what my budget is, but 00:14:21.960 --> 00:14:25.880 dang that is a better mousing experience.