1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:05,520 It is so rare that I get to unbox a product that checks all of my boxes across the board, 2 00:00:05,520 --> 00:00:09,120 and that's why I'm so excited to be unboxing the Keychron M5. 3 00:00:09,120 --> 00:00:14,400 Their entry into the vertical mouse space, and having just looked at my first gaming vertical 4 00:00:14,400 --> 00:00:19,840 mouse, I can't believe how good of a package this sounds like it's going to be, especially because 5 00:00:19,840 --> 00:00:25,440 they don't advertise it as a gaming mouse, despite all of its gaming features. In the box, 6 00:00:25,440 --> 00:00:32,720 we have a little general user manual, a cabler, our dongle, as well as a C to A adapter, 7 00:00:32,720 --> 00:00:40,080 and then we have our mouse. Anything else? No. I gotta say, this box is not particularly 8 00:00:40,080 --> 00:00:43,920 premium looking. If I didn't know Keychron from their good reputation, I would assume that this 9 00:00:43,920 --> 00:00:48,560 is a very cheap crappy product, but it doesn't seem like that's going to be the case. How long 10 00:00:48,560 --> 00:00:56,880 is our cable? Just about six feet. We have our USB-A dongle that does not have a place to go 11 00:00:56,880 --> 00:01:02,720 in the mouse. That's a bit of a bummer, but not a deal breaker, which brings us to our mouse. 12 00:01:02,720 --> 00:01:07,600 We have the white version, although there is a black version. I am a big fan of black mice, 13 00:01:07,600 --> 00:01:14,640 just because I have disgusting hands. Get over here. Oh, if I didn't say it already, which I did. 14 00:01:14,720 --> 00:01:18,960 This is a vertical gaming mouse, which is designed for ergonomics, because that's 15 00:01:18,960 --> 00:01:24,240 the way your ARM wants to sit so the bones don't cross over. And so this is supposed to be a better 16 00:01:24,240 --> 00:01:30,960 long-term shape for the health of your wrist, ARM, and hands. And that's great. I love long-term health. 17 00:01:30,960 --> 00:01:36,960 You know what I'm saying? I would never forget to take these off. On the right side of the mouse, 18 00:01:36,960 --> 00:01:41,840 we have our two buttons, our scroll wheel, which is not... These clicks are okay. The feeling is 19 00:01:41,840 --> 00:01:45,520 nice when you have your fingers in the right spot, but as you go up the button, there's like kind of 20 00:01:45,520 --> 00:01:50,320 like a point where it becomes impossible to click without a lot of pressure. So I don't love that 21 00:01:50,320 --> 00:01:55,920 uneven feeling it is versus the sweet spot, both on the sides and the back of the buttons. The scroll 22 00:01:55,920 --> 00:02:01,200 wheel is not in a way that's tactile enough. It's nothing special. It has no tilt, which is not ideal 23 00:02:01,200 --> 00:02:04,720 for a vertical mouse, but this one has another scroll wheel, which brings us to the left side 24 00:02:04,720 --> 00:02:09,520 of the mouse. We got our forward and back button. I like this configuration of forward and back button 25 00:02:09,520 --> 00:02:14,240 being side by side, as opposed to top and bottom that we've seen on other vertical gaming mice, 26 00:02:14,240 --> 00:02:18,480 and having access to a second scroll wheel that you could have be your horizontal scroll or 27 00:02:18,480 --> 00:02:23,200 assigned to another feature. It's pretty nice. On the front, we have our recess type C, but it's a 28 00:02:23,200 --> 00:02:27,280 barely even a recess. Pretty much every cable is going to fit in there, although I say that and 29 00:02:27,280 --> 00:02:31,520 you, Tom, are going to try your cable and it's not going to work. I'm sorry. On the bottom, we have 30 00:02:31,520 --> 00:02:37,360 our PTFE skates. Decent size. It's always weird when you look at these vertical gaming mice that 31 00:02:37,360 --> 00:02:43,440 have such big platforms, how small the skates are. The glide experience is adequate. Nothing special. 32 00:02:43,440 --> 00:02:48,560 Pretty fine. We also have more buttons than I'm used to seeing on the bottom of mouse. We have 33 00:02:48,560 --> 00:02:53,520 our DPI switch. We have our report rate, which is, I guess, the polling rate. It's interesting. 34 00:02:53,520 --> 00:02:58,240 They call it report rate. We have our Bluetooth connections that we can change, as well as our 35 00:02:58,240 --> 00:03:02,960 mode toggle. This almost looks like a little battery compartment latch, but I don't think that's what 36 00:03:02,960 --> 00:03:06,480 it is. I think it's just to be able to get a spudger underneath these skates so you can open 37 00:03:06,480 --> 00:03:13,680 up the mouse. And then we have our PTFE skates around the sensor, which is the PAW3950, which 38 00:03:13,680 --> 00:03:18,720 is a fantastic sensor. It's a flawless sensor, one of the highest spec ones you can get. And it's 39 00:03:18,720 --> 00:03:25,840 pretty overkill for a mouse period, but it's especially overkill for a mouse that's not 40 00:03:25,840 --> 00:03:30,480 necessarily advertised as a gaming mouse, which is very, very interesting because 41 00:03:30,480 --> 00:03:34,640 that is the strength of this thing. There's lots of vertical mice, but there is no vertical mice 42 00:03:34,640 --> 00:03:42,160 that has these specs. The 8,000 Hertz polling rate, the 30K sensor underneath with 750 IPS, 43 00:03:42,160 --> 00:03:47,600 the 0.7 liftoff distance. This thing sounds like it's like a top-end gaming mouse, but what's 44 00:03:47,600 --> 00:03:52,800 exciting is that it's not priced like a top-end gaming mouse. It's 70 US dollars, which is a 45 00:03:52,800 --> 00:03:58,560 very fair price for this kind of product. And I think that's its ultimate killer feature, 46 00:03:58,560 --> 00:04:03,280 as long as everything works as we intend, which we'll find out when we plug in the mouse, 47 00:04:03,280 --> 00:04:07,520 which we'll do after I tell you about our sponsor. I went to plug in the mouse dongle and I realized 48 00:04:07,520 --> 00:04:13,760 that it is kind of a weird assortment of accessories that you need to plug in if you want to plug 49 00:04:13,760 --> 00:04:19,360 into a type A. You have your type A to C so that it can go to your C to C cable, which will then 50 00:04:19,360 --> 00:04:25,040 plug into this adapter that'll go into your A dongle. Don't hate it because ultimately I could 51 00:04:25,040 --> 00:04:28,880 plug this directly into my computer, and this gives me a lot of versatility, but that is a lot 52 00:04:28,960 --> 00:04:33,440 of points of failure, so it is something to note, not necessarily a positive or negative. 53 00:04:33,440 --> 00:04:37,440 Plug-in device, it immediately works, and one of the really cool things about keycom devices is 54 00:04:37,440 --> 00:04:41,440 there's a web app, so you actually don't have to download something to your computer. You can 55 00:04:41,440 --> 00:04:47,920 control it through your browser and then close it and it's saved to your mouse, although I hope you 56 00:04:47,920 --> 00:04:52,800 know there's no profile switching on the mouse. You can change your DPI or your report rate, 57 00:04:52,800 --> 00:04:57,600 but you can't switch between five saved profiles, which I think is a little bit of an oversight. 58 00:04:57,600 --> 00:05:02,160 I would actually rather have a profile switch than just being able to switch my report rate 59 00:05:02,160 --> 00:05:06,640 on the fly personally. What about you? In the software, we can switch between our profiles, 60 00:05:06,640 --> 00:05:11,120 so we can customize it as we like. We can change what all of our buttons do on a per button basis, 61 00:05:11,120 --> 00:05:16,880 pretty nifty, and then we can go to our pointer settings, which we can change our DPI. I generally 62 00:05:16,880 --> 00:05:21,920 game with 800 DPI, but on vertical mice, I've been told to have it be a little bit more sensitive 63 00:05:21,920 --> 00:05:25,360 just because the types of movements you're doing are a little bit different, so I'm going to leave 64 00:05:25,440 --> 00:05:30,560 it at 16. Then we can adjust our polling rate. The whole point of this thing is 8,000 Hz, although 65 00:05:30,560 --> 00:05:34,800 you will reduce the battery life of your mouse by going to 8,000 Hz, but Keychron advertises up to 66 00:05:34,800 --> 00:05:40,240 140 hours, although that's in Bluetooth mode, and 120 hours and 1,000 Hz. You should get something 67 00:05:40,240 --> 00:05:44,400 pretty good in 8,000 at the end of the day. Your charging cable is also your dongle cable. It's 68 00:05:44,400 --> 00:05:51,040 not that hard to plug it in. Macros. When the Labs was debriefing me on their testing of this mouse, 69 00:05:51,120 --> 00:05:56,320 they were very impressed by the macros. It looks like you can assign keyboard inputs, 70 00:05:56,320 --> 00:06:00,000 all kinds of stuff to the different buttons, which is pretty cool. I'm not a macro guy, 71 00:06:00,000 --> 00:06:04,720 but if that's something you're into, this is a very robust set of controls. I think that's pretty 72 00:06:04,720 --> 00:06:10,640 cool. That brings us to the advanced toggle. We can adjust our lift-off distance. I'm going to 73 00:06:10,640 --> 00:06:14,640 leave it at default. We have our sensor performance settings, so we have ripple control, angle snap, 74 00:06:14,640 --> 00:06:18,800 and motion sync. I'm surprised angle snaps not on by default. Is that such a gamer-y setting? I 75 00:06:18,800 --> 00:06:23,840 guess that's probably why. It's not a gaming mouse, although it could be. Scrolling direction, 76 00:06:23,840 --> 00:06:29,440 forward or reverse. Hey, Apple. It's that easy, mother f***er. Left-click lock. Interesting. 77 00:06:29,440 --> 00:06:34,800 We have our debounce sound to reduce the amount of double clicks we have. It's on a per-key 78 00:06:34,800 --> 00:06:38,640 basis. You can definitely tell it's a keyboard company because it's not button five. It's 79 00:06:38,640 --> 00:06:44,640 key five. No big deal. And then we have our pairing combination key, which seems like a 80 00:06:44,640 --> 00:06:48,400 little bit of a mystery to me. If you know what that is, comment down below. Don't use AI over 81 00:06:48,400 --> 00:06:53,200 you. I will cry. Last but not least, we can update our current receiver, but ours is up-to-date, 82 00:06:53,200 --> 00:06:58,480 which is fantastic. And what's our settings? This is just like language. Jason! All right. That's 83 00:06:59,600 --> 00:07:03,520 our software. Let's play some games. We're about to game, and I haven't really commented on the 84 00:07:03,520 --> 00:07:10,560 shape of this mouse. Now, I'm not a vertical mouse aficionado, but I have tried a couple now, 85 00:07:10,560 --> 00:07:16,880 and I got to say, I really like this shape. This is a very natural grip for me. My hand kind of 86 00:07:16,880 --> 00:07:21,280 knows where to go very comfortably. There's no pinky scoop that you have to use. My pinky sort of 87 00:07:21,280 --> 00:07:26,720 rests naturally on the thing, but there is a little bit of a rest if you want that. But I think I 88 00:07:26,720 --> 00:07:31,760 want my pinky there. This angle, which is a little bit less than the razor mouse I looked at a couple 89 00:07:31,760 --> 00:07:38,480 weeks ago, I think feels a little bit more natural, although these are all preference things. Ideally, 90 00:07:39,200 --> 00:07:44,320 you're able to get your hands on this mouse before you really pay money for it. That's not always 91 00:07:44,320 --> 00:07:49,440 possible. What I will comment on that is less ideal. The finish is good, but it's not premium. 92 00:07:49,440 --> 00:07:55,120 This is like quality bang for the buck sort of plastic. The seams aren't perfectly aligned, 93 00:07:55,120 --> 00:08:00,560 although that's a super nitpicky sort of thing, because the overall weight is one thing I think 94 00:08:00,560 --> 00:08:05,920 this really excels at. It's about 98 grams versus other vertical mice like the razor vertical 95 00:08:05,920 --> 00:08:12,000 click pro 2, which is 150 grams. And this feels noticeably lighter in a way that I think would 96 00:08:12,080 --> 00:08:16,560 significantly impact gaming performance. However, I know there's some of you out there. There's 97 00:08:16,560 --> 00:08:23,600 dozens of us that love their heavy mice. So preference. Using this mouse for an FPS is definitely 98 00:08:23,600 --> 00:08:30,160 not what its primary use case is, but I think it's a really good way to test how good a mouse is at 99 00:08:30,160 --> 00:08:34,240 gaming. Although the more vertical mice that I try, the more I think they should make MMO style 100 00:08:34,240 --> 00:08:37,840 mice where you have a bunch of buttons on them because there's so much room for your thumb. 101 00:08:37,840 --> 00:08:41,360 Just have like a little spot that your thumb can pinch and then a bunch of buttons around 102 00:08:41,360 --> 00:08:45,600 your mouse. I think that'd be really practical. There's so much space for activities on this 103 00:08:45,600 --> 00:08:50,160 thing. You know what I'm saying? This is your daily reminder that an 8,000 Hertz polling rate is cool, 104 00:08:50,720 --> 00:08:54,400 and it's a nice little feature on your box, but it's not going to significantly impact your 105 00:08:54,400 --> 00:08:59,040 gaming performance. There's other things that are more important that your mouse must do, 106 00:08:59,760 --> 00:09:07,520 but thankfully this mouse does it all, baby. This mouse rocks. I'm not not even playing it up. 107 00:09:07,520 --> 00:09:12,080 This thing's freaking sweet. It's super responsive, which makes sense. We tested the latency as 108 00:09:12,080 --> 00:09:18,080 exceptionally low, less than a millisecond both over wire and via 2.4 gigahertz dongle. Even 109 00:09:18,080 --> 00:09:21,520 the Bluetooth is pretty good. Just around 8 milliseconds, which is a lot higher than the 110 00:09:21,520 --> 00:09:27,040 other two modes, but for Bluetooth, that's pretty dang good. I think we might have a freaking 111 00:09:27,760 --> 00:09:32,800 strong recommend on our hands, everybody. Let's give it up for Keychron. I said, 112 00:09:33,520 --> 00:09:37,760 do that for Keychron. You know what? Before starting this, I was unconvinced that there 113 00:09:37,760 --> 00:09:41,760 would be a vertical gaming mouse that I'd really want to game with. Having used the Razer one, 114 00:09:41,760 --> 00:09:46,160 which is a more premium product, and I think the fit and finish on it might be a little bit nicer, 115 00:09:46,160 --> 00:09:53,440 but I had a hard time imagining being good at an FPS with it. Whereas this one, immediately, 116 00:09:53,440 --> 00:09:58,480 I'm in the game. I'm more comfortable. This is a good grip. Grip is going to be a personal choice, 117 00:09:58,560 --> 00:10:03,440 but I am getting one of these. Well, I'm going to take this one to my desk. 118 00:10:04,240 --> 00:10:09,600 For a flow plan exclusive where I use it for a year, I didn't think they could make a vertical 119 00:10:09,600 --> 00:10:15,680 mouse this freaking good. I was a doubter, and I was coming in knowing this was a good gaming 120 00:10:15,680 --> 00:10:20,320 mouse in the vertical stance, but it's just a good mouse that happens to be vertical. This is 121 00:10:20,320 --> 00:10:25,200 friggin great. The question is, are these buttons an acceptable sponsor? Screwwell's fine. It's 122 00:10:25,200 --> 00:10:28,720 going to be a bit of a reach. I don't think I'd actually assign anything to it that I really need 123 00:10:28,720 --> 00:10:32,720 access to really quick. It's also not a click, which is fine. These are fine. My thumb lands right 124 00:10:32,720 --> 00:10:37,120 on the seam, so I think I've got the ideal thumb shape for this. Easy to press forward, easy to 125 00:10:37,120 --> 00:10:42,000 press back. I wish there was a bit more separation between the two side buttons, just so that it 126 00:10:42,000 --> 00:10:45,840 would be harder to accidentally press the one I'm not meaning to. I could see in the wrong moment 127 00:10:46,480 --> 00:10:50,160 pressing forward when I mean to be back, but other than that, this thing friggin rocks. 128 00:10:50,160 --> 00:10:53,600 I think it feels immediately more comfortable than other vertical mice I felt. The gliding 129 00:10:53,600 --> 00:10:59,040 experience is smooth. The tech inside is top-notch. There really is no major compromises. 130 00:10:59,600 --> 00:11:04,240 They had to save costs a little bit on the shell plastic, on the packaging if that matters, but 131 00:11:04,240 --> 00:11:10,960 I think where it counts, the Keychron M5 is a friggin absolute must-watch, gold star, platinum 132 00:11:10,960 --> 00:11:16,400 diamond. This thing fucking rocks. I haven't been this excited about a product that I wasn't 133 00:11:16,400 --> 00:11:22,320 planning on using after, and God knows how long. This thing is friggin sweet. Man, thank you so 134 00:11:22,320 --> 00:11:27,440 much for telling us to unbox this mouse in the last vertical mouse video we did. Your comments 135 00:11:27,440 --> 00:11:31,120 are red, and I would love for you to share the next mouse that we should unbox, because 136 00:11:31,920 --> 00:11:35,600 you nailed it last time. Just like you're gonna nail it if you keep watching ShortCircuit. Why 137 00:11:35,600 --> 00:11:42,080 don't you go and watch the time that I recently unboxed Sony's mouse and keyboard for gamers. 138 00:11:43,040 --> 00:11:47,200 It's pretty good, except...