WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:06.200 I might have been wrong about Razer's gaming mice, and I'm really excited to find out just how wrong I was 00:00:06.200 --> 00:00:10.160 because today we're unboxing the Razer Viper V4 Pro, 00:00:10.160 --> 00:00:13.480 the latest in high-end competition from Razer 00:00:13.480 --> 00:00:19.480 for the G Pro X Superlight. It is an ambidextrous mouse in the light category 00:00:19.480 --> 00:00:24.560 with all of the bells and whistles you could ever want from a mouse and maybe some more, 00:00:24.560 --> 00:00:27.800 as well as some major changes from Razer 00:00:27.880 --> 00:00:32.280 that make me actually want to consider their products for the first time in a long time. 00:00:32.280 --> 00:00:38.640 In the box, we have our mouse, we have our dongle that looks more like a chocolate 00:00:38.640 --> 00:00:43.360 than a technological device. I don't often get the urge to like lick things, 00:00:43.360 --> 00:00:47.320 but I really want to lick this. Luckily, what I can't explain is that it is good 00:00:47.320 --> 00:00:51.760 for 8,000 Hertz polling rate. It has LED indicators for a multiple of purposes, 00:00:51.760 --> 00:00:54.800 which we'll get into, and it's powered via USB-C, 00:00:54.840 --> 00:00:59.840 although this could be the most recessed Type-C port ever made. 00:01:01.160 --> 00:01:05.280 Like you, on the camera, you can't even see the frickin' USB in there. 00:01:05.280 --> 00:01:09.080 You just see a hole and then like a little whisper of metal reflection. 00:01:09.080 --> 00:01:14.480 They really don't want you to use a non-Razer cable. Thankfully, it comes with one, 00:01:14.480 --> 00:01:21.580 and these Razer cables are generally really high quality. This is another braided cable, just over six feet. 00:01:21.580 --> 00:01:26.680 Lastly, we have our instructions. Great, this is actually useful, not this. 00:01:26.680 --> 00:01:30.720 We got grip tape, if you're so inclined. 00:01:30.720 --> 00:01:35.800 I think that Razer has greatly improved the feel of their plastic on their high-end mice 00:01:35.800 --> 00:01:39.800 over the last five years, so I would probably prefer not to use a grip tape, 00:01:39.800 --> 00:01:43.360 but that's an actual value add, which you might enjoy. 00:01:43.360 --> 00:01:46.840 Getting to the mouse itself, like all good gaming mice, 00:01:46.840 --> 00:01:51.720 it's a pretty no-frills affair. We got our six total buttons, 00:01:51.720 --> 00:01:58.240 including the main two top ones, with Razer's new switches that are rated for a million clicks. 00:01:58.240 --> 00:02:01.560 They're supposed to be 12% more responsive. 00:02:01.560 --> 00:02:05.760 They are loud. These are loud clicks. This is not an office mouse, 00:02:05.760 --> 00:02:09.520 and if you share an office with me and use this mouse, we will not be friends. 00:02:09.520 --> 00:02:13.840 However, I would like to feel your mouse, because these are nice clicks all the way up, 00:02:13.840 --> 00:02:18.680 all the way down, very consistent, very satisfying tactility. 00:02:18.680 --> 00:02:25.040 That's a good start. How's the scroll wheel? It's an optical scroll wheel, and it feels quite solid. 00:02:25.040 --> 00:02:29.040 It's a wide-shape, good rubbery feel, good tactility, 00:02:29.040 --> 00:02:33.200 and the click feels pretty much just right. 00:02:33.200 --> 00:02:37.000 I feel like the wheel wants to go a little too easy, 00:02:37.000 --> 00:02:40.800 where when I click, it almost wants to rotate every time. 00:02:40.800 --> 00:02:44.160 Not a huge deal. I generally don't use middle mouse click. 00:02:44.160 --> 00:02:50.200 I usually assign that to something else, including the side buttons, like this front and back button. 00:02:50.200 --> 00:02:53.760 They're quite small, however, it's proportioned to this mouse. 00:02:53.760 --> 00:02:56.800 I don't hate the way they feel. The click is quite good, good tactility 00:02:56.800 --> 00:03:00.080 all across of the button, but there's something about this plastic 00:03:00.080 --> 00:03:04.160 that feels different or cheaper, or maybe it's just the way that it's raised, 00:03:04.160 --> 00:03:08.060 and it's kind of straight edges. It doesn't feel as premium as the rest of the mouse. 00:03:08.060 --> 00:03:11.200 It's a little sharp on a comfortably rounded mouse. 00:03:11.200 --> 00:03:16.600 We also have our power and DPI button, which is underneath, which is a less useful spot 00:03:16.600 --> 00:03:20.560 than on top. It also allows the top to be nicer looking. 00:03:20.560 --> 00:03:23.720 We have our Type-C port, and we have our LED indicator on the front. 00:03:23.720 --> 00:03:29.000 Right now it's looking for a pairing, so it's gonna keep flashing until I give it its daddy. 00:03:29.000 --> 00:03:33.960 On the bottom, we have our quite large glide skates. These are 100% PTFE, 00:03:33.960 --> 00:03:39.080 which is the silver standard of glide skates. Glass would be nice, but it's fine. 00:03:39.080 --> 00:03:44.280 What is kind of gold standard right now is some new sensor technology. 00:03:44.280 --> 00:03:48.760 Razer has the Focus Pro 50K optical sensor Gen 3. 00:03:48.760 --> 00:03:55.080 Rolls off the tongue. It's good for 50,000 DPI, 930 IPS, and 90 Gs, 00:03:55.140 --> 00:03:59.020 which is way more than you're ever gonna need. But when you're pairing with 8,000 Hertz, 00:03:59.020 --> 00:04:04.140 as well as some in-class leading latency, every little bit can help and it all adds up. 00:04:04.140 --> 00:04:10.120 And when you're buying, you know, your Ferrari, you don't want Lincoln specs, you want speed. 00:04:10.120 --> 00:04:14.560 Anyone else is really important? Let's see what we're working with, baby. 00:04:14.560 --> 00:04:18.160 50 grams! That is not the lightest mouse in the whole world, 00:04:18.160 --> 00:04:23.080 but it is so far beyond the point of diminishing returns. 50 grams, plenty light. 00:04:23.080 --> 00:04:28.080 And that's pretty good considering that Razer claims that this is good for up to 180 hours of battery life 00:04:28.080 --> 00:04:32.280 at 1,000 Hertz or 45 at 8,000 Hertz. 00:04:32.280 --> 00:04:35.640 So if you want extra battery life, you know, you can sacrifice a little performance, 00:04:35.640 --> 00:04:41.160 or you know, you want Ferrari, you go speed. You want segways, you go now. 00:04:41.160 --> 00:04:46.720 We're back, and I'm so excited to show you the greatest upgrade that has ever happened to Razer products. 00:04:46.720 --> 00:04:49.240 No longer do you need to download Razer Synapse. 00:04:50.280 --> 00:04:54.180 Freaking web app! Oh yeah, come on, it's just in beta right now, 00:04:54.180 --> 00:04:57.360 but even beta is gonna be better than whatever the f*** we were doing before. 00:04:57.360 --> 00:05:00.800 Let's see if it works. Advice, Viper Vifro. 00:05:00.800 --> 00:05:04.360 Oh, thank you so much, Razer. This is the way forward. 00:05:04.360 --> 00:05:08.520 Web apps, don't make me download freaking garbage, bloatware, spyware crap. 00:05:08.520 --> 00:05:13.160 This is the future! First things first, we can change all the button assignments 00:05:13.160 --> 00:05:16.360 other than the left click, which can be problematic. 00:05:16.360 --> 00:05:19.740 We can use HyperShift so that we can basically assign an alternate key. 00:05:19.740 --> 00:05:24.180 We got our indicator LED options. One is, the first one is gonna show us 00:05:24.180 --> 00:05:27.520 our connection quality, then our battery level, then our polling rate. 00:05:27.520 --> 00:05:32.340 You can turn them off, which is nice. But I actually think that having the polling rate 00:05:32.340 --> 00:05:36.340 is a pretty nice one. Otherwise, you can have your DPI stage on this. 00:05:36.340 --> 00:05:41.420 That makes a lot more sense than having it on the mouse because this actually I could have 00:05:42.320 --> 00:05:45.880 within eye shot of my monitor so I can look at the dongle and see. 00:05:45.880 --> 00:05:49.960 I actually think that's a smart upgrade instead of adding more weight to your mouse. 00:05:49.960 --> 00:05:54.920 Put it on the dongle. Next, we can change our DPI settings. We can separate the X and Y axis. 00:05:54.920 --> 00:05:58.660 We can enable up to five different settings 00:05:58.660 --> 00:06:02.360 and move them around. I know that I just want 800. So I'm gonna disable everything 00:06:02.360 --> 00:06:06.420 except that it looks like you have to have two on, 00:06:06.420 --> 00:06:11.480 which is interesting. I would like that to be a thing that mice manufacturers don't force me to do 00:06:11.480 --> 00:06:14.680 is have two profiles. I know exactly what I want 00:06:14.680 --> 00:06:17.920 and I don't need my button to accidentally switch it partway through. 00:06:17.920 --> 00:06:21.480 That being said, I would know because my frigging light on my dongle 00:06:21.480 --> 00:06:25.200 would tell me I have the wrong settings. Next, we have our power settings. 00:06:25.200 --> 00:06:28.680 So we can turn up the speed at which it goes to sleep 00:06:28.680 --> 00:06:31.680 or low power mode. I don't ever want you to go to sleep. 00:06:31.680 --> 00:06:36.520 And then we can calibrate. We can enable asymmetric cutoff, which will divorce our lift off distance 00:06:36.520 --> 00:06:41.520 and our landing distance. We want it as low as possible unless we have weird tracking issues. 00:06:41.520 --> 00:06:46.400 Then we have our advanced, which enables us to have a dynamic sensitivity, 00:06:46.400 --> 00:06:49.440 which definitely could be your thing. 00:06:49.440 --> 00:06:53.620 The other thing that I like that I've seen more and more is actually a rotation setting. 00:06:53.620 --> 00:06:57.160 So depending on which angle you have your mouse, 00:06:57.160 --> 00:07:02.920 it makes adjustments based on that. I think I usually keep it around like the seven, 00:07:02.920 --> 00:07:06.720 that's a bit more, like let's say call it nine. Nine degrees. 00:07:06.720 --> 00:07:10.040 So now the software knows that I'm holding it at an angle 00:07:10.040 --> 00:07:13.680 and is making some kind of adjustments for that. 00:07:13.680 --> 00:07:17.320 So that's pretty cool. Again, something you're gonna want to get used to 00:07:17.320 --> 00:07:20.600 not just switch over and forget that you did. 00:07:20.600 --> 00:07:25.680 Let's game. First impressions. This feels like a very, very good mouse. 00:07:25.680 --> 00:07:30.080 Makes sense. Our Labs testing show that this is about as good as it gets 00:07:30.080 --> 00:07:36.000 just above 0.6 milliseconds, both over wired and dongle at 8,000 Hertz. 00:07:36.000 --> 00:07:39.600 That's pretty fantastic. And what we found out recently in our video 00:07:39.600 --> 00:07:45.200 where we tested if input latency matters is that every millisecond of input latency 00:07:45.200 --> 00:07:48.560 does friggin' matter. Go watch that video if you haven't watched it. 00:07:48.560 --> 00:07:52.080 It's hard to comment too much on top end gaming mice because they're all pretty darn good, 00:07:52.080 --> 00:07:55.680 but like this I feel so connected 00:07:55.680 --> 00:07:59.760 to what's happening on screen. Kind of more impressed than I thought it would be 00:07:59.760 --> 00:08:03.640 about a razor product. What I will say is it feels like the balance of the mouse 00:08:03.640 --> 00:08:07.960 is a little further forward than I'd expect. Like the back feels very, very light. 00:08:07.960 --> 00:08:13.120 Not necessarily a bad thing, just something to note. We also tested the sensor accuracy. 00:08:13.120 --> 00:08:18.040 And while it's not the best that we've tested, it's totally within the realm of pretty good. 00:08:18.040 --> 00:08:21.120 And you would get used to it pretty darn quick. 00:08:21.120 --> 00:08:24.640 I'd say overall, razors on a pretty good trajectory. 00:08:24.640 --> 00:08:28.680 It sounds like they're listening to their users. They're making a pretty solid product. 00:08:28.680 --> 00:08:32.120 And it seems like on paper at least it should be more reliable than some of the products 00:08:32.120 --> 00:08:36.040 I've tested in the past. You're gonna be paying for all this performance. 00:08:36.040 --> 00:08:40.880 It's $160, not the most expensive gaming mouse there is, 00:08:40.880 --> 00:08:44.960 but it's above what I usually consider to be necessary 00:08:44.960 --> 00:08:51.160 for pretty top end performance. However, that's not mind blowing or collector price 00:08:51.160 --> 00:08:54.400 like we've seen in other razor products. And it's a very good package. 00:08:54.400 --> 00:08:58.240 So let us know in the comments. Would you consider a razor product? 00:08:58.360 --> 00:09:02.000 Are you like me that you're like absolutely not for quite a long time? 00:09:02.000 --> 00:09:06.400 And let us know. If you wanna watch more ShortCircuit videos, you can check out the time we unboxed the Keychron M5. 00:09:06.400 --> 00:09:10.600 It's a vertical mouse, but those innards are inside of all of the Keychron M series 00:09:10.600 --> 00:09:15.560 lineup and those are really good value. And if you want a little more education on input latency, 00:09:15.560 --> 00:09:18.600 you should check out that LTT that we produced a few months ago. 00:09:18.600 --> 00:09:22.520 It's got some pretty cool people in it. Like baby no money. Yeah, he's a gamer.