welcome to my unboxing and first look at the Razer Death Adder 2013 edition now
something I noticed about the Death Adder 2013 is that it doesn't say
2013 anywhere on the box at all in fact
the only hint that this isn't a normal Death Adder other than the packaging
change and if you look really closely at the specs is razer's marketing blurb
here where they say how did we improve on Perfection very carefully we didn't
want to fix anything that wasn't broken and so we literally didn't change anything okay we focused instead on
enhancing and optimizing the Death Adder utilizing Next Generation Technologies and further economics tweaks okay so did
they not change anything did they change stuff they did change stuff so let's go
ahead and get this baby opened up they went from a 3.5g sensor to a 4G sensor
so they've increased the effective DPI and while the Death Adder has been and
still is an optical gaming mouse as opposed to a laser gaming mouse and yes
I know laser is technically an optical technology but that's not what most
people mean when they say it they have they have still achieved a 6,400 d
uh range for this particular Mouse which is very high for an optical Mouse so
let's go ahead and open it up now they did allude to some ergonomics tweaks and
so in addition to adding an upgraded sensor they have also made some slight
changes to the shape of the mouse which does retain its right-handed grip so you
can see here this is not an ambidex ambidextrous Mouse all right so we made
a bit of a change to our tabletop here so that you guys can really clearly see
what razor changed about the death add 2013 so it is still a right-handed shape
but you can see it's more subtle than many right-handed mice so there's an
indentation on this side you can see the
the the the more pronounced curve there and then when you flip around to the
other side you can see that it is a much less pronounced curve and actually comes
out a little bit so while a lefty could put their hand on the mouse the the
their index finger would sit too low and their middle finger would sit too high
and it wouldn't quite be comfortable it is shaped for the right-handed player
now I have sort of smallish hands especially for a male but I can Palm
this thing perfectly and then I have probably a little bit of it looks like
about a centimeter of space left where even if my fingers were bigger or if I
curved my fingers a little bit I could have significantly larger hands while
being able to Palm the mouse comfortably now we've encountered gaming mice that
are a palm grip type Mouse but that are
so small that you end up clawing them unless you have little tiny little kid
hands so that is not the case with the death outer 2013 now an improvement that
they have made that I think is huge is the addition of these rubber grips on
the side so that is an extremely grippy rubber I don't know how to make that
point on film without uh just kind of saying it guys it's awesome it has a
nice texture to it so that you can you just by touching it lightly you'll be
able to pick up the mouse without almost no effort no by not exerting almost any
pressure on the mouse from the side at all this is great because it frees you
up to have your mouse hand very relaxed and your wrist relaxed not causing any
additional tension here but still being able to lift when you get to the edge of
the mouse pad and there's another one on the thumb side as well so you can see
that the way that they're shaped is optimized for the fingers that are
intended to be pointed at them so this one's a little bit lower a little bit
lower profile for the pinky and this one's a little bit higher profile with
uh more of an a curve in for the way that your thumb would be positioned now
Razer calls the buttons on this mouse hyper response buttons and I don't know
if I would call the mouse wheel click particularly hyperresponsive nor would I
call the front and back clicks particularly hyper responsive because
they feel like normal buttons to me but the left and the right click feel like
they're on a hair trigger so I would say yes those are definitely hyper
responsive optimized for extremely fast button presses with almost no effort
whatsoever so what makes it optimized for programming what's the difference
between a pro level product and and a consumer grade product a lot of the time
it's well how many how many times is a pro going to be pressing the button
versus how many times is the typical consumer going to be pressing the button
so I'm booting up a computer so that I can show you guys the lighting effects
but I want to show you the bottom of the mouse as well so they've got uh what
they're calling their ultr slick Mouse
feet so you can see there's one up at the top left one up at the top right and
then another one down at the very bottom so Razer doesn't give you any particular
rating for how long these are supposed to last but it should be noted guys that
it actually doesn't matter if it was a huge surface area along the bottom of
the mouse or a small one the coefficient of friction would actually be the same
here's the 4G infrared sensor so Precision 6400 DPI many people don't use
dpis um above sort of the the lower
ranges but having the flexibility to be able to turn up your DPI and lower your
mouse sensitivity and turn off acceleration allows you to really tune
the mouse to use it the way that you want to use it so here's the here's what
the lighting effects looks like so you've got your illuminated scroll wheel
just like that okay you've got your illuminated razor logo right here which
apparently turned itself off ah there we go so you can configure it within synaps
2.0 the 2013 edition does work with synapse 2.0 which takes all of your
gaming profiles and stores them in the cloud so you can use them wherever you
happen to be as long as you log in it'll store your profiles on a per game basis
so you can map your uh you can map your commands however it is that you want to
do that I want to just make sure I didn't really miss anything here okay it
does support, HZ Ultra pulling which is good um many gaming mice do that does support
on the Fly sensitivity adjustments and I
think that pretty much covers it for what they had to say for themselves on
the box itself I guess the last thing is just to show you that it is using a nice
highquality braided cable so hopefully now that we've switched to a white
tabletop you guys are going to be able to see that all right and thank you for
checking out my unboxing and first look at the Razer Death Adder 2013 which they
didn't change anything about but they did but they I don't know whatever so
looks to me like the things they changed are good oh of note now that I've
actually got the product out of the box because I had to look at it before was out of the box it does say 2013
somewhere so there it is 2013 is on the mouse itself even though it wasn't on
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