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It is so rare that I get to unbox a product that checks all of my boxes

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across the board. And that's why I'm so excited to be unboxing the Keyron M5.

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Their entry into the vertical mouse space. Uh, and having just looked at my

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first gaming vertical mouse, I'm can't

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believe how good of a package this sounds like it's going to be, especially

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because they don't advertise it as a gaming mouse despite all of its gaming

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features. In the box, we have a little general user manual, a cabler, our

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dongle, as well as a C to A adapter, and

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then we have our mouse. Anything else?

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No. I got to say this box is not

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particularly premium looking. If I didn't know Keyron from their good

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reputation, I would assume that this is a very cheap, crappy product. But it

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doesn't seem like that's going to be the case. How long is our cable? Just about

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6 ft. We have our USBA dongle. that does

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not have a place to go in the mouse. That's a bit of a bummer, but not a

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dealbreaker. Which brings us to our mouse. We have the white version,

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although there is a black version. I am a big fan of black mice just because I

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have disgusting hands. Get over here. Come over.

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>> No. If I didn't say it already, which I did, this is a vertical gaming mouse,

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which is designed for ergonomics because that's the way your arm wants to sit so

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the bones don't cross over. Uh, and so this is supposed to be a better

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long-term shape uh, for the health of your wrist, arm, and hands. And that's

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great. I love long-term health. You know what I'm saying?

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I would never forget to take these off. On the right side of the mouse, we have

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our two buttons, our scroll wheel, which is notched. These clicks are okay. The

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feeling is nice when you have your fingers in the right spot, but as you go

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up the button, there's like kind of like a point where it becomes impossible to

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click without a lot of pressure. So, I don't love how uneven feeling it is

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versus the sweet spot both on the sides and the back of the the buttons. The

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scroll wheel is notched in a way that's tactile enough. It's nothing special. It

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has no tilt, which is not ideal for a vertical mouse, but this one has another

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scroll wheel, which brings us to the left side of the mouse. We got our forward and back button. I like this

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configuration of forward and back button being side by side as opposed to top and

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bottom that we've seen on other vertical gaming mice and having access to a

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second scroll wheel that you could have your horizontal scroll or assigned to

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another feature. It's pretty nice. On the front we have our recess type-C, but

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it's a barely even a recess. Pretty much every cable is going to fit in there.

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Although I say that and you Tom are going to try your cable and it's not

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going to work. I'm sorry. On the bottom we have our PTFE skates. Uh decent size.

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It's always weird when you look at these vertical gaming mice that have such big

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platforms. Uh how small the skates are. The Glide experience is adequate. Uh

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nothing special. Pretty fine. Uh we also have more buttons than I'm used to

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seeing on the bottom of mouse. We have our DPI switch. We have our report rate,

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which is I guess the polling rate. Uh it's interesting they call it report

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rate. We have our Bluetooth connections that we can change as well as our mode

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toggle. This almost looks like a little battery compartment latch, but I don't

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think that's what it is. I think it's just to be able to get a spudger underneath these skates so you can open

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up the mouse. And then we have our PTFE skates around the sensor, which is the P

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AW3950, which is a fantastic sensor. It's a

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flawless sensor, one of the highest spec ones you can get. And it's pretty

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overkill for a mouse,

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period. But it's especially overkill for a mouse that's not necessarily

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advertised as a gaming mouse, which is very, very interesting because that is

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the strength of this thing. There's lots of vertical mice, but there is no

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vertical mice that has these specs. The

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8000Hz polling rate, the 30K sensor underneath with 750 IPS, the.7 lifttoff

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distance. This thing sounds like it's like a top-end gaming mouse, but what's

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exciting is that it's not priced like a top-end gaming mouse. It's $70, which is

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a very fair price for this kind of product. And I think that's its ultimate

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killer feature as long as everything works as we intend, which we'll find out

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dream PC today using our link in the video description. I went to plug in the

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mouse dongle and I realized that it is kind of a weird assortment of

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accessories that you need to plug in if you want to plug into a type A. You have

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your type A to C so that it can go to your C to C cable which will then plug

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into this adapter that'll go into your A

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dongle. Don't hate it cuz ultimately I can plug this directly into my computer

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and this gives me a lot of versatility. But that is a lot of points of failure.

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So it is something to note, not necessarily a positive or negative. Plug

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in device. It immediately works. And one of the really cool things about Keycon

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devices is there's a web app. So you actually don't have to download something to your computer. You can

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control it through your browser and then close it and it's saved to your mouse.

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Although uh I will have you know there's no profile switching on the mouse. You

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can change your DPI or your report rate, but you can't switch between five saved

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profiles, which I think is a little bit of an oversight. I would actually rather

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have a profile switch than being able to switch my report rate on the fly.

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Personally, what about you? In the software, we can switch between our

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profiles so we can customize as we like. We can change what all of our buttons do

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on a per button basis. Pretty nifty. And then we can go to our pointer settings,

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which we can change our DPI. I generally game with 800 DPI, but on vertical mice,

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uh, I've been told to have it be a little bit more sensitive just because the types of movements you're doing are

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a little bit different. So, I'm going to leave it at 60. Then, we can adjust our

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polling rate. The whole point of this thing is 8,000 Hz. Although, you will

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reduce the battery life of your mouse by going to 8,000 hertz. But, KCON

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advertises up to 140 hours, although that's in Bluetooth mode. uh in 120

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hours in a 1000 hertz, you should get something pretty good in 8000. And at

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the end of the day, your charging cable is also your dongle cable. It's not that

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hard to plug it in. Macros. When the

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Labs was debriefing me on their testing of this mouse, they were very impressed

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by the macros. Uh looks like you can assign like keyboard inputs, all kinds

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of stuff to the different buttons, which is pretty cool. I'm not a macro guy, but

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if that's something you're into, this is a very robust uh set of controls. I

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think that's pretty cool. That brings us to the advanced toggle.

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We can adjust our liftoff distance. I'm going to leave it at default. We have

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our sensor performance settings. We have ripple control, angle snap, and motion

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sync. I'm surprised angle snap's not on by default. That's such a gamey setting.

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I guess that's probably why it's not a gaming mouse, although it could be.

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Scrolling direction, forward to reverse. Hey, Apple. It's that easy, motherucker.

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Left click lock. Interesting. We have our debounce sound to reduce the amount

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of double clicks we have. Uh, oh, it's on a per key basis. You can definitely

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tell it's a keyboard company because it's not button five, it's key five. Uh,

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no big deal. And then we have our pairing combination key. Uh, which seems

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like a little bit of a mystery to me. If you know what that is, comment down below. Don't use AI overview or I will

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cry. Last but not least, we can update our current receiver, but ours is up to

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date, which is fantastic. And what's our settings? This is just like language.

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Jason. All right, that's uh that's our software. Let's play some games. We're

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about to game and I haven't really commented on the shape of this mouse. Now, I'm not a vertical mouse

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afficionado, but I have tried a couple

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now and I got to say I really like this

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shape. This is a very natural grip for me. My hand kind of knows where to go

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very comfortably. There's no pinky scoop that you have to use. My pinky sort of

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rests naturally on the thing, but there is a like a little bit of a rest if you

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want that. But I think I want my pinky there. This angle, which is a little bit

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less than the Razer mouse I looked at a couple weeks ago, I think feels a little

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bit more natural. Although, these are all preference things. Ideally, uh

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you're able to get your hands on this mouse before you really pay money for

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it. That's not always possible. What I will comment on that is less ideal, the

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finish is good, but it's not premium. This is like quality bang for the buck

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sort of plastic. The seams aren't perfectly aligned, although that's a

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super nitpicky sort of thing because the overall weight is one thing I think this

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really excels at. It's about 98 g versus

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other vertical mice like the Razer Vertical Click Pro 2, uh, which is 150

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g. And this feels noticeably lighter in a way that I think would significantly

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impact gaming performance. However, I know there's some of you out there,

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there's dozens of us, that love their heavy mice. So, preference. Using this

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mouse for an FPS is definitely not what its primary use case is, but I think

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it's a really good way to test how good a mouse is at gaming. Although, the more

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vertical mice that I try, the more I think they should make MMO style mice

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where you have a bunch of buttons on them cuz there's so much room for your thumb. Just have like a little spot that

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your thumb can pinch and then a bunch of buttons around your mouse. I think

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that'd be really practical. There's so much space for activities on this thing.

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You know what I'm saying? This is your daily reminder that an 8000Hz pulling

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rate is cool and it's a nice little feature on your box, but it's not going

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to significantly impact your gaming performance. Uh, there's other things

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that are more important that your mouse must do. Uh, but thankfully this mouse

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does it all, baby. Yo, this mouse rocks.

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I'm not not even playing it up. This thing's freaking sweet. It's super

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responsive, which makes sense. We tested the latency as exceptionally low, less

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than a millisecond, both over wire and via 2.4 GHz dongle. Even the Bluetooth

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is pretty good. Just around 8 milliseconds, which is a lot higher than the other two modes. But for Bluetooth,

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that's pretty dang good. I think we

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might have a freaking strong recommend on our hands. Everybody, let's give it

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up for Keyron. I said,

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for you know what? Before starting this, I was unconvinced that there would be a

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vertical gaming mouse that I'd really want to game with. Uh, having used the

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Razer one, which is a more premium product, and I think the fit and finish on it might be a little bit nicer, but I

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had a hard time imagining being good at an FPS with it. Whereas this one,

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immediately I'm in the game. I'm more comfortable. This is a good grip. Grip

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is going to be a personal choice, but I am getting one of these. I am freaking

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Well, I'm going to take this one to my desk uh for a flow plan exclusive where

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I use it for a year. I didn't think they could make a vertical mouse this

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freaking good. I was a doubter and I was

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coming in knowing this was a good gaming mouse in the vertical stance, but it's

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just a good mouse that happens to be vertical. This is freaking great. The

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question is, are these buttons an acceptable spots? Screw's fine. It's

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going to be a bit of a reach. I don't think I'd actually assign anything to it that I really need access to really

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quick. It's also not a click, which is fine. These are fine. My thumb lands

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right on the seam, so I think I've got the ideal thumb shape for this. Easy to

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press forward, easy to press back. I wish there was a bit more separation between the two side buttons, just so

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that it would be harder to accidentally press the one I'm not meaning to. I

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could see in the wrong moment, uh, pressing forward when I mean to be back,

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but other than that, this thing faking rocks. I think it feels immediately more

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comfortable than other vertical mice I felt. The gliding experience is smooth.

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The tech inside is topnotch. Like there really is no major compromises. They had

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to save cost a little bit on the shell plastic on the packaging if that

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matters. But I think where it counts, the Keyron M5 is a freaking absolute

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mustwatch. Gold Star Platinum Diamond.

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This thing rocks. I haven't been this excited about a product I wasn't

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planning on using after in God knows how long. This thing is freaking sweet, man.

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Thank you so much for telling us to unbox this mouse in the last vertical

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mouse video we did. Your comments are read and I would love for you to share

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the next mouse that we should unbox cuz you nailed it last time. Just like

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you're going to nail it if you keep watching ShortCircuit. Why don't you go and watch the time uh that I recently

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unboxed Sony's mouse and keyboard for gamers.

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It's pretty good except