It is so rare that I get to unbox a product that checks all of my boxes
across the board. And that's why I'm so excited to be unboxing the Keyron M5.
Their entry into the vertical mouse space. Uh, and having just looked at my
first gaming vertical mouse, I'm can't
believe how good of a package this sounds like it's going to be, especially
because they don't advertise it as a gaming mouse despite all of its gaming
features. In the box, we have a little general user manual, a cabler, our
dongle, as well as a C to A adapter, and
then we have our mouse. Anything else?
No. I got to say this box is not
particularly premium looking. If I didn't know Keyron from their good
reputation, I would assume that this is a very cheap, crappy product. But it
doesn't seem like that's going to be the case. How long is our cable? Just about
6 ft. We have our USBA dongle. that does
not have a place to go in the mouse. That's a bit of a bummer, but not a
dealbreaker. Which brings us to our mouse. We have the white version,
although there is a black version. I am a big fan of black mice just because I
have disgusting hands. Get over here. Come over.
>> No. If I didn't say it already, which I did, this is a vertical gaming mouse,
which is designed for ergonomics because that's the way your arm wants to sit so
the bones don't cross over. Uh, and so this is supposed to be a better
long-term shape uh, for the health of your wrist, arm, and hands. And that's
great. I love long-term health. You know what I'm saying?
I would never forget to take these off. On the right side of the mouse, we have
our two buttons, our scroll wheel, which is notched. These clicks are okay. The
feeling is nice when you have your fingers in the right spot, but as you go
up the button, there's like kind of like a point where it becomes impossible to
click without a lot of pressure. So, I don't love how uneven feeling it is
versus the sweet spot both on the sides and the back of the the buttons. The
scroll wheel is notched in a way that's tactile enough. It's nothing special. It
has no tilt, which is not ideal for a vertical mouse, but this one has another
scroll wheel, which brings us to the left side of the mouse. We got our forward and back button. I like this
configuration of forward and back button being side by side as opposed to top and
bottom that we've seen on other vertical gaming mice and having access to a
second scroll wheel that you could have your horizontal scroll or assigned to
another feature. It's pretty nice. On the front we have our recess type-C, but
it's a barely even a recess. Pretty much every cable is going to fit in there.
Although I say that and you Tom are going to try your cable and it's not
going to work. I'm sorry. On the bottom we have our PTFE skates. Uh decent size.
It's always weird when you look at these vertical gaming mice that have such big
platforms. Uh how small the skates are. The Glide experience is adequate. Uh
nothing special. Pretty fine. Uh we also have more buttons than I'm used to
seeing on the bottom of mouse. We have our DPI switch. We have our report rate,
which is I guess the polling rate. Uh it's interesting they call it report
rate. We have our Bluetooth connections that we can change as well as our mode
toggle. This almost looks like a little battery compartment latch, but I don't
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
up the mouse. And then we have our PTFE skates around the sensor, which is the P
AW3950, which is a fantastic sensor. It's a
flawless sensor, one of the highest spec ones you can get. And it's pretty
overkill for a mouse,
period. But it's especially overkill for a mouse that's not necessarily
advertised as a gaming mouse, which is very, very interesting because that is
the strength of this thing. There's lots of vertical mice, but there is no
vertical mice that has these specs. The
8000Hz polling rate, the 30K sensor underneath with 750 IPS, the.7 lifttoff
distance. This thing sounds like it's like a top-end gaming mouse, but what's
exciting is that it's not priced like a top-end gaming mouse. It's $70, which is
a very fair price for this kind of product. And I think that's its ultimate
killer feature as long as everything works as we intend, which we'll find out
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mouse dongle and I realized that it is kind of a weird assortment of
accessories that you need to plug in if you want to plug 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 plug
into this adapter that'll go into your A
dongle. Don't hate it cuz ultimately I can plug this directly into my computer
and this gives me a lot of versatility. But that is a lot of points of failure.
So it is something to note, not necessarily a positive or negative. Plug
in device. It immediately works. And one of the really cool things about Keycon
devices is there's a web app. So you actually don't have to download something to your computer. You can
control it through your browser and then close it and it's saved to your mouse.
Although uh I will have you know there's no profile switching on the mouse. You
can change your DPI or your report rate, but you can't switch between five saved
profiles, which I think is a little bit of an oversight. I would actually rather
have a profile switch than being able to switch my report rate on the fly.
Personally, what about you? In the software, we can switch between our
profiles so we can customize as we like. We can change what all of our buttons do
on a per button basis. Pretty nifty. And then we can go to our pointer settings,
which we can change our DPI. I generally game with 800 DPI, but on vertical mice,
uh, I've been told to have it be a little bit more sensitive just because the types of movements you're doing are
a little bit different. So, I'm going to leave it at 60. Then, we can adjust our
polling rate. The whole point of this thing is 8,000 Hz. Although, you will
reduce the battery life of your mouse by going to 8,000 hertz. But, KCON
advertises up to 140 hours, although that's in Bluetooth mode. uh in 120
hours in a 1000 hertz, you should get something pretty good in 8000. And at
the end of the day, your charging cable is also your dongle cable. It's not that
hard to plug it in. Macros. When the
Labs was debriefing me on their testing of this mouse, they were very impressed
by the macros. Uh looks like you can assign like keyboard inputs, all kinds
of stuff to the different buttons, which is pretty cool. I'm not a macro guy, but
if that's something you're into, this is a very robust uh set of controls. I
think that's pretty cool. That brings us to the advanced toggle.
We can adjust our liftoff distance. I'm going to leave it at default. We have
our sensor performance settings. We have ripple control, angle snap, and motion
sync. I'm surprised angle snap's not on by default. That's such a gamey setting.
I guess that's probably why it's not a gaming mouse, although it could be.
Scrolling direction, forward to reverse. Hey, Apple. It's that easy, motherucker.
Left click lock. Interesting. We have our debounce sound to reduce the amount
of double clicks we have. Uh, oh, it's on a per key basis. You can definitely
tell it's a keyboard company because it's not button five, it's key five. Uh,
no big deal. And then we have our pairing combination key. Uh, which seems
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
cry. Last but not least, we can update our current receiver, but ours is up to
date, which is fantastic. And what's our settings? This is just like language.
Jason. All right, that's uh that's our software. Let's play some games. We're
about to game and I haven't really commented on the shape of this mouse. Now, I'm not a vertical mouse
afficionado, but I have tried a couple
now and I got to say I really like this
shape. This is a very natural grip for me. My hand kind of knows where to go
very comfortably. There's no pinky scoop that you have to use. My pinky sort of
rests naturally on the thing, but there is a like a little bit of a rest if you
want that. But I think I want my pinky there. This angle, which is a little bit
less than the Razer mouse I looked at a couple weeks ago, I think feels a little
bit more natural. Although, these are all preference things. Ideally, uh
you're able to get your hands on this mouse before you really pay money for
it. That's not always possible. What I will comment on that is less ideal, the
finish is good, but it's not premium. This is like quality bang for the buck
sort of plastic. The seams aren't perfectly aligned, although that's a
super nitpicky sort of thing because the overall weight is one thing I think this
really excels at. It's about 98 g versus
other vertical mice like the Razer Vertical Click Pro 2, uh, which is 150
g. And this feels noticeably lighter in a way that I think would significantly
impact gaming performance. However, I know there's some of you out there,
there's dozens of us, that love their heavy mice. So, preference. Using this
mouse for an FPS is definitely not what its primary use case is, but I think
it's a really good way to test how good a mouse is at gaming. Although, the more
vertical mice that I try, the more I think they should make MMO style mice
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
your thumb can pinch and then a bunch of buttons around your mouse. I think
that'd be really practical. There's so much space for activities on this thing.
You know what I'm saying? This is your daily reminder that an 8000Hz pulling
rate is cool and it's a nice little feature on your box, but it's not going
to significantly impact your gaming performance. Uh, there's other things
that are more important that your mouse must do. Uh, but thankfully this mouse
does it all, baby. Yo, this mouse rocks.
I'm not not even playing it up. This thing's freaking sweet. It's super
responsive, which makes sense. We tested the latency as exceptionally low, less
than a millisecond, both over wire and via 2.4 GHz dongle. Even the Bluetooth
is pretty good. Just around 8 milliseconds, which is a lot higher than the other two modes. But for Bluetooth,
that's pretty dang good. I think we
might have a freaking strong recommend on our hands. Everybody, let's give it
up for Keyron. I said,
for you know what? Before starting this, I was unconvinced that there would be a
vertical gaming mouse that I'd really want to game with. Uh, having used the
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
had a hard time imagining being good at an FPS with it. Whereas this one,
immediately I'm in the game. I'm more comfortable. This is a good grip. Grip
is going to be a personal choice, but I am getting one of these. I am freaking
Well, I'm going to take this one to my desk uh for a flow plan exclusive where
I use it for a year. I didn't think they could make a vertical mouse this
freaking good. I was a doubter and I was
coming in knowing this was a good gaming mouse in the vertical stance, but it's
just a good mouse that happens to be vertical. This is freaking great. The
question is, are these buttons an acceptable spots? Screw's fine. It's
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
quick. It's also not a click, which is fine. These are fine. My thumb lands
right on the seam, so I think I've got the ideal thumb shape for this. Easy to
press forward, easy to press back. I wish there was a bit more separation between the two side buttons, just so
that it would be harder to accidentally press the one I'm not meaning to. I
could see in the wrong moment, uh, pressing forward when I mean to be back,
but other than that, this thing faking rocks. I think it feels immediately more
comfortable than other vertical mice I felt. The gliding experience is smooth.
The tech inside is topnotch. Like there really is no major compromises. They had
to save cost a little bit on the shell plastic on the packaging if that
matters. But I think where it counts, the Keyron M5 is a freaking absolute
mustwatch. Gold Star Platinum Diamond.
This thing rocks. I haven't been this excited about a product I wasn't
planning on using after in God knows how long. This thing is freaking sweet, man.
Thank you so much for telling us to unbox this mouse in the last vertical
mouse video we did. Your comments are read and I would love for you to share
the next mouse that we should unbox cuz you nailed it last time. Just like
you're going to nail it if you keep watching ShortCircuit. Why don't you go and watch the time uh that I recently
unboxed Sony's mouse and keyboard for gamers.
It's pretty good except