can you smell that brother yeah that's right we've got the Razor
boom slang wire gaming mouse top of the
line cream of the crop oh yeah
or at least it was the top of the line back in 1999 but gaming mice have
changed a lot over the last couple of decades so I think the question on
everyone's mind is can this candy ass RGB lightweight take
on the Intercontinental Champion of
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shipping representing modern gaming mice we've got my daily driver the G Pro
Wireless it features 25 000 DPI sensitivity one millisecond
pulling and it weighs in at just 80 grams
let's see how I do in AIM Labs wait there are people who do 200 of these in
a minute oh yeah this sensitivity is definitely not right for me it's a
little bit high and I'm just I'm I'm ending up just past everything I'm
trying to compensate and then I'm ending up not going far enough
tent not bad not bad
uh is the Logitech gaming software
installed on here oh
ah might be 500 I don't know maybe I'm just making all
this up and I just suck if I don't break 100 I will be Trey's
embarrassed 96 not nice 71 accuracy though all right
fine that's that's as good a gamer as I'm ever gonna be I'm number 52 000 in
the world now the question is how does something from 1999 stack up
our Razer boom slang is still packed away in its original tin and we got our
hands on the collector's edition so this is one of just 5
000 units and this is
pretty special for me because back when this was the king I don't think my whole
gaming rig was worth a hundred dollars and gamer specific Hardware was a
relatively new concept and so was razer's edgy green marketing
diabolical Synergy Tom scroll wheel 45
DPR more than twice as precise as a
standard Mouse ambidextrous Ergo design levels the playing field for right in
left-handed gamers patented dust barrier
seven foot cord wow that's a long chord
bag lunch unprecedented strikes be venomous
accuracy a revolutionary step in the
evolution of game controllers that's right Evolution Revolution it's both and
you know what compared to its competitors the boom slang had a lot
more going for it than just marketing it's rated at a whopping 2 000 DPI which
was massive back then especially for a
ball Mouse oh no right
oh I love this gray cable can I just say
gray we want you back that is so classy
even now it feels like alien technology we've got number
1671 and this is interesting powered by
karna Precision patent pending karna actually seized operations due to
financial issues in 2000 but in 2005
Razer was revived by former karna employees Robert Krakoff and Min Lang
tan at a familiar name little fun fact for you want another one the backpack
and screwdriver are finally almost ready at lttstore.com get signed up and be
notified when they go live so for those of you who don't know the way that this
sensor works is this little ball down
here actually rolls around as you move the mouse transferring that movement to
inside rollers here at the back of the mouse and here on its left as these well
also roll they break a thin Light Beam so the more the beam breaks the more the
mouse has been moved some of you might actually remember needing to clean your
balls about once a month growing up but I bet you forgot that you also had
to clean out your rollers because if either of them got Caked Up with dust or
in my household with so many ladies living there hair
should get terrible tracking resulting in a very frustrating gaming experience
my mom had hair down to probably the small of her back when I was growing up
so there would be hairs wrapped around these rollers that were like
almost like this anyway uh sorry that
story is right what else have we got in here nestled in the mouse phone is a USB
to PS2 adapter probably pretty handy 23
years ago and then below the foam we've
got a first edition certificate of ownership
car quick setup guide install driver shut down plug-in and reboot that's
right friends it was the year 2000 after all
we've got uh the latest and greatest on
technique and technicalia
this is not your mother's Mouse we know you're chomping at the bit to put this
baby through the paces you've loaded the driver's tweak your system settings
plugged in your new razor oh my goodness
this is amazing to get the ultimate experience and movement and control we
highly recommend the 3M Precision mousing surface 3M used to make first
party mouse pads I did not know that we've also got the master guide genre
defining weapons that make for penetrating explosive gameplay excuse me
penetrating explosive gameplay you heard me
prepare to get penetrated David explosively finally our handy dandy
installation CD this was pretty crucial back then when downloading software
could take ages and cost you money not so much anymore though get
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our Mouse the construction here is a mix of a black rubberized material that
actually for all its years still feels really good and really grippy and this
semi-transparent green plastic that hasn't aged quite as well in terms of
its Aesthetics you can see some of the internals though and probably the coolest thing about them is that it
looks like you could probably repair this mouse by hand like the solder
points are so big uh it's got what appear to be PTFE feet and on a modern
mouse pad like our Northern Lights little titty store it slides around just
fine can you hear them can you hear the wheel
yeah yeah that does not sound that great our
right click is a little mushy but still functional and our left click
sounds like it should one of the most interesting thing about the primary
buttons is how long they are this was actually an ergonomic feature because it
allowed you to rest your hand and click away no matter what your grip type was
oh wow those are that's where the side buttons are
Han wow that's a stiff scroll wheel
it feels like it's kind of designed for ring finger right click and Pinky and
thumb well it's ambidextrous right so
interesting I would say that when it comes to
ergonomics your mileage May no will vary
on this one that's a very it's a very claw grip you kind of can't spoon it
because it just it doesn't support you on the sides and I guess the reason for
the width is it's not really designed for middle and index finger because that would put your wrist at like this
unnatural angle okay I'm gonna try and use it as intended okay we ready
did the computer just restart yeah yeah did it just freaking crash my
computer wow I mean In fairness the instructions
did say install driver shut down plug-in reboot
rtfm fair enough
touche razor I can feel the aches in
here and here already I haven't even done my small flicks aim test yet
whoa oh wow that wasn't good
oh my gosh okay I swear to you I'm not
Hamming this up this is really hard I feel my whole I
feel my whole forearm like tensing up here okay now I'm feeling I'm feeling it
I'm feeling it watch me not actually be any worse I know this is worse
I can't look at the score right now because I'm aiming
come on oh that's a lot worse
it didn't feel that much worse like my intensity was high oh wow I did get more
accurate over time okay one more time one more time that was warm up I'm going
for it I'm beating the G Pro Wireless
here we go there we go get my rhythm get my rhythm here yeah yeah Rhythm Rhythm
feel the rhythm feel the rhyme Get on Up it's bobsled time
Cool Runnings 61 60 percent
G Pro Wireless the truth is that dragging around a heavy mass and it has
to be heavy because otherwise it won't stay down on the mouse pad just cannot
provide the same experience as a proper modern Optical sensor
I mean yeah I know pro at the best of
times but the ball causes a lot of issues first of all trying to make small
adjustments well you're running up against the friction between the ball
and the little plastic retainer for it
and second of all when you try to do bigger flicks or sweeps
it's hard to control the ball fully so a quick flick shot could overshoot
significantly because that ball has momentum it'll keep rolling for up to
half a second as for the smaller issues
the mouse is overall pretty heavy at 137
grams the shape while being advertised as ergonomic and ambidextrous
kind of resembles a duck's foot and for me it was incredibly uncomfortable like
my ARM is really uncomfortable after using it for just a few moments but
apparently after a week you end up with Stockholm syndrome ploof who wrote this
video claims that he kind of likes it now
what's cool is that all five of the buttons the two on the sides and the
three on the top including clicking the scroll wheel are programmable that's
right I mean no gaming mouse would truly be a gaming mouse without software and
programmable buttons and guys I gotta
say while the utility looks like it came straight out of 19.99 it does have some
pretty interesting features you can change the input on the X and Y axis
independently you could alter your double click speed your scroll wheel
speed you've got these cute little test areas
come out the links still work but still take you
to Ranger oh my God it totally did it
takes me to their Chinese site now which is interesting and shockingly this
program is still on razer's website with the last release coming in April 2011.
we did manage to install it on Windows 10 in spite of the warning about it
requiring Windows XP but our sensitivity
adjustments did not appear to actually do anything so I can't really say that
it works with that said If you're looking for the shape and feel of the
boom slang you can still use it on a modern gaming rig I just wouldn't
recommend it because whether you like it or not this is what Peak Performance
looks like now and we're gonna have a handful of excellent modern gaming mice
at various price points in the video description that are not this if what
you really care about is the Nostalgia though there was actually a sort of
reissue or update back in 2007 with the
boomslang collector's edition it had an 1800 DPI 3G infrared sensor and 1000
Hertz pulling rate unfortunately it was limited to just 10 000 units so we might
have a hard time getting your hands on one we did find two on eBay but they
range from 169 US Dollars nice to 500 US
Dollars which is not nice by any measure
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