the Vengeance M90. Yes, I'm doing both of the 90 series Vengeance products at
the same time here and uh that is because I just got both of them. So,
there you go. Um has a great box which
comes apart very easily. I think this is a a wonderful innovation because most
blister packs I could like get a blister and a cut just trying to open them up.
And Corsair has solved that problem for me in a big way. So the M90 is pretty
similar to the M60. Uh just like the K90. That's that's the keyboards. The
you know M for mouse, K for keyboard. Just like the uh K90 is very similar to
the K60. Although I'd say the two mice are actually more similar to each other
than the keyboards are because the K90 has some real like killer features uh
that the K60 does not have. Whereas the
M90 is more of a personal preference
thing as opposed to
uh just simply having more features. Like the K90 has a backlight and the K60
doesn't. Whereas the M90 is an MMO
optimized mouse. You can see all these buttons over here. We've actually got
nine sidemounted buttons here. Uh and
the sorry, where was I going with that?
Right. Whereas the M60 has like a DPI or
not DPI lowering, a sensitivity lowering sniping button here and a couple side
buttons because it's more optimized for FPS. So, I'm going to start this video
by showing you guys one of the other MMO
oriented mice that I happen to have here in my tech tips room, and that is the
Razer Naga. So, we're going to compare the approaches that are taken by these
two companies. Um, the WOW mouse is another example of an MMO optimized
mouse. Um, and the WOW mouse I personally found very difficult to use
due to my small hands. I can't reach a lot of the buttons. The Naga I really
like. Love this mouse. Great sensor, great buttons, great shape. However, I
never ever use more than about three or
four of these, maybe the top six because by the time I'm reaching back here, I
can't tell if I'm this far back or this far back. I don't know what button I'm
pressing. Yes, they do have dimples on them, but in the heat of the moment when
you're like, mana potion, mana potion, it's not actually that easy to tell
what's what. Bring on the M90. So, the M90 positions
the buttons in a way that you can actually easily feel which button is
which pretty much regardless of the shape and size of your hands because you
can you grip it more like in a claw grip. This is the way I would grip this
mouse, although you can palm it if you want. And then your thumb rests right
here. See how it has a blank spot? That's another thing that I've heard I
don't personally have this problem, but I've heard complained about the Naga a lot is that the whole side's a button.
So, when you go to pick up the mouse, you accidentally mash things. Corsair
has given you a place to actually rest your thumb so you can easily, very
easily lift it up. And it's a bit of a heavy mouse and doesn't have the uh the
weights, the adjustable weights like the M60. So that could be a factor for you
that you can grip it very easily. Okay. Now, they've positioned the buttons in a
way that you use a different part of your thumb to actuate almost every part
of every button, which means that you'll almost never make a mistake. The very
tip of your thumb goes here. This part of your thumb goes here.
This part of your thumb goes here. This part of your thumb is used to actuate
this one. You slide back a little bit and you just kind of mash right under
the knuckle here in order to press this button. You slide back and you've got
two options here and here. And then at the bottom you've got here and here. You
can very distinctly feel, look how big the spaces are in particular between the
buttons that are very close together. That is so you can easily feel which
button is which and use all nine of them in a useful manner. Now, we've also got
uh very similar to the way it's implemented on the Naga, which
personally I don't prefer. I would the first thing I'll do with this mouse is
I'll rebind uh back and forward to something on the side is you've got your
back and forward buttons here. So, you've got a couple more buttons next to the left and the right click, which
brings us up to 11 buttons. 12 13
14. Look at that. Plus the middle click. 15 actual places where you can click
this mouse. Okay, what else we got here? So, it's a
5700 DPI sensor that is just like the M60 as well. I have used the M90 a fair
bit. I know I'm unboxing this one, but I have another one already that I've uh
that I've played around with a little bit. Really like the way the sensor
tracks. I've tried it on a variety of different surfaces, including just a
plain tablecloth, cloth mouse pad, hard mouse pad, rough hard mouse pad, and I
haven't had any difficulty with it whatsoever. Uh, this guy's got 48K of
onboard dynamically managed memory for storing up to six onthe-go profiles,
which is kind of neat. And then we've also got uh indicators over here for
which profile we happen to be using. Um,
so that's kind of neat. The aluminum frame. Yeah, let's talk about the aluminum frame and construction. So, the
uh the K60 has a bit more of like a barebones look because you can kind of
see the shape of the frame, whereas this one is more like uh more like a
traditional mouse shape. Um, but it
still does have that aluminum construction. So, you can see this shape here. You can see there's two pieces of
aluminum here that come together to form this mouse. So, what that gives it is a
little bit more weight and it also gives it a very solid feel. Now, people might
complain about something like the weight of an iPhone 4, but personally, I find
you go and you build it out of aluminum and glass. Yeah, it weighs a lot, but it
weighs a lot in the way that an SLR camera weighs a lot. You're like, "Yeah,
quality." Whereas sometimes things weigh a lot and you're like, "Yeah, heavy
piece of plastic." Um, so personally, I don't mind if my camera weighs a little
bit more than average, if my power supply weighs a little bit more than average, if my mouse weighs a little bit
more than average. You know what? I'm okay with that, too, because it does give it an incredibly solid feel. You
can see the whole thing is screwed together with screws, not, you know,
little cheapo plastic clips, nothing like that. Corsair's really overdone, I
would say, the construction of this particular mouse, which includes the scroll wheel as well. Great rubber
dimples making it very, very easy to scroll up and down and control it
perfectly. And then metal rings on the sides, also very, very strong. It's
like, what do they expect you to do with this thing? Throw it out the wall? that might happen. So, there you go. Uh,
we've got right non-slippy or rather non-slippy slippy feet on the bottom of
the mouse covering all sides. That should pretty much cover any direction
you might want to move the mouse and make sure that you don't uh accidentally
grip things too hard. I mean, remember when that was like a big deal? It's like, yeah, the mouse has like teflon
feet on the bottom. Now, they pretty much all do. So,
all right. Cable length. Yeah. Okay. Okay, so it's just over a Linus arms
span, which means it's probably around 7 ft. Um, although I'm not 100% sure about
that. I don't think it matters that much. It's very long. You won't have trouble with it. You've also got
goldplated connectors on. Actually, you can see them better through the top.
Goldplated connectors. So, even though this outside part, actually, this is
funny because a lot of goldplated USB actually it's goldplated on the outside,
which doesn't make any contact with any any data connection. So, it's totally
useless. Um, but no, this is actually goldplated where it counts. The reason
the gold plating matters is because it's a malleable metal. Helps it to make good
contact with the inside of the USB port. Let me just make sure I haven't missed
anything here, guys. All right. Adjustable lift distance. So,
you can decide how far off the table a lift is registered. Okay. And it'll stop
it'll stop actually moving the mouse side to side. And Corser has such good
packaging. It's always got like all the information on it. No problem. 15
individ Yeah. individually programmable buttons. So, you want to go ahead and
download the software at Corsair.com/vvengeancem90.
So, they've got a little preview of it here. Um, which is what I usually tell
you people to do anyway. It's got a 2-year warranty on this guy. Um,
can change the polling rate. 1,00 hertz,
500 Hz, 250 Hz, 125 Hz. Okay. tracking up to 16500 in per second and up to 30
gs of acceleration. Personally, that doesn't mean nearly as much to me as
when I use the mouse and I go, "Oh, yeah, that sensor feels good." Some
mice, they're they're really high DPI, but you just you go to use them, you're
like, "Oh, this is a crap sensor. It's not it's not imaging the surface below
it nearly well enough." Okay, last thing. Overall texture of the
mouse. So, it's got kind of a smooth uh
soft touch sort of grip on the top here. And then it's got a bit of a smooth like
hard plastic one here, which is fine. But on the other side, they've gone with
kind of a rough. See, you can actually see it rubbing away some of my skin
there. Uh, it's quite rough. And I think that's awesome because what that means
is that it's smooth and soft to the touch where you're resting on it. And
then it's got enough grip on the sides and enough of a lip on the other side
that you can easily lift it up, you know, in so in the heat of battle, so to
speak. I think that pretty much covers it. We've got an illuminated Corsair
logo here. And we have nice, you know, high quality braided cable here. Thank
you for checking out my unboxing of the Vengeance M90 from Corsair. Don't forget
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