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the Vengeance M90. Yes, I'm doing both of the 90 series Vengeance products at

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the same time here and uh that is because I just got both of them. So,

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there you go. Um has a great box which

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comes apart very easily. I think this is a a wonderful innovation because most

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blister packs I could like get a blister and a cut just trying to open them up.

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And Corsair has solved that problem for me in a big way. So the M90 is pretty

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similar to the M60. Uh just like the K90. That's that's the keyboards. The

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you know M for mouse, K for keyboard. Just like the uh K90 is very similar to

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the K60. Although I'd say the two mice are actually more similar to each other

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than the keyboards are because the K90 has some real like killer features uh

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that the K60 does not have. Whereas the

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M90 is more of a personal preference

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thing as opposed to

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uh just simply having more features. Like the K90 has a backlight and the K60

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doesn't. Whereas the M90 is an MMO

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optimized mouse. You can see all these buttons over here. We've actually got

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nine sidemounted buttons here. Uh and

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the sorry, where was I going with that?

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Right. Whereas the M60 has like a DPI or

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not DPI lowering, a sensitivity lowering sniping button here and a couple side

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buttons because it's more optimized for FPS. So, I'm going to start this video

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by showing you guys one of the other MMO

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oriented mice that I happen to have here in my tech tips room, and that is the

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Razer Naga. So, we're going to compare the approaches that are taken by these

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two companies. Um, the WOW mouse is another example of an MMO optimized

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mouse. Um, and the WOW mouse I personally found very difficult to use

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due to my small hands. I can't reach a lot of the buttons. The Naga I really

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like. Love this mouse. Great sensor, great buttons, great shape. However, I

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never ever use more than about three or

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four of these, maybe the top six because by the time I'm reaching back here, I

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can't tell if I'm this far back or this far back. I don't know what button I'm

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pressing. Yes, they do have dimples on them, but in the heat of the moment when

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you're like, mana potion, mana potion, it's not actually that easy to tell

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what's what. Bring on the M90. So, the M90 positions

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the buttons in a way that you can actually easily feel which button is

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which pretty much regardless of the shape and size of your hands because you

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can you grip it more like in a claw grip. This is the way I would grip this

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mouse, although you can palm it if you want. And then your thumb rests right

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here. See how it has a blank spot? That's another thing that I've heard I

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don't personally have this problem, but I've heard complained about the Naga a lot is that the whole side's a button.

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So, when you go to pick up the mouse, you accidentally mash things. Corsair

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has given you a place to actually rest your thumb so you can easily, very

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easily lift it up. And it's a bit of a heavy mouse and doesn't have the uh the

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weights, the adjustable weights like the M60. So that could be a factor for you

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that you can grip it very easily. Okay. Now, they've positioned the buttons in a

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way that you use a different part of your thumb to actuate almost every part

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of every button, which means that you'll almost never make a mistake. The very

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tip of your thumb goes here. This part of your thumb goes here.

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This part of your thumb goes here. This part of your thumb is used to actuate

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this one. You slide back a little bit and you just kind of mash right under

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the knuckle here in order to press this button. You slide back and you've got

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two options here and here. And then at the bottom you've got here and here. You

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can very distinctly feel, look how big the spaces are in particular between the

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buttons that are very close together. That is so you can easily feel which

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button is which and use all nine of them in a useful manner. Now, we've also got

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uh very similar to the way it's implemented on the Naga, which

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personally I don't prefer. I would the first thing I'll do with this mouse is

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I'll rebind uh back and forward to something on the side is you've got your

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back and forward buttons here. So, you've got a couple more buttons next to the left and the right click, which

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brings us up to 11 buttons. 12 13

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14. Look at that. Plus the middle click. 15 actual places where you can click

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this mouse. Okay, what else we got here? So, it's a

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5700 DPI sensor that is just like the M60 as well. I have used the M90 a fair

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bit. I know I'm unboxing this one, but I have another one already that I've uh

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that I've played around with a little bit. Really like the way the sensor

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tracks. I've tried it on a variety of different surfaces, including just a

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plain tablecloth, cloth mouse pad, hard mouse pad, rough hard mouse pad, and I

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haven't had any difficulty with it whatsoever. Uh, this guy's got 48K of

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onboard dynamically managed memory for storing up to six onthe-go profiles,

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which is kind of neat. And then we've also got uh indicators over here for

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which profile we happen to be using. Um,

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so that's kind of neat. The aluminum frame. Yeah, let's talk about the aluminum frame and construction. So, the

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uh the K60 has a bit more of like a barebones look because you can kind of

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see the shape of the frame, whereas this one is more like uh more like a

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traditional mouse shape. Um, but it

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still does have that aluminum construction. So, you can see this shape here. You can see there's two pieces of

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aluminum here that come together to form this mouse. So, what that gives it is a

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little bit more weight and it also gives it a very solid feel. Now, people might

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complain about something like the weight of an iPhone 4, but personally, I find

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you go and you build it out of aluminum and glass. Yeah, it weighs a lot, but it

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weighs a lot in the way that an SLR camera weighs a lot. You're like, "Yeah,

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quality." Whereas sometimes things weigh a lot and you're like, "Yeah, heavy

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piece of plastic." Um, so personally, I don't mind if my camera weighs a little

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bit more than average, if my power supply weighs a little bit more than average, if my mouse weighs a little bit

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more than average. You know what? I'm okay with that, too, because it does give it an incredibly solid feel. You

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can see the whole thing is screwed together with screws, not, you know,

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little cheapo plastic clips, nothing like that. Corsair's really overdone, I

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would say, the construction of this particular mouse, which includes the scroll wheel as well. Great rubber

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dimples making it very, very easy to scroll up and down and control it

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perfectly. And then metal rings on the sides, also very, very strong. It's

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like, what do they expect you to do with this thing? Throw it out the wall? that might happen. So, there you go. Uh,

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we've got right non-slippy or rather non-slippy slippy feet on the bottom of

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the mouse covering all sides. That should pretty much cover any direction

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you might want to move the mouse and make sure that you don't uh accidentally

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grip things too hard. I mean, remember when that was like a big deal? It's like, yeah, the mouse has like teflon

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feet on the bottom. Now, they pretty much all do. So,

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all right. Cable length. Yeah. Okay. Okay, so it's just over a Linus arms

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span, which means it's probably around 7 ft. Um, although I'm not 100% sure about

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that. I don't think it matters that much. It's very long. You won't have trouble with it. You've also got

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goldplated connectors on. Actually, you can see them better through the top.

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Goldplated connectors. So, even though this outside part, actually, this is

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funny because a lot of goldplated USB actually it's goldplated on the outside,

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which doesn't make any contact with any any data connection. So, it's totally

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useless. Um, but no, this is actually goldplated where it counts. The reason

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the gold plating matters is because it's a malleable metal. Helps it to make good

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contact with the inside of the USB port. Let me just make sure I haven't missed

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anything here, guys. All right. Adjustable lift distance. So,

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you can decide how far off the table a lift is registered. Okay. And it'll stop

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it'll stop actually moving the mouse side to side. And Corser has such good

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packaging. It's always got like all the information on it. No problem. 15

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individ Yeah. individually programmable buttons. So, you want to go ahead and

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download the software at Corsair.com/vvengeancem90.

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So, they've got a little preview of it here. Um, which is what I usually tell

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you people to do anyway. It's got a 2-year warranty on this guy. Um,

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can change the polling rate. 1,00 hertz,

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500 Hz, 250 Hz, 125 Hz. Okay. tracking up to 16500 in per second and up to 30

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gs of acceleration. Personally, that doesn't mean nearly as much to me as

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when I use the mouse and I go, "Oh, yeah, that sensor feels good." Some

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mice, they're they're really high DPI, but you just you go to use them, you're

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like, "Oh, this is a crap sensor. It's not it's not imaging the surface below

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it nearly well enough." Okay, last thing. Overall texture of the

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mouse. So, it's got kind of a smooth uh

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soft touch sort of grip on the top here. And then it's got a bit of a smooth like

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hard plastic one here, which is fine. But on the other side, they've gone with

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kind of a rough. See, you can actually see it rubbing away some of my skin

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there. Uh, it's quite rough. And I think that's awesome because what that means

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is that it's smooth and soft to the touch where you're resting on it. And

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then it's got enough grip on the sides and enough of a lip on the other side

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that you can easily lift it up, you know, in so in the heat of battle, so to

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speak. I think that pretty much covers it. We've got an illuminated Corsair

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logo here. And we have nice, you know, high quality braided cable here. Thank

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you for checking out my unboxing of the Vengeance M90 from Corsair. Don't forget

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