It's STUNNING but.... - Finalmouse Starlight-12
ShortCircuit
·ShortCircuit
·2022-05-05
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2,673 words · ~13 min read
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- When I get a new product my favorite feeling is the disdain the owner
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has for me just flowing out of that product.
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(boxes thudding) That's how I feel holding Finalmouse products.
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Love 'em or hate 'em, Finalmouse makes some pretty neat products
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in very limited batches that are highly sought-after.
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As far as I can tell, a lot of you hate 'em
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but let's get into it. I'm super excited. This is their latest special edition.
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It's already shipping, but if you didn't pre-order it,
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like every piece of electronics that exist,
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you're not getting this. So, today we have the Starlight small
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and the Starlight medium. And I think what these mice really special is the design,
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with all these limited editions they've been doing, these are stunning mice.
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Like they're works of art, in a sense. And like, they're the kind of thing
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that I would have trouble using. I'd almost want to put on a stand,
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put it in the background of a stream or something 'cause these are beautiful and, holy smokes, it's light.
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I knew it was light, the small is rated for 42 grams.
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The big one for 47. They say because of their process
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it could be plus minus one or two grams.
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Shocking how light this feels. It is nothing, it's disappearing.
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Like if I looked away I would assume that there's nothing in my hand.
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That's not true. It's still there. (laughing) Let's weigh it 'cause I need to know.
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So, there's nothing out there that you can get that's quite this light, but I'd say the most comparable
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or certainly the one they're probably going for is the Logitech G Pro X Superlight.
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That's my gaming mouse of choice. I think the build quality's fantastic.
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The accuracy, the performance, all of it is phenomenal.
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It's Logitech, there's issues, in terms of like double-clicking and whatnot.
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But they have one of the best customer service in the business.
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So, it's pretty easy to RMA stuff. So, this is the small.
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So, they say that it's 42 grams. I've seen online that it's a little bit more usually,
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but still 44 grams. That's wild. Just kidding.
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We're going for the medium, 50 grams. That's still over what they say.
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Honestly, to me that's a little bit disappointing. The Superlight, it's 62?
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62, 63. The Superlight and the medium seem to be the more closer in size.
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So, I would say that they're comparable. I think that the small for small hands is great.
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If you're like a really aggressive claw player,
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that might be the right fit. I'm more of a medium. I do kind of a hybrid thing where it's like not quite palm,
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not quite claw. And I think a lot of people do that. 'Cause I'm so excited but you'll have to wait
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to check out Secret Lab. In terms of build quality, how they achieve getting it
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so small, is actually like a magnesium for the top
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and the bottom as well. Although the bottom one is apparently quite a bit more
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fragile to shave down on the weight. In terms of like what you would feel,
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this doesn't feel metallic. Like when I read that it was magnesium, I thought it would kind of feel cold
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to the touch or something. That was kind of a big controversy where they said
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that they invented the honeycomb mouse. They're the biggest inventors,
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they've done the biggest breakthrough in mouse design ever. And everyone's like, actually there's a been mice like that.
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I think light mice are the way to go. I think light takes less energy to move the mouse.
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So, your endurance is better. You can get there fast. You can be more consistent.
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For me, the danger of like spilling food or drink
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or just greasy hands, ruining my mouse. That's scary.
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This isn't the first Starlight mouse. This is the Phantom, which is this color scheme.
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And they've done a lot of different ones. They have like a Hades and Ares, like kind of god-theme ones.
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And they're all really beautiful, just stunning. And I think like, side by side, it'd be cool.
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I wish I had started collecting them, but, you know, you can only collect one thing in this day and age.
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And I collect the smiles of viewers watching this video.
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- [Jono] Pokemon cards. - Nope. (chuckles) That's expensive. (chuckles)
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It's got its PTFE feet. They're pretty small and it doesn't come
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with changes of them. It feels pretty smooth. Not as smooth as the Superlight,
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especially if you put the glide pad on the bottom.
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One thing that you'll notice is that there is no spot
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to remove to put the wireless receiver. I think that's a mistake.
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I'll take the five grams to get that spot right in there.
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I think that every mouse that is wireless needs to have a spot to put its wireless receiver in.
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This is this one. And in fact, we should probably get back to unboxing all the other stuff.
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It's a little bit bigger than a normal one, which is nice.
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A little less, the chance of losing it. Remaining, what's else in the box is the receiver,
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the mouse and this pair cord cable. Wow, that feels fantastic.
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Ooh. Yeah.
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Oh, I feel so fancy. This is a good quality cable.
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Wow, I got no complaints about this, except for this.
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You see this? Micro USB.
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I understand that the connector in the mouse for micro USB is lighter than the USB Type-C one.
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Like I said, I'm willing to take a few grams to get Type-C.
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I'm so sick of anything being other than Type-C for USB.
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We are way past that point. Good cable, bad connector.
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Get it together, Finalmouse. Get it (beep) together.
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That's the future. Oops, I need that cable. Sorry. When these mice were first coming out
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there was quite a few issues of build quality. Inconsistencies where like the scroll wheel
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was actually kind of slightly off-centered. I wouldn't say that it's spot on, it looks a little bit leaned to the left, but it's not bad.
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And like I'm only looking for that 'cause I've seen that online. There was also issues of some of the pads in the mouse
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sliding and becoming sticky. The PCB is more secured in they've pretensioned the button
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so that they feel a little more clicky and light. And I say that those buttons do feel pretty good.
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Scroll wheel feels good. It's a little bit, I kind of think it's a little too resistant
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but that's a preference thing. Side buttons, those feel fine.
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I think they're a little bit small. I can definitely see in the heat of battle
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I would double press or press both. I prefer my buttons a little more spaced out
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than what is on this mouse. The button I really don't like is this DPI one.
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It's kind of just like, it feels like when you've had a controller
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for like seven years and you didn't realize that some juice got into the buttons,
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takes a couple presses before it like kind of gets soft again.
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A big complaint about this mouse is that there is no companion software.
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That's fine. You don't really need to be able to customize everything on your mouse.
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So, the final sensor, it's considered a flawless sensor
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and it's highly rated, it's well regarded. It's got sensitivity up to 20,000 DPI,
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but this bad boy, you only have the pre-built
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for sensitivity options. So, 400, 800, 1600 and 3200.
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That's fine for most things. For me, I always play at 800 unless a specific game
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requires something else. So, that's fine. But if you're someone that like really does tweak
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with the settings and has a weird sensitivity thing for a specific esports game that you play,
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just keep that in mind. You're stuck at those base settings.
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Battery life on this mouse is supposed to be quite excellent. They say that it's about 160 hours of use.
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So, they say that it's like three weeks of heavy use, seven weeks of kind of softer use,
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16 weeks of like idle. We are set up now, currently plugged in
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is the Starlight small. We had to switch our G Pro X Superlight
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just because the one we were having was having pairing issues. So, you'll now see that it is 100% less pride, sadly.
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And I've added the light foot pad version at the bottom 'cause that's what I use at home.
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It really does make it smoother. At least in my brain,
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my smooth brain. (chuckles) First impression is, wow, this is light.
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The small one is a little bit too small for me. I find my pinky just ends up dragging.
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That's not a good feeling for gaming. I want to kind of like have it part of the hold.
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- [Jono] You're the big spoon. - I'm, oh yeah, I'm the real big spoon.
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I love you, mouse. (chuckles) You know what? It's "ShortCircuit," we ain't got time for that.
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Small one, too small for me. Too small,
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mouse. So, we're actually gonna start first with the G Pro X,
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which is my baseline, but I don't play a lot of CS:GO.
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So, I need a little bit of practice to see how that feels,
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also to find my sense with this mouse. Okay, so this feels very comfortable to me.
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It's light. It's easy. It's just accurate.
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It's just like, it feels like an extension of my body in a good way, although I'm terrible at CS:GO.
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So yeah, this is feeling pretty good. Let's compare it to the Starlight.
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So, one thing that I don't love, little nitpick,
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is the power button is a little dip switch, which is fine or not.
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I don't know if it's a dip switch but it doesn't really have a label to which one's on or off.
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I don't know if it's my mouse that's dead
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or if I'm having the wrong thing or if this isn't working
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but that's not a great experience. One of the problems about not having companion software,
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with the launch tech, we were having trouble but we were able to fairly easily diagnose
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where the problem was coming from and then solve it. Here, it's just like, is it the battery that's dead?
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Is it the mouse receiver that's not working? 'Cause when I plug in the cable, it'll work.
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And so I know that everything's gonna be all right
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but I'm gonna cry first. There you go, it's working. So, I don't know if it just was a charge issue
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or what it was. Speaking of software, no RGB either.
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That's totally fine for me, on a gaming mouse, I would disable it 'cause I want the extra battery instead.
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The fact that I am reminded of the fact that I don't care that there's no RBG.
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The point, (chuckling) I guess it's the flex. It's the fun of it.
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It's the collectibility of them. And I think like that's, to me, is a big use case
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of this is you could buy the whole set and have a beautiful background in your stream.
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You could just enjoy the collecting. Maybe the resale value is good. You just buy them and then resell 'em for 25% more
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than you bought it for. You dirty-ass scalper. But to me, like I am not that interested in
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a beautiful mouse, I'm more interested in the usability, and the usability is also there.
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I don't know if I like it more than the G Pro X. I don't even know if I like it more than the Viper Ultimate.
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The accuracy is good. It's a flawless sensor and I've mostly dialed
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in my settings on my other mouse so I can trust that this feels pretty good.
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A big thing that was happening early on is that people were complaining about the DPIs they were advertising.
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They were actually off what they normally are. And so they've said on this revision, they've fixed it.
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And they've gotten it closer to what people expect when they're getting that kind of DPI.
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This doesn't feel as bad as, I'm guessing, what people first thought
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but, oh hello, oh God, that's a scout.
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Nope, not an op. (laughing) Oops.
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Would I recommend this mouse if you are a gamer that wants the best gaming mouse?
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Not necessarily. You might find that this ambidextrous shape is what appeals to you.
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You'll like the crazy lightness of it. I think the real appeal is how it looks.
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It's the special limited edition appeal of it.
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And so if that appeals to you, then this is a cool mouse. I think like the different color ways,
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they're pretty sick and you can wait for the next one, if you like that more.
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I'd really like the white version, the full white. I don't like white mice, but the detailing on the white
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just looks really good. The way it catches the light. This is a cool product.
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I'm glad it exists. It's not for me. It's probably not for you.
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I know people complain when we review a hundred dollar mice, this bad boy's $189 US.
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- [Jono] How much is the Superlight? - 150 US, I believe. But you can get a regular G Pro for like 130.
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You can get (chuckles) like the Viper for cheaper.
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You can get the SteelSeries Aerox 3 or whatever it is.
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That's an excellent mouse for cheap. There's lots of better options,
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if you're worried about a buck. If you just want the frigging most swaggiest of mice,
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if you're a sneakerhead equivalent of Mouse Town,
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this is your boy, but you won't find it. That's what I'm saying. It's like Sneaker Town, where it's like,
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you just gotta wait in line at the Nike store and buy this boy, boy.
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- [Jono] You can't even wait in line for this mouse. - I know it's over. Just like this video.
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