Leetgion Hellion Gaming Mouse Unboxing & First Look Linus Tech Tips
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2013-05-07
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welcome to my unboxing and first look at the elite gon helion which I have been
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informed is not you know okay okay here
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so on their site they actually explain that LE Jen they explain what Le means
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which I hopefully all of you know and if you don't then I don't know you can stop
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watching now I suppose no no no I don't reject any viewers I want anyone who
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wants to learn about the hel on Mouse to be watching this video uh so Elite means
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you know you're like Elite and then Egon
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like Legion like a you know army or something so they're like yeah that's where the name came from it's like leite
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and Legion together and I was like oh well this mouse is called the helion so
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it's probably like hell and like lions like together and that's probably what
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it is and then I was informed that it's an RTS Mouse so what they're probably
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talking about is the helon unit in Starcraft so there you go I got told and
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there's a cool little logo on the side where you can see the mouse inside um
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Legion is sort of a new player in this whole peripheral game but they seem to
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be doing some interesting stuff so we checked out the El druin before which
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was which is actually Diesel's using it about half and half now with his old
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mouse so he's seeing if he can make the switch it's hard to change mice because
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there's so many different things that affect whether you like a new mouse or
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not but the fact that he's legitimately considering changing it out is uh is
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pretty strong uh that's a pretty strong statement so I was I was pretty
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impressed they're serious about building high-end products which is cool unlike
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sort of some of the other guys so they're using uh an aago 9500 laser
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mouse sensor made in Japan rron micro switches they actually have a Cherry MX
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Blue switch for the attack button it does have a dedicated attack button
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which um is in line with the RTS sort of
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roots of this particular great packaging look at this packaging sorry I'm not
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actually done with this yet four custom profile sets six fully rable hot Keys
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customizable 16.8 million color LED and
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I think pretty much 80 Megs of hard disk space system requirement what kind of
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driver does this thing have okay oh it looks cool I'll give it that so Mouse
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Okay so labels DPI adjustments so 100
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DPI is blue 800 DPI is green 6 wow seven
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different settings for dpis at least and you can change the colors depending
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which one you're using race switching can be done with different profiles so
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the default is red two Teran is blue Zerg is purple protos is yellow custom
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is green so that's that's kind of cool as well so yeah it's definitely um
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definitely optimized for Diablo and other RTS games like that wouldn't it be
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funny if I made mistakes like that I was just kidding by the way but wouldn't
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that be hilarious if I actually didn't know gaming to the point where I didn't
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know what an RTS was and I was trying to do unboxings for products that are
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optimized for them I mean I didn't know that the helion's a unit in StarCraft I
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don't think it was unit in Starcraft 1 so
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bam okay it comes with this is something that I do like to see it actually comes
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with replacements for the slippy pads on the bottom of the mouse so oh 3M wow see
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it's all about the baller stuff with these guys Omron switches 3M mouse pad
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feet and all that kind of stuff so here we go it's an ambidextrous Mouse and
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here is the braided cord so it's a goldplated cord although it should be
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noted that the gold plating here doesn't do anything the important thing is the
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gold plating on the inside you got that diesel I don't know if he's got that he
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says no it's okay uh braided cord so
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it's not going to sort of catch on anything and it's not going to have
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problems I've actually had one of my braided cords fall apart not that long
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ago but this one seems like it wouldn't pop out of the side I had one that where
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the cord just popped right out of the braiding so that was sort of disappointing it wasn't Elite gin Mouse
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uh by the way so on the bottom here we're selecting
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different profiles for the mouse with a dial that's sort of an interesting
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interface so there's that default Teran Zerg protos custom and yeah it works
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pretty much like that is there another way to do this no okay you flip the mouse over you turn the dial and then
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you're in the actual profile that you want to be in so you don't it's not tied
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to a software switch which is sort of unique aha there it is Cherry MX Blue
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attack button so that's a dedicated a although I've no is the fact that you
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can probably reprogram that to something else if you want it has a pretty unique sound CU it is an MX
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Blue see that so it actually yeah has
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like some pretty serious clickiness to it you've also got a couple more
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programmable keys so there's one here one here there's your middle click left
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click right click and I'm trying to figure out if these
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are related to Something in any way but it would actually appear not let's go
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ahead and plug it in and have a look at what the lighting Zones look like
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watching the video listenting to lus
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sing okay well that explains what all this is so there's just lighting that
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shows through here at the bum of the mouse here on the logo here on the top
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and here and here on the side so you can change those colors to pretty much
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whatever you see fit so I want to close
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by showing you guys how we actually Chang the dial on the bottom and how
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affects the color so you can actually see slightly through the hole there what
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goes on but here we go blue purple
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yellow other more different blue oh we should have had like green instead of
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another more different blue well that pretty much wraps it up thank you for checking out my unboxing of the Legion
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helion RTS optimized Mel I almost set
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