Microsoft Sidewinder X8 Cordless Gaming Mouse Unboxing & First Look Linus Tech Tips
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2010-05-08
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674 words · ~3 min read
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today I'm going to be unboxing uh another gaming peripheral this is the
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Microsoft Sidewinder X8 wireless gaming
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mouse so you can see in the packaging here we've got 4,000 DPI the cameraman
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is closing the door to his office cuz there are people oh just close the door hurry up
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jeez it is a 4,000 DPI gaming mouse with
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play and charge and it runs at 13,000
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frames per second so that means that the little laser camera in this mouse is
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taking an of the surface under it 13,000
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times per second in theory so that
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should mean very very smooth performance okay so we have a resolution of up to
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4,000 DPI Max acceleration of 75 G's max
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speed of 120 in per second and up to 30
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hours of Wireless play time which is pretty good cuz even the most hardcore
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wow um what are they called raids raid
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player is probably not going to be playing for 30 hours straight
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I think I hope okay so the box of this
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opens in kind of a creative way that is going to make it very very hard for me
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to put this back together afterwards and
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there we go it comes out just like that so we just unfold these little tabs here
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and I'd love to have a look at the mouse in person so there it is that's the X8
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up at the top we've got three buttons here and then we have a button here on
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the side we have our back and forward buttons that's that's actually pretty
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ergonomic usually you see the the back and forward buttons like in this kind of
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orientation but this is kind of cool it's like a little rocker button here we
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have a third button on the left hand side here it's nice to see more buttons
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on the left because I mean some mice kind of go Overkill with it whereas
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others I mean it feels like yeah you could have a lot more back there without
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interfering with anything this kind of looks like it comes off but maybe it
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doesn't Okay so on the right side you've got kind of an ergonomic uh Groove for
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your for your pinky I'm just going to show oh actually it's not it seems like
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the way this mouse is intended to be used is with your pinky resting here
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because if you try to hold it this way it's kind of uncomfortable it leaves a
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lot of your hand exposed down here while we're here we can look at the bottom so
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you've got little uh stick uh nonslip
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nonslip slipping pads okay non-stick
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pads then you have the power switch at the bottom and inside here is the blue
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track technology so The Sidewinder X8 actually doesn't use a red laser it uses
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a blue laser which is in theory better
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okay and then this seems to be battery holder yeah so that's where we put the
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battery inside so why don't we have a look at what else is included with the
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X8 okay a double A battery this one is a
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rechargeable nickel metal hydride battery and so we can charge it by using
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and this is a cool feature because this is one of those uh Wireless swi mice so
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you can plug this Puck which is just a
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wrapper for the cord for the mouse in by
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USB to the back of your computer okay so there's a USB cord there and then you
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can either use the mouse in Wireless mode and this is your receiver for that
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or you can plug this in oh check that
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out and it's a little magnetic charging SL wired interface for the mouse so
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thank you for checking out my unboxing of the Microsoft Sidewinder X8 gaming
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mouse