Zowie Gear Swift Blue Gaming Plastic Mouse Pad Unboxing & First Look Linus Tech Tips
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2010-05-08
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933 words · ~4 min read
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well it's been a little while since I've had a look at a zoi gear product but
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today I have the zoi gear Swift it is a
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genuine gaming surface and I'm going to zoom in on that so you can see exactly
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how genuine it is uh I don't know if you can actually read that let's get even
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closer zoi gear Swift genuine gaming surface so if you are a genuine gamer
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this is probably your surface all right why don't we go around to the back of
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the box where we will discover more about it um it is made of a complex
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plastic compound so as you may or may not have gathered already this is a
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plastic mouse pad okay the next thing about it of note is the fact that it is
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textured so it combines speed precision and control it is a fast mouse pad hence
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the name Swift okay it has a rubber base so it doesn't move you can refresh it
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with water so you can clean it with water and rounded edges for a higher
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level of comfort so it's not going to like cut your wrists while you're moving
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your mouse around and it is tested and approved for all types of mice and I was
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actually I I did a zoi gear unboxing a little while back and I was criticized
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for not knowing who this guy is uh I said that he looked like some random guy
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he's a dude he had a backwards cap or something along those lines and uh this
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is apparently abdisamad spawn Muhammad and he wants to use his gaming
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experience to develop products for all the different types of Gamers he has tested it with Optical and Laser mice
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and finds it to be up to his meticulous standards so I apologize for not knowing
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who that that was before now I know he's a professional gamer all right so why
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don't I get this uh seal broken and we'll get this thing out of the box
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because that's what this is it is an unboxing this is the box and this is it
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un goodbye all right so then we have a
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piece of paper covering the back of the mouse pad all right and ooh this is
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actually a lot nicer looking in person than uh than it
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was through a box so that's why unboxing
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is so important because you can actually see it better you know what I've
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actually got a mouse kicking around here somewhere where is it oh yeah okay I've
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actually got a um here's a steel series
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what is this this is a 5 L and then I've got a Logitech G7 so you can see for
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size comparison the Swift is a little
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bit taller than a 5l but also not quite
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as wide okay so you can see the 5 L sticks out behind but the Swift is a
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little bit taller um and let's have a look at the at the rubber material on
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the bottom so the 5l uses steel series
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trademarked um like random splashes of rubber on the back which is quite
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effective and the Swift uses oh this is
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this is kind of clever too they've got their um their logo kind of all over the
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place and it's in little thin thin bits
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of rubberized this so you see once I put this down you see once I put this down
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there is like no way it's going to move terribly important wow it even like
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stuck to the table a little bit and you can refresh with water as they mentioned
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a couple times on the box all right so
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I'm going to do this and that should
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give you some idea that it is slippery my G7 Fe are in Fairly horrible
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condition so you know okay you know what just for the the heck of it because I
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don't really know how to compare a mouse and an unboxing or a mouse pad I should
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say there's the 5l I can't tell if there's a
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but I can tell you right now that based on just this uh this quick test I don't
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know what the tracking would be like but the 5l is a slightly slower mouse pad
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and uh I mean that makes sense given that it is actually a a plastic coated
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cloth surface whereas this is a pure plastic surface it's quite
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rigid okay so it's not all that flexible
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which is probably a good thing cuz I know my on my desk at work it drives me
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crazy uh there's actually like uh it's it's a plastic table it's like just a
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work table that sort of snagged at some point I don't remember how it happened
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and it's not quite even so if I use anything that's not a very hard mouse
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pad I actually use an SP at work um then it as I move my mouse across it goes wo
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and it's not not very nice anyway thank you for checking out my unboxing of the
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zoi Swift blue gaming mouse pad endorsed
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by spawn the gamer and I'm looking for
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my remote and this is not happening for me here so I'll just pretend cck