Steelseries WoW Mouse Unboxing & Comparison with Razer Naga MMO Mouse Linus Tech Tips
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2010-05-08
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932 words · ~4 min read
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okay so today we're going to be unboxing a product that isn't really all that new
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but it has something new about it so you see this little sticker that they've put
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on the box here new bind all 15 buttons
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without leaving the game available with patch 3.2.2 or later so when this
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product was first released it wasn't actually fully compatible with the game
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now it is completely integrated to the game so that you can take any action
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that you can perform in the game and you can bind it directly to a button before
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it used to be that steel series had it set up so that when you pressed a button
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it would execute a small macro so that meant that it would actually like kind
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of type a command in whereas now it's integrated directly into the World of
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Warcraft game engine so that it's seamless okay so here we can see the
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mouse itself laid in with some gold and I don't know Dragon Jewels or whatever
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and then up here they show a quick preview of the interface for configuring
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the Mouse itself now that would obviously be the old interface now that
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the mouse can be configured within the game okay so let's get this box open if
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I can figure out how to do it I think it opens down here yep there we go okay so
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we undo the the gold and then we have a
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small plastic sheath over the mouse itself now I do want to if I can get the
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mouse to come out of there yeah ah there we go okay I want to have a look at the
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accessories that are included first though as per my usual thing so not a
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whole lot as you can see in terms of accessories it's pretty bare down there
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but what we do have is a World of Warcraft MMO gaming mouse quick start
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guide so basically they tell you to go to steelseries.com downloads get the
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latest drivers that's what I always recommend anyway I don't even like
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seeing a driver disc in the Box because you shouldn't be using it they tell you
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how to configure the mouse they show you all the default assignments for the
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buttons auto run last hostile stop all nearest enemy all that kind of wow
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terminology that I would know if I played that game which I don't um all
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right so here we have nice beautiful braided cord that's really nice so it
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won't uh won't get caught on stuff you can see it's quite shiny and it's a
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little bit slippery so that if you are tugging on it it will slip past whatever
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obstacles are in your way so let's have a quick look at the ergonomics of the
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wow Mouse itself so you can see that it is a symmetrical Mouse so you can use it
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as either a lefty or a righty but on the one side you've got a layout that is
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obviously a little bit better suited for a thumb okay so you got your four
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buttons here and then this would be forward back for your browser or you can configure it to whatever you want in
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game and then on the other side for your pinky is only two buttons okay so then
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on the top of the mouse you have another 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 and one thing that's cool
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about the wow Mouse is there's actually Lighting in between these little sort of
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overlapping armor bits here that you can
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configure to whatever color you want now this wouldn't be a complete wow Mouse
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unboxing without a quick look at it versus the Razer Naga MMO Mouse but
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actually one more thing before we stop is I wanted to have a look at the huge
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uh slippy pads on the bottom of this mouse slippy pads what am I calling them
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these are Teflon pads and that's going to enable you to have a really good
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gliding experience no matter what kind of surface you're using it on so here it
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is against the Naga which is kind of a similar sort of idea for a mouse it is
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an MMO gaming mouse but they do take slightly different approaches where the
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wow Mouse integrates directly into the game in terms of assignment the Naga can
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only be assigned to the one two three uh
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the number Keys across the top of the keyboard or the number pad so you have
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to press a little button and those are the only Keys it can be bound to at this
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time they also take very different approaches in terms of the button
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layouts and the ergonomics so the steel series Mouse is for lefties or righties
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whereas the Naga would be extremely uncomfortable if you were to try to use
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it with a left hand now the buttons are kind of accessible from all your
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different fingers on the MMO Mouse whereas on the Naga it's pretty much
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only your thumb which uses this number pad on the side and your index finger
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that's where you're going to be hitting most of the buttons on the mouse from so
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thank you for checking out my unboxing of the steel series World of Warcraft
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MMO gaming mouse