Steelseries 5L Gaming Mouse Pad Unboxing & First Look Linus Tech Tips
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2010-05-08
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619 words · ~3 min read
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now I've actually wanted to try this mouse pad for a very long time one of my
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co-workers actually has one and swears by it this is the steel Series 5 L and
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the 5 l means five and the L means
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layers so this is a unique mouse pad in
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that it is constructed from both hard and soft materials for a unique gliding
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experience now I'm actually a cloth user
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for the most part I I prefer a little bit more friction but but there are
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certain things I don't like about cloth like how quickly it wears out and I
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think I mean it could be a little bit improved so I've wanted to give this a
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try for quite a long time basically how this works is they start with a rubber
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with rubber junk at the bottom to keep it from slipping around then they have a
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hard plastic compound as the next layer then the next layer is a
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soft poly isoprene okay awesome so
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that's layer number three and then they have a cloth a durable extremely strong
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cloth layer just over top of that and last but not least they put a thin
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plastic coating that gives you the texture of the underlying cloth which is
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what I like about a cloth Pad but it also gives you in theory the durability
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of a plastic surface now I'm going to try and get this seal broken here so we
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can get the mouse pad itself out I realized there's not a whole lot to
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unbox about a mouse pad but once I've had a chance to game with this one a
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little bit I'll try and update the video with annotation to give you my thoughts
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on it so first of all we find pretty much nothing inside in terms of
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accessories hello there and I think oh
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here we go we've got a couple things inside with the mouse pad itself so
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first of all we have their steel series product guide showcase thing where you
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can see other steel series products great and then we have a steel series
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sticker professional gaming gear and then we have a piece of paper which
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seems to oh it covers the aha so this is the
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rubber like kind of textured it looks
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kind of like monkey art you know when they hold the paint and they throw it at the canvas it looks kind of like that so
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I've actually used pads with this stuff on the bottom before it works very well
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for keeping it from slipping around and then let's have a look and here I don't
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know how well this is going to show we do have HD but I still don't know how
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well you're going to be able to see it so you can see we have our rubber junk at the bottom then we have the hard
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plastic and you can see that's what gives this pad its rigidity is this
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thick hard plastic layer then we have like a thick kind of rubbery layer okay
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and then we get down to a much thinner cloth layer and then over the whole
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thing is kind of a is a plastic coating
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that's kind of it feels almost like a cloth that's been sprayed with that
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waterproofing plastic so I've been looking forward to trying this out for
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quite a while thank you for checking out my unboxing of the steel series 5l and
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