Mionix Propus 380 Silver Performance Mouse Pad Unboxing & First Look Linus Tech Tips
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2011-05-08
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today I'm going to be having a look at a product from mionix this is the propus
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380 high performance gaming mouse pad like all of their packaging it is
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extremely minimalistic you basically got an image of the product the name of the
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product what it is the brand and that is
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it so let's flip this guy over and see
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what the propus 380 has to say for itself so their slogan is light years
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ahead of the game and uh in fitting
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fashion they name all of their products after Stars so here we go a star has
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been born this is taken directly from the Greek word for forward foot okay so
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it's some history of the particular star that this one is named for here's a
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model overview so it is the physical answer to Performance design and
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Innovation the new developed surface is treated with a special silver metallic
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plastic coating I haven't heard of that before according to test results this
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special coding offers optimal tracking conditions and improves the overall performance of the mouse movements
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okay we have implemented a thin base of PVC plastic to give stability from a
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hard mouse pad without compromising the flexibility from a soft mous pad the
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backside is made of natural rubber to insure a steady grip okay here we go
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material PVC plastic base squat value now we'll talk about that a little bit
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more later but squat is the surface quality analyzer tool that is available
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on mionix mice so it looks like this
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score is pretty high okay ultra fine
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texture 38x 2 60 mm thickness rubber base back and led opone laser it is
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compatible with so don't be going and grabbing an expensive new propus 3 380
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mouse pad for your ball mouse please do not I shouldn't need to tell you guys
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that it's kind of like using a VGA
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output on a you know GTX 580 just don't
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just please don't okay so packaging we've got a plastic cover or plastic
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paper cover okay avoid any damage to the
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finish and speaking of the Finish ooh that's shiny look at that I've actually
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never seen a mouse pad with a finish
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anything like that I'm going to try and get the right angle to show you guys uh
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on the camera what it looks like in person so that's that's probably about
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as close as we're going to get you can see all of that shiny reflective uh
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sparkliness coming off of it it's got kind of a kind of a neat uh feel to it
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overall so the rubber on the back is very very grippy okay you can see the
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texture here once I put that down I guarante you there's no way that it's
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going anywhere now that it's on the table it'll move my tablecloth before
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it'll actually move itself here's just
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uh if you can read that yeah there you go light ears ahead of the game.net
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here's their little logo down here in the bottom and really all I'm going to
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be able to tell you guys about this product is how it TR cracks and since I
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actually don't have a mouse handy or maybe I
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do I won't be able to tell you as much as I had hoped so I've got a naos
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3200 I'm going to go ahead and plug that in although there's not really going to
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be any way to tell with any certainty
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how effective it is until I've actually played some games
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on it although what I will tell you guys now is that it Glides like mad so you've
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actually got a little bit of a texture to it so it won't start moving without a
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little bit of resistance but it is a tiny tiny bit I mean a tiny bit of
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resistance to start the Mouse Moving And once you've got it moving it's very very
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smooth so most of the drag on the mouse right now when I'm sliding it across the
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mouse pad is actually from the cord so if I had a way to there we go to reduce
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that drag and Slide the mouse then you'd
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be able to get a better idea this is actually a fairly worn out naos 3200 you
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can see the uh Teflon feed on the bottom are actually pretty scratched up from
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use with another mouse pad so uh big fan of the ergonomics of of this particular
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Mouse by the way so that Glides like crazy um like I said without playing any
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games it's going to be very hard to gauge the overall accuracy of the this
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I'm going to go ahead and close that so
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let's see if there's anything that we can s of just do to click around it's
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very fast very very fast to move from place to
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place a lot of the time when you get a new mouse pad you can actually feel it
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right off the bat how how responsive the mouse is on
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it looks a little bit faster than I'm used to on this
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pad all right well thank you for checking out my unboxing of the propus
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380 I'm actually going to be doing an unboxing shortly of the naos 5000 and
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I'm going to run that squat tool to find out how it
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compares to let's see let's find another
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mouse pad that I have around how about the steel Series 5 L we'll compare it to
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