Roccat Kone XTD Gaming Mouse Unboxing & First Look Linus Tech Tips
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·Linus Tech Tips
·2013-05-07
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welcome to my unboxing and first look at the rockat cone xtd they're calling this
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their Max customization gaming mouse now in terms of the actual performance and
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hardware specs it's not that different from something like a cone plus however
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the shape of the mouse is different and the customization is quite different so
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the first thing we're going to do is actually just whip open the box while we
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tell you some of the general specs so it has an 8200 DPI Pro R3 grade sensor so
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that's pretty much as high as it goes these days for gaming mice it's got
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eight buttons however it does feature rockat shift plus which allows you to
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use one of the buttons as a shift key and then assign additional functionality
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to all of the other buttons it has 576 kiloby of onboard memory allowing you to
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store a butt ton of profiles and macros and all that stuff that you'd want to do
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to have the mouse be as customizable as you could desire and unlike the cone uh
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what's it called cone pure I think I called it plus before unlike the cone
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pure it has
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check this out these lighting strips now
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this is hard to demo without actually plugging it into something so we could
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probably we could probably we'll plug it into something in a moment but I'll show you guys the box you can actually set it
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up so there's four customizable LEDs so that you have different colors that
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blend into each other and these are these are multicolor LEDs so you can set
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them to any color of the rainbow you'd want and then have the mouse look like
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whatever you want now you can have it even change dynamic Al on the fly so
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using rockats software you can say okay well you know I'm being attacked so the
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mouse should glow red instead of a different color or poisoned it should go
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green and not everyone stares at their Mouse while they're gaming in fact I think most people don't but it's still a
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neat kind of thing to have let's show you what the ergonomics look like so
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this is a right-handed ergonomically shaped Mouse it is significantly bigger
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bigger than the cone Pier so you can see the size difference right there where
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the cone Pier is almost a claw Mouse for me this one there there's no way I'd be
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able to claw grip it this is more of a this is more of a palm Mouse for me
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however if we took someone with larger hands such as my handy that he's here
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filming assistant slick you can see that that's that's way better right I don't
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think you could Palm that though could you it's like a little bit small little
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little bit too small for baseball glove sized hands to Palm but you can you can
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easily you can easily uh claw that right
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okay so there you go has eight buttons compared to the seven on the on the cone
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Pierce so we'll show you where the buttons are these these back and forward
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buttons are totally a must these days it's got a profile button here well
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remember you can program them to do whatever you want it's got a left and right sliding scroll wheel so up down
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click left right uh more profile switching these are probably for DPI
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switching by default you can tell from the uh labels on them but you can change
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them to whatever you want and then remember guys you can hold down
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shift and press any other button on the mouse and
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program that to whatever you actually want it to do now the cone uh xtd also
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has a weight system which is another thing that the pier doesn't have so
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we're going to go ahead and open those up so you've got four 5 G weights that
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you can easily put inside the mouse using the unlockable thing on the bottom
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here let's just go ahead and okay oh apparently it's already open there so
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you can put as many or as few as you want I wouldn't have minded seeing them
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more towards the center of the mouse but I guess it's not the end of the world
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they stick in there just fine on their own but you can go ahead and uh lock
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them into place should you so desire on the bottom we see the 8200 DPI laser
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sensor as well as the Teflon slippy pads
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I do prefer to see a layout like what we saw on the cone pier where the top ones
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are one large piece rather than two separated pieces cuz sometimes there can
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be issues with these uh these ones coming off I'm not saying rockats not
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using uh as whoops an adequate adhesive
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I'm just saying that I've had it happen in the past with other mice so there you
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go take that for what it is and let's go ahead and plug this in oh there we go I
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got that locked into place now so this seems fitting taking some sort of their
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ultimate customization gaming mouse and putting it next to the ultimate single
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GPU gaming graphics card and I'm going to go get my cheat sheet that has any
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other notes that I wanted to talk about on the mouse so oh yeah the mouse
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features rocket talk oh it looks like it probably oh I plugged it into a USB 3
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Port I don't know if we have the drivers installed for that no okay there we go
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so that might work so it has rocket talk which actually allows it to work in
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conjunction with other rocket items such as keyboards that feature rocket talk
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giving you kind of like um like bonuses to functionality based on using matching
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gear like an MMO inspired kind of thing it does feature their
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tdcu uh which is basically a configurable like intelligent way of
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controlling your lift distance and making sure that it doesn't just shift
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all over the place unnecessarily uh when you're trying to lift the mouse up when
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you reach the end of the mouse pad and
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yeah that's good get a good shot of me like cheating on my uh rocket
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achievements right so there's a there's an app that tracks your usage of the
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mouse and allows you to get achievements like Sultan of scroll if you scroll a
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lot and sort of cool stuff like that and I think that's pretty much
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it that lighting effect looks really good so you can see there's four LEDs
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one here here here and here and those are multicolor LED systems so you can
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actually have colors blend together in the middle or you can just do solid
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colors the way that we have it configured right now I want to just boost up the it's much brighter than it
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looks in the uh camera oh oh oh that's shutter
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speed okay why don't you do it
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slick there you go boost up the okay that's more like true to life now it's
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quite bright I think that pretty pretty much wraps it up thank you for checking
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out this unboxing and first look at the cone xtd from rocket don't forget to
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