Mionix Naos 5000 Review High Performance Laser Mouse Unboxing & Review Linus Tech Tips
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2011-05-08
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2,045 words · ~10 min read
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today I'm going to be doing a quick unboxing of the mionix naos 5000 high
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performance gaming mouse it comes in a fantastic matte black box very
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minimalistic you basically got what it is what it's called and who makes it and
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what they're all about light years ahead of the game meion x.net let's see what
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else is on the packaging here yeah nothing on that side nothing on that side nothing on top
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nothing on the bottom we got some info on the back though so here's our model
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over as well as our technical specifications so let's talk about some
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of the interesting features of this mouse in the overview here as well as
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the textb actually let's not do that let's open it up and then we'll talk
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about that later so it opens from the bottom oh and it's sealed that just
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figures doesn't it I guess I'll be needing my trusty unboxing
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knife it's a Spyderco knife by the way a lot of people ask
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me there we are got a little magnet
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there hold that closed here we go a star
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has been born so you guys can read the little blurb if you want I'm not going
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to read it out loud you can pause the video or don't pause the video here we
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go let's keep going with the mouse so you can see right away that this mouse
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includes a feature that the naos 3200 does not and that is a removable
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adjustable weight system so you can see they come in a little container here
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there's your weights they got a little mics logo on them all right so we'll have a look at
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how that works in a moment and very minimalistic packaging again you're
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expected to download the latest drivers off the meic website which is what I
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always encourage you guys to do
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anyway okay so let's see what it's got to say for itself in here installation
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full speed USB gaming mouse LED lights
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will light up and the mouse is ready to use you can customize it by downloading
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the software and the weight tuning system the weights are placed horizontally on both sides next to the
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sensor for a more balanced feeling interesting simply remove the two
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hatches by tapping this small buttons forward and the warranty is 2 years
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don't try and repair your product just contact their support here if you have
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any issues all right so let's pull out the naos
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5000 put that packaging aside for a minute we're actually going to be trying
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this on the propus 380 here so the first
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thing I'm going to do with this product is I'm going to have a look at the plug so it's a
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goldplated very very nice quality USB
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cable so you can see by the gorgeous sleeving on here as well as
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the flexibility of the cable that it's using very high quality wires inside so
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that's a very good thing and the goldplated here's here's a common
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misconception gold is not the best conductor that is not why it is used in
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this application gold is used because it is soft it's malleable so and it's also
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uh very uh corrosion resistant so when you
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plug it in you'll get it as good a connection as possible every time you
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won't get necessarily the same kind of connection you would with copper or silver but it'll be more consistent so
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that's why so let's go ahead and plug that into my laptop
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here and hopefully the mouse will light
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up I've already installed the drivers in preparation for this unboxing so let's
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uh we'll start by just looking at the Mouse as a whole I'm actually going to
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get my chair I'm tired of standing so it lights up green right off the bat you
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can see we got a few different lights we've got our DPI lights here so you can
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see those go up and down according to whatever DPI setting I'm using we've got
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a light on the mouse scroll wheel kind of a nice scroll wheel actually okay
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we've got back and forward buttons which oh I'm using now so it totally changed
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the page from what I wanted to be looking at we've got uh obviously the
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DPI adjuster buttons we've got a left and right click middle click as well as
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a mionix logo here the ergonomics of this mouse appear to be as far as I can
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tell so far identical to the naos 3200
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which is right here next to it so I'm just going to sort
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of double check that before I say for
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sure yeah those are those are clearly the same and since I'm such a big fan of
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the ergonomics of this Mouse uh you have to imagine that I'm a pretty big fan of
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the ergonomics on this one as well so here's the little things you slide
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forward to oh yeah there you go to release these that was easy just click
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that up there we go and from there you
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can put in as many weights as you'd please just going open that up let's
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load it up I do like a heavy Mouse and I love ones that come with these Weight
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Systems cuz nobody makes a heavy enough Mouse for me my G9 at work is actually
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loaded up with as many weights as I can stuff in it and uh I I settle for no
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weights on myari at home just because uh
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it doesn't have a weight
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system okay I'm not quite sure how these go in here actually
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H maybe there aha there we go so you
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just got to slide it in just right so you can actually this is cool
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this is a really neat way of doing the weight system because you can balance
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the weight towards the back of the mouse you can balance the weight towards the
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front of the mouse it's quite a light Mouse without the weights but these
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These are actually pretty substantial weights let me just see if they're marked for how much they weigh each but
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it's it's definitely a noticeable heft there they are they're five G weights
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each I'm going to actually double check and
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see if they're all the same before I verify that for you guys yeah this one's
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5 G as well let's see the next one 5 G so in
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total by adding eight 5 G weights I'm adding 40 G to the mouse and then I'm
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going to go ahead and close that back
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up so that's the left one let's see if
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that goes in should go in there we go
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just clicks in like that that and then here's the right
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one there you have it okay so now that's got some weight to
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it it's quite a bit heavier than the 3200 now especially if you try to try to
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lift it up straight off the table all right let's see what else that
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Mex has to say about themselves with the naos 5000 before we keep moving on here
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let go ahead and zoom in on those text backs truly ergonomic design y we got
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that much figured out grip friendly rubber cating love the rubber coding
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seven buttons seven programmable buttons okay I really wish it would
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focus on this text properly come on come on camera you can do it there we go
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in-game profile switch configurable DPI up to 5,40 DPI so that might be where
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that 5,000 name comes from six integrated LEDs adjustable pulling rate
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128 kilobytes built-in memory large Teflon Fe balanced weight tuning system
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up to 40 G which we figured out already most of this we're pretty much aware of
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compatible with all kinds of surfaces squat surface quality analyzer tool so
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we're going to try that before we finish this video here adjustable lift distance
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that's a cool feature so you can adjust how much lift distance before it stops
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detecting the surface below it up to 12,000 frames per second with tracking
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speed of 5.1 m/s okay there's a fair bit more here
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and that's pretty much it warant information which we have already
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covered okay so let's open up the software now
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which uh hopefully Works na driver
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software they've also got another feature that they just added with this
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version of the driver which um let me see if I can find the little
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blurb about it the naos
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5000 what do they call it so this is in version 1.17 and that is angle snapping
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so when making horizontal horizontal or vertical movements uh you
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naturally cannot make a straight line so
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it senses these deviations from what you're trying to do algorithmically and
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corrects them you can actually adjust how much or how little correction is
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done not you can extend okay they've added extended color customization
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options as well as something about avoiding tracking loss with the squat
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tool so we haven't actually managed to launch the driver software yet let's
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give that oh there it is Tiding so there
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we go we've launched it so sensor performance let's I want to try I want
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to try that squat tool first so analyze
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surface here we go the surface quality analyzer tools a feature that analyzes
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the surface under the mouse okay press analyze surface making sure that you
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okay so move the mouse over the surface area oh oh okay making sure to cover as
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much as possible of the
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surface okay there you have it it is 9
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out of 10 done okay done there it is okay now just
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for contrast why don't we try analyzing the surface of my ugly horrible
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blue um tablecloth thing okay so let's
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analyze the surface of this I'm going to cover as much of the surface area as
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possible so it's about a 10-sec
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test and it's done oh that is an acceptable surface okay last but not
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least just for for curiosity sake I want to try a steel Series 5
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L okay done let's try one more time analyze
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surface analyze surface okay move around on the
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5l try that out let's see what uh let's
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see what mic's surface analyzer thinks of the 5 L analyzing oh oh it does not
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like the 5 L one bit
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interesting interesting okay so let's see very quickly what kind of
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adjustments we've gotten here you can change all your mouse settings you can change your double click and scroll
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speeds you can change pointer acceleration you can disable it entirely
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you got your pulling rates here's your sensor performance where you can change
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DPI settings angle snapping pointer speed lift distance okay as well as you
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running the surface quality analyzer test here you can change your color
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settings let's have a yellow Mouse shall we let's see what happens there you go
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yellow Mouse bam bam now let's have a
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oh okay there we go now let's have a pink mouse
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apply bam nice love it okay macro
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settings takes a moment to apply those settings
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so there we go macro settings so you can record macros as well as some support
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info so thank you for checking out my unboxing and review of the naos 5000
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