New ASUS Gaming Mice.. What Sensor Should They Use?? - CES 2015
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·Linus Tech Tips
·2015-05-07
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Linus Tech tips coverage of CES 2015 is brought to you by Phantom glass visit
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store. phantom.in screen protectors out there
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as well as hyperx now we reviewed the Rog Gladius not that long ago the first
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2,000 HZ pulling rate Mouse there were some things we liked about it there were
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some things that weren't quite perfect about it yet and we kind of said okay
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well as Su still has some work to do on Mouse development but we're not counting
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them out of the game here because it's a pretty darn good first effort well
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they're following up with some additional stuff right off the Hop here
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that looks pretty interesting so this one right here is the sea we're figuring
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it's going to be around a $40 MSRP is
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that sound about right I'm getting the kind of this sort of gesture it's going
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to feature a 5,000 DPI sensor we don't know exactly which one but we do know
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that it's Optical it's kind of a No Frills no gimmick Mouse on the surface
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very similar to the very well regarded g100s in terms of the ergonomics and the
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size and the weight as far as I can tell with this gigantic piece of Plexi
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attached to it although it seems like it's pretty much in that neighborhood but it comes with some features that you
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might not normally expect so it's got LED lighting on the back of it and it
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also features upgradable socketed switches so while this one doesn't come
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with Omron switches like the Gladius doeses you can swap them out if you want
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very very easily but that's not the only Mouse they have coming this is the
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sparta and this is where I need you guys to get involved because JJ personally
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will be reading the comments on this video and taking your feedback back to
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assus HQ when they decide on how to continue to develop this mouse so this
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is going to be a wireless sort of MMO uh MOBA RPG type optimized Mouse so you've
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got six programmable macro buttons on the side here you've got a couple more
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to the left of the left click you've got your left and right click and then
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you've got what appears to be either it's going to be a button is that going
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to be a DPI switch Yeah that's going to be a DPI switch up here at the top you
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will be able to use it in wired mode so all this sounds pretty it's going to
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feature wireless charging which is pretty freaking cool so there's a little thing here it can sit on a stand it can
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sit down flat but the big one that they don't know yet is they're still
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evaluating three different sensors and
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you know we don't know which way it's going to go it could be even laser or Optical so I want you guys to weigh in
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what sensor would you like to see and bear in mind guys that there isn't a
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laser sensor on the market that doesn't have inherent acceleration or other
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anomalies if we want something that tracks one one we got to give them a
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little prod in the right direction tell them we want an optical sensor that
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doesn't feature any nonsense and just pure onetoone tracking ASUS please
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deliver that for us guys let JJ know what you want to see speaking of
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tracking they've got the Rog Wet Stone
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mouse pad this is a little bit unique in that a it's textured and I kind of went
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are you guys High because textured mouse pad mouse pads with Graphics these
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things have been very terrible experiences for me in the past just
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because tracking can often be very jittery and uneven over them they went
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no no no no no hold on a second we actually revised this quite a few times
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in order to get the distance or the the like the height difference between the
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pattern and the and the valleys just right so that not only our mice but
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other mice track just awesome across it
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the other unique thing about this guy is that aside from the heat treated edges
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that should prevent it from fraying this is the first silicone mouse pad so it's
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not just your typical Rubber and cl cloth soft mouse mat it's silicone so
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that means a couple of things number one is it should be much more durable and
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number two is it's going to be completely resistant to spills even
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liquids and odors so if you don't want a
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stinky mouse pad then you might want to spend yourself uh probably in the
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neighborhood of sort of 35 to 40 bucks on a wet stone low friction mouse pad
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with uh durable anti-slip silicone base
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intricate Mayan Mayan pattern surface minimizes friction Mayan patterned all
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shout out to hyperx thank you so much for allowing us to be here at the show
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you guys can check out the YouTube channel it's youtube.com/ hyperx we'll
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have both of those guys Linked In the video description so huge thanks for our
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sponsors thanks to you guys and make sure you leave a comment we want an optical sensor in this not that I'm
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