Razer Deathadder 2013 Optical Gaming Mouse Unboxing & Overview
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2013-05-07
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welcome to my unboxing and first look at the Razer Death Adder 2013 edition now
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something I noticed about the Death Adder 2013 is that it doesn't say
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2013 anywhere on the box at all in fact
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the only hint that this isn't a normal Death Adder other than the packaging
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change and if you look really closely at the specs is razer's marketing blurb
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here where they say how did we improve on Perfection very carefully we didn't
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want to fix anything that wasn't broken and so we literally didn't change anything okay we focused instead on
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enhancing and optimizing the Death Adder utilizing Next Generation Technologies and further economics tweaks okay so did
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they not change anything did they change stuff they did change stuff so let's go
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ahead and get this baby opened up they went from a 3.5g sensor to a 4G sensor
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so they've increased the effective DPI and while the Death Adder has been and
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still is an optical gaming mouse as opposed to a laser gaming mouse and yes
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I know laser is technically an optical technology but that's not what most
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people mean when they say it they have they have still achieved a 6,400 d
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uh range for this particular Mouse which is very high for an optical Mouse so
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let's go ahead and open it up now they did allude to some ergonomics tweaks and
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so in addition to adding an upgraded sensor they have also made some slight
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changes to the shape of the mouse which does retain its right-handed grip so you
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can see here this is not an ambidex ambidextrous Mouse all right so we made
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a bit of a change to our tabletop here so that you guys can really clearly see
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what razor changed about the death add 2013 so it is still a right-handed shape
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but you can see it's more subtle than many right-handed mice so there's an
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indentation on this side you can see the
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the the the more pronounced curve there and then when you flip around to the
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other side you can see that it is a much less pronounced curve and actually comes
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out a little bit so while a lefty could put their hand on the mouse the the
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their index finger would sit too low and their middle finger would sit too high
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and it wouldn't quite be comfortable it is shaped for the right-handed player
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now I have sort of smallish hands especially for a male but I can Palm
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this thing perfectly and then I have probably a little bit of it looks like
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about a centimeter of space left where even if my fingers were bigger or if I
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curved my fingers a little bit I could have significantly larger hands while
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being able to Palm the mouse comfortably now we've encountered gaming mice that
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are a palm grip type Mouse but that are
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so small that you end up clawing them unless you have little tiny little kid
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hands so that is not the case with the death outer 2013 now an improvement that
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they have made that I think is huge is the addition of these rubber grips on
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the side so that is an extremely grippy rubber I don't know how to make that
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point on film without uh just kind of saying it guys it's awesome it has a
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nice texture to it so that you can you just by touching it lightly you'll be
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able to pick up the mouse without almost no effort no by not exerting almost any
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pressure on the mouse from the side at all this is great because it frees you
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up to have your mouse hand very relaxed and your wrist relaxed not causing any
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additional tension here but still being able to lift when you get to the edge of
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the mouse pad and there's another one on the thumb side as well so you can see
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that the way that they're shaped is optimized for the fingers that are
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intended to be pointed at them so this one's a little bit lower a little bit
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lower profile for the pinky and this one's a little bit higher profile with
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uh more of an a curve in for the way that your thumb would be positioned now
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Razer calls the buttons on this mouse hyper response buttons and I don't know
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if I would call the mouse wheel click particularly hyperresponsive nor would I
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call the front and back clicks particularly hyper responsive because
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they feel like normal buttons to me but the left and the right click feel like
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they're on a hair trigger so I would say yes those are definitely hyper
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responsive optimized for extremely fast button presses with almost no effort
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whatsoever so what makes it optimized for programming what's the difference
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between a pro level product and and a consumer grade product a lot of the time
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it's well how many how many times is a pro going to be pressing the button
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versus how many times is the typical consumer going to be pressing the button
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so I'm booting up a computer so that I can show you guys the lighting effects
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but I want to show you the bottom of the mouse as well so they've got uh what
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they're calling their ultr slick Mouse
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feet so you can see there's one up at the top left one up at the top right and
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then another one down at the very bottom so Razer doesn't give you any particular
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rating for how long these are supposed to last but it should be noted guys that
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it actually doesn't matter if it was a huge surface area along the bottom of
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the mouse or a small one the coefficient of friction would actually be the same
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here's the 4G infrared sensor so Precision 6400 DPI many people don't use
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dpis um above sort of the the lower
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ranges but having the flexibility to be able to turn up your DPI and lower your
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mouse sensitivity and turn off acceleration allows you to really tune
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the mouse to use it the way that you want to use it so here's the here's what
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the lighting effects looks like so you've got your illuminated scroll wheel
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just like that okay you've got your illuminated razor logo right here which
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apparently turned itself off ah there we go so you can configure it within synaps
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2.0 the 2013 edition does work with synapse 2.0 which takes all of your
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gaming profiles and stores them in the cloud so you can use them wherever you
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happen to be as long as you log in it'll store your profiles on a per game basis
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so you can map your uh you can map your commands however it is that you want to
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do that I want to just make sure I didn't really miss anything here okay it
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does support, HZ Ultra pulling which is good um many gaming mice do that does support
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on the Fly sensitivity adjustments and I
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think that pretty much covers it for what they had to say for themselves on
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the box itself I guess the last thing is just to show you that it is using a nice
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highquality braided cable so hopefully now that we've switched to a white
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tabletop you guys are going to be able to see that all right and thank you for
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checking out my unboxing and first look at the Razer Death Adder 2013 which they
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didn't change anything about but they did but they I don't know whatever so
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looks to me like the things they changed are good oh of note now that I've
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actually got the product out of the box because I had to look at it before was out of the box it does say 2013
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somewhere so there it is 2013 is on the mouse itself even though it wasn't on
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