Razer Ouroboros Wireless Ambidextrous Gaming Mouse Unboxing & Review Linus Tech Tips
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2013-05-07
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welcome to yet another By Request unboxing I have received countless
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inquiries about the Razer uroboros oroboros oroboros whatever it
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means a dragon eating its own tail and it's like some kind of ancient symbol or
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something and basically it is their new
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super uber premium ambid dextr gaming
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mouse it comes in a similar to Mamba esque packaging that I remember caused
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such a s stir back when the Mamba came out remember guys the Mamba was the
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first wireless gaming mouse that really performed like a wired gaming mouse even
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though it was Wireless so they're using a similar type of technology in this one
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where they're saying that you have the option of using it Wireless with less
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than one millisecond of delay remember guys most LCDs are on the order of 10 to
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30 plus milliseconds of DeLay So an extra 1 millisecond on your mouse is not
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going to be the difference between oh input leg is so bad versus oh it you
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know is fine and it's like awesome and just like the Mamba you have the option
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to run it wirelessly or you can charge
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the battery and use it wired at the exact same
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time with the included braided cable so you can use it in wired or Wireless mode
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no big deal here's another thing I love check this out something that drove me
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crazy about my G7 I used a G7 for a couple years actually was the fact that
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it had those stupid custom battery packs
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now you never ever have to worry about not having a battery that's charged
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enough to use in your mouse even once the batteries start to wear out that's
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another thing that happened to G7 users just uses a standard doublea battery and
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nickel metal hydride batteries will charge in the mouse so please be sure
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not to use anything other than a nickel metal hydride battery because if it
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starts to try and charge it it might be bad I don't know if it would I don't
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know that it would but I'm just sort of saying in general put in a nickel metal
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hydride battery it won't kill you all right experience the new standard of
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precision with the 4G dual sensor system outfitted with both a laser and an
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optical sensor to accurately calibrate the mouse for exceptional surface tracking and customizable liftoff
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Heights there you go 8200 DPI crazy
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unrivaled gaming grade Wireless technology means the oros it's well okay
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yeah we've covered that already three customizable parts more on this later
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and a bunch of other languages approximate size and weight and a bunch of things that we don't care about all
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right razor so good at packaging let's see what they've included with this one
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we've got some razor stickers we've got some razor
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documentation that's not really the word for it at all all right what's this guy
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congratulations there's no turning back like us on Facebook and all that jazz
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there's a picture of the mouse next to a razor blade all right synapse 2.0
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synapse 2.0 is cool they have also updated synapse 2.0 since it came out to
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make it like way better because all your settings are still there even if you're
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in offline mode so when you're online it'll grab all your settings and all
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your games and all that cool stuff from the cloud and then when you're offline
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it'll just take whatever the local copy is so synapse very very very neat stuff
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it's kind of like uh valves valves cloud service where it remembers your game
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settings synapse remembers regardless of which computer you're on regardless of
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what games it is you just log into synaps and it remembers your Macros and
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all that good stuff for you hold Infinity in the palm of your hand okay
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yeah this is about the adjustabl so we'll more on that after quick start
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guide product guide for other razor products syapse 2.0 oh no this is just
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this product guide so a bunch of oh yeah a bunch of good stuff in there including the software and then another language
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product guide now let's see if I can figure out how to get this bad boy out
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of here so pull this off okay which
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should do something there we go all right that
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comes out of there I remember with the mamba I really struggled with it uh to
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get it off of the little pedestal that it was on inside the packaging so
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hopefully this one I can figure out it's been a long time since I did my Mamba
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unboxing but I hope this one is a little bit easier to to do okay yeah that's on
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there pretty darn good let's see if we can figure this here out so there's a
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there's an arrow ah there we go that's not so bad okay
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it's not that heavy actually it's surprisingly light so once I figure out
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where all this stuff is I will be back in a moment and then I'll show you what
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makes this pretty much as adjustable and customizable as it gets on top of its
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outstanding performance so the or or
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oroboros is coming in as a customizable
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Mouse so there's a few different parameters that you can adjust number
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one is the position of the Palm rest see
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I'm going to go ahead I'm going to take that see how you can tilt it like that
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for you know a larger hand where you're going to Palm the mouse uh and then you
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can also tilt it completely the other way now it's very subtle looking how the
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profile of the mouse changes when you adjust this but what I discovered and my
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wife and I are playing around with it off camera for a little while here
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actually she's a very fussy fussy Mouse
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user and as am I uh what we discovered is it actually makes an enormous
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difference to the feel of the mouse and we were able to get it dialed in to the
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point where both of us were like okay yeah CU When I first handed her the
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mouse she went but then we played around with that
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as well as the length so you can adjust the length of the mouse here she has
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kind of long fingers and slim hands so you can go ahead and you just push this
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piece down right here okay and that disengages it from the track so you can
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go ahead and go Click by click and adjust the length of the mouse so you can go from all the way to a size that's
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comfortable for me so you got my my small hands here see so that's that's
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comfortable for me and then you can take it all the way out to the point where
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slick could probably use it comfortably I kind of wish he was here to try it out
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for me but there you go to the point where I'll put my hand on the back of
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the mouse and my fingers barely make it to the wheel so you could have fingers
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that are you know this much longer than mine and you'd still be comfortable
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using the oroboros at its full length and then you've got about three
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adjustment notches in between those so that's really cool as well last but not
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least you've got magnetic pieces on the sides so here you can adjust it however
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want so you can go okay I'm a palm grip user I want my pinky to have something
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to rest on I want my thumb to have a rubberized grip and oh these are cool
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too so these are gear locks check this out so it's again this mouse is totally
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ambidextrous you can adjust it either way for left-handed or right-handed use
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so what these guys do is particularly with the grippy sides in place they
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allow you to adjust your DPI while
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you're holding it down so you can lock those buttons off so you can put as much
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pressure as you want to lift it off the mouse pad or whatever else you want or
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you can unlock them so they turn into a
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button you can go okay da da da da da full speed hold down sniping at low uh
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at uh at low sensitivity let go and
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you're back to full speed this is a 100
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times better of an implementation versus mice like aari laser where you got a
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button here that toggles your DPI this
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is not easy to hit in the heat of battle whereas this is part of your natural
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movement and you can do it as easily as as anything else so I I'm actually I
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really like that particular feature I'm going to go ahead and lock these off for
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now and again you can configure it completely the other way these are
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magnets so they're super easy to put in place but they won't come off
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accidentally you have to kind of fight with them to get them off so well not
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fight with them but you have to you have to mean it okay so same thing you can
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adust it for left-handed use here now if there was something that I had to
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complain about with the shape of the oroboros it would be that I don't really
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have a place to put my ring finger so here watch this guys I'm just going to
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go ahead put this on the mouse pad here so you can see so my thumb I can rest here or I can
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adjust it with the rubberized grip and I can rest on that if I'm more of a claw
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user and I want to hold the mouse like that I can even do this and I can I can
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claw the mouse like that go ahead and adjust this in lots of different ways to
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use it whether you're a palm user or a claw user this is probably how I'd use it as a claw user bring it down nice and
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short and then use it like that um all
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right so I can rest my thumb there with either of those options uh index and
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middle finger those are fine pinky finger I can either rest right here on
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the little wing or I can throw this guy on again and I can uh I can use it as a
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as a claw grip I don't really have somewhere to put this finger so it tends
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to kind of fall down here where it gets caught on this sharp piece right here
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this sharp piece right here it tends not to really be able to reach these two
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buttons on the other side of the mouse so this contrasts with something like a steel series Sensei where you can
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actually it's ambidextrous and it has front and back buttons on both sides but
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you can actually reach those on the other side whereas these ones are
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positioned a little bit further back which I think is a function of the
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adjustable nature of the mouse where if you were pulling it all the way back
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well that's where they would need to be to be comfortably used and if you put
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them way up here that user with their Palm at the back of the M like this
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wouldn't be able to reach them so in order for everyone to be able to reach
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them for us small-handed users it becomes sort of a non-optimal location
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where I can't really press these comfortably with my pinky um and these
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ones with my thumb are sort of more of a um a base of the thumb and then middle
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of the thumb buttons whereas on something like a G9 these are middle of
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the thumb tip of the thumb buttons and same for an aari laser so the reason I
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have a G9 and an aari laser here those are myor favorite mice one of them is
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more of a claw grip Mouse for me and the other one's more of a palm grip Mouse for me and I wanted to take this jack of
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all trades and compare it to what I consider to be the masters of those
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particular trades all right so back to the buttons that are on the mouse so you
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got your left your right Mouse button your scroll wheel really nice scroll
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wheel on this guy you see those raised bumps right there very very comfortable
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nice soft rubber really good grip love it sensitivity up sensitivity down
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adjustable Palm rest and rear panel that we've already been through so here are
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your one two three buttons on each side
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one two three you can program all of these in the synapse software don't
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forget that guys next you've got those gear locks that I showed you before m is
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Ultra Stick M ah Ultra slick Ultra Stick
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Mouse feet you put it down on your pad you can't move no I'm just kidding Ultra
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slick so you got them here here here on the bottom of the Wings and on the
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bottom of the magnetic removable piece P here so those are all over the bottom
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you've also got okay rear panel button recliner wheel yep yep 8200 DPI sensors
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one two and rechargeable battery USB
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connector ah yes USB connector cable so if you want to plug that baby in all you
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do is go like well something looks like
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it locks into some sort of piece of something there there you go goldplated
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so it's good stuff you got a nice braided cable here so you shouldn't have
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any issues with that again gold plated connector on the other side it's funny
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they gold plate this part but the only part that actually has to be goldplated is the connectors inside but I think it
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looks more L bling that way so I can understand why they do it charging 4
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hours 4 hours gets you to 90% battery that's really cool so it's kind of like
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the uh it's kind of like my iPhone 4 where I can give it a quick zap and I
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can get back going pretty quickly but it actually takes quite a while to get to
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full charge so 4 hours for 90% 8 hours
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for 100% so that lasts little bit takes quite a while and there's instructions
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here on how to actually uh take the
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battery out so you slide this bad boy up and you go ahead and load the battery in
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there just like that oh and it glows green folks very
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very nice so you've got green glowing accents here here and here and here
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which looks really really really really cool then we're going to go ahead and
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put that back where back where I want it and I want the uh I want the wing over
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here I love how quickly you can adjust things on it I mean you've got adjustable mice I mean things like G9 is
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adjustable it comes with two different outer pieces as well as adjustable
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weights but it takes like you know you got to like take this off and take go
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get another one it's kind of a pain whereas this is actually you know you
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can have all the pieces on and off with magnets basically so Wireless M yeah I
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don't think we're I don't think we're really missing anything here how to pair it you press the button press the other
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button not a big deal so you know what
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let me connect it and I'll have a look at what I think cuz I was super stoked on the G6 from Logitech it looked like
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the perfect ergonomics for me still love the ergonomics of it great button layout
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but the sensor just felt laggy so I'm going to go ahead I'm going to install
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the drivers for this guy and let's see what I think so if you guys were wondering what 8200 DPI looks like I
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think we really have reached the point where we're at the limit of how much DPI
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is needed I have my mouse pointer up in the very top left corner I move the
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mouse that much it's in the bottom left corner did you even see how much watch
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I'm going to do it again magic trick okay bottom left top
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right so I think that's a little bit on the high side for me personally but you
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can adjust the stages so you can sort of
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go and you can configure where you want
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the various there we go configure sensitivity changes you can have up to
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five stages so it's at 800 1800 4, 6,400
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etc etc etc I find with higher resolution monitors you do need the
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higher DPI settings but this is just a 1080p monitor so something like 800 to
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1,000 would probably be absolutely perfect for me you can adjust in 100
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increments there we go yeah th000 looks
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like looks like the Magic Bullet for me bunch of other stuff you can customize
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including what all the buttons do as well as uh oh yeah you can see the side
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views of the mice there you go top view side view performance uh yes
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acceleration keep it off unless I don't know you're some kind of person who
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likes acceleration not that I'm generalizing um lighting bright normal
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oh you can change the brightness you can go for oh okay in Wireless mode you can
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turn them down just to make sure that you don't drain your battery with the lights surface calibration turn that on
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others ad mats liftoff range you can change that as well as power settings so
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when does it enter sleep mode after idle Flash the battery indicator when the
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battery Falls below 5 10 15 20 or 25%
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gives you lots of good oh and macro programming so this is all done within
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synapse and synapse will go ahead and
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make sure that everything is you know taken care of for you so what do I think
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feels all right I mean I for me it's
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mice never come down to spec they come down
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to how responsive does it feel does it
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feel right
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um yeah you know other than not knowing where to put my ring finger I think
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we're I think we're in good shape with or or oroboros however one thing that I
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did get tricked by and as a seasoned unboxer I mean I even wear a shirt that
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says a professional unboxer on it I'm feeling pretty ashamed of this but I
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unboxed a wireless mouse without actually managing to find the wireless
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base station which
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is here so it's a weighted base station
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it's got a rubber grip on the bottom so it's not going to go anywhere you can
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put the plug into this bad boy just like
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that and then you can drop the mouse on there for your charging purposes just
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like that thank you for checking out my
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