Razer Naga 2014 Edition Unboxing & Overview
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2014-05-07
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the Corsair carbide air 540 High airflow Cube case is great for air cooling or
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liquid cooling check the link in the video description to learn more now I've
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recommended this mouse any number of times this is the original Razer NGA it
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has 12 MMO buttons on the side the only criticism of which would be that they're
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kind of mushy and kind of hard to distinguish from each other it included
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little pads that you could put on them but I personally never even ended up
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applying I didn't find they were that helpful um and includes an ergonomic
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shape that I personally really really liked it also tracks like a dream and
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I'm done gushing about the Naga because there's the Naga razors really
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got to figure out their product naming scheme here because can between this one
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and the Death Adder 2013 and black widow 2013 and the Death Adder was like how do
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you make you know how do you improve on Perfection you don't change anything but
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then it did change things and then there was no reference to it being a 2013
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edition anywhere on the box except for like one little like Spot somewhere and
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so this is called the Razer Naga not to be confused with the Razer Naga they're
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taking the same approach it's just funny it makes perfect sense because as a
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company that's all about you know Gamers and gaming they've taken a page right
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out of game developers handbooks oh what should we call the new
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Tomb Raider let's call it Tomb
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Raider so anyway there you go that's my
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rant about that what has Razer improved
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about the all new Naga well they've done a couple of things that I think are a
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very big deal number one is they have changed these buttons on the side to be
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mechanical buttons so I want you guys to really hear the difference here I'm
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going to hold it up to my lav mic original
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Naga very mushy very
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membran new Naga very clicky very
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tactile really really like that they have also updated the ergonomics So Gone
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are the two buttons right here which I never really liked anyway I had I I
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rarely find myself in a situation where this is a comfortable movement for me
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those were the two buttons that I really had trouble reaching and they have
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instead put two buttons here these can
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be actuated with the middle finger which if you use a three fingers like this
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sort of orientation then at least there's that you can kind of reach I
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personally have trouble with this one I don't have very flexible hands but at least now I can reach one of them
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comfortably they've also added a tilt click scroll
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wheel so this and this are additional functions so it now has a total of 19
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buttons 12 on the side two on the top
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well 1 2 3 four on the top and then an additional two here giving you like I
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said well plus a middle click so that is a total of 19 buttons they have
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implemented their low friction of quiet
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pads on the bottom which I think is kind of unique they have also up updated the
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sensor so it now uses an 88200 DPI 4G laser sensor and check this out here we
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go here we go there we go there's the naming scheme this is the Razer Naga
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2014 so they've gone with the car approach now where you actually buy next
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year's model in the previous calendar year and that is the way it works which
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isn't to take anything away from the mouse itself one thing that's improved
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on the top as well that they didn't have in their kit but I can already feel is
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the grippiness of this top surface here in instead of having a soft touch feel
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it has a very mild lightly textured feel
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that I find quite appealing and makes it less likely to slip they have also
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updated the color scheme whereas the old Naga was Blue the new Naga is aligned
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with the latest razor branding which is green so there you go all of the buttons
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on the side are illuminated the razor logo is breathing by default although
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you can reconfigure that in synapse and the mouse wheel itself looks absolutely
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outstanding in green something else that they've done with the side buttons is
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they've changed the shape of them significantly so you can see the way that the older ones worked you were
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expected to find the difference in them simply by feeling these bumps right here
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but other than that they're configured very similarly now they have changed
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them significantly so some of them are arched this way some of them are arched
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this way the middle Bank okay so you can I want you to see this from the side
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maybe we'll do some macro footage here but they're all angled really differently in such a way that you can
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really feel whether you're on pads 1 to six or pad 7 to 12 and then from there
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these ones the middle ones have ridges on them that you can really you can
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really feel they're kind of sharp along this Edge this Edge this Edge and this
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Edge allowing you to more easily figure out what button you're actually touching
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is it necessarily perfect the answer is probably no but I think it's difficult
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to put 12 buttons on the side of a mouse such that you're expecting anyone to be
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able to find them all In the Heat of battle without any practice but once you
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have practiced I've heard people say even about the original Naga that it's
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not that difficult now in terms of updated ergonomics you can see the mice
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look quite different the one complaint I heard about the original Naga quite
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often was it's really small which is great for me cuz my hands are small but
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there wasn't much room to rest your pinky and your ring finger on it that
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has been changed the naga4 has a much expanded pinky and ring
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finger rest and what I really like about the pinky here was there was nowhere to
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really rest it on the original Naga it was a glossy smooth surface they've
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added a rubber grippy surface surface just like the Death Adder 2013 with the
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rubber grips on the side I think they're a huge Improvement and I love it I don't
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necessarily need to put my pinky down on something but having a rubber grip is
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much more comfortable to me than trying to squeeze the mouse to have it to have
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my pinky stick to it particularly when you consider that on the other side of
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the mouse are a bunch of buttons so if I'm squeezing too hard here I'm going to
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accidentally press them speaking of which side of the mouse okay they didn't
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send me one so I'm having you look at the mouse but it's totally pointless Razer has a left-handed version of now
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both of their most popular gaming mice the Death Adder as well as the Naga so
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that was a crowdsourced initiative kind of thing that Razer did and I can tell
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you from a business perspective it makes no sense to go through the molding and
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tooling that is involved in releasing a left-handed Mouse when you consider how
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few of them sell remember I worked at a retailer before I know how many of them
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sell isn't very many um but for you Southpaw guys out there there you go
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Razer was listening and they wanted to bring you a left-handed Mouse so kudos
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to you I think that makes it the only left-handed MMO Mouse I don't believe
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any of them are ambidextrous because of the way that you have to lay out MMO
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buttons for them to be mostly accessible using the thumb which is the most uh the
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most flexible of the fingers that you're probably using for It software wise
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they've made some more improvements here as well so there's an MMO configurator
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that actually overlays on the screen so you can use it to Respec in the middle
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of a game without actually even tabbing out and this one for me personally is
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actually cooler because I tend not to change around characters too much I play
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mostly single player um RPGs when I am playing an RPG such as Dragon Age or
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torch light too and uh this is really neat so they take this uh grid of 12 and
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then they actually give you a screen overlay that you can set up different
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icons so you can see visually on the screen as an overlay what each of these
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is mapped to I think that's absolutely outstanding because a big problem for me
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with 12 buttons particularly when you're going for from game to game is what the
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devil did I have button seven bound to can't if you can't remember no big deal
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taking care of that with a screen overlay and I think that pretty much
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does it I liked the Naga hex with its six mechanical buttons and it felt like
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an improvement over the original Naga with 12 buttons well now they've taken
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those mechanical buttons and between the Naga hex and the Naga 2014 edition you
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should have something that you'll pretty much like the wider shape addresses the
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issue I think for people with larger hands although if you have baseball
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glove sized hands it might still not be the perfect Mouse for you but they've
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definitely improved the appeal and there you go what can you improve about
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something that's already awesome make it just a little bit more awesome thank you
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for checking out my unboxing and overview of the Razer Naga 2014 don't
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forget to subscribe don't forget to like this video If you enjoyed it and let me
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know what you think I mean just even looking at it you know seeing some of
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the uh some of the close-ups of my hand on it has Razer improved the Naga by
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making it a bit of a wider stance uh more compatible with larger hands Mouse
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and adding the mechanical buttons or would you prefer to grab an original nun
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now so you don't have to stop using it in the future thanks guys