Mionix NAOS 3200 Ergonomic Optical Gaming Mouse Unboxing & First Look Linus Tech Tips
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2011-05-08
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this is a brand that uh maybe not everybody in North America is going to
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recognize and in fact I can tell you
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right now that many of their products I'm going to have trouble pronouncing
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because it's all based on stars and their little slogan is Lighty years
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ahead of the game so this is mionix and I hope I'm saying that right and then
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this particular Mouse is a new one it's actually not even out yet but this is
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the naos 3200 so the 5,000 is already
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out but the 3200 is kind kind of like a uh a slightly lower-end version of the
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5000 you can see right away that the
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ergonomics are designed for a palm grip and this is a phenomenal box like I I'm
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I'm an unboxer I see a lot of boxes yeah this is a great box it's got like a nice
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matte black finish it's very minimalistic uh it's got like kind of a
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cool shape to it and uh let's have a look at the overall uh well the overall
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the overview on the back so you can see it has seven programmable buttons it has
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custom LED light system so you can actually change the colors of the LEDs
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on this mouse braided cable which is pretty standard for a high-end gaming
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mouse these days it has a 3200 DPI Optical LED sensor so that means that
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this is not a laser mouse it's got a
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truly ergonomic design and it has grip friendly rubber coating so all of these
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are very very important and I will actually be using this mouse and I will
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let you guys know my Impressions either in a separate video or I'll add a clip
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to the end of this one I'm not quite sure yet depends how long this is model
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overview yeah okay that tells us pretty much everything we know why don't we
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start getting this out of the box and then we can talk a little bit more about it as we go along so the first part
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we're going to take out is this and we will find the cable there so it's just a
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beautiful braided USB cable you can see that's going to be quite durable there's
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not a whole lot you'd be able to do to uh have that snag on anything you can
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see that there is a goldplated USB
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connector and that once again is uh I
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would say typical for premium gaming mouse but not all of them have that
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particular feature wow no included
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driver CD so I'm going to go ahead and assume that you either don't need
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drivers it could be a driverless mouse or that you can download the latest ones
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from the meic website which I did visit and is very nice all right here we
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go installation okay oh maybe this will tell us how to install it so the mouse
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is plug and play all you need to do is connect the mouse into a free USB port
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the LED lights on the mouse will light up and the mouse is ready to go your
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operating system should automatically recognize the mouse without restarts or
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further actions okay so it is completely driverless you plug it in and you go
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that simple okay warranty is uh 2 years
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do not try to repair the product okay customization you can download the
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driver software yes you download the driver software and that's where you can
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do all of the customization for the mouse it is equipped with a unique
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weight tuning system which allows you to change the weight of the mouse
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horizontally on both sides next to the the center for a more balanced feeling
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that's kind of cool okay so let's tap the small buttons forward so in here oh
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hold on tap these small buttons forward
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I wonder how you do that okay I'll be back in a
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second the cameraman and I puzzled over this for a while and the conclusion we
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came to is that it must be a typo from the uh the naos 5000 manual because uh
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there's there's no way this mouse comes apart which is good because it does feel
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quite solid and I was actually uh kind of amusing myself off camera when I
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noticed that uh the the mouse is designed in Sweden it says that on the
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uh on the package or on the yeah here it is designed in Sweden made in China so I
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was just saying to the cameraman it comes in one piece it couldn't possibly be designed in Sweden but uh it is so
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there you have it all right let's have a look at how long the braided cord is
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because that can be relevant if you keep your computer tower on the floor and you
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want to sit at your desk so let's say in theory I was sitting at my desk like
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this and I needed to reach something over by the cameraman and I could reach
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it just fine as you can see all right so that's fairly straightforward now I want
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to talk about the ergonomics of this mouse a little bit like I said I may
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actually do a separate video showing that but okay I think it should be pretty
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obvious what mouse this uh this reminds us all of right off the bat but you can
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see they've actually made some improvements over the ever popular iari
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laser there's a bit more of a contour for your two fingers to rest here on the
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right hand side of the mouse and they've actually added some additional buttons
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so you've got your one two clicks you've got your mouse wheel you have your DPI
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up and down and then you've got your back and forward so they've added um a
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DPI up and well they've added one of the DPI switches the aari laser only has one
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to uh to actually toggle between the two DPI modes so that's one interesting
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change it's got large slippy on the bottom of the mouse so no matter what
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kind of a mouse surface you're using you should get good performance out of those
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and uh they shouldn't wear out too fast cuz you can see that they're quite thick
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now in terms of the sensor performance I'll have to get back to you guys on that but thank you for checking out my
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unboxing of the naos 3200 high
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performance gaming mouse from meic and uh hopefully we'll see a lot more out of
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this company