Steelseries Ikari Laser Ergonomic Gaming Mouse Unboxing & First Look Linus Tech Tips
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2011-05-08
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1,217 words · ~6 min read
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today I'll be unboxing my all-time favorite Mouse this is the steel series
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iari laser it is as I just said my
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all-time favorite Mouse and I have used a lot of mice from the likes of Razer
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Microsoft steel series all of the big gaming companies Logitech and this one
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is just the best as far as I can tell
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now you might ask me why I am unboxing something that is already my favorite
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and uh I haven't told you this yet but I already have over a Year's experience
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using this mouse and the reason is that mine finally gave up the ghost I've been
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using it for a long time um and it started acting a little bit weird uh it
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started registering uh single clicks as a as a double click and so I mean I
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talked to Steel series about it they said that's a very unusual occurrence I
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do believe them cuz I've got a fair amount of other steel series gear in my
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house and I've never had any problems with any of it but um yeah anyway my old
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one was acting a little finicky so I got
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a new one shipped over and I am unboxing it so inside the box which I haven't
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managed to focus the camera on just yet I've just been kind of talking here
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inside the Box you will find pretty much the mouse okay you'll find uh plastic
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cover for the mouse you will also find a
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silica gel throw it away do not eat it
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please next you will find some more do not
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eat and then you will find ah okay here
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we go here will we have
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little oh that's kind of neat so you unfold this and then there's a steel
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series logo hidden in the packaging just
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like that it's like completely hidden away until you until you open up the
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little doors and then behind those doors
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you will find a steel series iari laser
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driver software which actually okay I'm about to do something unusual you can go
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ahead and install the drivers from the disc because I don't believe that steel
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Series has ever updated this software uh the version on their website is version
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1.0 and this is version 1.0 uh if if
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it's still if it's still like that and so I guess it goes to show you you ride
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a driver well the first time you never deal with it again um I have a steel
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series sticker I also have a little steel series brochure about their other
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products including headsets keyboards and mousing surfaces and then I've got a
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little manual for the aari laser shows you how to configure your mouse which
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which buttons do what you can also reconfigure them all talks about the
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spec of the mouse as well as showing you
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how to do profiles and macros and button
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settings and sensitivity settings that's one of the coolest things about this
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mouse just like the Z which has actually come out to sort of uh replace the aari
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laser I've got a z over there but it's kind of attached to a computer so it'll
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be kind of tricky to show it to you but just like the Z thear laser can be
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controlled in software to within one CPI
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now CPI is you can think of it as kind of like DPI but it's actually counts per
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inch rather than dots per inch so you can make adjustments unlike most gaming
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mice where you can go okay um you know 500 700,00 DPI those are your those are
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your levels you can actually take the acari laser and you can set it to
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623 CPI or you can set it to 624 CPI if
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623 is a little too low now I personally find that to be one of the best features
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of this mouse and the next best one has got to be that it's driverless that
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means that you you actually program your CPI settings your Macros everything you
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want into the mouse itself it has onboard memory and when you plug it into
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the computer I'm going to show you there's actually a little display on the
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bottom just like the Z just going to plug that in so I can show you o
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goldplated USB connector I should probably mention that okay so there's a
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little display on the bottom I'll zoom in so you can see it if I could just
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find my remote that shows you which
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profile you're using so you can set up a bunch of different profiles save them on
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your computer and then you can just easily check the bottom of the mouse to
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see which one you're using and then it just takes all of that profile
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information and you do not have to install any drivers on a computer that
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you use the aari laser on and let me see
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what else should I talk about software is really easy to use you've got a
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couple of different oh yeah you can only adjust it for two different DPI or CPI
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settings so you press the button on the top and that light switches to high or
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low and then I honestly I found I only
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needed two I needed one for regular use and one for sniping and then when you've
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got that because you can adjust it to such a fine degree you don't actually
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need to Tinker with it a whole lot it has back and forward buttons on the side
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I'm doing a lot of zooming here I apologize for that has back and forward
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buttons on this side for your thumb and I should probably talk a little bit
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about the shape it's a fairly light Mouse but this is easily the most
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ergonomic Mouse that I have ever encountered ever because it just melts
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in your hand so to speak I mean it still works after the melting is all done but
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it just melts in your hand it is perfectly like it feels like an
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extension of your body when you're gliding it over a surface so that's
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pretty nice oh yeah it has nice big nonslip or rather non-slip it has nice
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big slippy feet on the bottom so it's suitable for use with a hard surface as
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well as a soft surface I actually use a cloth pad with it the steel series qck
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plus so it's their large thin cloth pad
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since I got this one they've actually released a thick a couple thick ones the
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mass as well as the heavy and I wouldn't mind trying one of those but it works
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exceptionally well with the qck series thank you for checking out my unboxing
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of the steel series iari laser my
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favorite Mouse I've actually had a lot of people message me asking me about my
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favorite Mouse this is it