Mionix NAOS 8200 Gaming Mouse Unboxing & First Look Linus Tech Tips
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2013-05-07
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1,381 words · ~6 min read
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Welcome to my unboxing of the MeionX NaOS 8200. This is an allnew mouse from
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MeionX that actually takes what was already good about the NaOS 3200 and the
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NOS 5000 and kicks it up a notch. So,
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basically, we've got what is a pretty standard overall package here. So, you
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can see a picture of the mouse with the green mionics accents here. Although, it
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should be noted that those colors can be changed to any one of
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16.8 million color options using the programmable LEDs that can be changed
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within the software. And it should also be noted that the ergonomics have
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thankfully not changed versus the
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previous NAS mice. They've also gone with an extremely small package. So,
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it's basically just the mouse and a couple of accessories tucked away inside
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of an outer box. Sensor specifications. Okay. So, 8200 DPI laser, 32bit 72 MHz
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ARM processor. Don't think of it in terms of 72 MHz. Think of it as 72
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millions of hertz. Sort of one way of looking at it,
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right? So, okay, let's go ahead and have a close look at the packaging here. So,
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we've got a little fold out piece here. We've got a little plastic piece here. I
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gotta admit the packaging itself feels a little bit less deluxe than previous
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MeionX mice. But if the performance is anything to or if the performance is
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anything like what I'm used to, then it should be just fine. In fact, my wife is
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a bit of a picky peripheral user and refuses to use anything but her NaOS
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3200 or the 5000 that she was using before, but I craftily snuck away when
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she wasn't looking. Anyway, so I'm going to get our B-roll camera to go ahead and
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have a look at what we've got here in terms of specs overall. So, award-winning ergonomic design,
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extremely comfortable. The overall shape of the mouse is quite frankly just
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awesome. So, you can see right here, whether you have smaller hands like me
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or whether you kind of have bigger hands and you're going to need to be sitting
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back a little bit further. The curve of the mouse is such that you can sort of
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sit back on it or choke up on it as much as you want and it'll be comfortable
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from either angle. So, I'm just going to go ahead and shift back over here so you
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can have a look from the other side. So, same thing here where you've got a curve
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right here for your pinky, a curve right here for your ring finger, and then
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comfortable placements for your index and your middle fingers as well as for
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your thumb on the other side. So, yeah, they haven't done away
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with that grip friendly rubber coating. So, it does use a soft touch feel
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overall to the mouse, which I personally prefer. I think that was a huge misstep
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for Steeler when they upgraded the ZY to the Sensei. Now, the newer uh the newer
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Sensei with the um MLG branding on it
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actually brings back that soft touch finish, and I think that is a very very
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important thing. Three-step in-game DPI adjustments. Okay, this is pretty
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standard for gaming mice these days. Seven buttons overall. So, you've got
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your back and forward buttons here. By the way, they're all programmable.
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You've got your DPI up and down buttons here, your mouse wheel click, as well as
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your left and right buttons here. That is pretty much it in terms of glowy
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spots. the mouse wheel, these DPI indicators here, as well as these
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buttons and the Mionics logo at the back will all
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glow. In-game profile switching. Okay. Extensive programmable macros. That's
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good. Six integrated LEDs in four color zones, so you can actually have multiple
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different color zones. That's kind of neat. I actually didn't know that already. Color shift function. So, you
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can use solid, blinking, pulsating, or breathing LED effects. You can adjust
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the polling rate. This is something that has been more of more of a thing in the
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more recent years. Actually, a long time ago, people didn't really talk about it
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at all. I remember you used to have to do like a manual override to change your
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mouse to a 1,00 uh hertz polling rate. So, that's uh that's very good. I mean,
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a 1000 hertz is a thousand times a second, which means we're taking the mouse down with a wired connection to as
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little input latency as is humanly possible or not humanly possible, just
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in general possible. Large PF PTFE feet.
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So, these right here are going to be the
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slip pads that are going to make it so that you don't actually have any sort of
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unintentional grip to the surface that you are putting it down on. So,
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hopefully you can see those pretty well there. There we go. So, those should be
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quite durable. Like I said, uh we've had one of their uh 3200 mice in deployment
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for quite a while. No complaints whatsoever. They're also quite thick, so
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large. and they have a like quite a quite a thickness to them, so they
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shouldn't wear down too quickly, but if they do, then sort of your mileage may
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vary, I suppose. Can't be my fault. Uh, gold-plated USB connection. This is less
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necessary than you might think. And then it's got a 2 m cable with braiding on it. So, let's go ahead and have a close
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look at that. So, the gold plating on the outside of the connector actually
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does absolutely nothing for the durability of the mouse. Uh, it's just
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for looks mostly. It's more important to have gold plating on the inside where
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those connectors are. So, gold is useful for these kinds of connectors because it
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doesn't oxidize and it's somewhat mal malleable, which means it's going to
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always make a good connection. Braided cable is high quality. It's a braided
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cable. This is something we're used to seeing on gaming mice, so that's good to see. And we'll be back in a moment with
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the mouse lit up so you guys can have a look at it. So, basically, guys, this
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last little bit here is just going to be to give you some overall glamour shots
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of the mouse itself. I'm not even going to let Slick's camera have any of the
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action at all. So, I'm just going to sort of turn it over, show you guys what
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it looks like. I mean, I have smallerish hands. In fact, Slick could even just
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put down his camera and come do a more practical demonstration of what a larger
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hand will look like on the mouse itself. So, here, just kind of give them a bit
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of a of a view there. So, in fact, here here's the mic. What What are What are
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your impressions of the shape? You've used one like this before, right? Yeah. Yeah. I can claw it still. So, that's
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really nice. But then, if someone had smaller hands, they could palm it very easily. Although, palming it with the
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size of a hand is kind of ridiculous. Okay, so there you go, guys. Smaller
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hands can Oh my goodness, look how sweaty his hands are. Check this out.
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Isn't that gross? It's disgusting. Um,
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so smaller hands, palm is very easy, very comfortable. You could also claw it
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with smaller hands, but I'd say it's optimized for small hand, palm, large
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hand, claw, and then sort of in between. I guess you could probably go either way
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because I have very small hands and then Slick has very, very large hands. So, I
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think that pretty much wraps it up. Oh, yeah. Your four different LED zones are going to be here, here, here, and here.