 Welcome to my unboxing and first look at the Rockcat Kone XTD. They're calling this their Max Customization Gaming Mouse. Now in terms of the actual performance and hardware specs, it's not that different from something like a Kone Plus. However, the shape of the mouse is different and the customization is quite different. So the first thing we're going to do is actually just whip open the box while we tell you some of the general specs. So it has an 8200 DPI Pro R3 grade sensor, so that's pretty much as high as it goes these days for gaming mice. It's got 8 buttons, however it does feature Rockcat Shift Plus, which allows you to use one of the buttons as a shift key and then assign additional functionality to all of the other buttons. It has 576 kilobytes of onboard memory, allowing you to store a butt-ton of profiles and macros and all that stuff that you'd want to do to have the mouse be as customizable as you could desire. And unlike the Kone, what's it called, Kone Pure, I think I called it Plus before, unlike the Kone Pure, it has, check this out, these lighting strips. Now this is hard to demo without actually plugging it into something, so we could probably, we could probably, we'll plug it into something in a moment, but I'll show you guys the box. You can actually set it up, so there's four customizable LEDs, so that you have different colors that blend into each other and these are, these are multi-color LEDs, so you can set them to any color of the rainbow you'd want and then have the mouse look like whatever you want. Now you can have it even change dynamically on the fly, so using RawCats software you can say, okay, well, you know, I'm being attacked, so the mouse should glow red instead of a different color or I'm poisoned, it should go green and not everyone stares at their mouse while they're gaming, in fact, I think most people don't, but it's still a neat kind of thing to have. Let's show you what the ergonomics look like, so this is a right-handed ergonomically shaped mouse. It is significantly bigger than the Kone Pure, so you can see the size difference right there, where the Kone Pure is almost a claw mouse for me, this one, there's no way I'd be able to claw grip it. This is more of a, this is more of a palm mouse for me, however, if we took someone with larger hands, such as my handy, that he's here, filming assistant, Slick, you can see that that's, that's way better, right? I don't think you could palm that though, could you? It's like a little bit small. Little, little bit too small for baseball glove-sized hands to palm, but you can, you can easily, you can easily claw that, right? Okay, so there you go, has eight buttons compared to the seven on the, on the Kone Pure, so we'll show you where the buttons are. These, these back and forward buttons are totally a must these days. It's got a profile button here, well remember, you can program them to do whatever you want. It's got a left and right sliding scroll wheel, so up, down, click, left, right, more profile switching, these are probably for DPI switching by default, you can tell from the labels on them, but you can change them through whatever we want, and then remember guys, you can hold down shift and press any other button on the mouse and program that to whatever you actually want it to do. Now the Kone XTD also has a weight system, which is another thing that the Pure doesn't have, so we're going to go ahead and open those up, so you've got four or five gram weights that you can easily put inside the mouse using the unlockable thing on the bottom here. Let's just go ahead and, okay, oh, apparently it's already open there, so you can put as many or as few as you want. I wouldn't have minded seeing them more towards the center of the mouse, but I guess it's not the end of the world. They stick in there just fine on their own, but you can go ahead and lock them into place should you so desire. On the bottom, we see the 8200 DPI laser sensor, as well as the Teflon Slippy pads. I do prefer to see a layout like what we saw on the Kone Pure, where the top ones are one large piece rather than two separated pieces, because sometimes there can be issues with these ones coming off. I'm not saying Raw Cat's not using an adequate adhesive, I'm just saying that I've had it happen in the past with other mice, so there you go. Take that for what it is, and let's go ahead and plug this in. Oh, there we go, I got that locked into place now. So this seems fitting, taking some sort of their ultimate customization gaming mouse and putting it next to the ultimate single GPU gaming graphics card. And I'm going to go get my cheat sheet that has any other notes that I wanted to talk about on the mouse. So, oh yeah, the mouse features Rocket Talk. It looks like it probably... Oh, I plugged it into a USB 3 port. I don't know if we have the drivers installed for that. Okay, there we go, so that might work. So it has Rocket Talk, which actually allows it to work in conjunction with other Rocket items such as keyboards that feature Rocket Talk, giving you kind of like bonuses to functionality based on using matching gear, like an MMO inspired kind of thing. It does feature their TDCU, which is basically a configurable, intelligent way of controlling your lift distance and making sure that it doesn't just shift all over the place unnecessarily when you're trying to lift the mouse up when you reach the end of the mouse pad. And yeah, that's good, get a good shot of me like cheating on my Rocket achievements, right? So there's an app that tracks your usage of the mouse and allows you to get achievements like Sultan of Scroll if you scroll a lot and sort of cool stuff like that. And I think that's pretty much it. That lighting effect looks really good. So you can see there's four LEDs, one here, here, here, and here. And those are multicolor LED systems. So you can actually have colors blend together in the middle or you can just do solid colors the way that we have it configured right now. I want to just boost up the... It's much brighter than it looks in the camera. Oh, oh, oh, that's shutter speed. Okay, why don't you do it? It's like... There you go. Boost up the... Okay, that's more like true to life now. It's quite bright. I think that pretty much wraps it up. Thank you for checking out this unboxing and first look at the Kone XTD from Rocket. Don't forget to subscribe to Linus Tech Tips for more unboxings, reviews, and other computer videos.