 So today the cameraman is very tired and he'll be sitting in a chair and I'll be standing for a change So we're doing a little bit of role reversal But he won't be appearing in front of the camera and I won't be behind it today We have a very exciting product to unbox it is a blizzard license product It is made by SteelSeries and it comes with World of Warcraft Cataclysm branding on it. Do you think you can guess which product it is? Yes, it is finally the updated wow mouse. Now the original wow mouse was a fairly similar looking product but the Improvements that have been made are all really cool. So let's start with Opening up. We've got a little magnetic clasp here. So that's what closes the package We've got like a cool sort of packaging on this where it's like burned away and then you Pull it open you can see there's a bunch more information here covered in blizzard artwork Of course, which is always awesome Alright develop for World of Warcraft players by Blizzard and SteelSeries cooperatively the cataclysm MMO gaming mouse Invokes the iconic imagery of Deathwing the destroyer leader of the black dragonflight and okay, so this is just marketing spiel All right, that's not gonna tell us too much. Here we go multi-platform compatibility Mac and PC Just like blizzard's games game library official in-game support So you can bind all 14 buttons within the game so it's built right into wow support for this mouse Advanced macros with 14 fully programmable buttons. We have onboard memory to store your custom settings Advanced illumination with 16 million colors and four intensity settings very cool The original wow mouse had like the same sort of deal where you could change the color of it and up to 10 unique profiles Linked to the armory your custom profiles linked to the armory, so I'm guessing that's for different characters all right, then let's actually have a look at the back of the box here and Here we go so frames per second that is the FPS that can be recorded by the mouse is 11.75 self-adjusting Okay inches per second is 150 counts per inch is 90 to 50 40 So the CPI seems to be quite a bit higher than the original wow mouse Acceleration true 16-bit these are all very highly technical specifications I mean you got to understand SteelSeries has been building mice for a long time This is not a cheesy like wow branded Product that is just designed to sort of take a cheap mouse throw a label on it and sell a bunch of mice They've actually been building gaming peripherals for as long as we've we've had awesome professional level peripherals, so You see if there's anything else that I want to cover that is talked about on the back of the box Now the software for the original wow mouse was pretty good and as far as I know we're using a very similar Software layout, but what I'll have to do is I'll have to update you guys once I have a chance to actually use the mouse So today we're going to focus on the physical aspects of it So first of all what we have included in the package yeah cameraman couldn't care less, but it's basically A little thing that tells you to download the latest drivers. You know oh quick start guide wow okay? We might find some more info in here It's quite thick which I guess is because there's a lot of languages to configure the mouse you launch the gaming mouse software via The start menu just speed and sensitivity you can program the buttons you can adjust the color intensity and pulsation effects So it does have the pulsation that the original wow mouse had you can choose up to 10 profiles with 14 different buttons and Let's see what else we have here and let me see Buttons and default settings here we go, so here they map out all the buttons Okay, well. There's not a whole lot in there actually it is a quick start guide all right So let's have a look at the wow mouse itself first thing is it's an MMO mouse, so it's all about buttons Let's show you guys where all of the buttons on this mouse are so we'll start on this side We have one two three four five buttons on the left side, so I'm not going to count this one I'll count that as a top button five here next we have one two three four five six seven eight on the top and Then finally on this side. We have an additional one So that is a total of 14 buttons on this mouse now Personally, I did not find the ergonomics of the original mount wow mouse to be quite to my liking it was more of a More of an ambidextrous shape, so it wasn't really fitted for a right hand Whereas the new wow mouse the cataclysm mouse actually borrows a little of the shape from my personal favorite mouse the Akari laser So you've got this same shape here to rest your two fingers on and then over on the other side The thumb buttons are actually in a much better position For someone like me to actually reach them the original wow mouse had some of the buttons were a little bit weird like you could kind of accidentally hit one when you mean to hit the other because they were all on kind of a Single button and it was more like a rocker switch, and I didn't really like that all that much But this is a much much better layout So these are going to be your back and forward buttons and windows and I guess the other ones are mostly intended for games use All right, so the overall finish of it now. This is not quite a production sample mouse But this should be pretty close to what we're expecting So it's kind of a worn armor look finished to the to the top of the mouse and then this is final So this is a pretty much a steel series safe staple this kind of rubberized Grippy feeling thing okay, so let's flip the mouse over here We find these steel series gaming grade engine as well as nice large Slippy pads on the bottom of the mouse so it's going to take you a long time to wear those guys out We have a very nice looking braided camera man wants to see that I guess we have a very nice braided cable here So you can see that they're using a very high quality sleeving when the cameraman finishes looking at the Gaming grade engine all right, so they use a great quality cable sleeving You can't see through that to the court at all, and then we'll have a look at sort of how long it is So yeah, it's about wow. It's actually really long court, and then we've got a Gold plated USB connector at the end to make sure that you're always making good connection between the mouse and the USB port So just show you guys a couple more views of the mouse itself because it really does look Pretty sharp so what I want to show you guys in I guess I'll do an upcoming video on this is I want to show you guys the driver configuration as well as the what it looks like with all the lighting effects enabled So don't forget to subscribe to Linus tech tips for follow up on this mouse more unboxings more reviews all that kind of good stuff And thank you for watching you