- I can't believe it.
I never thought I could afford a Porsche
but today that all changes.
I got it, it's a Porsche mouse.
This beautiful little car is made by Porsche.
How long do short circuits have to be?
(laughing)
This is one of the cheapest feeling pieces
of trash I've ever held in my life.
This is like a a $4 child's toy.
The plastic is crappy.
The paint might not be as
rub-off-able as I thought.
But overall, the build quality on this thing
is kind of embarrassing.
I'm surprised Porsche releases this
and has this on their website.
I thought this would've been like
an AliExpress knockoff thing
but that's the Porsche logo.
They have three different colors,
there's a white one with
blue and red racing stripes.
There's a black basic one.
And then there's this one
that's sort of colored
after the Porsche that won the Le Mans in 1970.
I looked up what that Porsche looks like.
Looks a lot cooler than this one. (laughing)
This doesn't look anything like it.
That one is a much more angular,
almost like a Ferrari looking car.
This is more of a classic Porsche shape
and it's a (bleep) mouse.
All right, what else is in the box?
A quick start guide
two AAs.
Porsche was also generous enough
to send us over this mouse pad.
Did we pay for this?
Even if they sent it for free,
it's a waste of money. (man in background laughs)
This is a terrible feeling mouse pad.
Recently, I unboxed the pointer instrument
from lunar artifacts
and that had a similarly sized,
almost exact same shape mouse pad
and that was a very premium looking full grain leather
with stitching.
And this feels like pleather.
I'm not even gonna give it
the vegan leather upgrade.
It feels like cardboard.
It feels like
90% of this is cardboard
with like a crappy foam in the middle.
Let's see how it looks all together.
Yeah, it looks like your six year old hit
your mouse and put a little hot wheels on your mouse pad.
Can I break it? (laughs)
I want to,
I feel like it'll be so therapeutic.
- [Sven] I just got confirmation
that we did buy this.
- Oh, what's the return policy?
I'll keep this mouse pad around.
Let's get back to the mouse.
On the top
it has a car roof
and two buttons
that might be the worst buttons
I've ever pressed in my entire life.
These are mushy.
It takes a lot of force to get it down
but even then
I'm not like a hundred percent sure if I've pressed.
It feels like there's rubber being compressed
and it's kind of hitting
a little button at the bottom.
They claim that this is an ergonomic design
and you could use this for work all day.
To be fair, it's light enough that it's not so bad
and the shape isn't the worst shape I've ever held.
It's not super comfortable for my grip.
I get no palm naturally touching.
I kind of have to
choke up a little bit
and where my fingers would naturally want to go,
the buttons feel especially terrible there.
So it's certainly not the worst ergonomics
of a mouse I've ever felt
but it is not great.
I'd give it a C minus.
Then when you put it with the cheap plastics,
it just feels like you're holding a toy.
That's not a good time.
Elsewhere on the mouse,
there's no buttons.
Just the printed Porsche with the 23
and taillights that are actually gonna light up
when I turn on the mouse.
Cool.
On the bottom we have our battery compartment,
we have our USB dongle storage.
I think that's a totally okay spot
to store it.
We have our on off switch.
We have our sensor that they do not advertise
the specs for anywhere on their website.
Could not find anything.
My guess is that this is a very cheap
older style optical mouse
and I don't expect it to perform super well.
We also have these three small glide pads.
It's actually not that bad
from terms of smoothness.
I've definitely had a worse gliding experience.
That's actually not so bad.
How fast do you think this thing can go?
Just like Ka-chow.
Wow
I can't believe I almost forgot to tell you
about our partnership with Paradox.
It was super cool of them to reach
out and want to sponsor this video.
They're letting everyone play
their hit game "City Skyline"
for free this weekend.
Starting May 18th,
you can download the game and jump right in.
Design a city, grow out its suburbs.
Try to solve the ever-growing traffic dilemma.
Or prove you can do a better job than your own mayor.
After designing a few spaghetti junctions of your own,
City Skylines will have you looking
at the roads in your own city differently.
Again, City Skyline is going free to play on May 18th
so check 'em out on the link below
or right on Steam.
Now that we have the mouse on,
you can see this beautiful taillight.
Incredible. Wow.
Okay. From the angle I'm looking at it from
which I'll show you here,
it actually looks
like that's simulating the look of
a taillight.
It has little sectioned off
parts, almost,
it's simulating what a car would look like
and then you flip it more vertical
and it's totally misaligned.
So the ones on this side are fully visible.
And the ones on this side
are kind of squeezed down a little bit.
That's embarrassing. (laughs)
The input latency on this
is insane.
It's like a sling shot.
So I move the mouse
and then
it takes like a second for the mouse to track behind it.
I think I could get used to it
if I was someone at a car dealership
and all I was doing was
filling out sales forms
and I'd just have to click things
or you get used to using keyboard shortcuts.
For anything else this is a terrible experience.
It feels like the mouse is defaulting
at 1600 dpi.
There's no software or anything that Porsche
includes.
Not that I'm surprised.
1600's fine.
I'll probably just have to turn down sensitivity in windows.
I didn't even talk about the scroll wheel.
It's tiny and it's really far up on the mouse.
If I'm doing the full palm,
it's okay.
My fingers rest right beside it.
But where I want to hold it,
it's a bit of a stretch.
Not ideal, especially when there's no other buttons
on the side of the mouse.
Also, why didn't they include
a sound?
If they're gonna go
for like a full stupid product,
it should vroom, vroom
every time I turn it on.
Oh, what am I doing?
I'm not even using the Porsche mouse pad.
I guess at 1600 DPIs, the small
of a mouse pad makes a little more sense.
The leather feels very
rough against my hands.
Like I'm catching.
It's not sticky
but it's definitely not a good experience.
Having like 20% of the mousepad be
this text means that this already tiny mouse pad
is even smaller.
This is really for people that love Porsche,
that rep Porsche
or
people that have never used a proper mouse?
I don't know.
I don't think I've ever used a mouse
that I want to use less than this one.
This is horrible.
Obviously no liftoff
sensor.
It's
when you kinda land,
it's gonna move.
Every time you lift off,
it's, this is terrible.
My hand's already hurting
on this corner taillight spot.
There's like a hard ridge
where the taillight is,
just for aesthetics.
But my palm right below my fourth finger
is resting there
and I can already feel it rubbing
and getting tired.
Even in terms of details,
this is a poor effort.
A Tesla level effort, you might say.
The gap between the shell plastic
and the base plastic here is small
and then where the buttons are
you can see that it's got an angle out.
You could say
yeah, so it can click down
but there's ways they can mitigate it
and there's still a gap that is about right
if I press on it.
Oh, oh, oh, you see that?
Oh no, that's bad.
The tracking is like,
feels so inconsistent.
Like sometimes I have to move far
to make the cursor go
and sometimes it's so sensitive.
And it's not this desk pad,
this beautiful desk pad from lttstore.com.
I know that.
I've let the mouse sit for
a minute or so
and it takes a second for it to wake up.
Not a huge deal.
They also say you're gonna
wanna manually turn off the switch on the mouse.
So I'm guessing that it doesn't really have a good standby
and it'll just chew through batteries.
Oh, it's all Rocket Launcher.
That's so fun.
I don't know if this game mode's the best testing precision
but I mean, to be fair
this mouse isn't the most precise one either.
In a pinch, if you're trying to get away with
getting in a couple games of Halo
in between clients
at the Porsche dealership,
I guess this is fine.
This sensor is clearly
a underwhelming sensor.
Sometimes I move a little bit
and it just keeps going.
Almost like when it's a bad Bluetooth
device and
it loses signal so it keeps
sending the input
and then once it finally gets there,
it's done it a hundred times.
There's not much else to say.
This mouse sucks.
Let's open it up and see if we can see why.
(box clanks)
This mouse doesn't look super hard to pull apart.
There's only the one visible screw.
I don't think there's any more under the glide pad.
It was designed to go together very cheaply.
Oh, there might be another one.
Oh, it's probably under this.
Is it okay if I destroy the manufacturer label thingy?
Oh, it wasn't.
I screwed up.
No.
(bleep)
I really don't wanna take a glide pad off
but it seems like I'm gonna have to.
Is it okay if I take the glide pads off?
Okay, these are switches.
It felt very much like rubber
but it has little switches,
so, yay.
Mouse is pretty easy to disassemble.
There's this little daughterboard
I'm guessing just for the LEDs
and the main board is here with the sensor.
Looks like it's not impossible to replace.
Overall,
Don't get this mouse unless Porsche gives it to you
for free.
It's a complete waste of your time and money.
It's a little more than a toy,
it's a bad mouse.
It doesn't even look good.
If you are making an aesthetic expensive product
it has to at the very least not look like a (bleep) $2
children's toy
and this does not succeed at doing that.
And so this is probably the product
that I've hated the most
on this entire run of short circuits.
How much does it cost?
$120.
You can buy so much with $120.
You can buy so many other mice.
You can buy a good mouse.
Gou can get a G Pro for 120 bucks.
You can get like 24 lattes.
I would highly recommend getting 24 all at once.
Chugging them, throwing up, feeling sick for week
and still having a better time than using this mouse.
How much is the mouse pad?
- [Sven] $100.
- No. Are you (bleep) kidding me?
- [Sven] I'm dead serious.
- So combined,
if you want the full Porsche mouse experience,
it's $220.
That is so much (bleep) money.
What are they thinking?
I guess they know
who their audience is.
They know that this is a niche product.
There's gonna be people there that just want it
for the collectability of it.
Don't get it.
It sucks.
It looks bad, it feels bad.
It's a terrible mouse.
It's a piece of garbage
and it's literally e-waste
even before you've taken it outta the box.
Thank you for watching Short Circuit.
Like and subscribe.
You should also check out our recent unboxing
of the lunar artifacts
pointer instrument
for another aesthetics focused mouse
but one that didn't make me quite as mad.
And after this, maybe I like it a lot more than I thought.