- Okay, confession time.
It's been many years since I've been, how you say,
excited by a Razer gaming mouse.
But that all changes today
with the Razer DeathAdder, not that,
DeathAdder V2 Mini.
Everyone's always talking about it like,
"Oh, where's my left-handed mouse for lefthanded gamers,"
or, "Where's my, you know, many-button mouse for MMO gamers?
"Where's my teeny-tiny little mouse
"for gamers with teeny-tiny hands?"
Razer has finally answered that question.
So they sent over both the V2 Mini and the regular V2
for me to try it out and see
if this is the solution to my ergonomic woes.
62 grams, ultra lightweight ergonomic design.
A little less impressive when we consider
that it's just smaller.
8500 DPI optical sensor for precise tracking.
Sure, okay.
Speedflex cable for minimal drag and fluid swipes.
Onboard memory profile.
Razer optical mouse switch for actuation
at the speed of light.
And included mouse grip tape.
According to, well, the box anyway,
these features are all, oh, maybe the same.
Do I not get the eight programmable buttons?
It says the world's best gaming mouse now mini.
It better be the same mouse.
It better be just as good.
There's no green accent on the scroll wheel, hm.
There's a comparison with the full size one
on the side of the box.
They didn't have to send me a full size one.
I could have just looked at the comparison.
Wow, all right then.
(box crashes)
Actually, I'm gonna need that, one second.
(mumbling) Oh, oh yeah.
Okay.
Ah, I'm back.
(wrapper rustling)
Wow.
So this is what they call their Speedflex cable, hey?
To me, it just looks like an ill-fitted braided sleeve.
I wonder why they feel there's an advantage to that.
I guess it probably does make the,
just like the rubber-coated cable inside
a little bit more true to its natural flexiness,
but it also makes the whole thing quite a lot thicker.
I mean, I realize you're thinking of snakes,
but your mouse cord doesn't have to look like
it ate a small rodent, you know?
Let's look at the DeathAdder for first-class citizens.
(packaging crinkling)
(mouse thumps)
Wow, they've both got the same weird cable.
Right out of the gate, that is really small. (laughs)
I mean, okay,
does that look really small?
Does that look unnatural, Brandon?
- No. - No, that looks like,
okay, how about now?
Compared to this, does it look a little small?
- [Brandon] It's smaller.
- It's like little baby one.
- [Brandon] That's kinda the point, isn't it?
It's mini.
- Yeah, yeah, I suppose so.
It also seems to have been downgraded
in a couple of key ways here.
Let's take a closer look at it.
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Down on the bottom, we've got our slippy pad-amajigs here.
All right.
Over on the side, got our forward and back buttons.
Switches don't seem to be,
don't seem to have a consistent sound.
(switches clicking)
No, it seems to just have to do with the shape
of the housing, okay.
Got a single button up here that gives us a total
of one, two, three, four, five, six buttons.
Where's the eight on this one?
One, one, two, three, four, five, six, seven.
Wait a minute.
These aren't even close.
I didn't even realize the DeathAdder V2
is a 20,000 DPI mouse.
The Mini doesn't even have RGB on the Razer logo.
Left and right clicks feel okay,
maybe a touch hollow.
No, I would say they're very, very similar
to the full-size DeathAdder,
and any difference could be attributed to just
the decrease in leverage due to the length
of the buttons up here.
Middle click feels nice and click-y.
And this button's a little softer,
but still feels like a nice, nice quality click.
Another area they cheaped out though,
is the coding on the side.
So the regular DeathAdder has kind of like a rubberized
kind of textured grip.
Whereas, the DeathAdder Mini V2,
like the regular DeathAdder V2, does not.
It's just just plastic.
Actually, it also feels like there is a rubberized finish
on these side buttons here,
whereas the V2 is just plastic again.
Interesting.
The V2 Mini consumes half as much power.
Let's throw a gaming laptop into this
and see if it holds up.
"Congratulations on getting
"your DeathAdder V2 Mini connected."
Good job.
You plugged it in.
All right.
Tell you what, Razer, we'll install your driver.
Gotta restart?
Oh my God.
So Razer DeathAdder Mini V2.
What is Hypershift?
Hypershift.
Alright, set to 1,000 Hertz out of the box.
Oh, I lied!
Hey, there is RGB lighting.
Nice!
Still has fewer zones than the other one.
I'm still second class,
but that's pretty good.
That's pretty bright, it's vibrant.
I like it.
Calibration.
Let's add a surface.
Why is the LTT pad not in here?
I challenge you, Razer, to have the LTT pad in here
when we release it.
All right, let's play some video games.
You know,
I might kinda like the size.
Interesting, it felt kinda like,
you know those Bluetooth travel mice?
It had that kinda vibe at first for me,
but when I stopped thinking about it,
I didn't notice that at all.
This is pretty natural for me to use.
I still think for most adults,
it's gonna be, ah, a little on the small side still,
even if you have really small hands.
But this is the kinda thing that would be perfect
to get for like a pre-adolescent gamer, for example.
This is feeling pretty good.
Like I am,
I am flicking from opponent to opponent here,
real comfortable styles.
Yeah, it's really light.
Light in a way that a larger mouse just can't be,
'cause it just, you know, has more material and all that.
I kinda like it.
Wired mice are kinda dead to me at this point
now that I've switched to a G Pro Wireless at home.
But like, I don't know,
I don't know what I was expecting.
We can try the full size one.
When I initially put my hand on the Mini,
I was like, "Oh, this feels tiny, this feels ridiculous."
But now I put my hands on the big one, I'm like,
"This is clearly designed for someone with hands,
"you know, 30% bigger than mine."
Yeah, like this feels like, I don't know,
like I meant to eat a hot dog
and I accidentally grabbed a smokey, you know?
So you're still a second-class citizen.
You don't get the grippy sides or anything like that.
Honestly, I don't really even feel like I need them
that much though, 'cause the most is so freaking light.
So bottom line is if you got small hands,
like dang, this ain't a bad route to go, is it?
No, no it isn't.
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(imitates shooting)