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welcome to my unboxing and first look at something that we actually detailed pretty reasonably well during our CES coverage but I'm extremely excited to have it properly hands-on so that we can check out everything from the retail packaging to all that other good stuff so this is the orb weaver from razer and it features a package with not one not two but three seals in the top that I now get to break with my knife this is the first time that I have seen one of these game pads that is fully mechanical and not just fully mechanical but mechanical Cherry MX blues so my personal favorite kind of mechanical we're going to go ahead open up the box where we find presumably I haven't seen it yet but presumably as always razors immaculate attention to detail when it comes to their packaging look at that even the inside of the outer shell box is black because that is how they roll so on the bottom we find a couple of things we find the gold plated USB connector would have liked to see a braided cable here so that's a little bit unfortunate but it's up to you guys doesn't increase performance or anything it's just the kind of detail I would have expected razor to include we've got some Razer stickers which everyone likes I think at least people who like the Razer logo would like Razer stickers I like the Razer logo although I don't think I've ever put Razer stickers on something congratulations there's no turning back and there's a baby crying we will be back in a moment sorry about that guys he bumped his head so I'm taking over for a little bit he's feeling better already but I just want to show you guys all the details of the orb-weaver itself we've got it plugged in so you can see the brilliant green LED lighting effects in fact you'll be able to see them a little bit better if we kill the house lights and you check these things out check them out just like the Black Widow ultimate 2013 the lighting is extremely vibrant and very green I've encountered other backlit switches that just don't have that same that same depth to the green color but yeah the Black Widow ultimate 2013 and this one are very very vibrant so let's get the lights back and show you guys we have when tea fully programmable keys so using Razer synapse 2.0 you can change the functionality to whatever you want including macros and because it's cloud-based your profiles go with you on the fly all you have to do is log into your synapse profile and you're good to go over here we have a again mechanical analog stick a thumb rest as well as an additional button here that can act as a shift giving you access to up to 40 programmable keys if you hold shift and press it versus if you don't hold shift and press it you can put in different functionality it's also extremely customizable in terms of the length so you've got two pieces here just going to sit him down there's all pin right here that you pull out and you can release this palm rest so that it can be in either down up or free moving mode giving you the ability to just kind of have it float with you as you move your hand back and forth and slick and I have already each tried this before but when you expand it to the max so using this clip right here to expand this piece there we go let's just show you guys that in detail baby as the backdrop there we go all the way and this clip right here to expand the thumb or contract it whichever you prefer you can have it big enough for Slick's hands where you can see my hands are look ridiculous on it and I can't even reach the keys hardly versus if I put it all the way in we could have it see this is where I was going with this okay maybe not quite small enough for baby hands but pretty darn close right you a gamer there you go there you go champ alright let's see if I'm missing anything else about it so we got Razer synapse 2.0 instantaneous switching between eight different key maps oh that's right okay so there's an indicator over here that allows you to switch between different key maps backlit keyboard adjustable hansom and programmable a tweed oh yeah it's an eight way directional thumb pad I should have mentioned that and I just want to talk a little bit about the overall build quality of this guy it is unbelievable so it has that same feel that high quality mechanical keyboards have theirs zero flex to the device on the keyboard itself I mean I can't I can't demo flex because there is no flex and the Cherry MX blue switches feel extremely responsive and have that satisfying sound that you expect from well Cherry MX blue switches the rubber pads on the bottom are using a high quality rubber grip so it's not going to go anywhere while you're gaming and we were actually having this conversation off-camera between me and the production crew here where we figure you know what probably one of the reasons that the packaging is not quite what you'd normally see from Razer and you know the cords not braided is because this is an extremely expensive device to manufacture compared to competing products out there like something like a Nostromo for example because it uses mechanical key switches the cost of making it goes up immensely so thank you for checking out my unboxing and first look at the Razer orb-weaver don't forget to subscribe to Linus tech tips for more unboxings reviews and other computer videos