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welcome to my unboxing and first look at the Roccat Kone xtd they're calling this their Mac's customization gaming mouse now in terms of the actual performance and hardware specs it's not that different from something like a cone 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 Roccat shift+ 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 cone what's it called poem pure I think I called it Plus before unlike the cone 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 4 customizable LEDs so that you have different colors that blend into each other and these are these are multicolored 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 raw cat's 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 father 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 organ AMA Klee shaped Mouse it is significantly bigger bigger than the cone P R so you can see the size difference right there where the cone P R 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 this is more of a palm Mouse for me however if we took someone with larger hands such as my handy Betty's here filming assistants lik you can see that that's that's way better right I don't think you could palm that though could you 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 cone pier 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 cone xtd also has a weight system which is another thing that the pier 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 cone pier where the top ones are one large piece rather than two separated pieces because sometimes there can be issues with these these ones coming off I'm not saying Rockets not using a whoops and adequate adhesive I'm just saying that I've had it happen in the past we have other mice so there you go take that for what it is and let's go ahead and plug this in ah 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 most feature is rocket talk 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 new ok 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 like bonuses to functionality based on using matching gear like an MMO inspired kind of thing it does feature there TDC U which is basically a configurable like 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 mousepad and yeah that's good get a good shot of me like cheating on my rocket achievements right so there's a 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 multicolored LEDs 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 that's shutter speed okay why don't you do its 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 cone xtd from rocket don't forget to subscribe to Linus tech tips for more unboxings reviews and other computer videos