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by popular demand we have the SteelSeries Sens day which is the replacement for the zai both of which are cruel jokes for gamers who have a bit of a list like myself alright so let's open up this bad boy and take out the most will find a braided cord we find a bag of do not eat and what else do we have oh oh documentation all right all right and then we've got the mouse itself so it is the replacement for the zai as I mentioned before so what makes the essence' special compared to the zai well I will get into that in a moment let's have a look at what's included first this is a Quick Start Guide and that's a stick Quick Start Guide look at that so in a bunch of different languages because SteelSeries does sell worldwide so that's one reason why they might do that got some features got some firmware update instructions on most menu systems okay cool cool cool I'll go through that a little bit when we're looking at the mouse itself and then we have a SteelSeries catalog which includes a bunch of stuff including as i saw on the back some stuff that's not even out yet their Diablo 3 stuff which is coming it looks really cool okay so the sensei itself it's got some we didn't really look at the box much we've got a couple of professional gamer testimonials one from Patrick Karn Seth okay he's the Swedish Swedish national team captain and then we've also got grubby on here who's a Warcraft 3 guru all right finally we've got ok SteelSeries what they have to say for themselves so ambidextrous shape and comfortable grip coating I can vouch for that because the grip is actually and the shape is actually the same as the zai which preceded it ok it has a 32-bit ARM processor on board which makes it according to SteelSeries the most customizable gaming most ever built you can enable advanced on ok they've enabled advanced advanced on mouse calculations it allows unprecedented personal setups and millisecond response times it was born for tournament victory and built to help you win okay what else we got here in terms of the overall feature set so economic yes yes ah they claim it is optimized for all types palm claw and fingertip grip okay no palm paw and swipe actually swipe I'm not familiar with so if anyone is a youtuber out there who wants to comment on the video and link me what swipe grip is I would be very much obliged all right it has programmable illumination 16.8 million color options that is enabled on your mouse wheel here on your okay on the sigh this was the DPI toggle but I don't know what it does on the sensei and then finally on the SteelSeries logo at the back you can change those to whatever color you want instant effortless setup via the built-in LCD on the bottom so you can have up to five gaming profiles as well as SteelSeries exact tech precision settings which I'm going to talk about a little bit after because that is one of the reasons that SteelSeries is still my preferred Mouse of choice okay Mouse of choice of preferred mouse you can't really say both but I haven't Akari lays around my desk at home and I love it and it is because of the SteelSeries software LCD supports user personalized bitmaps so actually this is kind of cool check this out you can actually put on little like logos and stuff down there that's something that I don't believe was enabled on my Akari laser so there you go they've updated that particular feature and you can double your mouth speed with DCPI from fifty seven hundred to eleven point four thousand CPI fascinating okay supported by steel series engine technology offering operation configuration customization and advanced macros across the steel series peripherals also let you guys have a look at the overall specs here so there's your counts per inch which is steel series what they claims is a more accurate way of measuring compared to dpi which is what everyone else uses which is dots per inch okay one of the other cool things that about the CPI concept itself from steel series is that they believe you should have the utmost control and you can actually adjust your counts per inch all the way from one which would be just phenomenally slow up to fifty seven hundred in one increment so you see a lot of mice that offer you six hundred eight hundred 1000 dpi settings and those are all preset you can't really alter them well steel series actually allows you to adjust in increments of one absolutely whatever you desire so let's take some closer looks at the mouse itself you got your forward and your back buttons here for your right-handed people and then you've got your forward and back buttons here for your left-handed people so it is truly ambidextrous remember to though if you're right-handed you can also reach these buttons with your pink here with your ring finger if you want to go ahead and use those for macros or you know copy paste or you know in-game functions whatever the case may be finally up here you've got what is also a programmable button but I believe by default it's which is the CPI you've got your mouse wheel and you have your left and your right clicks on the bottom you see your SteelSeries gaming grade engine which I believe they mean laser okay so that's your laser sensor on the bottom of the mouse and you've got your usual slippy feet those are your nonstick surfaces which are very durable if my Akari is anything to go by which I've had actually for a couple years now we also got a SteelSeries sticker with it and last but not least I did want to say a little bit of something about the settings in the SteelSeries software so there's a few different things as exact cents so that is what I talked about before with the exact CPI setting there's free move which allows you to adjust motion correction personally I hate motion correction although some gamers feel differently about it one way or another I turn this all the way off and I love having this option where I can turn off angle snapping I can turn off prediction and I don't have to deal with that exactly where I move the mouse is exactly where I want it to go folks I don't want any compensation and SteelSeries allows me to do that that's actually pretty much it oh these are kind of neat exact acceleration I've never used this before but the acceleration works by increasing the CPI as the mouse is moved quickly and then there's exact aim which actually reduces the CPI as the mouse's move slowly allowing users to focus in on targets personally I prefer a more linear response but feel free to play around with those settings so you can get the most out of your sensei at least they do offer the option thank you for checking out my unboxing of the sensei as you guys can probably tell at this point bit of a SteelSeries mouse fanboy so I'm really looking forward to playing around with this guy very excited so I just want to show you guys the lighting effect on the sensei and I've got it on a test bench which I'm very excited about dual GTX 590 s gigabyte g1 assassin 990 X Extreme Edition anyway so that's the kind of gaming hardware hopefully you can you can hook your sensei up to so there's the SteelSeries logo on the back there's the indicator up here and then you can see also the lighting on this each side of the mouse wheel so it's not super dark in here so the lighting effects are quite bright on there there you have it thank you for checking out my unboxing and don't forget to subscribe to Linus tech tips from our boxing's reviews and other computer videos