The Razer Boomslang twentieth Anniversary Version is a celebration of the place it began for Razer. It takes the corporate’s first gaming mouse design and, 20 years on, packs it with the newest cutting-edge tech to create what ought to be an ultra-desirable collectors’ version. Nevertheless, Razer then put a worth on it.
By no means one to shrink back from an aspirational worth, Razer has gone all out with the Razer Boomslang twentieth Anniversary Version. Regardless of not being constructed from stable gold, it prices an eye-watering $1,337. Or ought to I say value, as all 1,337 of those restricted version mice are already offered out. Nonetheless, having tracked it down at Razer’s sales space at Dreamhack UK – the place the $1m ESL One Dota 2 match is happening – I needed to give this actually bonkers new mouse a strive.
If you have not received the joke but, ‘1337’ was a part of the l33t-speak parlance of the time, used to acknowledge elite abilities. Oh man, typing that made me really feel previous…
Introduced in a really swanky, leatherette-bound round field, the Razer Boomslang twentieth Anniversary Version comes with a wi-fi charging dock that is superb for actually displaying off your elite buy in your desk.
Nevertheless, like its latest Phantom Inexperienced assortment, the mouse solely is available in a like it or detest it translucent inexperienced plastic end. It is an fascinating look in and of itself, however as soon as lit up with RGB lighting… we’ll allow you to be the decide.
What you in all probability will not be capable of decide and totally admire for your self, nevertheless, is simply how extensive this mouse is. Regardless of being of prime age to have owned one of many authentic Boomslangs, I’ve by no means held one earlier than, and it is fairly the odd expertise. The left and proper buttons space is just not far off twice the width of a traditional mouse, and it feels actually unusual.
The buttons themselves, too, have a peculiar fake leather-based floor that’s truly barely delicate to the contact. It actually supplies grippy really feel.
The facet buttons will probably be very unfamiliar to trendy fingers, with one either side of the mouse and tucked in behind the protruding entrance part for five-fingers-at-once mousing enjoyable. It additionally makes for a very ambidextrous design, which is one thing we do not see sufficient of nowadays.
Inside, you actually do have the newest prime tech. There’s the corporate’s Focus Professional 45K Gen-2 optical sensor, fourth-gen optical switches, and it may ballot at as much as 8kHz. Battery life can be a powerful 145 hours, however you’d hope so given it weighs 110g! A Viper V4 Professional different, it is not.
In the end, it ought to come as no shock that such an previous design hasn’t fairly stood the check of time. A twentieth anniversary version of the Viper, although… Now we’re speaking.
