{"id":460970,"date":"2026-02-05T22:36:11","date_gmt":"2026-02-05T22:36:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/460970\/"},"modified":"2026-02-05T22:36:11","modified_gmt":"2026-02-05T22:36:11","slug":"razer-wants-to-sell-you-a-1337-gaming-mouse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/460970\/","title":{"rendered":"Razer Wants to Sell You a $1,337 Gaming Mouse"},"content":{"rendered":"

Oh God, the puns. Razer, ever the company to throw subtlety out the window,<\/a> is trying to make you nostalgic for one of the oddest gaming mice it ever devised. The PC gaming brand is marketing its $1,337 mouse (yes, that\u2019s meant to spell \u201cL33T\u201d) with the kind of \u201cleetspeak\u201d we abandoned to the dumpster bin of internet parlance two decades ago.<\/p>\n

The limited edition Razer Boomslang 20th Anniversary Edition<\/a> isn\u2019t the kind of mouse that\u2019s made to be used. Its price would make you think the snake tongue-shaped ambidextrous mouse is lined with 24K gold or that its components are built with the expert precision of an indentured Oompa Loompa (and since it\u2019s Razer, they would likely be colored green rather than orange). Instead, the mouse includes a PU leather left- and right-click button. That material also wraps around the backside just above a tasteful eight-zone strip of RGB lighting along the bottom edge. The translucent sickly green plastic finish of the original Boomslang has been replaced with a deeper emerald green.<\/p>\n

\"RazerThe 20th anniversary Boomslang also comes with a components case to see what parts are inside. \u00a9 Razer <\/p>\n

The original mouse was crafted back in 1999 by PC peripheral pioneers like Robert \u201cRazerguy\u201d Krakoff back when the company was owned by K\u00e4rna. Krakoff died in 2022 at the age of 81, though current Razer CEO Min-Liang Tan also contributed to the Boomslang\u2019s design. Of course, with that pedigree, the company would give their age-old mouse a big party. That doesn\u2019t mean the price is any easier to swallow. Razer announced<\/a> this mouse back in December last year, so it\u2019s technically a little off from the exact 20-year anniversary. Either way, it\u2019s the thought that counts.<\/p>\n

This Boomslang is a leather-clad DeathAdder mouse \"RazerCompare the original green color to the modern iteration. \u00a9 Razer <\/p>\n

This iteration of the Boomslang is a modern mouse in most ways except for the shell. The new Boomslang takes many of the same guts from the company\u2019s latest DeathAdder V4 Pro\u2014a high-end gaming mouse with an optical sensor (gone is the original\u2019s mechanical ball tracking) and a leading 45,000 DPI. Compare that to the original Boomslang, which maxed out at 2,000 DPI, which is insufficient for professional gaming today, but it did lead the competition back in 1999. Razer\u2019s limited edition mouse also sports the same 8,000Hz polling rate as the DeathAdder V4 Pro, which is a blisteringly fast speed for communicating mouse position with your PC.<\/p>\n

Just like the DeathAdder V4 Pro, the 20th anniversary Boomslang uses Razer\u2019s modern optical switches. I\u2019ve enjoyed these Gen 4 switches on the V4 Pro well enough to know they\u2019ll feel fine on this $1,337 mouse. There are another eight customizable controls on the mouse, including two buttons on either side of the wheel and the port and starboard of the mouse itself. Unlike the original Boomslang, the new model comes with a stand that acts as a wireless charging dock as well as the 2.4GHz connection to your PC.<\/p>\n

\"RazerThe new version of the mouse uses an optical sensor and optical switches. \u00a9 Razer <\/p>\n

Razer told Gizmodo that the new Boomslang costs as much as it does not just because of the meme, but because it\u2019s indeed limited. The company is making only 1,337 of these. It will come in its own special PU leather case to help it serve as a centerpiece item for PC gaming collectors. Here\u2019s the rub: this mouse is not meant to be your daily driver, nor your elite gaming mouse you pull out when you want to wreck face. Not only does it eschew the ergonomic mouse innovations of the last 20 years, but its faux leather material also isn\u2019t built to facilitate your Cheeto fingers for hours on end.<\/p>\n

The company said that if users take care of it and wash it down after use, it should last them for a while. Still, it\u2019s better to think of the new Boomslang as a centerpiece model for your gaming setup, perhaps to fill you with fond memories for when you would use \u201cL33T\u201d unironically. Preorders are set to begin Feb. 10 at 11 a.m. ET \/ 8 a.m. PT.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Oh God, the puns. Razer, ever the company to throw subtlety out the window, is trying to make…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":460971,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[64,63,1853,129126,136064,105],"class_list":["post-460970","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-gaming","tag-mice","tag-razer","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/460970","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=460970"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/460970\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/460971"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=460970"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=460970"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=460970"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}