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I received my G15 keyboard yesterday via UPS, and decided to go ahead and pick up the G5 mouse at my local Best buy as well to make it a set. I've been using it now for a couple of hours (minor chest pain has kept me awake early this morning), so here's a couple of pics and my impressions so far.
Keep in mind that this is my first Logitech inputs I've ever owned, as I'm normally a Microsoft man. I'm coming from the excellent, but old, Office keyboard and an Intellimouse Explorer (3.0 I think?).
First up, the keyboard is very, very nice. So far I'm not disappointed in this thing at all. With it being dark in the room upon first bootup, Windows installed some drivers that would work for it, and the blue lighting lit up for the first time. I cycled through the two light levels (3 if you count them being off). In my decently dark room, there was hardly any noticeable difference between the lowest light setting and highest light setting. You could see them brighten just a bit, but if someone set them to low and high and made me guess, it'd be luck of the draw.
The keyboard lit up.
I do like how just the keys light up, and doesn't give so much of an ambient glow around them. It makes for a very slick looking presentation
The LCD is also very nice, and held atleast one surprise for me. When booting up, it shows the Logitech screen, and when booting into windows, cycles through showing the date/time and CPU/RAM usage. The LCD updates fairly fvcking quickly, basically instantaneously. When installing the background program from the CD, this was about all the options you could go with, besides the media player function, which will show song title, album title, and position in song. A volume bar also pops up when adjusting the volume. It will cycle through all this stuff, or stay on one, depending on what you set in the program. You also have the option to manually cycle through what you want via some nondescript black buttons below the LCD (which almost blend in with casing) and above the volume and media controls. This would be helpful to keep a definite eye on game stats (once someone programs something) or CPU usage without it cycling to other stuff while playing a game. And if you did want to switch mid-game, you could without exiting.
And now to the surprise I wasn't expecting. With the CPU meter, updating in real time, shows both core usage! Very nice. Logitech thought of the gamers (a good thing since it's a gamers keyboard).
The dual-CPU LCD display in action.
A close-up look at the lighting on the keys. As you can see, little pieces of some of the keys do not light up, like the n on 3/Pg Dn or the e on Home. I would imagine this is with all the G15 keyboards, not just mine.
Next up is the mouse. There's not much to say about this thing, except that it works. The on-the-fly sensitivity works perfectly, the buttons feel solid, and the addable weights are fantastic. The grip feels a bit like a gritty rubber. Not sure how it will be yet, as I've yet to play a game with the mouse. The wheel doesn't feel as good as my old MS intellimouse, but I'm sure I was just used to the old one. Once I wear it in, it'll be good as new
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The weights come in a sleek looking tin case, with the G5 logo emblazoned on it. The weights are a really, really nice idea, and work perfectly.
The laser tracks fine on my medium colored mouse pad. I've not had one hiccup with tracking, and I hope it stays that way.
Pic of G5 with flash.
I know a couple of others here have picked up the G15 (and more with the G5), but ask any question you might have, or request particular pics if you want, I don't mind.
Keep in mind that this is my first Logitech inputs I've ever owned, as I'm normally a Microsoft man. I'm coming from the excellent, but old, Office keyboard and an Intellimouse Explorer (3.0 I think?).
First up, the keyboard is very, very nice. So far I'm not disappointed in this thing at all. With it being dark in the room upon first bootup, Windows installed some drivers that would work for it, and the blue lighting lit up for the first time. I cycled through the two light levels (3 if you count them being off). In my decently dark room, there was hardly any noticeable difference between the lowest light setting and highest light setting. You could see them brighten just a bit, but if someone set them to low and high and made me guess, it'd be luck of the draw.
The keyboard lit up.
I do like how just the keys light up, and doesn't give so much of an ambient glow around them. It makes for a very slick looking presentation
The LCD is also very nice, and held atleast one surprise for me. When booting up, it shows the Logitech screen, and when booting into windows, cycles through showing the date/time and CPU/RAM usage. The LCD updates fairly fvcking quickly, basically instantaneously. When installing the background program from the CD, this was about all the options you could go with, besides the media player function, which will show song title, album title, and position in song. A volume bar also pops up when adjusting the volume. It will cycle through all this stuff, or stay on one, depending on what you set in the program. You also have the option to manually cycle through what you want via some nondescript black buttons below the LCD (which almost blend in with casing) and above the volume and media controls. This would be helpful to keep a definite eye on game stats (once someone programs something) or CPU usage without it cycling to other stuff while playing a game. And if you did want to switch mid-game, you could without exiting.
And now to the surprise I wasn't expecting. With the CPU meter, updating in real time, shows both core usage! Very nice. Logitech thought of the gamers (a good thing since it's a gamers keyboard).
The dual-CPU LCD display in action.
A close-up look at the lighting on the keys. As you can see, little pieces of some of the keys do not light up, like the n on 3/Pg Dn or the e on Home. I would imagine this is with all the G15 keyboards, not just mine.
Next up is the mouse. There's not much to say about this thing, except that it works. The on-the-fly sensitivity works perfectly, the buttons feel solid, and the addable weights are fantastic. The grip feels a bit like a gritty rubber. Not sure how it will be yet, as I've yet to play a game with the mouse. The wheel doesn't feel as good as my old MS intellimouse, but I'm sure I was just used to the old one. Once I wear it in, it'll be good as new
.The weights come in a sleek looking tin case, with the G5 logo emblazoned on it. The weights are a really, really nice idea, and work perfectly.
The laser tracks fine on my medium colored mouse pad. I've not had one hiccup with tracking, and I hope it stays that way.
Pic of G5 with flash.
I know a couple of others here have picked up the G15 (and more with the G5), but ask any question you might have, or request particular pics if you want, I don't mind.
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