The keyboard has backlit keys which are nice because I personally play in the dark most of the time with nothing but the glow of my monitor and it makes it easy to see what key I am pressing, even though I do not look at the keyboard for typing I still need to look when I am going for the G keys.
There are two USB ports on the front of the keyboard. I am using one for my G5 mouse which works great together and frees up another USB slot in the back of my computer enabling me to leave everything plugged in now.
The keys are fairly firm when you are typing but if you are really checking the keys you can notice a little bit of play in them, however I quite like this because some times with my old keyboard I would press the key from a weird angle and it wouldn't go down, it would just stay there stuck and I would need to press again. The volume control is fairly cheap feeling in the sense that it has no grip other then a little indent.
There is also another small thing that they have on both the G11 and the G15 and that is a switch from desktop to games. When in games it disables the Windows key. I do not know how many times I have accidentally pressed this key in the middle of a gun fight and gotten killed because of it.
The programmable G keys, oh how I am starting to love these keys already. You are able to program them to do what you want through their software and profile manager. I currently play CSS but I am playing on a death match server, and the buy menu is changed because of that so just scripting keys to the buy commands doesn't work, however I am able to program it to do the equivalent of pressing keys in order. For instance I need it to press “1, then 3, then 2” so I programed it to do just that and it works great. There are also on the fly programing where you press the MR button then the G key you wish to program then you start pressing away on the keyboard and it remembers what you do and then when you are done you press the MR button again and when you press that specific G key it does it again exactly the way you just did it.
The overall appeal of the keyboard is great, I switched from a Logitech wireless keyboard that I got out of the Wireless Duo package and I am not in the closest regretting it at all. The only feature that I would like to see is having your headphone jack and mic jack built on to the keyboard in the next Gen of the Logitech G series.
Pros:
Blacklit Keys
Programmable G Keys
USB Ports
Windows/Gaming Switch
Look
Cons:
Cheap Feeling Volume Control
1 comment:
What you said about how it needs the mic and headphone out built into it is actualy one of the firtst things I was thinking it needed too. I've had mine for about 2 weeks now and no issues at all. seems to be a sturdy keyboard big as hell tho. And one last thing is yes the volume was cheaply made but the single bump grip is more then good enough aslong as you didnt just finish eating a bar of butter.
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