WEBVTT 00:00:00.520 --> 00:00:06.560 welcome to my unboxing and first look at the 00:00:03.640 --> 00:00:12.040 g119s this is the first refresh we've seen for for a flagship keyboard from 00:00:09.240 --> 00:00:17.119 Logitech since the original g19 which added a full color LCD to the already 00:00:15.440 --> 00:00:22.000 awesome features of the g15 um unless you count the g710 plus 00:00:20.439 --> 00:00:27.080 which is a mechanical gaming keyboard so the g19 is not mechanical but it does 00:00:24.680 --> 00:00:31.640 have their game panel LCD technology as well as their new Advanced surface 00:00:30.039 --> 00:00:37.960 materials so with their new G Series logitech's sort of tagline is science 00:00:35.320 --> 00:00:42.520 wins and the idea is that by strategically applying better quality 00:00:40.239 --> 00:00:46.879 materials and Advanced Materials to the products they can make them look better 00:00:44.039 --> 00:00:51.280 over time and feel better to use so inside you find not a whole lot there's 00:00:48.719 --> 00:00:55.879 a little uh quick start guide setup guide there's a wrist rest and an AC 00:00:53.760 --> 00:00:59.440 adapter because it has a built-in monitor basically it has a built-in 00:00:57.480 --> 00:01:03.879 screen on it you actually do need to power this keyboard from the wall in 00:01:01.160 --> 00:01:09.360 addition to the USB power but the advantage to this is that the built-in 00:01:06.200 --> 00:01:12.000 USB ports on the keyboard itself are not 00:01:09.360 --> 00:01:16.119 passive so they don't rely on the power provided from your computer which means 00:01:13.880 --> 00:01:20.759 they are powered ports and you can run more uh Power hungry devices off of them 00:01:18.479 --> 00:01:26.000 such as things like uh I don't know USB speakers or whatever else where a lot of 00:01:23.119 --> 00:01:30.439 the time with regular hubs built into keyboards you do not have that 00:01:28.520 --> 00:01:34.520 functionality so on the bottom of the keyboard you've got what logitech's 00:01:32.479 --> 00:01:38.079 calling their Cable Management so you can see here you're able to route your 00:01:37.000 --> 00:01:43.040 you I don't know whether it's your probably your headphone cable or whatever else you want to run through 00:01:40.920 --> 00:01:47.119 here either through this side through this Edge through this edge up here down 00:01:45.399 --> 00:01:50.960 here wherever you want it to go in fact you can have things come out wherever 00:01:49.079 --> 00:01:54.040 you want down here which is kind of nice because how many times have you guys 00:01:52.759 --> 00:01:57.320 been sitting playing a game and you got your headset cable over top of your hand 00:01:56.159 --> 00:02:01.759 and it's just I don't know it's just annoying right so there you go there's 00:01:59.399 --> 00:02:04.680 my little rant about that you can adjust the angle of the keyboard just by 00:02:03.039 --> 00:02:09.399 pulling up these feet here I wouldn't have minded seeing these uh with rubber 00:02:07.360 --> 00:02:13.840 Tops on the ends of them however they feel pretty sturdy so I don't think even 00:02:11.599 --> 00:02:19.599 in a fit of nerd rage they'd be at risk of breaking which is the only complaint 00:02:16.319 --> 00:02:21.720 I had about the g15 Gen 1 was the uh the 00:02:19.599 --> 00:02:24.120 breakable wrist rest but if logitech's whole thing is Advanced Materials I 00:02:23.120 --> 00:02:27.800 don't think we're too worried about that anymore uh we've got rubber feet here so 00:02:26.440 --> 00:02:33.120 you don't generally have to worry about the keyboard going anywhere so there you 00:02:30.319 --> 00:02:37.920 go uh speaking of Advanced Materials this does feel different from what I'm 00:02:34.959 --> 00:02:45.000 used to on a wrist rest so rather than being a plastic piece with a coating it 00:02:42.159 --> 00:02:48.599 feels more like it's a more rugged piece of plastic so the idea is that it's 00:02:46.519 --> 00:02:52.159 supposed to be hydrophobic which makes it sort of cool to the touch and so that 00:02:50.480 --> 00:02:56.720 it's not going to get all greasy and disgusting looking and then the same 00:02:54.120 --> 00:03:00.120 thing on the keyboard itself on the back or on the face plate is what they're 00:02:58.440 --> 00:03:05.080 calling it that's supposed to be a fingerprint resistant coating so even 00:03:01.800 --> 00:03:06.920 though it's glossy oh check that out I 00:03:05.080 --> 00:03:11.760 don't know how close in you can get but even if I like try to leave a 00:03:08.640 --> 00:03:13.319 fingerprint on it it actually works so 00:03:11.760 --> 00:03:18.920 that would be my one complaint about the g710 plus is that the the glossy face 00:03:16.720 --> 00:03:22.360 plate is not that fingerprint resistant whereas on this one I I really don't see 00:03:20.440 --> 00:03:27.560 that being an issue that's very cool all right so moving on to the 00:03:24.840 --> 00:03:32.000 features we've got here is our full color LCD display which being can be 00:03:30.239 --> 00:03:35.239 controlled either through the software or through the menu and navigation 00:03:33.519 --> 00:03:38.879 buttons here we've also got a game button which will disable your context 00:03:36.760 --> 00:03:41.640 menu as well as your Windows key so that you don't have to worry about 00:03:39.879 --> 00:03:44.599 accidentally pressing them all of these macro buttons can be recorded on the fly 00:03:43.439 --> 00:03:48.720 so there's 12 of them with three different layers so that's up to 36 00:03:47.040 --> 00:03:52.159 different macro functions and then again you can record them on the fly so that's 00:03:50.720 --> 00:03:58.480 pretty fly sorry um the keyboard layout is very 00:03:55.840 --> 00:04:03.560 standard long shifts long backspace long enter so nothing that I consider to be a 00:04:00.519 --> 00:04:06.200 cardinal sin that would bother me the WD 00:04:03.560 --> 00:04:10.000 keys are colorcoded in a different color and the backlighting of the keyboard 00:04:07.840 --> 00:04:12.920 overall is customizable which is very cool so you can change the color to 00:04:11.799 --> 00:04:18.720 whatever you want that's again done through the Logitech software over here on the right side we find the layout is 00:04:16.479 --> 00:04:22.280 again very standard so you've got more gaming color coding for the arrow keys 00:04:20.840 --> 00:04:27.199 themselves although I've very rarely seen folks game with these Keys speaking 00:04:24.960 --> 00:04:30.400 of gaming Keys the keyboard has five key rollover meaning that no matter what 00:04:29.280 --> 00:04:34.560 five Keys you press so if you take your 00:04:32.639 --> 00:04:39.479 entire hand and kind of go like this they will all be registered correctly 00:04:36.160 --> 00:04:42.320 without any glitchy behavior um number 00:04:39.479 --> 00:04:46.360 pad is pretty normal it's a number pad you can like do accounting with it and 00:04:44.320 --> 00:04:49.479 then over here we've got a volume wheel this is one of my favorite 00:04:47.320 --> 00:04:53.199 implementations of volume control uh many less expensive keyboards will 00:04:51.400 --> 00:04:57.199 implement it as sort of like a function key with like uh you know press press 00:04:55.280 --> 00:05:00.639 press press press for volume control I love the wheel implementation cuz it's 00:04:59.000 --> 00:05:05.039 very natural to use you've also got a mute button as well as play stop back 00:05:02.800 --> 00:05:10.240 and forward and then your LED brightness can be controlled here now I think any 00:05:07.120 --> 00:05:12.120 kind of video of the g19s is going to be 00:05:10.240 --> 00:05:16.120 incomplete without actually taking the thing and plugging it into a computer so 00:05:13.600 --> 00:05:22.199 I'd like to do that but beforehand I'm just going to let our camera operator 00:05:19.280 --> 00:05:27.560 who goes by the thuggish name of b-roll um go look at it while I figure 00:05:26.080 --> 00:05:32.600 out if there's anything that I actually missed already advance surface materials 00:05:30.479 --> 00:05:35.720 game desktop mode 5 GE rollover dedicated media controls intelligent 00:05:33.919 --> 00:05:38.759 cable management and a three-year warranty there I haven't covered that 00:05:37.080 --> 00:05:44.199 yet we'll be back in a moment so here we are with the g119s set 00:05:42.000 --> 00:05:49.280 up in its uh sort of natural environment which is of course right next to a g710 00:05:46.800 --> 00:05:54.400 plus now I want you to get in nice and close to the g710 plus and check out 00:05:51.800 --> 00:05:58.800 these greasy marks around the arrow keys here there's pretty much nothing you can 00:05:56.000 --> 00:06:04.600 do about that on the g710 plus whereas can you see that at all y okay 00:06:01.280 --> 00:06:06.880 whereas with the g119s no matter what I 00:06:04.600 --> 00:06:10.039 do to it other than this spot right here this will this will still get dirty but 00:06:08.479 --> 00:06:14.319 these spots right here due to the coating on it you can see that it 00:06:11.599 --> 00:06:18.199 doesn't end up looking gross because of what they've done here so that I thought 00:06:15.680 --> 00:06:21.919 that was really cool um and that was sort of their point with this keyboard 00:06:19.880 --> 00:06:27.400 but there you go so okay so this button it turns out actually controls the LCD 00:06:24.360 --> 00:06:29.039 here and then uh let's go ahead and okay 00:06:27.400 --> 00:06:33.160 so the back lighting is it's a white backl on here right now but I've got the 00:06:31.639 --> 00:06:36.800 Logitech gaming software going right here so I mean Logitech really does have 00:06:35.000 --> 00:06:41.440 the most refined software to go with their peripherals so you can see with 00:06:39.080 --> 00:06:47.400 the three Logitech things that I have built in um I can go okay well I want to 00:06:45.599 --> 00:06:51.160 select which things I want so I can have a YouTube video player for the LCD here 00:06:49.400 --> 00:06:54.400 I can have an LCD webcam Bureau that's kind of cool so you could like webcam 00:06:53.039 --> 00:07:00.479 with your mom while you're actually gaming and you could just have her here 00:06:56.240 --> 00:07:02.280 sort of tucked away uh application 00:07:00.479 --> 00:07:05.720 button will either list the running Outlet so here let's try the application 00:07:03.960 --> 00:07:10.520 button which is this guy right here oh okay so that controls the app 00:07:08.599 --> 00:07:13.759 applets that are running on the LCD screen here itself so we can go ahead 00:07:12.440 --> 00:07:19.160 and I don't know we'll go to the uh the video player so we'll go to top rated 00:07:16.039 --> 00:07:21.520 how to be beautiful from PewDiePie oh no 00:07:19.160 --> 00:07:27.639 that can only be a bad thing oh okay no flash player not installed cancel cancel 00:07:24.680 --> 00:07:31.960 ah go back go back oh okay so this is just to browse the YouTube video 00:07:30.599 --> 00:07:36.400 well either way we don't want to watch PewDiePie's uh video about how to be 00:07:34.120 --> 00:07:40.240 beautiful uh so let's go ahead and check out the software so there's also 00:07:37.840 --> 00:07:43.639 lighting controls that you can change so let's go ahead and kill the house lights 00:07:42.400 --> 00:07:49.479 and I'll show you guys that we can change the LEDs to pretty much whatever 00:07:45.879 --> 00:07:51.039 color we want um Diesel's hitting the 00:07:49.479 --> 00:07:54.800 lights for me just using the software control panel here so we can go ahead 00:07:53.000 --> 00:07:59.440 and go like that so all of a sudden we've got a blue/ green backlight we can 00:07:57.759 --> 00:08:03.720 go like this and we end up with a very deep blue very customizable and you can 00:08:01.840 --> 00:08:08.759 control the brightness as well so here's what it looks like full red here's the 00:08:05.879 --> 00:08:14.639 brightness control so it has uh looks like wow a lot of different brightness 00:08:11.960 --> 00:08:18.560 steps I've seen keyboards brag about 10 different steps of brightness but this 00:08:16.120 --> 00:08:22.159 is pretty much uh linear control you can also quickly select you can have oh you 00:08:20.560 --> 00:08:25.879 can have different backlight colors per profile so your profiles are up here so 00:08:24.639 --> 00:08:29.759 you can see that it's already set up that way so switching between those is 00:08:27.639 --> 00:08:33.519 changing the colors and then of course you can set up all the usual stuff that 00:08:31.280 --> 00:08:38.399 you can do in Logitech software like uh setting up profiles per game and it 00:08:36.519 --> 00:08:41.080 really is a very complete list that they have compared to what other guys are 00:08:39.640 --> 00:08:45.720 doing as well as programming all the different keys and all the different 00:08:42.680 --> 00:08:47.839 layers per key right here uh onboard 00:08:45.720 --> 00:08:51.399 memory is controlled here so that's that's where you can save profiles 00:08:49.080 --> 00:08:55.360 directly to the keyboard itself and I think that pretty much wraps it up thank 00:08:53.680 --> 00:08:59.000 you for checking out this unboxing in first look don't forget to subscribe to 00:08:57.040 --> 00:09:03.480 L's techtips for unboxings reviews and other computer 00:09:00.480 --> 00:09:03.480 videos