a mouse like so many things is all about the feeling in your hand is it
satisfying is it fatiguing is it erotic
for the logitech g502 proteus core tunable gaming mouse boy is that ever a
mouthful the answers fortunately are yes no no and did you seriously put that
double entendre in there
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fully private click now to learn more we'll start with the shape after so many
years of loyalty to the classic logitech performance mouse shape that i've
personally been using off and on since 2004 i was worried that logitech had
gone too far out into left field and screwed things up i was pretty worried
about the g502's ergonomics when i'd only seen pictures of it now that i've
actually used it it's clear to me that they really haven't changed much other
than to extend the thumb rest add some much needed extra buttons improve the
feel with soft touch on the back and a super satisfying textured rubber on the
sides add a blue led g logo and otherwise just give it a very sexy
makeover the new buttons have been very thoughtfully laid out and unlike most
gaming mice i'm able to comfortably reach each and every one of them without
altering my grip the default mappings which of course you can change in
software are left right and middle click scroll left and scroll right from the
mouse wheel tilt profile switching behind the scroll wheel toggle button
dpi up and down to the left of the index finger forward and back in your browser
above the thumb and shift just in front of the thumb this lets you hold down a
button to temporarily change to your assigned shift dpi for more accurate
sniping the one thing that can't be reprogrammed at least right now is
scroll up and scroll down something that some gamers will definitely miss but
this is actually not my biggest complaint about the scroll wheel first
good stuff though logitech has vastly improved the implementation of their
free spinning mode versus the g9's bottom mounted toggle by
moving the aforementioned toggle to the top of the mouse so switching between
the normal clicky mode versus the spreadsheet
friendly free spin mode is now super fast the backward step on the scroll
wheel though is the metallic finish combined with a fairly heavy click in
clicky mode that caused my finger to slip quite frequently when trying to
scroll if i end up keeping this mouse as my daily driver i will be looking for
something to cover it with to improve the situation i don't like this at all
and it's easily my biggest criticism of an otherwise outstanding design onto
more things i do like logitech doesn't name the exact mechanical micro switches
they're using in the left and right buttons but they rate them at 20 million clicks
and they have a very satisfying not too heavy not so light you accidentally hit
them all the time like that bloody death adder 2013. wait to them the other
buttons are each individually tuned so that the ones that are intended to be
hit by leaning on them are light and very easy to press and the ones that are
intended to be pushed like a normal button are heavier what a nice touch
kudos to logitech for that one to wrap up ergonomics i'll say this like
seemingly everyone else writing reviews on amazon of this mouse i loved the g9's
shape and performance in fact my clearly
well used g9 cord finally started flaking out recently and i've been
considering buying one on ebay or something and like everyone else i think
the best way i can describe the g502 is to call it a worthy successor to the g9
and that really is high praise coming from me for my small hands i i guess
they'd be medium if i was a lady the increased height doesn't affect the
claw-ish grip that i use and the increased length doesn't bother me one
bit because i click almost as easily in the middle of the left and right buttons
as i can at the end of them the fact that it has more buttons and i can
easily reach them all is a huge bonus and i think my only real complaint aside
from that slick material on the scroll wheel is that it's a touch on the heavy
side even without the included handy-dandy weights however
well-implemented that system with its handy-dandy magnetic cover on the bottom
might be another thing that might be contributing to the heavy feel of the
mouse is the unusually thick also heavy cord that drags more than i'm used to
when moving it around get yourself a mouse cord anchor of some sort to go
along with your g502 for sure here's the one i use at home
so on to performance stuff on the bottom of the mouse we've got slippy feet rated
for a massive 250 kilometers of travel distance before they're supposed to wear
out and then powered by a 32-bit ARM processor under the hood is what
logitech's calling the highest performance optical sensor on the market
with zero acceleration zero smoothing or filtering and zero pixel rounding damn
other than a couple dissenters on the forums who claim there is some acceleration based on like moving your
hand and thinking feeling the acceleration the general consensus is
that this is one seriously badass piece of gear the sensor goes from 200 to 12
000 dpi in 50 dpi increments without any
interpolation extrapolation or other tomfoolery which is something that most
people like that at the very high end will never leverage but does speak to the
overall accuracy of the optics of the mouse now i lack the testing equipment
to validate logitech's claims here but what i can say is that having recently
switched to a perfect sensor mouse the g502 delivers an equally enjoyable
experience at least now most of the software stuff i've
briefly covered in the rest of the video but there are a few things i want to point out specifically all of the
changes are applied to the hardware in real time which is a little bit
frustrating when you're changing dpi settings because as you set up each one
the mouse's speed changes instantly making it hard to move to the next one
but for everything else it works fine and it's very very efficient logitech
has updated their macro creation interface since the last time i used it
on a mouse and it's super intuitive now basically click on the button pick what
you want to bind decide if you want pauses or not and then save your config
profile either to your pc or to the onboard memory on the mouse itself and
then you can switch between those things with the click of a button angle
snapping is handled by a single on off switch but
hint guys just leave that off they also have a new surface tuning feature now
it's not the first time i've seen this kind of thing but it's definitely a first for logitech anyway so what you do
is you run the utility do figure eights on your mouse pad for a few seconds and
then i guess it's optimized i didn't personally notice any difference on this
mousepad anyway but i think that's more of a testament to how well it tracks
before tuning than a criticism of the tuning feature per se
so this is where i would normally do a conclusion but i think i've said all i
have to say about the g502 proteus core so i'm going to shake things up here and
close this video with a petty complaint here it goes it is unusual for an 80
mouse to lack customizable lighting colors and the fact that i even noticed
stood out to me because when i'm reviewing a mouse that i don't intend to
actually put next to my system where i'll have to stare at it not matching my
pc for months on end it's easy to say i don't really care about the led colors
when it's a mouse whose performance and ergonomics i like so much that i'm
thinking of switching to it permanently all of a sudden those little details
matter a lot more so there you have it the finish on the scroll wheel and the
blue led that's about all i could find wrong with it which is a pretty strong
endorsement speaking of something wrong with it you may have noticed that my
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that was almost all the way through that saves you another 15 anyway the point is
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clothes that looks somewhat remotely good is just has blown the minds of two
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