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a mouse like so many things is all about the feeling in your hand is it

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satisfying is it fatiguing is it erotic

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for the logitech g502 proteus core tunable gaming mouse boy is that ever a

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mouthful the answers fortunately are yes no no and did you seriously put that

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double entendre in there

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fully private click now to learn more we'll start with the shape after so many

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years of loyalty to the classic logitech performance mouse shape that i've

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personally been using off and on since 2004 i was worried that logitech had

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gone too far out into left field and screwed things up i was pretty worried

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about the g502's ergonomics when i'd only seen pictures of it now that i've

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actually used it it's clear to me that they really haven't changed much other

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than to extend the thumb rest add some much needed extra buttons improve the

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feel with soft touch on the back and a super satisfying textured rubber on the

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sides add a blue led g logo and otherwise just give it a very sexy

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makeover the new buttons have been very thoughtfully laid out and unlike most

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gaming mice i'm able to comfortably reach each and every one of them without

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altering my grip the default mappings which of course you can change in

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software are left right and middle click scroll left and scroll right from the

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mouse wheel tilt profile switching behind the scroll wheel toggle button

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dpi up and down to the left of the index finger forward and back in your browser

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above the thumb and shift just in front of the thumb this lets you hold down a

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button to temporarily change to your assigned shift dpi for more accurate

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sniping the one thing that can't be reprogrammed at least right now is

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scroll up and scroll down something that some gamers will definitely miss but

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this is actually not my biggest complaint about the scroll wheel first

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good stuff though logitech has vastly improved the implementation of their

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free spinning mode versus the g9's bottom mounted toggle by

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moving the aforementioned toggle to the top of the mouse so switching between

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the normal clicky mode versus the spreadsheet

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friendly free spin mode is now super fast the backward step on the scroll

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wheel though is the metallic finish combined with a fairly heavy click in

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clicky mode that caused my finger to slip quite frequently when trying to

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scroll if i end up keeping this mouse as my daily driver i will be looking for

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something to cover it with to improve the situation i don't like this at all

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and it's easily my biggest criticism of an otherwise outstanding design onto

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more things i do like logitech doesn't name the exact mechanical micro switches

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they're using in the left and right buttons but they rate them at 20 million clicks

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and they have a very satisfying not too heavy not so light you accidentally hit

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them all the time like that bloody death adder 2013. wait to them the other

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buttons are each individually tuned so that the ones that are intended to be

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hit by leaning on them are light and very easy to press and the ones that are

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intended to be pushed like a normal button are heavier what a nice touch

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kudos to logitech for that one to wrap up ergonomics i'll say this like

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seemingly everyone else writing reviews on amazon of this mouse i loved the g9's

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shape and performance in fact my clearly

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well used g9 cord finally started flaking out recently and i've been

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considering buying one on ebay or something and like everyone else i think

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the best way i can describe the g502 is to call it a worthy successor to the g9

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and that really is high praise coming from me for my small hands i i guess

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they'd be medium if i was a lady the increased height doesn't affect the

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claw-ish grip that i use and the increased length doesn't bother me one

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bit because i click almost as easily in the middle of the left and right buttons

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as i can at the end of them the fact that it has more buttons and i can

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easily reach them all is a huge bonus and i think my only real complaint aside

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from that slick material on the scroll wheel is that it's a touch on the heavy

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side even without the included handy-dandy weights however

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well-implemented that system with its handy-dandy magnetic cover on the bottom

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might be another thing that might be contributing to the heavy feel of the

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mouse is the unusually thick also heavy cord that drags more than i'm used to

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when moving it around get yourself a mouse cord anchor of some sort to go

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along with your g502 for sure here's the one i use at home

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so on to performance stuff on the bottom of the mouse we've got slippy feet rated

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for a massive 250 kilometers of travel distance before they're supposed to wear

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out and then powered by a 32-bit ARM processor under the hood is what

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logitech's calling the highest performance optical sensor on the market

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with zero acceleration zero smoothing or filtering and zero pixel rounding damn

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other than a couple dissenters on the forums who claim there is some acceleration based on like moving your

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hand and thinking feeling the acceleration the general consensus is

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that this is one seriously badass piece of gear the sensor goes from 200 to 12

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000 dpi in 50 dpi increments without any

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interpolation extrapolation or other tomfoolery which is something that most

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people like that at the very high end will never leverage but does speak to the

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overall accuracy of the optics of the mouse now i lack the testing equipment

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to validate logitech's claims here but what i can say is that having recently

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switched to a perfect sensor mouse the g502 delivers an equally enjoyable

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experience at least now most of the software stuff i've

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briefly covered in the rest of the video but there are a few things i want to point out specifically all of the

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changes are applied to the hardware in real time which is a little bit

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frustrating when you're changing dpi settings because as you set up each one

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the mouse's speed changes instantly making it hard to move to the next one

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but for everything else it works fine and it's very very efficient logitech

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has updated their macro creation interface since the last time i used it

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on a mouse and it's super intuitive now basically click on the button pick what

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you want to bind decide if you want pauses or not and then save your config

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profile either to your pc or to the onboard memory on the mouse itself and

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then you can switch between those things with the click of a button angle

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snapping is handled by a single on off switch but

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hint guys just leave that off they also have a new surface tuning feature now

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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

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is you run the utility do figure eights on your mouse pad for a few seconds and

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then i guess it's optimized i didn't personally notice any difference on this

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mousepad anyway but i think that's more of a testament to how well it tracks

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before tuning than a criticism of the tuning feature per se

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so this is where i would normally do a conclusion but i think i've said all i

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have to say about the g502 proteus core so i'm going to shake things up here and

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close this video with a petty complaint here it goes it is unusual for an 80

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mouse to lack customizable lighting colors and the fact that i even noticed

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stood out to me because when i'm reviewing a mouse that i don't intend to

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actually put next to my system where i'll have to stare at it not matching my

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pc for months on end it's easy to say i don't really care about the led colors

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when it's a mouse whose performance and ergonomics i like so much that i'm

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thinking of switching to it permanently all of a sudden those little details

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matter a lot more so there you have it the finish on the scroll wheel and the

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blue led that's about all i could find wrong with it which is a pretty strong

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endorsement speaking of something wrong with it you may have noticed that my

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attire changed a couple of times that was no glitch and in fact it's related

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turns out that their test subjects for this were probably people exactly like

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me because it took me 54 seconds of sitting there going yeah whatever just

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make this decision for me because i can't be arsed and clicking on things

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the time this video goes up there's going to be like a landing page of me like modeling the clothing so for if

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nothing else there's the hilarity factor of that and you guys can definitely

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check that out because we all know i have no style and even seeing me in

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clothes that looks somewhat remotely good is just has blown the minds of two

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of the people here in the office already and the other two aren't even here so

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that's pretty much all i have to say about that anyway guys thanks for watching my team and i worked hard on

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