welcome to my unboxing and first look at the g500s from Logitech now I've checked
out the g400s and the g100s and quite frankly this is the one that I'm
genuinely excited about because there's some Logitech features that I really
felt were missing from the other ones that I guess you just got to kind of you
got to pay to play and if you wanted to get access to them you had to go for the
premium g500s so let's take a look at the overall specs really quick so it
does everywhere from 200 to 8200 DPI this is a laser Mouse and it is serious
business about the dpis I mean I don't think you'll ever really use 8200 DPI
but if you wanted to this mouse is capable of uh actually getting a useful
input if it's traveling at 4 meters per second which if you think of it in terms
of like if you're a low sensitivity gamer and you were going four meters per
second to do like a turn you'd have to basically go like you'd have to like
jump and spin in order to actually trip this mouse out and have it not work so
there you go uh up to 1,000 reports per second which is the maximum USB is
capable of Max acceleration of 30 G's 20
million clicks is what the buttons are rated for and the feet are rated for 250
km now I kind of mocked them with the 250 km in my G5 or g400s unboxing and I
was like well do they mean on ashalt or do they mean on uh a piece of glass but
it looks like they've actually thought of that tested on wood veneer desktop so
they actually tested it before they rated it for how long it's actually
going to to go for for so there you go I thought I thought that was interesting
if nothing else so the first Mouse I ever used with adjustable weights was a
Logitech mouse and I really felt like that feature separates it in terms of
customizability from the other things on the market I mean nowadays a lot of mice
have adjustable weights or like you know
adjustable you know wrist straps or whatever kinds of adjustable things that
go on but for me personally I would
rather find a mouse that is truly sculped in the shape that I want and
then I can tune the weight because that's the thing that matters most to me
so they've gone with the sort of classic Logitech weight system which is a
cartridge that loads in from the back at the
rear get it cartridge loads okay never mind uh so there's a cartridge that
loads in here which is where we found the the battery insert for the old G7 uh
which I still have one of kicking around somewhere and then there's a little
eject button right there that kicks it out uh the not the slippy feet on the
bottom are at the front side and back
and let's go ahead and get these opened up I'm going to need a minute for that though so the mouse is lightweight
without feeling cheap and it really doesn't it feels very solidly built um
however you can add up to whatever 9 *
three you can add up to 27 G to the mouse which will put it at the heavier
end of uh of mice and then what you can
also do is you can adjust where you want the weight so if you put more of the
weight towards the front you'll have a bit more of a front heavy Mouse what I
would probably do personally is I'd load more of the weight towards the back so
that I can more easily move this way
which is the way that I tend to use my mouse even though it's sort of bad for your wrist and you're not really
supposed to do that so logitech's whole thing with the new G Series is their
science winds branding where they're talking about the Advanced Materials
that they're using on the mouse now the difference between the g500s and the
g400s in aside from the fact that this
is using a gaming grade laser sensor as opposed to the optical sensor in the
g400 is that the grippy sides feel more
rugged and they feel more robust on the g500s like I actually don't think I can
scratch any of this off even if I go straight at it with a fingernail this
was the one complaint I had about the G9 which was otherwise my second favorite
mouse ever cuz it's awesome was that
like the the anti-slip coating just came off um about a year into owning it and I
really just I don't feel like this would happen with this but it's impossible to
say without waiting a little bit a little bit longer so other Logitech
features that I feel very strongly about this guy right here the unlocked scroll
wheel love to see that implemented it's
things like back and forward buttons unlock scroll wheel uh outstanding
Precision that really set a mouse apart from another one so all you have to do
see that so you can probably you can hear there's actual clicks to the mouse
wheel now you go ahead and press this and it disengages the
gear and it spins freely so it's great for scrolling through long documents I
actually used my G9 at work almost exclusively because of that because I
was often in Long Excel documents but the problem with the G9 is the button
was on the bottom which is not as good as having the button right here where
you can decide what mode do I want to be in and you can change it on the Fly
you've also got DPI changing buttons here back forward as well as another
programmable button here on the side uh
looks like yep we've got DPI indications
here so that has one two three settings and you can PR all of that in the
Logitech software I just want to see if there's anything that I forgot that I
wanted to say I don't know if I mentioned the 3year warranty already but
there you go and I think that's pretty
much it oh yeah you can reprogram all the buttons If you want and unlike the
g100s and the g400s the cable is braided
so it's got that premium braided look and it is less susceptible to damage
from caps I've actually had cables saved
um from cats vibrating so there you go it's a thing
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