welcome to my unboxing and first look at
the much awaited finally mechanical
keyboard from Logitech in the G Series this is the g710 plus it uses Cherry MX
Brown switches which are a balance between sort of a tactile
feel and quiet which is a factor for
your more mainstream customer so the g710 plus is almost that um that
balanced approach between what the keyboard enthusiasts like which tends to
be your Cherry MX blues and what the
sort of more mainstream customer would want which is a keyboard that doesn't
make a whole lot of noise in fact I have a new coworker who was looking at the
Cherry MX Blue keyboard in my office and he was like oh yeah that's the stupidest
thing I've ever seen it's so loud it's stupid I'm like well no it's a
typing experience and he's like no that's the dumbest thing I ever heard so
going with something like MX Browns may be a very good approach although we'll
have to try it to find out for sure 110 key anti- ghosting which means no matter
what typing combinations you hit you're not going to have any random keystrokes
pop up 26 key rollover which means you can put both hands and your face all
over the keyboard it's going to register every stroke game/ desktop mode so
that's probably basically just turning off the uh Windows button in know
likelihood dedicated media controls this is the kind of thing that a lot of
mechanical keyboards don't have because they tend to be very basic designs
whereas Logitech I'm expecting all the bells and whistles adjustable Dual Zone
backlighting so there's the rest of the keyboard and then there's just the WD
keys six programmable G keys with 18 total functions you have three memory
keys for switching between different profiles high speed low noise tactile
switches for feedback you can feel which is exactly what I spent the first part
of the video saying I am like super super excited
about this cuz if there's anyone who knows how to build input devices it is
Logitech and if there's anyone who likes mechanical key switches it is slick
followed by me I like them but not quite as much as he does I mean he's like like
he's like sitting over there and I can see the drool coming out of the side of
his mouth just looking at this keyboard cuz he is he he he walked in today um
and he saw the keyboard ready to be unboxed and he was like oh yeah you know
yeah I'm not that excited about it cuz you know Cherry Brown switches and he's
he's a cherry blue guy and then after like five minutes of we're talking about
completely other unrelated things he just kind of turns to me and he's like
yeah I know I'm really excited about this keyboard you have to hurry up and unbox
it yeah he was trying to talk himself out of it cuz he knows he can't afford
it right now he's still in school just like diesel the intern which is why it's
hard for me to get any videos done because these guys schedules are
absolutely terrible and they're impossible to work with both of them I
should just fire them both no yeah I know right all right so
like most Logitech keyboards you actually get accessories included with
it like your wrist rest whereas most of the uh sort of Boutique brand mechanical
keyboard guys don't include any extraneous stuff like wrist rests or
keyboard back lights or you know fancy looking cables and all that kind of kind
of jazz so we've got two USB plugs here
one is for the keyboard itself and one is for a probably a pass through USB y
so that pass through is up here at the top so you plug that into your mouse or
you could not plug it into your mouse and you could just use it for like a USB
key or whatever else because it'll be running at full USB 2 speed because it's
just a pass through and it's not an actual Hub ooh look look at all the
cable management options they built into this so you could have a wire running
for your headset under here through here
through here and then run that down to the back of your computer like that so
it actually comes out at sort of a a sensible location instead of just
draping over your keyboard that's awesome and all of the huge rubber
nonslip pads on the bottom of this keyboard these are very well built these
are very high quality rubber um you know
guaranteed they won't break and cause problems um like your keyboard moving
around also you've got feet right here which do not have rubber pads on them
unfortunately I've seen ones in the past that do but these ones don't however it
should still not go anywhere because of the rubber pads here and here that are
still going to be down on the table so you can either incline the keyboard or
you cannot if you prefer more flat typing experience there's some Flex here
in the wrist rest so you don't have to worry too much about uh which way it's
oriented how flat the surface you have it on is all right uh you got your
programmable G Keys you know what I've never actually
typed on Browns
before they're quiet but they do have
more feedback than blacks I'll give them that not nearly as much as blues I think
I have a blue keyboard right here yeah here's a blue filco right here so for
comparison here's the sound this is what I was talking about where logitech's
probably going for a like um
compromise between that kind of a
click and that kind of a sound so membrane keys are pretty much always
quiet but they also just whoops okay well we'll put that away for now they
also just feel so mushy and you don't have that that response whereas these
ones you can feel after here you got to get in really close for this so you push
it down a little bit and the key hasn't registered yet and right there you can
you can feel the mechanical switch there's a there's a a pressure point
there so you don't actually have to bottom them out and mash them in order
to type on on Browns you can press them quite softly and you'll still have a
good typing experience but it's not loud
and I'd have to I'd have to sit and I'd have to actually use it for a long time
to know for sure what I think but let's go ahead and plug it into something so
we can have a look at the backl now there's not many keyboards
that I'd be considering proper gaming mechanical keyboards but the Corsair k90
as well as the g710 plus would be the ones that I'd say are more replicable
now k90 uses red switches red switches are very linear so you know that sort of
that buckling point that I showed you on the Logitech one that doesn't exist on
the on the corsairs you don't actually see where the key depress happens some
people find this less helpful for typing
whereas on Browns you really do have a little bit more feedback coming into
your hands on sort of what you're actually typing neither of them are as
responsive again as blues which I showed you before but there aren't any sort of
fully featured keyboards like this where you've got things like macro keys and a
full software suite that goes with it that are mechanical keyboards so this is
what we've got to work with Okay advantages g710 plus number one is these
buttons and these buttons are all mechanical on the Corsair keyboard
whoopsy daisies um on the Corsair
keyboard the programmable keys and the F Keys as well as these keys are not
mechanical okay another kind of cool thing about the Logitech keyboard is the
corser one has three brightness levels one two three and it does get pretty
bright the Logitech one looks like it has two three four four brightness
levels okay white backl so it's up to you if you prefer white or blue
personally I prefer blue uh you can switch between different profiles for
the G Keys here so you can program three full sets of functions I personally
don't see much value to having this many programmable keys on the left of the
keyboard because I'm not going to be able to reach them in the heat of battle anyway this is probably a good balance
um okay here you can control the brightness of either just the
WDS or just the rest of the keyboard using two dedicated buttons up here
you've got built-in media control keys on both of them built-in volume uh knobs
on both of them those are both working just fine mute
button mute button so they're very similar in terms of their features um it
just comes down to let's see overall build quality that's actually very good
wow that's comparable to uh to something like a filco or a ducky there's no flex
to this thing at all that's outstanding although it doesn't have a metal back
plane the same way that the k90 does so the k90 does have a little bit less Flex
on the back plane but um the overall
construction of this feels very good like not quite I don't think you could
kill a man with it but pretty darn pretty darn close um Aesthetics of it
are great I think the orange accent here is outstanding I wouldn't mind if this
instead of being a glossy black was sort of a less glossy black however it
doesn't seem to be too much of a grease or dust magnet so far just kind of try
to pick at it a little bit see how gross it gets and it looks like it cleans off
pretty easily there's a lot more to glossy finishes than just glossy or not
glossy and this appears to be a very high quality one
I think that pretty much covers everything that I can say about the g710
plus so advantages for Logitech are going to be the Cherry Brown switches
are going to be their very mature software platform that they have for
their gaming peripherals as well as the fact that when it comes to True gaming
keyboards fully featured gaming keyboards out there there's not a whole lot of choice for mechanical and if I
was going to pick one I would definitely go with cherry Browns over Cherry Reds
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