So today we're going to be having a look at the G9 and the g9x now I grabbed both
of these from inventory thinking there might be some difference between them
now as far as differences go you can see
that they both have PC USB connection
they both have laser tracking they both have nine buttons they both have a tilt
wheel they both have full speed USB adjustable sensitivity weight tuning
hyperfast scroll and onboard memory they both literally have exactly the same
bullet points down here the difference as far as I can tell is that this has a
Next Generation gaming laser featuring
5600 DPI whereas the old G9 uses an
older laser with 3200 DPI so we're not
even going to bother unboxing the G9 because it's exactly the same thing as
the g9x except for the one small change
so let me see yeah 3200 and 5700 DPI for the new
one okay so let's open up the g9x here and get this unboxing show on the road
now the G9 original is actually my
second favorite mouse ever I use one at work and if you've seen some of my
videos you'll see it on my desk there the one complaint I have about it is
that the middle the the scroll wheel is metal and it often shocks me when I sit
down at my desk but what can you do uh the ergonomics are great it's kind of a
hybrid between a claw grip and a palm grip and I find it very very comfortable
it tracks incredibly well on a variety of surf surfes and I guess that's about
as much gushing as I really need to do um I don't know if you were able to read
that while the cameraman was looking at it but there's a durable low friction
corded braid there's a corded braid braided cord in-game sensitivity DP
profile okay so these buttons right here you're allowed to switch between four different levels of DPI or sensitivity
the back and forward buttons are invaluable when you're browsing the
internet and they are here or here that it comes with two different grips so you
can either use the wider grip or the narrower grip depending on the size of
your hands which is a great feature you can have adjustable weight in the mouse
I use mine fully loaded up but not Everyone likes a heavy Mouse so you can
lighten it up that way that's pretty much it yeah okay so
why don't we get the oh dry grip technology this is stupid I again if
you've seen the one in my blog uh videos the one that's on my desk you can see
that the grip is totally coming off the mouse and uh the reason for that is
because they use like this weird like rubberized grippy material that sort of
peels after a while and looks like your mouse has leprosy um so that I guess
would be my one complaint about this mouse and I mean that's a fairly minor
thing in the grand scheme of you know the world but that is my complaint about
the G9 Mouse and the g9x seems to be more of the same except better so why
don't we start with the accessory package here let's get this opened up
first of all it comes with a user's
guide okay so the wow the user's guide is actually really thick for a mouse it
seems to have have about 300 different languages uh no four sorry English
Spanish French and Portuguese of all things then you've got uh the same
information that we found on the box how to plug in a USB port how to change the
interchangeable grips how to turn on oh I'll have to show you this after the
micro gear Precision scroll wheel so you you can actually press a button on the
bottom of the mouse and then you can either scroll uh without clicks and you
can just flick it and it'll go for a really long time like if you have hundreds of lines in an Excel
spreadsheet or you can set it click it again on the bottom of the mouse and you
can have like clicky clicky line by line scrolling okay tune for the way you play
oh yeah you can change the color of the LEDs on the top of the mouse the one on my desk is pink but you can change it to
whatever you want green blue brown uh
set point 5.2 download the latest off the Logitech website they're always
updating with new features and stuff like that so you want to make sure you're grabbing the latest copy um yeah
here they're saying download the latest g9x software blah blah blah so that's
pretty much what I just said FCC compliance who cares us usage some USB
hubs oh they're saying this is a high powered Mouse so basically you won't
necessarily be able to use it in an unpowered USB hub now that brings me to
some of the Gigabyte boards that we've unboxed and had a look at recently which
offer their 3x USB power feature so that
means that if you had a Gigabyte board and you plugged it into a hub it could
easily run a few of these mice even though you're using an unpowered Hub
because there's so much more power coming from the USB port so as what was
talking about with the general ergonomics of the mouse you can see it's quite a comfortable grip the the butt
end of the mouse so to speak sits in your palm but then you actually grip the
rest of the mouse with kind of a fingertip grip so that's what I meant by
saying it's kind of a hybrid between the two and it has a little Groove here for
these two fingers and then a Groove here for your thumb and the back and forward
buttons are quite comfortable and easy to reach on the side now at the bottom
of the mouse this is the micro gear button where you can switch
between okay can you hear that
so that's it just spinning and spinning and spinning and then you can switch
between that and like a more clicky mode
okay at the bottom you can change the profile I never do that I can't imagine
why you would these Teflon feed are great uh they've taken forever in a year
to wear out I'm using it on an aluminum mouse pad so they should be wearing out
fast but they're doing really well I've had this mouse for yeah like well over a
year okay and then this button right here there you go is for removing the
interchangeable grips so here I'm going to show you the other one as well so
this is the more slim grip I never use this one mine is in like new condition
um but should you desire to use the Slimmer one you just pop it on like that
all the buttons are still exactly where you expected them but the ergonomics
change quite a lot so I mean I guess if you're more fingertip grippy you see it
no longer makes contact with the Palm for a comfortable grip on the mouse so
it's a user preference thing but you have to take the uh the tops off
actually in order to access the spring-loaded weight cartridges so there
we go and that's another accessory that I haven't shown you yet is the little
weight box so you can load it up with up to 28 GS or any combination of 4 G and 7
G weights you can put up to four in it at a time and then you just go in there
like that and I think that pretty much concludes everything I wanted to say
about the g9x laser thank you for checking out my unboxing and product
overview