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Series so we're here with Todd Walker the brand manager for Logitech G Series
so that is their gaming peripherals for those of you who have been living under a rock for the last you know decade or
so and they've got a new mouse that
pretty much takes the Rock and moves it
and digs up all the Earth and completely turns everything on its head because
this right here is the g602 and it's nothing like the g600 or
really anything else we've ever seen before can you tell us what are the key innovations that you've brought to the
table with this mouse so the big thing with the 602 is uh battery life so it's
a new wireless mouse in our line it does not replace the 700s we still be have
the 700s in our line as a rechargeable uh gaming mouse the 602 is a wireless
gaming mouse that uh has 250 hours of
non-stop gaming battery life uh and so
you've got a you've got a custom proprietary battery pack in there can you show me that sure show show me that
special battery pack that you use that's a special AA twoa Duracell battery pack
standard fascinating and so what I mean
what can you do to optimize the power of a mouse because when you when you think
low power you think Eco you think like if I told you it's an eco car you'd go
well then it's not very fast uh what have you done to make this perform well
and be Eco so to speak yeah so this the
sensor uh you're right we put all of our emphasis into the sensor
uh which is what draws most of the power in a gaming in a wireless mouse um but
we didn't skimp on any of the performance so it's has a a sensor that's very similar to what you have in
the 100s or the 400s very very accurate very precise um it does have a 250 DPI
uh sensor in there um did you mean 2500 oh sorry yeah 2500 uh 250 to 2500 that's
the range thank you for correcting me and um a lot of the emphasis been into
the power management on the sensor so when it's in performance mode uh you get
full full capabilities out of the mouse and that's where you get the 250 hours
of battery life and then in endurance mode uh when you're using it for
non-gaming purposes it actually will do a lot more of turning the sensor on and
off and fluctuating how the power is used and you get up to 1,400 hours of
usage with it now this to me it looks not quite like the g600 where you can
really look at it and you go yeah that's an MMO Mouse this to me looks like it's
more of a more of a tweener where it could be used for MMO use or FPS use can
you show us all the buttons and tell us about the default bindings on the mouse
sure so it has 11 uh controls on it uh when we announced this earlier in the
week there were a lot of people who were actually saying they did want to use it for MMOs that 20 buttons was just maybe
a little too much for them um we have six buttons on the thumb panel here um
and one of those is for uh uh mode indicator as the default um I also have
two buttons here that are DPI shift up and down got on the fly up to five settings
and then of course we've got primary uh keys on the the switches are one
underneath the scroll wheel so that's 11 in
all and there's endurance mode which I
mean are you realistically expect I mean if someone can game for 250 hours
non-stop is there a realistic reason why a gamer would even use endurance mode
that much uh there may be people who want to really extend the life of the
batteries um but uh you know a lot of us have been using prototypes for a couple
of months and we've been in performance mode the whole time and uh haven't
actually gotten to the end of a batter set of batteries yet now speaking of
getting to the end of a set of batteries I think a big uh a big a big problem for
gamers is often swapping batteries in and out uh can you show us sort of how
quickly you could swap a battery in and out of this bad boy sure I mean I don't
have another another set of batteries but it's very very easy to just pop that
that out battery's out now hold on hold
on this is why I wanted you to do this you got one battery in there can the mouse One battery oh no oh oh what
happens uh it keeps running right so the the the sensor uh requires so little
power that I can actually just put one battery in there and I'm I'm just fine
so I just take Take One battery out and we're ready to go now this isn't
necessarily sort I was kind of joking with them about well you can swap one in
swap in another one that's not really the point but the point from my
perspective is you look at it and you go well what if you don't want the weight of two AA batteries it's not a
particularly heavy Mouse to start with but if you wanted to lighten it up a
little bit you can actually run it with one battery and you're still looking at
125 hours of continuous gaming now when you Benchmark that you mean like uh on a
on a basis of sort of a normalized well if someone gam for 4 hours a day then it
would last approximately this many hours how are you benchmarking it now so uh we
do a run to die test and that's how we Benchmark the 250 hours so we basically
put it on a test bed that activates the sensor continuously put a fresh set of
batteries in and then we wait until the batteries are dead so you mentioned the
world record for gaming continuously was how many hours uh it's like about 143
hours straight so that gentleman would
not necessarily be able to make do with just one battery probably have to put
both of them in then yeah if you want to go for Guinness world you need both
batteries everyone else should be okay though you know what this is fantastic
you've also got your mouse pad do you want to give us a very brief run through of that before we move on yeah sure so
uh the one that we have here is the g440 this is a hard gaming mouse pad it's
semi- rigid polymer uh core uh this is
really designed for people who do a high sensitivity gaming um it has a very low
friction surface which you can see it kind of runs like a air hockey
uh table against the mouse uh Mouse feet
um the uh the 440 and the 240 which is a
cloth uh flexible uh mouse pad that's more for low low DPI gaming low
sensitivity gaming um both of them have been tested to work across the entire
line of Logitech uh gaming mice uh they actually improve the performance of of
what are already great accuracy and precision um and regardless of whether
you're using optical sensors or laser sensors either one of them is great for
those mice this has been fantastic thank you very much Todd and enjoy the rest of
the show you too