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lineus Tech tips coverage of PS 2013 is brought to you by Western Digital Intel

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and steel

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Series so we're here with Todd Walker the brand manager for Logitech G Series

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so that is their gaming peripherals for those of you who have been living under a rock for the last you know decade or

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so and they've got a new mouse that

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pretty much takes the Rock and moves it

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and digs up all the Earth and completely turns everything on its head because

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this right here is the g602 and it's nothing like the g600 or

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really anything else we've ever seen before can you tell us what are the key innovations that you've brought to the

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table with this mouse so the big thing with the 602 is uh battery life so it's

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a new wireless mouse in our line it does not replace the 700s we still be have

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the 700s in our line as a rechargeable uh gaming mouse the 602 is a wireless

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gaming mouse that uh has 250 hours of

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non-stop gaming battery life uh and so

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you've got a you've got a custom proprietary battery pack in there can you show me that sure show show me that

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special battery pack that you use that's a special AA twoa Duracell battery pack

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standard fascinating and so what I mean

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what can you do to optimize the power of a mouse because when you when you think

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low power you think Eco you think like if I told you it's an eco car you'd go

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well then it's not very fast uh what have you done to make this perform well

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and be Eco so to speak yeah so this the

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sensor uh you're right we put all of our emphasis into the sensor

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uh which is what draws most of the power in a gaming in a wireless mouse um but

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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

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the 100s or the 400s very very accurate very precise um it does have a 250 DPI

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uh sensor in there um did you mean 2500 oh sorry yeah 2500 uh 250 to 2500 that's

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the range thank you for correcting me and um a lot of the emphasis been into

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the power management on the sensor so when it's in performance mode uh you get

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full full capabilities out of the mouse and that's where you get the 250 hours

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of battery life and then in endurance mode uh when you're using it for

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non-gaming purposes it actually will do a lot more of turning the sensor on and

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off and fluctuating how the power is used and you get up to 1,400 hours of

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usage with it now this to me it looks not quite like the g600 where you can

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really look at it and you go yeah that's an MMO Mouse this to me looks like it's

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more of a more of a tweener where it could be used for MMO use or FPS use can

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you show us all the buttons and tell us about the default bindings on the mouse

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sure so it has 11 uh controls on it uh when we announced this earlier in the

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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

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a little too much for them um we have six buttons on the thumb panel here um

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and one of those is for uh uh mode indicator as the default um I also have

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two buttons here that are DPI shift up and down got on the fly up to five settings

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and then of course we've got primary uh keys on the the switches are one

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underneath the scroll wheel so that's 11 in

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all and there's endurance mode which I

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mean are you realistically expect I mean if someone can game for 250 hours

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non-stop is there a realistic reason why a gamer would even use endurance mode

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that much uh there may be people who want to really extend the life of the

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batteries um but uh you know a lot of us have been using prototypes for a couple

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of months and we've been in performance mode the whole time and uh haven't

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actually gotten to the end of a batter set of batteries yet now speaking of

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getting to the end of a set of batteries I think a big uh a big a big problem for

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gamers is often swapping batteries in and out uh can you show us sort of how

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quickly you could swap a battery in and out of this bad boy sure I mean I don't

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have another another set of batteries but it's very very easy to just pop that

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that out battery's out now hold on hold

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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

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happens uh it keeps running right so the the the sensor uh requires so little

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power that I can actually just put one battery in there and I'm I'm just fine

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so I just take Take One battery out and we're ready to go now this isn't

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necessarily sort I was kind of joking with them about well you can swap one in

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swap in another one that's not really the point but the point from my

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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

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particularly heavy Mouse to start with but if you wanted to lighten it up a

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little bit you can actually run it with one battery and you're still looking at

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125 hours of continuous gaming now when you Benchmark that you mean like uh on a

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on a basis of sort of a normalized well if someone gam for 4 hours a day then it

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would last approximately this many hours how are you benchmarking it now so uh we

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do a run to die test and that's how we Benchmark the 250 hours so we basically

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put it on a test bed that activates the sensor continuously put a fresh set of

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batteries in and then we wait until the batteries are dead so you mentioned the

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world record for gaming continuously was how many hours uh it's like about 143

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hours straight so that gentleman would

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not necessarily be able to make do with just one battery probably have to put

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both of them in then yeah if you want to go for Guinness world you need both

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batteries everyone else should be okay though you know what this is fantastic

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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

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uh the one that we have here is the g440 this is a hard gaming mouse pad it's

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semi- rigid polymer uh core uh this is

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really designed for people who do a high sensitivity gaming um it has a very low

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friction surface which you can see it kind of runs like a air hockey

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uh table against the mouse uh Mouse feet

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um the uh the 440 and the 240 which is a

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cloth uh flexible uh mouse pad that's more for low low DPI gaming low

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sensitivity gaming um both of them have been tested to work across the entire

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line of Logitech uh gaming mice uh they actually improve the performance of of

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what are already great accuracy and precision um and regardless of whether

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you're using optical sensors or laser sensors either one of them is great for

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those mice this has been fantastic thank you very much Todd and enjoy the rest of

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the show you too