Here at Shortcircuit, we unbox a ton of mice, but it's rare I get to unbox the
successor to the mouse I use at home. That's right, I use a G Pro X
Superlight, and this is the G Pro X Superlight 2C, which is a name that is
too long. It is wild. How did they think that was acceptable? The thing that
makes this special is the C at the end of the 2C.
>> [music] >> It's compact. It's cool. It's crazy. The
C stands for all of those things. Inside the box, you get your mouse. You get
your C to A adapter plus your A
dongle. You get a cable. This is
nicer packaging than I feel like I've seen for a while with mice. I feel like
they've been getting cheaper and cheaper under the guise of environmentally
friendly, but this is pretty slick packaging, not too
restrictive, either. At the end, you're kind of left with a semi-reusable box.
We have our quick start guide and instruction manual. We also have grip
tape. That seems to be a a trend that's happening more and more. No extra
skates, which actually I would prefer over the grip tape, but you do have a
different bottom uh with glide skates on
it because what's installed in the mouse is actually just an ad for an additional
product that you don't have. This is
stupid waste of money. Why would they include an extra disc that is just
objectively worse than the one
with the glide skates on it. That doesn't make any sense. Get it together,
Logitech. Next, we have what seems to be a 6-ft long
non-braided cable, just rubber. It's decent quality, but it is certainly not
what I would hope to see in such a high-end product. It's fine. It's just a
cable, and you're probably not even going to use it anyway. You probably already have >> [music] >> a type-C cable coming off your computer
to your mouse to charge. You're fine. The grip tape has a sort of like
rubberized leather sort of feel. I don't
use it. I have fairly sweaty hands, but not so sweaty that I really need
that in my life. I also find these get so grimy and gross
on top of the normal grimy and grossness that mice get. So, bye-bye.
Here we go. This is what you need in the box. We did it. And the star of the show, the
mouse. At first glance, I would not blame you for not being able to tell the
difference between a regular Superlight and this. They are basically the exact
same shape shrunk down, but not even shrunk down to
a super high level where it's immediately obvious that it's a smaller
mouse. Even in my hand, it's like yeah,
I was literally using a G Pro upstairs, and this is smaller, but it's not that
much smaller. What I will say is that I'm more naturally inclined to claw grip
this size of mouse. Even with that subtle difference, it is a difference in
grip. And really, with mice being the way they are,
the shape of it is the biggest differentiating factor between all of
the high-end mice, as well as price. And so, this might be
a good option for you if you've held a G Pro and you're like, "Ah, it's just >> [music] >> a little too big." You might be
interested in this. You might also be interested in these buttons. They are
about as travelly as I have felt in a long time on a gaming mouse.
Every part of this button, it feels like it's like really moving, which could be good for
you, could be bad for you, but that's really noticeable how much travel we
got. This button experience is due in part to Logitech's proprietary
Lightforce switches, which seem to be a hybrid optical-mechanical switch, which
they are not clear exactly what's going on there, and they don't tell you how many clicks it's rated for, which is a
bit of a bummer in a world where we're getting like 80 million click switches.
I expect this to probably be in the 10 to 20 million range cuz that's what
they've had on previous mice, and that kind of sucks in a world where our mice
are very performance way beyond what we
need, reliability is becoming one of the main factors in why you would spend so
much on a gaming [music] mouse. The scroll wheel feels pretty good in its
scrolling tactility. The clicking is kind of mushy and
crappy, not the best. On the side, we have two side buttons. They're a lighter
click than the top uh and a pretty consistent
experience across the shape of them. If I was to claw grip this, what I'm
finding immediately with the shape is that both the side buttons
and especially the scroll wheel are really far forward. Like, if you look at
this in the top down, it feels like the scroll wheel should be a little further
back based on at least where my fingers naturally land on this thing. Like, not
a big deal. I can reach that, but it's like it would be nice if I could just go
here for my scroll wheel experience. So, don't love the side buttons' positions.
What I do love is the amount of PTFE glide skates on the bottom. Look at
that. That's like barely even a mouse. It's more glide
skate than mouse, man. That's crazy. You could swap it out for the one without
it. You would presumably save less than a gram. I don't see any reason not to
use this if you don't have the power play puck. They keep things simple on the bottom with just a on-off switch,
which means that there is no Bluetooth mode. It is just using a dongle with 2.4
GHz or a wired mode through the type-C
port on the front. It is fairly recessed in there. You might have struggles not
using this type-C cable, but it is a fairly chunky type-C cable, so I think
it should your experience should be fine. Other than that and a little bit of branding on the side and top, it is a
ridiculously simple-looking mouse, and that is part of its success. It is a
no-nonsense machine with a focus on getting the engineering right to have it
be a very light experience. This is a 51-g mouse without the dongle inside,
which means that it's on the lighter end of gaming mice, but it is not on the
cutting edge of high-end gaming mice in terms of weight.
However, we're so far past the point of diminishing returns. If this is the
shape that you are in love with or you're Logitech faithful, I think 51 g
is very sufficient. What you can also expect at the high end is an incredible
sensor. We have the Hero 2 sensor up to 44,000 DPI, 888 IPS, and 88 Gs of
acceleration. This is far beyond what
you need for your mouse to be good. Up to 95 hours of battery life, as well as
an 8K Hz polling rate if you're into that kind of thing. And that's kind of
it. And that's fine. Gaming mice don't have to have a ton of features to do
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today. Excellent. Once we install the software, we can connect the mouse and
configure it. We don't even have to plug it in directly. Big fan of that.
>> [music] >> Tells us what we got, just so we can be happy we can be happy with our purchase.
I'm going to skip that, though. I don't need that. Okay, first thing we can do
is change our DPI settings. I'm guessing
there's a button combo for like profile switching, but I don't see
I don't see that. Why am I getting so overwhelmed by this menu for a very
simple mouse? Once we're in our software, we can adjust our different
profiles. There's already a ton here. I'm surprised. It's kind of overwhelming
how many there are. We can set if we want lots of different DPI settings that
we can assign to a button or a button
combination of our keyboard and mouse, so we can swap between them. I will not
be doing that. I wish to only use one slot, and it will be 800. We can also
change our wireless report rate up to 8,000 and our wired report rate up to
1,000. Bit of a bummer. We can also calibrate our Hero sensor. Oh, that's
something that's not super common. Copy sensitivity. Adjust one mouse to mimic
the feel of another mouse. Okay, so the Hero sensor calibration isn't like a
calibrating so much as a [music] matching the feel of another mouse.
That's kind of interesting, but I will not be doing that. You can also swap it
to advanced mode, which uh basically gives you access to having
different sensitivity on the Y and X axis, as well as your your lift-off
distance. [music] And then we can like duplicate our presets, share our presets, uh you know, like the you and
the boys do on Facebook. You're like, "Check out my DPI settings."
Next, we can change the assignments. Um it looks like we can assign mouse
functions to button combos. Um this is very deep, but uh this is not
what we need. Um and seeing as there is no RGB on this mouse, shout out Logitech
for the right decision. Then we can change our scroll
wheel. Oh, so we can turn on bunny hop mode, which basically uh means that you
have to scroll twice to actually kind of activate it. Uh I don't want to do that
because I will just be like down one at a time for my weapon
selection. Oh, I actually really like this menu. We can see the approximate uh
battery life based on our settings that we have, which is about 18 hours because
we're using 8,000 Hz polling rate. Lightforce switch mode. Oh, so it's
either hybrid, which I'm guessing engages just the mechanical part, and
then optical only, which presumably would actually save me battery life
based on this power saving. >> [music] >> Gaming surface mode. If I turn it on,
sensor parameters are optimized for gaming-specific surfaces.
Okay. Off. sensor parameters are optimized for compatibility with a wide
range of surfaces. And auto, sensor will automatically [music] detect the type of
surface. Well, I only game on gaming surfaces that I get from lttstore.com,
so I'm going to choose that. And onboard memory mode and then I have
my different profile things. Okay. Uh,
strange that the most exciting part of the menu was the like system menu that
was sort of hidden away. Um, but I really like that one, so
that's great. But will I really like it a lot when I play games?
Huh. Immediately in game, this is a very
familiar experience for me. Uh, I use a superlight. Uh, this feels very
very similar, slightly smaller, so I'm clawing it a little bit more. Responsiveness is great. The accuracy is
great as we tested it. The latency is also great. We tested it both wired and
wireless at 1.31 milliseconds, which is
not sub 1 millisecond, which is sort of the ideal. Um, but this is still very
good. It is interesting that both wired and wireless are exactly the same,
although we had uh, a wider scatter on
the wired testing. So we don't know if that's like a crosstalk thing or maybe
it's just an optimization over wireless sort of thing. Um, cuz I'm
guessing that Logitech has optimized this mouse to be used in wireless mode
more than a wired mode. Why would you buy this and use it in wired mode? One thing I'm interested in that the Labs
noted is that they were sometimes getting right clicks when they pressed
really hard on the left click. Oh, you can sort of see the flex.
So you can see the whole mouse
is kind of shifting a little bit. And they were reporting that sometimes they
would get phantom clicks on the right side.
So that's something that's kind of interesting.
I have a feeling that if you have a very very heavy hand, that's the only time it would be an issue. I was pressing pretty
hard. The other thing they noted was that it's a very loud sound. That goes with
the amount of click and travel that there is.
It kind of has a little bit of like a ping, almost a musical tone to it.
So that means this really would not be a good office mouse if you share an office
with someone who is sensitive to sounds. >> [laughter]
>> It's really hard to give first impressions on mice because
they're all so solid these days. Like they they keep refreshing them and
updating them when we already reached end game mice
several years ago. To me, it's getting frustrating that they're spending so
much money on designing these new mice and providing so little upgrade versus
previous years mice. Um, especially when it's $160
now. $160 for a high-end gaming mice, not even top
end, just like that's just the zone it's in. And so I think this is a very solid
option. If you've always liked the G Pro lineup, you wanted an X
uh, a superlight, >> [music] >> this is good if you wanted it to be a
little bit smaller and a little bit more clawable. Um, but it really doesn't rewrite the
book, which is good. That's there's a reason why this lineup was one of the most popular lineups.
>> [music] >> Um, but in a world where other manufacturers are kind of disrupting the
market aggressively, it's hard to recommend this specifically when you can
get a Hitman Hyperlight or any of the Keychron mice. I didn't realize they
made as broad of a lineup as they did. It's crazy. It'll have similar specs at
prices that are much more digestible. We're talking like
90 bucks or 40 to 70 dollars. And if you
want to go even cheaper and stick with Logitech, they have the G305 Lightspeed
for >> [music] >> prices I've seen under $30.
And you're not going to get that different of real world performance.
Certainly not something that I think would justify the price difference.
However, [music] if $160 is not a deterrent to you and
you were looking for a slightly smaller mouse, this is a very solid option that
I think you could check out and look a little bit more deeper at.
Uh, just like you can go a little bit more deeper in our catalog, like the time that I unboxed the ASUS Harp 2 Ace
Extreme. God, these names. What are they doing with these names? Keep it simple.
Keep it simple, stupid.