Now, this is something I've wanted to have a look at for a little while. This
is the Logitech wireless gaming mouse G700. Now, I actually had a G7 for a
number of years. I quite enjoyed that mouse. I mean, you know what, let's face
it, it was really good for the time, but uh once I upgraded to a uh to a more
faster, better wired mouse, I did notice
the lag that I had been living with all that time. Now, I don't know if the
G700, well, I don't know yet if the G700
fixes that, but we can definitely have a
look at what is in the box and what features make this particular mouse
interesting. So, why don't we look at the tracking first? So, the resolution
is 200 to 5700 DPI. The image processing
is 12 megapixels per second with max acceleration of 30gs and then max speed
of up to 165 in per second.
Look at that. All right. Responsiveness up to 1,000 reports per second, which is
good. It's about the fastest it goes. Dynamic coefficient of friction. Look at
that. Has that on it. And a static coefficient of friction. Okay. The
durability 8 million clicks and the feet
can go 250 km. Tested on most popular
gaming mouse pad surfaces. Cool. Cool. Okay. 13 precisely placed, fully
programmable controls. Epic. Really?
Okay, let the record show it actually
has the word epic on the package. So,
this thing better be epically comfortable. Gaming grade wireless
powerful control that gets you deep into your game. There's the little wireless
receiver, which is a big improvement over the clunky base station with
battery charger that the G7 had. 13 programmable controls with macro
capability. Natural supportive shape. Full speed wireless plug-and- forget
nano receiver. Whoops, I'm not even focused on the right language here.
Rechargeable data over cable.
Okay. Gaming grade laser, dual mold scroll wheel, smooth gliding feet,
onboard. Oh, dual mode scroll wheel is actually a cool feature. And it has an
LED display. Look at that. All right. So, let's have a look at uh the
packaging itself. Logitech products can sometimes be a bit of a challenge to
unbox. So hopefully this is not the case today as I'm not really up for an
unboxing challenge. I'd rather just keep things simple and have a look at the
product right now.
Okay, that's not too challenging so far.
Oh, hold on. It's about to get challenging. And it all sort of like falls apart now.
Awesome. Okay. So, the first thing we find here
is a uh Oh, it's okay. It's a It's a US Sorry, my angle's a little off here.
It's a USB extension cable
for the micro receiver. Okay. Neato. So,
they I think they're recommending that you only really use it for the micro receiver right there. Next, we have
important information as well as getting started guide.
Next we have Oh, look at that. Okay, so it looks like
you can turn it into a corded mouse. That's what this looks like to me.
That's a USB cable. And then that's the receiver. You know what? We're going to
have to have a look at the mouse to figure out exactly how all of that
works. Okay, I'm suspicious that it's
complicated at this point, though. Here's the micro receiver. So, it's
quite small. My hand for scale.
Ger Logitech. Looks like that. There's
your part number. And here is the epically comfortable. So they say, "Ooh,
that is actually quite nice." Quite nice indeed. The epically comfortable G700.
So it looks like there's Are those analoops? Is that an Analoop battery?
Nice. Wellplayed Logitech. An enaloops are my personal
favorite. In fact, I will do a short demonstration
of how enaloops are indeed my favorite
batteries.
Here's a cat unrelated to enaloops.
Okay, so there's my enaloop charger on the wall.
Okay, and here
are extra analoops. In fact, in my camera, I have more enaloops. Okay,
there's other random stuff in here. Hey, look. There's my G7 batteries. Um, okay.
That wasn't a very good demo, but I actually have a lot of envelopes. I think most of them are at work right now
cuz uh that's where I use most of them when I'm whenever I'm swapping batteries
for my camera. Okay, so we're back. Let's have a look at the G700 mouse and
not get distracted. Anyway, analoop batteries. Well played, Logitech. I
approve. I love Analoops. They're great. They last a long time and they come
charged which means your G700 mouse can
likely, and I mean like pretty darn likely, be used out of the box. Oh,
maybe not cuz it was flipped to the on switch. So, it's possible it's been
draining in the packaging. Okay. Well, at any rate, oh no, no, it probably
hasn't because it has this little uh Yeah, it's it's being blocked here. So,
it's not making contact. Okay. So, yes, it is charged and ready for use. Cool.
wireless products that are charged and ready for use. Love it. Okay, let's have
a look at the macro buttons. So, first, oh, let's show that epic comfort. So,
you can see the palm sits right here.
You curve your fingers over the mouse. There they are on the buttons and your
thumb goes right there. Actually, it's more like about like this. But, it
really does mold right to your hand. That's really nice. So, there's four
programmable macro G buttons on the side here. 1 2 3 four. Okay. There's three
next to your index finger here. 1, two, three. Very conveniently reachable, very
ergonomic. You can see they're actually curved in shape so that when your finger
sits here, you can push forward for this one, push back for this one, or push a
little bit further back for this guy. So, they can all be reached quite easily. Two more here.
Oh, hold on. Aha. That one is for the scroll wheel.
So that's the dual mode scroll wheel with either the clickiness or the
flywheel. Okay. Here is another G button. So
that's not a G button like a G. Okay. You've got your left and
right click. You got your clicky on your scroll wheel. And then that pretty much
does it for buttons. Here's the slippy pads on the bottom. Onoff switch. Gaming
laser. The other side is fairly fairly bare. Not a whole lot going on there.
Here is where that uh that charging wire
plugs into. Okay. So, you you can use it while
you're charging it or you can just leave it uh leave it charging and then pull it
off when you're ready to use it. And then the micro receiver plugs into that
other cable and just stays plugged in or it plugs directly into your computer,
whichever you'd prefer. For less interference, you're probably going to want to plug it into that cable and
position it somewhere um with, you know, line of sight to the G700 or whatever
else. This looks like a DPI indicator right here. Although I can confirm that.
I can't confirm that, but I'm pretty sure that's what that's going to be. So,
there it is. That is the G700 mouse.
Thank you for checking out my unboxing online. Oh, I should talk about the
finish on this guy a little bit. So, it's got kind of a rubberized, grippy
feel, kind of like the G9. Uh, personally, I'm a big fan of that. It's
very uh fingerprint resistant. So, your mouse isn't going to look all greasy and
nasty. And it's also quite uh quite nice
to to grip onto. So, it's uh very easy to hold it in place uh however long you
happen to be holding a mouse like this. I also like how I mean this seems like a
stupid demo, but when you lift up the mouse, it's very very difficult to drop
it. So, it has a really really good shape for the hand there.
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