Logitech G13 Gaming Keypad or Keyboard Unboxing & First Look Linus Tech Tips
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2010-05-08
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so today I'm going to be having a quick look at the Logitech G13 this is a
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gaming keyboard in the sense that it has
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gaming keys on it it is a board but it is not really a traditional keyboard
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This is actually more like that Nostromo uh n52 item from belon except that this
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is a Logitech branded one and being Logitech it brings with it a lot of
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Logitech advantages so first of all Logitech is telling you okay you can
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have four different colored so if you can change the backlight color
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on your keys to four different colors they're saying there is gamechanging
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control you know what I'm going to put this nice and close so you guys can actually read it yourself what is
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gamechanging comfort so they're saying the ergonomics of this are designed to
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give you the best possible Comfort while you are playing games this is a gaming
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product it is for gamers for gaming and
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also they have something about 60 plus game panel enabled games including World
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of Warcraft actually I have a g15 keyboard myself and I found that since I
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first got it when it was released like way back a million and one years ago the
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game support has gotten phenomenally good like I just install a new game and
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boom it has my health or my ammo or
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whatever it is just on my LCD I don't even have to configure it anymore these
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days it's pretty cool so the first thing we find inside is uh probably a disc I'm
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assuming based on how inflexible it is
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yeah we find a quick start guide which is actually only about four pages just
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like that basically okay quick start guide plug it in a USB
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port and put the disc there that's your quick start guide okay the next one is
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important information from Logitech we'll ignore that it could be that important Logitech G Series key profiler
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download the latest one off the Logitech site as I always recommend and then
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let's get down to business here so at the back of this box here is our USB
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cable tucked away in there so let's just pull that out oh this is a nice long
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cable actually and it's got kind of a sturdy thick cable feel to it
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so here should give you some idea how long it is it's long enough actually and
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they've probably thought of this putting such a long cable on a keyboard type
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device it's long enough that you can kind of stick it away from your desk
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when you're not using it and then bring it up onto your desk when you're actually going to be playing a game so
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let's take the oh this is cool okay so when you're lifting the G13 out of the
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box you actually lift up the whole
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packaging here this is kind of like the wow Mouse from steel series and then you
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take off the plastic clam shell and then you can pull the G13 out so let's just
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get this out of here wow I've made a real mess with the Box okay I'm actually going to lift the camera up here so that
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I can show you guys sort of what the ergonomics look like on this particular
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game pad they've got a bit of a rubberized wrist rest right here so
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that's meant to be let's have a look from the side right where your right
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where your palm sits so that you don't actually have any gaps when you're
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resting naturally between your hand and the G13 and that is actually very very
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comfortable so these dented keys right here are meant to replace your WD and
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then you've got all these programmable macro Keys all over the place and like
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many Logitech keyboard devices with the G Series you've got M1 M2 M3 Mr so these
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are actually different profiles so you can completely reconfigure your key
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macros depending which one of these you have active obviously this is your
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brightness adjust these are all unlabeled buttons I wish I could help you with those but I cannot and then
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there is your LCD screen now down here this is interesting too because normally
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the thumb is only good for one thing and that's space bar pretty much but here
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you've actually got a a analog joystick
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and then two buttons so you could find it to jump and something else anyway
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thank you for checking out my unboxing of the oh this is actually cool okay I'm
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not quite done yet you've got rubberized feet all over the bottom of the G13 so
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that's going to keep it from slipping anywhere on your desk and they feel quite quite sticky quite grippy and then
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you've also got a metal plate on the bottom that's a very nice touch it's
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kind of a brushed metal finish on there and that's your G13 branding so to speak
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so thank you for checking out my unboxing of the
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Logitech G13 let's see if I can find this