FINALLY a Wireless MECHANICAL Gaming Keyboard! – Logitech G613
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2018-05-06
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wireless mouse technology has gotten crazy good lately with even professional
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gamers cutting the cord in tournament play with thousands tens of thousands or
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even hundreds of thousands of dollars on the line but what about mechanical
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keyboards both mechanical keyboards and wireless keyboards have existed since
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before i was born so where the he double
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hockey sticks are all the wireless mechanical boards well
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i'm glad you asked meet the g613
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it's tournament grade mechanical wireless and it lasts for months on a
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single charge game on
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and on and on
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and on and on
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and on and on
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and on i'm carrying too many phones right now hp's new omen x line up comes
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equipped with Intel's seventh generation core i7 processor check it out at the
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link in the video description even though it's part of their
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gamer g series i think the best way to describe the design of logitech's g613
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is utilitarian it's got pretty much
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everything you need and very little that you don't it rocks an understated
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two-tone gray finish with an integrated wrist rest which is nice because you
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don't want that thing flopping around when you're on the go it's got six
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programmable macro keys and then a handful of basic media keys
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being wireless it also has an on off switch and these two buttons that let
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you switch between the logitech lightspeed receiver unit plugged into
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your computer and a supported nearby bluetooth device like your phone car
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tv you get the point bluetooth is a fairly ubiquitous standard and that's a nice
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thing to have let's talk typing logitech is using the same omron co-developed
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roamer g-switches as the g910 but this
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time without the weird-shaped keycaps RGB lighting and the phone dock so it
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shouldn't be a surprise then that while the high tactile bump is a bit of an
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acquired taste typing on it is actually a reasonably pleasant experience no
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complaints there at all as for gaming logitech claims that thanks to the 2.4
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gigahertz light speed connection same as on the g703 mouse which you can check
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out here the short actuation distance of the romer g switches and the fast
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on-board processing that the keyboard is over five times faster than razer's
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wired black widow v2 and ed's opinion after gaming on it is it's
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fine just fine so considering what a regular wired mechanical keyboard cost a
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few years ago not too bad for 150 bucks
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that's progress but that leads us back to our original question how has it
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taken until 20 freaking 17 for a major
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brand to release a wireless mechanical keyboard okay
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so maybe it was a demand issue until the last few years mechanical
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keyboards were a super niche item and even today most lay persons
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don't know what they are so who would have been out there looking for a
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keyboard that's both mechanical and wireless maybe it was cost the people
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looking for those features also had to be willing to pay for them and
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considering that a cheap wireless keyboard can cost three times as much as
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a cheap wired one the fact that a basic mechanical keyboard is still a hundred
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bucks makes that potentially pretty scary math no
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no actually i reject that we don't think it was demand or cost keeping wireless
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mechanical keyboards from hitting the mainstream clearly if there are people
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out there buying 200 individually handcrafted keycaps
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some of them would be willing to spend a few bucks for a completely wireless desk
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setup we think it was more to do with the
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limited benefit of wireless for keyboards i mean they just sit there
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and the compromises that were imposed especially by older wireless
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technologies but hold on a second Linus i mean the 2.4 gigahertz or bluetooth
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wireless devices i have have basically no noticeable latency aren't those good
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enough while i see your point basically isn't good enough the people
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who buy mechanical keyboards are enthusiasts they care about registering
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a keystroke a fraction of a second earlier than their opponents and they're
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not about to sacrifice those key benefits just to cut a cord that's
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usually out of the way anyway i mean who exactly is it out there that
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wants to charge a heavy ass keyboard all the time for the privilege of being able
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to pick it up and go sit on the couch to use it so that's what's changed here
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better than wired latency with up to 18 months of life on two regular double a
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batteries there's even a pair included in the box and while logitech's been
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super tight-lipped about exactly how their lightspeed link actually works
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what we do know is that it's strong high decibel signal one millisecond report
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rate and supremely power efficient design is what enables this products
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no compromises performance and endurance
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with that said no compromises is in the eye of the
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beholder and while the cordless simplicity of the g613
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will appeal to some consumers many enthusiasts will be unwilling to
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give up creature comforts like auxiliary screens pass-through usb ports built-in
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audio backlit keys and let's face it that
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sweet RGB nectar all things that they
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could have at this price if they were willing to plug in a cord not to mention
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that they'd probably get better keycaps too to say i was disappointed that the
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legend on a 150 dollar keyboard uses
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cheapo stickers would be a gross understatement but come on Linus they
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gotta keep the cost of this revolutionary new product down somehow
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right right no i mean to be clear by and large i like
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the product and i think a lot of people are gonna buy it but logitech
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at risk of sounding like a broken record here you guys need to stop screwing up
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the keycaps on your romer g keyswitch products this thing uses more durable
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