Logitech G810, G610, and G410 Keyboard Roundup - So many keyboards, so little time...
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2016-05-06
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1,494 words · ~7 min read
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when I first started working with Linus in 2011 that dates this whole thing a
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little bit I'm a little old I was a major keyboard fan boy if you check out
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this video Linus shows off my old mineral oil rig a big part of the reason
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I got the job I'm literally working right now in that
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video he shows off a customized keyboard that I had loved actually I still love
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it and it's still my daily driver I recently made a video fixing it which
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can be found up here as well since then however the whole computer hardware
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industry has gone absolutely insane over
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keyboards the number of new keyboards on the market is nuts and it's more than a
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little bit confusing and overwhelming for instance newegg.com
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has twelve hundred and twenty products
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listed under gaming keyboards oh my god
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and there's only so many times you can make a video on a keyboard that has
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willed yes Cherry MX switches most likely in the brown or red variety and
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some form of backlighting but just in
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case you do happen to miss those I've got two of them here today the G 610
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Orion with Cherry MX brown switches and the G 610 Orion with cherry MX red
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switches or if your tastes are a little more Japanese than German we have the G
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810 Oh Ryan spectrum a fully RGB keyboard that features Romer G switches
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and its little spunky brother the ten keyless g4 ten Atlas spectrum featuring
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full RGB and romaji switches with all of
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that out of the way let's check out some keyboards shall we
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let's start with the most interesting keyboard that would probably be the g8
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ten Oh Ryan spectrum back in 2014 lioness made a video about the G 910 and
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had a lot to say about the Romer G switches a lot of his messaging which I
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actually completely agree with as him
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pointing out things like the shorter more gaming oriented actuation distance
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and the raw performance of the switch itself both of which are absolutely
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awesome he also points out that the feeling may not quite be as satisfying
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as a Cherry MX which due to the mushy compression feeling of bottoming them
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out that last point is something I would like to address while I completely agree
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that they feel mushy to bottom out and I'm definitely someone who bottoms out
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his keys if you force yourself to not
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bottom the switches out and just press them to slightly beyond the actuation
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point which is technically as far as you need to go and is technically the best
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way to do it they actually feel pretty great super responsive sweeper fast
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wonderful switches not for me personally because I slam my fingers down and
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bottom out keys like a dummy but if you can control your key presses better and
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half press this may be great for you
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the biggest complaint Linus had and one of the biggest complaints the community
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as a whole had was their key caps they
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did some super weird stuff with those but as the problem is solved on the g
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810 i won't focus on it anymore i'll just leave it with the problem is solved
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how did they do this well they use standard style key caps that's it
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thanks for being humble logitech that was exactly what people wanted and you
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delivered that's all there is to say besides all that it features 26 key
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rollover which should be more than enough for anyone other than that one
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dude who finds it really entertaining to see how many inputs he can have when he
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tries to attempt typing on the keyboard with his entire butt but it's probably
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fine it also features three step angle adjustment for your varying keyboard
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angle and height needs five large rubber feet on the bottom to keep it from
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sliding around some rather controversial media
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roll buttons because they're circles not squares I personally don't really care
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but have seen a number of comments about them so just be aware of that
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my biggest remark on the media Keys is that they feel actually pretty great to
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press their super tactile and responsive making them feel kind of like the keys
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you expect to feel on a receiver which is kind of cool considering their media
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functions the build quality is great with what must be some form of metal
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plate running through the body making it feel very sturdy and solid and it comes
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with the Logitech Gaming software that you were probably expecting for me to
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bring up like right now which allows you to intricately macro bind different keys
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on your keyboard mainly the F keys a lovely light control which I must say it
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looks awesome on these keyboards because of the romaji light stem it looks very
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nice and diffused and whatnot customizable gaming mode button and a
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key press heat map which is actually super cool I like that kind of stuff the
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only thing really lacking from this keyboard in my opinion is an included
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wrist rest most of its competitors have one it feels a bit lacking in that
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department I know the previous wrist rest wasn't winning a ton of awards
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people didn't like the gaming only half of it really being their style but they
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could have included something the G 410 atlas spectrum despite its name is in a
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smaller ten keyless package but other than that is is much of the same it
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doesn't seem to contain a metal plate and feels kind of flimsy and light which
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I wasn't a fan of largely again because I bought him out keys like a dummy so I
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don't know if that means much to you the awesome lighting the romaji switches the
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more standardized key caps all of those were there and it does include a wrist
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rest but it's the gaming wrist rest that the G 9/10 had so you may not be super
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interested in that or you will that's fine too the other two keyboards both bearing the
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name g6 10 Orion are basically the g8 10
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but with only backlighting for white colors cherry brown and cherry red MX
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switches respectively and that's about all there is to say about them which
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isn't necessarily a bad thing it's fine it just kind of feels like eating a taco
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versus nachos and seven-layer dip lots of the same ingredients but
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oriented in a slightly different way creating a different
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so there that's the current state of logitech keyboards hopefully knowledge
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on these four gives you a better grasp on the apparently twelve hundred and
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twenty currently available keyboards
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