Logitech G700s Wireless Gaming Mouse Unboxing & Overview
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2013-05-07
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click the link in the video description for more details welcome to my unboxing
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and first look at the g700s from Logitech the key difference between
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their seven series mice so the G7 the g700 and now the g700s is the fact that
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they are all Wireless but gaming grade the G7 was really the first mouse that
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was marketed as a gaming grade wireless mouse and the difference between gaming
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capable Wireless mice and non-gaming capable ones is all about the latency so
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creating a wireless connection that is low latency enough that Gamers aren't
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going to notice any input leg from the mouse is key to being able to well being
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able to be responsive enough particularly for FPS gamers in order to
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really with a straight face call it gaming grade now Logitech has recently
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upgraded a huge well pretty much their entire G Series of products with this s
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suffix at the end of it so the S is for
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I don't know for Supreme performance or
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Surface or something like that and what they've really done is they've upgraded
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the materials that they're using on the products themselves covering them in a
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hydrophobic coating upgrading things like the grippy sides upgrading
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everything about them to make them last longer and feel better on the user's
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hand so they shouldn't get all sort of greasy and sweaty and nasty and they
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should be easier to grip and they shouldn't peel back in fact my only
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complaint about one of my favorite mice ever the G9 was the fact that my grip
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peeled other than that it was near perfect so let's see what else Logitech
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has to say for themselves about this 200 all the way up to 8200 DPI giving you
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the ultimate inflexibility so that's 12 megapixels per second in image
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processing and the a maximum speed of up to 4 m/ second so for context that's
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tested on popular game mouse pad surfaces so for context guys that'd be
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like if I was moving my mouse this fast
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like probably faster like no one actually well okay maybe someone
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actually moves like that over a very short distance but either way it should be able to handle it um let's go back up
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back to the box over here uh 16 bits per axis up to a th000 reports per second
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that's great for a wireless mouse there's only a few that are capable of
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that and durability of 20 million clicks for the buttons and 250 kilometers for
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the feed although Unfortunately they don't say what surface that is on so
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apparently the buttons are fingerprint resistant it's you can recharge and
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handle data over single connection it has five onboard memory profiles which
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you can switch between with this button 13 programmable buttons and you can
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adjust your DPI on the fly now one of
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the coolest Logitech features that they really introduced so here let's go
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through what's in here um but I'll talk about the scroll wheel in a minute so
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you've got an extension cord for the wireless receiver and it does not use
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the same unified Wireless receiver that their other products are capable of
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connecting to this is a special one and you it is just for your gaming mouse
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because the data rates required are higher than on their consumer grade
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products so there you go this extension cable is about um I don't know about a
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little less than a lonus armspan so it must be around 5 ft long and then you
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can run that to somewhere where you're going to have good reception and there are flat bottom pieces here so you can
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stick it to something or do whatever else you want with it we've also got a cable that can be used to charge the
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mouse or run in wired mode so this one
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right here is not braided or anything like that in fact out of all the mice
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I've seen so far from their new GS series The g500s is the only one that's
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had a braided cable it doesn't really affect performance but it's one of those
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premium feeling things that I wouldn't have minded seeing if they could include
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it so you can see how it plugs in right here so you can plug it into charge
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unplug it to not charge and it'll look just like a Wired Mouse when you are not
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operating it in that fashion let's have a look at what else they've got included
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here look like a setup guide plug the thing into the thing in all likelihood
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warranty information it does have a three-year warranty it should be noted
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that logitech's warranty is absolutely legendary and I've personally
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experienced it in the past many times they don't even require you to ship the
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product back to them at all so here's the battery a love to see that if you
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guys have been watching my videos for any kind of period of time you'll know I
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love Sano anal Loops oh I guess now they're pan Panasonic whatever well this
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one still has the Sano branding on it I love anal Loops they're the best
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rechargeable batteries they're awesome and the cool thing about anal Loops is
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it means your g700s is going to arrive ready to play you don't have to charge
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it before you use it because they hold a charge incredibly well uh there's an
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onoff switch at the bottom so you can turn it off when you're in transit and
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they have enormous nons or enormous uh
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slippy pads on the bottom of the mouse this doesn't affect how much friction
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the mouse has with the surface below it because that's not how friction works
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but what it does do is it effectively makes the mouse more durable because
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there's hair there there's more surface to rub off over time so that's I guess
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how they're getting that 250 km durability on the mouse itself so let's
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go ahead and uh let's get this uh get this mouse going on here so we've got a
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right-handed shape which we've come to expect from Logitech gaming mice they
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don't have a left-handed Mouse I kind of wish they do one and I know that many
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left-handed Gamers do but it's a very ergonomic shape now you can see here
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this is designed for Palm the shape here fits right into your palm and you can
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quite comfortably especially if you have slightly larger hands than me I have quite small hands so you can see there's
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a fair bit of space left at the end of the buttons and my index finger sits in
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such a way that I'm kind of between these two so if you had medium-sized
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hands you'd sit right here where you can very easily press this one this one or
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this one so those are the G8 G9 and G10 buttons these are fully programmable
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buttons um and your hand would also sit
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a little bit more forward on the mouse and you know it would be a little bit more more comfortable so I wouldn't
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necessarily recommend this for people with super small hands like I have on
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the side of the mouse you've got four more G buttons as well as the battery
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indicator and a very very nice coating finish here we've seen this already on
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some of the other GS series mice and it's equally impressive here however I
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haven't used them for long enough to get my hands sweaty to the point where I've
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observed the difference in the hydrophobic coating now back to the
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scroll wheel this is such an awesome Logitech feature I oh I love it so
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normally it's a clicky scroll wheel here I'm going to hold it up to the mic up
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here so you guys can hear got that click can you hear that
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all right awesome now check this out by pressing this gear button this disengage
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button here free Spin so if you don't use your
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mouse only for gaming and you also use it for work or maybe you want to bind
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something to like a bajillion scroll wheel flicks you can just flick the
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mouse you can browse through Excel sheets web pages whatever else very very
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quickly you just go flick stop when you see the thing you want to see and it's
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absolutely awesome I believe this button right yep this button right here is
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cycling through the DPI profiles so we got 1 2 3 four five different DPI
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profiles just by clicking on that button up at the top but you can rebind the G
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buttons to whatever you want so the total number of buttons is count them up
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with me 1 2 3 one on the click right
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there five sort of counts cuz it only does this so 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 11
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buttons let's see if that's what they say on the box cuz maybe I missed one
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but you know what they don't seem to say it all so thank you for checking out my
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oh they say 13 what we'll be back I
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figured it out this Mouse balls so hard it has a tilting scroll wheel forgot
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about that so four on the side which I can reach easily even with my smaller
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hands three over here on the left which I can reach two of easily and there's a
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third one that I could reach but it'd be a little bit tough so that's seven total
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8 9 10 11 12 13 thank you for checking
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