Logitech G500s Gaming Mouse Unboxing & Overview
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2013-05-07
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1,190 words · ~5 min read
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welcome to my unboxing and first look at the g500s from Logitech now I've checked
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out the g400s and the g100s and quite frankly this is the one that I'm
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genuinely excited about because there's some Logitech features that I really
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felt were missing from the other ones that I guess you just got to kind of you
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got to pay to play and if you wanted to get access to them you had to go for the
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premium g500s so let's take a look at the overall specs really quick so it
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does everywhere from 200 to 8200 DPI this is a laser Mouse and it is serious
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business about the dpis I mean I don't think you'll ever really use 8200 DPI
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but if you wanted to this mouse is capable of uh actually getting a useful
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input if it's traveling at 4 meters per second which if you think of it in terms
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of like if you're a low sensitivity gamer and you were going four meters per
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second to do like a turn you'd have to basically go like you'd have to like
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jump and spin in order to actually trip this mouse out and have it not work so
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there you go uh up to 1,000 reports per second which is the maximum USB is
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capable of Max acceleration of 30 G's 20
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million clicks is what the buttons are rated for and the feet are rated for 250
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km now I kind of mocked them with the 250 km in my G5 or g400s unboxing and I
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was like well do they mean on ashalt or do they mean on uh a piece of glass but
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it looks like they've actually thought of that tested on wood veneer desktop so
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they actually tested it before they rated it for how long it's actually
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going to to go for for so there you go I thought I thought that was interesting
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if nothing else so the first Mouse I ever used with adjustable weights was a
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Logitech mouse and I really felt like that feature separates it in terms of
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customizability from the other things on the market I mean nowadays a lot of mice
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have adjustable weights or like you know
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adjustable you know wrist straps or whatever kinds of adjustable things that
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go on but for me personally I would
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rather find a mouse that is truly sculped in the shape that I want and
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then I can tune the weight because that's the thing that matters most to me
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so they've gone with the sort of classic Logitech weight system which is a
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cartridge that loads in from the back at the
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rear get it cartridge loads okay never mind uh so there's a cartridge that
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loads in here which is where we found the the battery insert for the old G7 uh
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which I still have one of kicking around somewhere and then there's a little
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eject button right there that kicks it out uh the not the slippy feet on the
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bottom are at the front side and back
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and let's go ahead and get these opened up I'm going to need a minute for that though so the mouse is lightweight
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without feeling cheap and it really doesn't it feels very solidly built um
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however you can add up to whatever 9 *
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three you can add up to 27 G to the mouse which will put it at the heavier
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end of uh of mice and then what you can
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also do is you can adjust where you want the weight so if you put more of the
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weight towards the front you'll have a bit more of a front heavy Mouse what I
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would probably do personally is I'd load more of the weight towards the back so
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that I can more easily move this way
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which is the way that I tend to use my mouse even though it's sort of bad for your wrist and you're not really
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supposed to do that so logitech's whole thing with the new G Series is their
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science winds branding where they're talking about the Advanced Materials
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that they're using on the mouse now the difference between the g500s and the
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g400s in aside from the fact that this
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is using a gaming grade laser sensor as opposed to the optical sensor in the
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g400 is that the grippy sides feel more
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rugged and they feel more robust on the g500s like I actually don't think I can
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scratch any of this off even if I go straight at it with a fingernail this
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was the one complaint I had about the G9 which was otherwise my second favorite
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mouse ever cuz it's awesome was that
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like the the anti-slip coating just came off um about a year into owning it and I
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really just I don't feel like this would happen with this but it's impossible to
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say without waiting a little bit a little bit longer so other Logitech
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features that I feel very strongly about this guy right here the unlocked scroll
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wheel love to see that implemented it's
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things like back and forward buttons unlock scroll wheel uh outstanding
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Precision that really set a mouse apart from another one so all you have to do
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see that so you can probably you can hear there's actual clicks to the mouse
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wheel now you go ahead and press this and it disengages the
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gear and it spins freely so it's great for scrolling through long documents I
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actually used my G9 at work almost exclusively because of that because I
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was often in Long Excel documents but the problem with the G9 is the button
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was on the bottom which is not as good as having the button right here where
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you can decide what mode do I want to be in and you can change it on the Fly
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you've also got DPI changing buttons here back forward as well as another
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programmable button here on the side uh
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looks like yep we've got DPI indications
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here so that has one two three settings and you can PR all of that in the
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Logitech software I just want to see if there's anything that I forgot that I
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wanted to say I don't know if I mentioned the 3year warranty already but
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there you go and I think that's pretty
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much it oh yeah you can reprogram all the buttons If you want and unlike the
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g100s and the g400s the cable is braided
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so it's got that premium braided look and it is less susceptible to damage
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from caps I've actually had cables saved
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um from cats vibrating so there you go it's a thing
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