Logitech G710+ Mechanical Gaming Keyboard Unboxing & First Look Linus Tech Tips
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2013-05-07
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1,944 words · ~9 min read
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welcome to my unboxing and first look at
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the much awaited finally mechanical
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keyboard from Logitech in the G Series this is the g710 plus it uses Cherry MX
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Brown switches which are a balance between sort of a tactile
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feel and quiet which is a factor for
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your more mainstream customer so the g710 plus is almost that um that
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balanced approach between what the keyboard enthusiasts like which tends to
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be your Cherry MX blues and what the
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sort of more mainstream customer would want which is a keyboard that doesn't
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make a whole lot of noise in fact I have a new coworker who was looking at the
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Cherry MX Blue keyboard in my office and he was like oh yeah that's the stupidest
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thing I've ever seen it's so loud it's stupid I'm like well no it's a
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typing experience and he's like no that's the dumbest thing I ever heard so
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going with something like MX Browns may be a very good approach although we'll
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have to try it to find out for sure 110 key anti- ghosting which means no matter
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what typing combinations you hit you're not going to have any random keystrokes
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pop up 26 key rollover which means you can put both hands and your face all
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over the keyboard it's going to register every stroke game/ desktop mode so
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that's probably basically just turning off the uh Windows button in know
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likelihood dedicated media controls this is the kind of thing that a lot of
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mechanical keyboards don't have because they tend to be very basic designs
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whereas Logitech I'm expecting all the bells and whistles adjustable Dual Zone
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backlighting so there's the rest of the keyboard and then there's just the WD
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keys six programmable G keys with 18 total functions you have three memory
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keys for switching between different profiles high speed low noise tactile
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switches for feedback you can feel which is exactly what I spent the first part
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of the video saying I am like super super excited
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about this cuz if there's anyone who knows how to build input devices it is
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Logitech and if there's anyone who likes mechanical key switches it is slick
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followed by me I like them but not quite as much as he does I mean he's like like
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he's like sitting over there and I can see the drool coming out of the side of
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his mouth just looking at this keyboard cuz he is he he he walked in today um
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and he saw the keyboard ready to be unboxed and he was like oh yeah you know
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yeah I'm not that excited about it cuz you know Cherry Brown switches and he's
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he's a cherry blue guy and then after like five minutes of we're talking about
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completely other unrelated things he just kind of turns to me and he's like
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yeah I know I'm really excited about this keyboard you have to hurry up and unbox
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it yeah he was trying to talk himself out of it cuz he knows he can't afford
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it right now he's still in school just like diesel the intern which is why it's
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hard for me to get any videos done because these guys schedules are
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absolutely terrible and they're impossible to work with both of them I
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should just fire them both no yeah I know right all right so
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like most Logitech keyboards you actually get accessories included with
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it like your wrist rest whereas most of the uh sort of Boutique brand mechanical
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keyboard guys don't include any extraneous stuff like wrist rests or
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keyboard back lights or you know fancy looking cables and all that kind of kind
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of jazz so we've got two USB plugs here
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one is for the keyboard itself and one is for a probably a pass through USB y
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so that pass through is up here at the top so you plug that into your mouse or
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you could not plug it into your mouse and you could just use it for like a USB
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key or whatever else because it'll be running at full USB 2 speed because it's
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just a pass through and it's not an actual Hub ooh look look at all the
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cable management options they built into this so you could have a wire running
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for your headset under here through here
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through here and then run that down to the back of your computer like that so
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it actually comes out at sort of a a sensible location instead of just
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draping over your keyboard that's awesome and all of the huge rubber
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nonslip pads on the bottom of this keyboard these are very well built these
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are very high quality rubber um you know
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guaranteed they won't break and cause problems um like your keyboard moving
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around also you've got feet right here which do not have rubber pads on them
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unfortunately I've seen ones in the past that do but these ones don't however it
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should still not go anywhere because of the rubber pads here and here that are
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still going to be down on the table so you can either incline the keyboard or
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you cannot if you prefer more flat typing experience there's some Flex here
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in the wrist rest so you don't have to worry too much about uh which way it's
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oriented how flat the surface you have it on is all right uh you got your
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programmable G Keys you know what I've never actually
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typed on Browns
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before they're quiet but they do have
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more feedback than blacks I'll give them that not nearly as much as blues I think
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I have a blue keyboard right here yeah here's a blue filco right here so for
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comparison here's the sound this is what I was talking about where logitech's
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probably going for a like um
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compromise between that kind of a
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click and that kind of a sound so membrane keys are pretty much always
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quiet but they also just whoops okay well we'll put that away for now they
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also just feel so mushy and you don't have that that response whereas these
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ones you can feel after here you got to get in really close for this so you push
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it down a little bit and the key hasn't registered yet and right there you can
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you can feel the mechanical switch there's a there's a a pressure point
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there so you don't actually have to bottom them out and mash them in order
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to type on on Browns you can press them quite softly and you'll still have a
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good typing experience but it's not loud
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and I'd have to I'd have to sit and I'd have to actually use it for a long time
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to know for sure what I think but let's go ahead and plug it into something so
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we can have a look at the backl now there's not many keyboards
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that I'd be considering proper gaming mechanical keyboards but the Corsair k90
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as well as the g710 plus would be the ones that I'd say are more replicable
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now k90 uses red switches red switches are very linear so you know that sort of
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that buckling point that I showed you on the Logitech one that doesn't exist on
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the on the corsairs you don't actually see where the key depress happens some
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people find this less helpful for typing
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whereas on Browns you really do have a little bit more feedback coming into
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your hands on sort of what you're actually typing neither of them are as
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responsive again as blues which I showed you before but there aren't any sort of
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fully featured keyboards like this where you've got things like macro keys and a
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full software suite that goes with it that are mechanical keyboards so this is
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what we've got to work with Okay advantages g710 plus number one is these
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buttons and these buttons are all mechanical on the Corsair keyboard
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whoopsy daisies um on the Corsair
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keyboard the programmable keys and the F Keys as well as these keys are not
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mechanical okay another kind of cool thing about the Logitech keyboard is the
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corser one has three brightness levels one two three and it does get pretty
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bright the Logitech one looks like it has two three four four brightness
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levels okay white backl so it's up to you if you prefer white or blue
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personally I prefer blue uh you can switch between different profiles for
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the G Keys here so you can program three full sets of functions I personally
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don't see much value to having this many programmable keys on the left of the
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keyboard because I'm not going to be able to reach them in the heat of battle anyway this is probably a good balance
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um okay here you can control the brightness of either just the
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WDS or just the rest of the keyboard using two dedicated buttons up here
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you've got built-in media control keys on both of them built-in volume uh knobs
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on both of them those are both working just fine mute
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button mute button so they're very similar in terms of their features um it
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just comes down to let's see overall build quality that's actually very good
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wow that's comparable to uh to something like a filco or a ducky there's no flex
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to this thing at all that's outstanding although it doesn't have a metal back
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plane the same way that the k90 does so the k90 does have a little bit less Flex
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on the back plane but um the overall
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construction of this feels very good like not quite I don't think you could
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kill a man with it but pretty darn pretty darn close um Aesthetics of it
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are great I think the orange accent here is outstanding I wouldn't mind if this
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instead of being a glossy black was sort of a less glossy black however it
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doesn't seem to be too much of a grease or dust magnet so far just kind of try
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to pick at it a little bit see how gross it gets and it looks like it cleans off
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pretty easily there's a lot more to glossy finishes than just glossy or not
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glossy and this appears to be a very high quality one
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I think that pretty much covers everything that I can say about the g710
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plus so advantages for Logitech are going to be the Cherry Brown switches
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are going to be their very mature software platform that they have for
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their gaming peripherals as well as the fact that when it comes to True gaming
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keyboards fully featured gaming keyboards out there there's not a whole lot of choice for mechanical and if I
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was going to pick one I would definitely go with cherry Browns over Cherry Reds
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