Logitech G110 Gaming Keyboard First Look & Unboxing Linus Tech Tips
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2010-05-08
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1,114 words · ~5 min read
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okay so today we're going to be unboxing a pretty cool new product from Logitech
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this is the Logitech gaming keyboard
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g110 so this is a brand new product in
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their gaming keyboard line which started with the g15 and the most recent Edition
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was the g19 with a full color LCD display up near the top but this one
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actually brings some pretty cool new features to the table so first of all
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you've got custom color backlighting so this particular g keyboard can do either
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blue red or a mixture of the two so you
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end up with kind of like a purple cool purple backlight okay it can also do
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programmable G Keys just like all of the other G keyboards now you can see it's a
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bit of an improvement over the last generation value keyboard which was the
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G11 actually no it's not really an improvement that way okay well you've
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got 12 G Keys over on the left side here which is better than the g15 Gen 2 at
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any rate the one that I have on my desk which only has six okay and then the
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last thing and this is really neat unique to this model is the integrated
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USB audio so this keyboard actually has
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an integrated USB sound card that can
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process audio so you can just plug your mic and headset directly into the
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keyboard very cool we can have a quick look at the back it seems like they're
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basically H covering the same basic
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features of this keyboard that we've already talked about here oh the last
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thing is that you've got a high-speed USB 2.0 port so unlike a lot of the
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older G Series keyboards which used USB 1.1 connectivity for their ports or for
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their hubs this one uses USB 2.0 okay so
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inside we will find the keyboard and I usually like to see the accessories
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first so why don't we have a quick look underneath wow that is pretty much it
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okay so we have a wrist rest all right which looks identical as far as I can
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tell to the old no it's a little bit different okay so we have a rest they've
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lost kind of the rubberized feel to it and it's more of a plastic which it's
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kind of you may or may not prefer that I think it's just more of a personal taste
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thing than anything else and let's get the keyboard itself out of here oh
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you've got a quick start guide okay then
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you have some important information clearly labeled this is important okay
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so it's probably your warranty and ergonomics you know don't use it and and
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and hurt your wrist okay they've got they want you to tell us what you think
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of their product okay and then you've got a driver CD uh
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download the latest drivers from logitech.com that is the best way to go
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about things all right so if I can just figure out how this baggie works oh
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that's clever it has like a little slit in it for the uh okay let's attach the
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wrist rest here so you can see the wrist rest is actually quite large compared to
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the rest of the keyboard and compared to the previous gen ones it Clips on in
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much the same way so you just clip it in from the bottom just like that that H
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okay actually it's a little bit trickier to put in than the other ones I hope it's more durable because I managed to
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break a couple of these already Okay so let's put this down on my desk I
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apologize for the state of my desk today we would have used the cameraman's room
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but I didn't actually think of it and I
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already installed the drivers for the g110 on my computer so the cord is a
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reasonable length okay you're not going to be reaching a computer in a
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completely different room or anything like that but you're also not going to
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have any difficulty PL it into the back of your PC okay let's go through the
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general layout of the keyboard itself here then so you've got your G keys on
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the side here M1 M2 and M3 are three
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different presets for your G keys so you can actually program in up to 12 * 3 so
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whatever that is uh 24 36 different
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functionalities here depending which one of these is activated then you've got a
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fairly standard keyboard layout they've changed I I think they're using the same
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key switches as the new g19 but I can't tell for sure to be perfectly honest
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it's not the same as the g15 Gen 2 though I can feel that much okay up here
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we have game mode versus Windows mode so basically all that does is it
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deactivates your Windows key here we have headset off mic off or on
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presumably here we have a color change oh no this would be the brightness
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settings for your keyboard and then over here we have your multimedia button so
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play stop back forward mute and then a volume wheel so that is pretty cool and
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the the key feature here the cool one is
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the integrated USB audio port so this is your headphones this is your mic and
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then this is a USB 2.0 Port which you can use for your mouse or for a thumb
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drive or whatever else it is now the cameraman's going to do some close-ups
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on the keyboard while I crawl under the desk and plug this thing in so that we
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can have a look at the back lighting and such okay there we go now I've
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pre-installed the drivers off the Logitech website and you can see it's
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actually cycling through the colors right now which is kind of cool it settled on purple if I give you enough
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shade here can you see them yeah you can see that that looks pretty neat so
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there's a few different brightness settings so there's off dim oh no it
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doesn't have that oh okay okay either
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way very cool and uh I guess that's pretty much it isn't isn't it thank you
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for checking out my unboxing of the G10
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gaming keyboard