Logitech G602 Wireless Gaming Mouse Unboxing & Overview
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·Linus Tech Tips
·2014-05-07
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DH Drive air ae400 now the obvious thing
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the obvious misunderstanding is the Logitech g602 is a followup to the g600
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it is not in fact Brandon was asking me
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before we started so for those of you who don't know Brandon is b-roll
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everyone's decided that they want to use the names now so there you have it so
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Brandon was asking me well okay what's it like how does it compare to that
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other one we have and I kind of went I don't know like I don't know what to say
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because the g602 is so different from
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any other product like what is it is it an FPS Mouse is it an MMO Mouse is it a
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wireless mouse is it a gaming mouse is it this is it that it's a lot of
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different things and I really feel like particularly with logitech's pricing of
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this mouse they've made um a lot of other products in the market from other
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product lines and from their own product line kind of irrelevant um which is both
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a compliment as well as something you know kind of kind of scary because from
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a business perspective you want you know better average sale price you want you
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know better margin you want this you want that and this is a very value
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oriented option that appeal should appeal to almost anyone so without
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further Ado this my friends is the g602
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buckle my shoe anyway uh so it takes their new science winds approach to
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design which means a couple of different things well most importantly very very
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rugged materials so the finish on the top is a slightly textured hard plastic
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finish for the left and right Mouse buttons a rubberized textured finish
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here for the Palm rest and then a more textured matte black that goes all the
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way around the right side of the mouse all the way to the back and then around
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the left side where your thumb rests so this kind of reminds me of their older
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like their really old performance MX or like uh like their really shapely
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Wireless mice a little bit in terms of the shape but much more Sleek more
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streamlined lower more optimized for gaming okay so that the whole idea
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behind science wins is these materials aren't going to wear out the next idea
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behind science wins is other things aren't going to wear out so these buttons here are rated for 20 million
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clicks each which is outstanding the feet on the bottom are rated for 250 km
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of travel and you can tell there's quite a large surface area to them both around
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the outsides of the mouse as well as around the optical sensor yes my friends
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this is an optical Mouse it is a sort of
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closer to $100 than it is to $50 Optical
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mouse that only runs at 2500 DPI and you
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might kind of go oh well I could get a higher DPI Mouse for that money yes you
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could but would you need it this is a return to practicality is the DPI race
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over Logitech g602 says maybe uh which
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is fascinating to me because 500 DPI is more than I've ever used in my life and
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some people do particularly like very high sensitivity but many don't and some
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people are noticing issues particularly with laser mice which the very high DPI
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Mouse tend to be and acceleration issues
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and we shouldn't see any of that although I haven't tried the mouse yet but I'm stoked to turn it on so also
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here on the bottom we're going to find a power switch so you can turn it off or
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you can turn it on but I can't imagine why you'd want to turn it off more on
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that in a moment as well as check that out double a batteries gone are the
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proprietary battery packs and what's even more impressive about this is the
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battery life of this mouse Logitech is quoting
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250 hours if you have both batteries
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installed of continuous gaming in gaming performance
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mode so like if you could actually game for 250 hours straight then you could
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probably drain both batteries you don't have to use both batteries if you want
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to adjust the weight and the weight distribution you can install Just One
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battery either in the right or in the left and you'll get about 125 hours it
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actually says 240 hours on the box 250 on their website so let's just assume
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somewhere in that range and then half of somewhere in that range you can also
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switch it to endurance mode using the switch right here and then you will
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actually get see green and blue uh so in like green endurance mode you can get up
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to 1,400 hours of battery life on a
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single charge so this is a prime candidate for just having a couple
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rechargeable batteries nearby and basically not even worrying about the
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wireless aspect now they've they're claiming that it is gaming grade
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Wireless so no perceivable latency however it should be noted that this
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mouse only does 500 Hertz so 500 reports
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per second we've seen gaming mice that are capable of a th000 but that really
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raises the question can people feel the difference between 500 HZ and a th000
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and um how would that affect battery life and all those other things so is
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this the reasonable trade-off in much the same way that 2500 DPI is I'll let
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you guys be the judge of that because while I haven't used fire higher than
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2500 DPI on a regular basis I do tend to crank my mice up to as high a refresh
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rate as I can so now let's go ahead and have a look at the actual Mouse because
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we've talked a lot about the technology and not a lot about what's on here so it has 11 programmable buttons so you can
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see that there are some very sensibly laid out G keys this is again where I
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find this mouse to be kind of in between FPS and MMO if you look at the layout of
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the buttons on the left there's enough that you could you know get some you
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know to some tool belt or whatever bindings going on in there and there's
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sort of more than you might need for a typical FPS you know if you just need
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push to talk throw grenade melee and that's about it but I I personally think
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there's a really good balance because I can actually reach them all so while an
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MMO Mouse might make might you know you you might want more buttons the reality
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of it is you're not going to be able to tacti feel a lot of them anyway and this
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even with my smaller hands is very comfortable and very reachable which is
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uh which is cool so it's up to you guys whether sort of again the race to more
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actually makes sense or whether it doesn't on the top two more programmable
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buttons up here so these are by default bound to DPI so you have five different
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DPI settings right there 1 2 3 4 five
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works just the same way as many other Logitech mice do but of course you can remap them to macros or other
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functionality or whatever else the case
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may be oh yeah accessories right I guess
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that matters so there's there included wireless dongle which is extremely low
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profile not their universal receiver which can have up to six different
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devices because this is a gaming grade one and then you've also got a little
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extension Dad here so you can plug it into your USB port and then have it sit
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somewhere a little bit closer to your mice if that makes you feel better for
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whatever reason so that's pretty much it
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guys I mean the only thing left is what do you
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oh yeah there's a battery indicator apparently right that would be here of
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course um so the only thing left is what do you guys think what mouse is
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this most similar to what would you compare it to and are you looking real
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closely at the g602 right about now don't forget to subscribe to lus Tech
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