Logitech G400s Optical Gaming Mouse Unboxing & Overview
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·Linus Tech Tips
·2013-05-07
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Welcome to my unboxing and first look at the G400S from Logitech, which is part
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of their new G series, which is all about for science, rather, uh, science
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wins. So, here you go. When you open it up, normally you'd find a bunch of stuff
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about DPIs and CPIs and GPA and all that
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kind of stuff. But what you actually find inside here is just this advanced
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surface materials. Feel the difference. a durable hydrophobic palm surface, soft
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touch side grips, and fingerprint resistant button coatings. So, what
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they're going for here is what the thing actually feels like to touch. I mean,
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yeah, you're going to find specs on the outside of the box as well. So, 400 to
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4,000 DPI. This is an optical mouse, so you don't get those crazy like 8,000 DPI
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sort of ranges that you can do with laser. Uh 25gs of max acceleration,
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1,000 reports per per second. This is one of the differences between the G400S
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and the G100S. Aside from the shape and just overall generally being a higherend
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mouse, 20 million clicks is the durability rating for the buttons with
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250 km for the uh the the the slippy
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feet on the bottom. Although I would be tempted to test one of these mice at
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some point and uh see if I can get like a warranty replacement like if I drag it
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behind a car for 250 km and I'm like,
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"Yeah, it wore through." Like, do they mean 250 km on a road surface or on a
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mouse pad? I'm just kidding. I know what they mean. So, let's go ahead and open
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this bad boy up. This is the iconic
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Logitech Shape. So, if you've ever owned a G5 or a G500 or even going back to my
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classic MX Duo, which was my first
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high-performance keyboard mouse set, uh you've pretty much touched one of these,
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which is handy because you know what you're getting yourself into. It's got a
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three-year warranty, and they're saying you need Windows 8, Windows 7, or Windows Vista, but I would be floored if
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they don't work with uh if it doesn't work with Windows XP. Last thing is
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their exclusive Delta Zero sensor for consistent high accuracy targeting. And
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that's pretty much it. So, let's go ahead and check this out. So, they've got a bit of a different packaging style
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than I've seen on a Logitech product before. So, it's like a blue blue
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inside. Then, we've got some presumably like a quick start guide or something
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like that. Logitech has long ago done away with including CDs with their
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products, which I think is great because they're just wasteful. Quite frankly,
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you should always go to the manufacturer's website and download the latest drivers. And here we go. So,
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eight programmable buttons are featured on the Wow. Really? This is hard
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to I mean, I've unboxed a lot of stuff, but this is uh this is challenging. It's
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like stuck in there. Ah, yes. success.
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Um, yeah, I totally lost my train of thought. We'll be back in a moment. Now,
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it's a little strange to me that Logitech didn't include a braided cable.
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Quite frankly, it's not like it affects the performance of the mouse in any way,
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but it just makes it feel a little bit more more premium when you're dropping a
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few bucks on a on a gaming mouse. For what it's worth, it does have a
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sufficient length, so it'll be able to reach not only to the front of your
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case, but also around to the back without any difficulty. So, it looks like it's about Yeah, it's about 6 and
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12, 7 ft long, something along those lines. Now, they've talked a lot about
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the materials here, and they really are
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exceptional. So, this has a a grippy feel without being um without being
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rubber, sort of h how do you describe it? You can lift it without it feeling
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like your fingers are stuck to it. And then on the back, there's a little tiny
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bit of texture here that just I don't
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know, it actually does feel kind of nice. Same thing up here on the buttons as well. I mean, honestly though, if
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Logitech sales pitch for these mice is, you know, 20 million clicks and 250 km
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and advanced materials, there's nothing I can tell you in an unboxing that's
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going to tell you like, oh yeah, the materials they used are great. Because
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what it's going to come down to is does it peel in 2 or 3 years like so many
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rubberized grips on the outsides of mice do. Now Logitech's claiming that these
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are some of the most durable materials in existence for mice. But I mean it's
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it's hard to sell something like that when we're not going to know how great
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it is until it's people have been using them for a few years. So at any rate um
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no adjustable weights or anything like that. You've just got your standard optical sensor hole on the bottom as
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well as your slippy feet here. You've got back and forward buttons in their
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ideal locations. I really like the way Logitech implements these. It was my MX
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Duo that got me used to the idea of having back and forward buttons. Now I
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really can't live without them. Um, other buttons they've also included are
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DPI increase and decrease. Remember, they're all programmable. As well as a
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default DPI button, although this one requires you to install the software.
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It's also got a middle click as well as left and right clicks. And it's got a
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really slick looking G in the middle for their new G series. Overall, feels good.
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It's a little bit on the lighter side of medium, so it's not a super lightweight
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mouse, but it's not heavy by any stretch of the imagination. And I think that
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pretty much wraps us up. Thank you for checking out my unboxing and first look
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