Logitech G700 Wireless Performance Gaming Mouse Unboxing & First Look Linus Tech Tips
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·Linus Tech Tips
·2011-05-08
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1,442 words · ~7 min read
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Now, this is something I've wanted to have a look at for a little while. This
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is the Logitech wireless gaming mouse G700. Now, I actually had a G7 for a
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number of years. I quite enjoyed that mouse. I mean, you know what, let's face
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it, it was really good for the time, but uh once I upgraded to a uh to a more
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faster, better wired mouse, I did notice
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the lag that I had been living with all that time. Now, I don't know if the
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G700, well, I don't know yet if the G700
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fixes that, but we can definitely have a
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look at what is in the box and what features make this particular mouse
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interesting. So, why don't we look at the tracking first? So, the resolution
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is 200 to 5700 DPI. The image processing
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is 12 megapixels per second with max acceleration of 30gs and then max speed
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of up to 165 in per second.
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Look at that. All right. Responsiveness up to 1,000 reports per second, which is
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good. It's about the fastest it goes. Dynamic coefficient of friction. Look at
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that. Has that on it. And a static coefficient of friction. Okay. The
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durability 8 million clicks and the feet
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can go 250 km. Tested on most popular
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gaming mouse pad surfaces. Cool. Cool. Okay. 13 precisely placed, fully
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programmable controls. Epic. Really?
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Okay, let the record show it actually
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has the word epic on the package. So,
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this thing better be epically comfortable. Gaming grade wireless
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powerful control that gets you deep into your game. There's the little wireless
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receiver, which is a big improvement over the clunky base station with
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battery charger that the G7 had. 13 programmable controls with macro
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capability. Natural supportive shape. Full speed wireless plug-and- forget
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nano receiver. Whoops, I'm not even focused on the right language here.
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Rechargeable data over cable.
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Okay. Gaming grade laser, dual mold scroll wheel, smooth gliding feet,
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onboard. Oh, dual mode scroll wheel is actually a cool feature. And it has an
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LED display. Look at that. All right. So, let's have a look at uh the
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packaging itself. Logitech products can sometimes be a bit of a challenge to
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unbox. So hopefully this is not the case today as I'm not really up for an
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unboxing challenge. I'd rather just keep things simple and have a look at the
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product right now.
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Okay, that's not too challenging so far.
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Oh, hold on. It's about to get challenging. And it all sort of like falls apart now.
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Awesome. Okay. So, the first thing we find here
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is a uh Oh, it's okay. It's a It's a US Sorry, my angle's a little off here.
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It's a USB extension cable
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for the micro receiver. Okay. Neato. So,
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they I think they're recommending that you only really use it for the micro receiver right there. Next, we have
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important information as well as getting started guide.
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Next we have Oh, look at that. Okay, so it looks like
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you can turn it into a corded mouse. That's what this looks like to me.
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That's a USB cable. And then that's the receiver. You know what? We're going to
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have to have a look at the mouse to figure out exactly how all of that
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works. Okay, I'm suspicious that it's
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complicated at this point, though. Here's the micro receiver. So, it's
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quite small. My hand for scale.
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Ger Logitech. Looks like that. There's
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your part number. And here is the epically comfortable. So they say, "Ooh,
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that is actually quite nice." Quite nice indeed. The epically comfortable G700.
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So it looks like there's Are those analoops? Is that an Analoop battery?
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Nice. Wellplayed Logitech. An enaloops are my personal
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favorite. In fact, I will do a short demonstration
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of how enaloops are indeed my favorite
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batteries.
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Here's a cat unrelated to enaloops.
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Okay, so there's my enaloop charger on the wall.
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Okay, and here
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are extra analoops. In fact, in my camera, I have more enaloops. Okay,
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there's other random stuff in here. Hey, look. There's my G7 batteries. Um, okay.
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That wasn't a very good demo, but I actually have a lot of envelopes. I think most of them are at work right now
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cuz uh that's where I use most of them when I'm whenever I'm swapping batteries
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for my camera. Okay, so we're back. Let's have a look at the G700 mouse and
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not get distracted. Anyway, analoop batteries. Well played, Logitech. I
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approve. I love Analoops. They're great. They last a long time and they come
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charged which means your G700 mouse can
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likely, and I mean like pretty darn likely, be used out of the box. Oh,
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maybe not cuz it was flipped to the on switch. So, it's possible it's been
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draining in the packaging. Okay. Well, at any rate, oh no, no, it probably
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hasn't because it has this little uh Yeah, it's it's being blocked here. So,
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it's not making contact. Okay. So, yes, it is charged and ready for use. Cool.
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wireless products that are charged and ready for use. Love it. Okay, let's have
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a look at the macro buttons. So, first, oh, let's show that epic comfort. So,
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you can see the palm sits right here.
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You curve your fingers over the mouse. There they are on the buttons and your
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thumb goes right there. Actually, it's more like about like this. But, it
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really does mold right to your hand. That's really nice. So, there's four
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programmable macro G buttons on the side here. 1 2 3 four. Okay. There's three
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next to your index finger here. 1, two, three. Very conveniently reachable, very
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ergonomic. You can see they're actually curved in shape so that when your finger
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sits here, you can push forward for this one, push back for this one, or push a
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little bit further back for this guy. So, they can all be reached quite easily. Two more here.
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Oh, hold on. Aha. That one is for the scroll wheel.
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So that's the dual mode scroll wheel with either the clickiness or the
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flywheel. Okay. Here is another G button. So
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that's not a G button like a G. Okay. You've got your left and
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right click. You got your clicky on your scroll wheel. And then that pretty much
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does it for buttons. Here's the slippy pads on the bottom. Onoff switch. Gaming
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laser. The other side is fairly fairly bare. Not a whole lot going on there.
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Here is where that uh that charging wire
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plugs into. Okay. So, you you can use it while
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you're charging it or you can just leave it uh leave it charging and then pull it
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off when you're ready to use it. And then the micro receiver plugs into that
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other cable and just stays plugged in or it plugs directly into your computer,
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whichever you'd prefer. For less interference, you're probably going to want to plug it into that cable and
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position it somewhere um with, you know, line of sight to the G700 or whatever
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else. This looks like a DPI indicator right here. Although I can confirm that.
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I can't confirm that, but I'm pretty sure that's what that's going to be. So,
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there it is. That is the G700 mouse.
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Thank you for checking out my unboxing online. Oh, I should talk about the
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finish on this guy a little bit. So, it's got kind of a rubberized, grippy
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feel, kind of like the G9. Uh, personally, I'm a big fan of that. It's
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very uh fingerprint resistant. So, your mouse isn't going to look all greasy and
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nasty. And it's also quite uh quite nice
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to to grip onto. So, it's uh very easy to hold it in place uh however long you
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happen to be holding a mouse like this. I also like how I mean this seems like a
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stupid demo, but when you lift up the mouse, it's very very difficult to drop
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it. So, it has a really really good shape for the hand there.
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