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Logitech has released a series of gaming mice and a keyboard.
Mice: http://www.logitech.com/index.cfm/pr...S/EN,crid=2463
Keyboard: http://www.logitech.com/index.cfm/pr...ONTENTID=10717
The mice all sports 1600 or 2000 dpi and "full-speed USB" drivers. I.E. they stole a page from Boomslang's book and wrote their own USB interface, ala SetPoint (which actually works I might add). The most expensive of the mice, the G7, is wireless @ 2.4 GHz (and supposed to offer "wired performance"at 500 reports per second), 2000 dpi,6.4 MegaPixel laser light engine, two Li Ion battery packs (no more setting the mouse on a charging station, the batteries charge on the station and then you swap batteries when one runs down), battery level indicator, big ass Polytetrafluoroethylene (I love copy/paste) feet for smooth movement, and an option to change mouse sensitivity in game. Not a bad list of features ... except the $99 USD price tag.
The G5 is the G7 with a cord ... and obvioulsy sans the cordless features, plus the stangest feature of all ... weights. Yes, weights. You can add weights to your mouse to make it weigh whatever you want
Now that's Cool! And it can be yours for only $70 USD MSRP.
The MX518 is wired, sans several features of the G5, only $50, and 1600 DPI.
The G15 keybaord has 18 "G" keys, or gamer macro keys (i.e. programmable repetative functions for MMOGs that will run with a single keystroke), backlit lettering (no OLED goodness, I'm sure that will come out in a future model), a pop-up LCD display that can show game stats, media control functions, et cetera, et cetera... $80 USD.
Time to wait for reviews
PS - I figured out why they include two batteries with the G7. Apparently sleep mode has been completely disabled on the G5/7 mice. This means the mouse is in an "always on" state, so you have to change the battery ever 2-3 days or so. This eliminates the delay that most wireless (and some non-wireless) mice have when you put the mouse at rest for a few seconds in game.
They've also eliminated the problem with carrying around a huge charging station when you go LANing by putting the actual transceiver device into portable USB box about the size of a USB flash/jump drive. So you can just charge up two batteries, grab the USB transceiver and mouse and leave the bulky charging station at home. When at home the transceiver plug into the base/charging station. Very well thought gaming mouse if you ask me
Jammrock
Logitech has released a series of gaming mice and a keyboard.
Mice: http://www.logitech.com/index.cfm/pr...S/EN,crid=2463
Keyboard: http://www.logitech.com/index.cfm/pr...ONTENTID=10717
The mice all sports 1600 or 2000 dpi and "full-speed USB" drivers. I.E. they stole a page from Boomslang's book and wrote their own USB interface, ala SetPoint (which actually works I might add). The most expensive of the mice, the G7, is wireless @ 2.4 GHz (and supposed to offer "wired performance"at 500 reports per second), 2000 dpi,6.4 MegaPixel laser light engine, two Li Ion battery packs (no more setting the mouse on a charging station, the batteries charge on the station and then you swap batteries when one runs down), battery level indicator, big ass Polytetrafluoroethylene (I love copy/paste) feet for smooth movement, and an option to change mouse sensitivity in game. Not a bad list of features ... except the $99 USD price tag.
The G5 is the G7 with a cord ... and obvioulsy sans the cordless features, plus the stangest feature of all ... weights. Yes, weights. You can add weights to your mouse to make it weigh whatever you want
Now that's Cool! And it can be yours for only $70 USD MSRP.The MX518 is wired, sans several features of the G5, only $50, and 1600 DPI.
The G15 keybaord has 18 "G" keys, or gamer macro keys (i.e. programmable repetative functions for MMOGs that will run with a single keystroke), backlit lettering (no OLED goodness, I'm sure that will come out in a future model), a pop-up LCD display that can show game stats, media control functions, et cetera, et cetera... $80 USD.
Time to wait for reviews
PS - I figured out why they include two batteries with the G7. Apparently sleep mode has been completely disabled on the G5/7 mice. This means the mouse is in an "always on" state, so you have to change the battery ever 2-3 days or so. This eliminates the delay that most wireless (and some non-wireless) mice have when you put the mouse at rest for a few seconds in game.
They've also eliminated the problem with carrying around a huge charging station when you go LANing by putting the actual transceiver device into portable USB box about the size of a USB flash/jump drive. So you can just charge up two batteries, grab the USB transceiver and mouse and leave the bulky charging station at home. When at home the transceiver plug into the base/charging station. Very well thought gaming mouse if you ask me
Jammrock
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