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Discussing Logitech's New Gaming Mice

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the click-it-until-it-dies-from-the-clicking dept.

Paul writes "Logitech had a busy day announcing three new products designed for gamers. The company introduced the Logitech G15 keyboard, G5 and G7 G-Series gaming mice. TechSpot had a brief talk with Erik Charlton, senior product-marketing manager at Logitech, who shared a few ideas and details on Logitech's newly announced products."

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  1. Images here by plover · · Score: 5, Informative

    The story of a keyboard is fine, but pictures are worth more. See the G15 keyboard here.

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    1. Re:Images here by calibanDNS · · Score: 5, Informative
      Product pages:


    2. Re:Images here by kccricket · · Score: 1, Informative

      The extra buttons on my MX510 work just fine for whatever I want them to in most native Linux games. There's a guide on Linux-Gamers.net that worked for me.

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  2. The g5 optical mouse got a raving review by BlackCobra43 · · Score: 3, Informative

    from ExtremeTech. It's fairly comprehensive. Read it here : http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,1697,1847008 ,00.asp Notice the perfect 10 score.

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  3. g5 and g7 mice by arkhan_jg · · Score: 4, Informative

    Pictures of the g5 mouse

    And guess what, it's shaped for right handers only. You'd think that it'd be possible to invert the casing, and produce a mirrored device for the 15-20% or so of the target market who can't use a right-handed gaming mouse. (I can handle it for general use, but I need my primary hand for precision work)

    Still, looks like I'll be buying the new razer copperhead when it comes out shortly, similar features but suitable for lefties.

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  4. Re:Optimus by millwall · · Score: 4, Informative

    Bear in mind that the Optimus keyboard is expected in 2006 and is yet only at prototype stage.

    As discussed earlier on Slashdot: http://hardware.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/07/ 18/1314226&tid=126&tid=137

  5. New mice actually worse for FPS gamers by Jan+Brunner · · Score: 4, Informative

    It seems like they increase the resolution with every generation while sadly neglecting the maximum speed.

    The MX510 (800 cpi) is able to track up to about 3.4 m/s, the MX300, too (with raised USB polling rate at 400 cpi). The Razer Diamondback (1600 cpi) has a maximum speed of about 1.4 m/s, very probably as much as the MX518 (same or similar sensor, I couldn't measure it, yet). The article talks of about 45 ips (1.14 m/s) in those 2000 cpi mice...

    I can't think of any good shooter player who would actually benefit from a resolution higher than 800 cpi but I know there are many who like to move their mouse faster than 1.4 m/s.

    Raising the resolution by sacrificing maximum tracking speed is very easy: They can just scale the chip down and/or change the optics. It seems that they don't like to make a chip more complex (MX300, A2020 was the last big upgrade).

    This is bad news for the gamers who got used to their MX510's speed and don't find anything else than "Ultra Gamerz 4000 dpi" with a max speed of 1 m/s when they need a replacement in a few years. Maybe someone clever will invest in a few MX510 and make a lot of money. :)

  6. F-Lock Key ELIMINATOR by gabecubbage · · Score: 3, Informative
    F-Lock Eliminator

    Your complaint about the F-Lock key stirred up my own longtime irritation with it. It's the only thing I dislike about my MS Natural Multimedia Keyboard.

    Realizing how many others were bothered by this prompted me to Google "F-Lock key" and discover this wonderful little registry hack. Note that there are several versions -- be sure to use the right one.

    This works! A quick 30-second test of F5-Refresh and PrtScn image pasting have yielded perfect results. My function keys now behave like function keys regardless of the status of the [F] LED.

    Now if only this worked when trying to hit F6 during SATA driver initialization in WinXP setup, and F2-activated BIOS access.