Take a look at it, the Logitech G13 Gaming Pad. Now I saw this thing
at CES and I was really, really excited to see it. If you have a G15 already,
and especially if you play World of Warcraft, you play RPGs, or RTSs,
you know that these things are invaluable. They give you programmable keys.
You have macros. You have all this great stuff that you can do.
And sometimes, especially if you're playing WoW, or if you're playing
real time strategy games, sometimes even the programmable keys on the G15,
are not enough and you need more. Check this little G13 Gaming Pad out.
This is an incredible little device. It's a gaming pad.
It gives you a bunch of extra programmable keys, macros. It gives you a little
display so you can show system information,
or game stats. Pretty much a bunch of stuff that you can program on there.
It's got a great SD case that you can program stuff manually.
Game developers are working on porting that so they can use
all sorts of game stats on here. Now, let's go into the review.
Let's talk real quick, first of all, about the ergonomics and the design in general.
Just so you can see where everything's at. Now, this is perfect for me,
seeing that I have one hand.
First thing you're going to notice is obviously it's got a very nice,
comfortable base. So, for long-term gaming, if you're going to be gaming
for eight hours straight, you're not going to get uncomfortable.
You're not gonna get Carpal Tunnel Syndrome. You're gonna be okay.
Another thing you're gonna notice is the design of the keys.
They're kind of angled down and that's the contour to the natural tendencies
of your hand to point down. You're also going to notice that what would be
your WASD keys, are actually concave. So, if you're late at night,
and you don't want to be using the backlit keys, which this does have the option
to backlight the keys, you can also just go by feel.
So, pretty much the concave keys, you feel them.
This is normal, this one's got a concave inside. These are your WASDs right here.
So that is very, very cool. Very ergonomic, it's got a very stable base.
If you look at the bottom, you actually got rubber feet here,
here, here, here and you got two more here.
So, it's also got a good weight on it too.
About, I think at about 8 ounces that they said.
So, it's pretty stable. It doesn't move, you see. I'm pretty much putting a lot
of force there. And it is not going anywhere.
To get it to move you gotta really, really push this.
That's going to be great for ergonomics. Now, let's talk about how programmable
this thing is, and what the buttons do. First of all, you do have
25 programmable keys up here. So that is a lot of buttons that you can program.
You also have this joystick key, which is not exactly a mouse.
It pretty much only does up, down, left and right, even though
the thing spins all the way around. But this lets you access in game menus
quickly and easily. Besides that, the 25 buttons you have are 22 right here,
and then you have this, 23 and 24. And then you can program your macro keys up here.
So 25 programmable keys. Another good thing to note is that this actually has
onboard memory. So, if you were to unplug this via the USB port,
take it to another friend's computer to keep gaming, you don't have to worry
about losing all your settings. All your macro settings are gonna be
stayed, are gonna stay on the onboard memory. That's not going to be a problem, at all.
So that's really cool. Another thing you have is you have Quick Macros,
where you can actually assign these macro buttons on the fly.
So let's say that you have them and you're repeating.
This is gonna be really good in RTS games and also in RPGs, as well.
You can make a macro on the fly. You push a button, you assign it,
which macro key you want, you do the combination of macros,
and you program it and boom, it's set. It's stored into memory.
You can take it with you anywhere. But that's more important kind of
on the fly. You're doing a specific type of task over and over again.
You want to make it quicker. You want to do it better than your opponent,
you just boom, boom, boom, keep clicking it there and it's great.
Now, as far as everything else. Let's talk about the game panel LCD
that they have right there. You can pretty much put anything you want in here.
Team communications, game stats, PC stats,
you can put your temperatures of your CPUs and your GPUs, if you'd like.
Or how much CPU and graphics you're using. How many frames per second you're getting,
if you want to use Fraps. And, Logitech is always been really good
with making their displays compatible with lots of other stuff.
So they have a very good Open Source SDK for all the game developers
and people at home to make their own little systems that you can put up here
whatever you want to show. If you want to show game stats,
it will tell you your team stats. It'll let you get instant messages from
other players on your team or on the other team. And, it'll pretty much let you monitor
just about anything you want on here. It's also backlit,
so if you want to turn it off, it's not backlit anymore.
Boom there it is. And, as well as getting the game pad, you also get an extremely
good set of drivers, or software for this.
It's really easy to program. You can put whatever you want on the screen.
You can program all the keys on the fly extremely quickly.
It's a great interface. And that is pretty much it.
This is the Logitech G13 Gaming Pad. Excellent again, for real time strategy games
and for RPGs. You can also use it for first person shooters
if you'd like. And also it can supplement your G15 keyboard.
So if you have a G15, and even like a G5 mouse, or a G9,
you can have so many programmable keys separate.
This has its own keys. They keyboard has its own keys.
And the mouse has its own keys.
You will be completely customized and you can do so many things,
so fast. Great product, like it a lot. Very comfortable to use.
If you have any questions on it, email me. And I'll see you guys next time.
For more information on the Logitech G13 Gaming Pad,
type in: L23-0012
into the search engine of any of these major retailers.
For Computer TV, I'm Albert.
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