so Logitech has announced the G 915 and G 815, two brand new keyboards first from
Logitech in quite a while which is quite exciting
we're gonna un box and compare both of them right here right now right so let's
start with the G 915 this is the flagship of the bunch as you can tell
with the 9 series I mean there's not really a lot to say about the box itself apart
from the fact that if I flip it around to this side right here you can actually
see the actual size and the keyboard on the side I mean it's a small thing admittedly
but it's handy when you're shopping so let's get the bad boy open
as you can see it's pretty simple on the back just got these two strips here
nothing too painful there and if I just flip that over and then do the grand reveal
ah not as grand as I thought we've got one more level yeah there we
go look at that okay so what do we have here oh I love the smell of new
keyboards it's that weird thing to say it's probably a weird thing to say but hey
I'm going for it so Wow look at that obviously the first thing you'll notice
when you pick it up it's just how thin and lightweight it is I mean you know in a
world where gaming keyboards are fairly chunky and you know they take up a
lot of desk space this is very sleek and the key caps aren't that high up either
this but we'll talk a little about that in a minute
so right it's a little look at that let's pop that there let's look in the
box so we've got the G 915 wireless transmitter that's because this as you
might have guessed is Wireless what else have we got here just some
bits and bobs we want... your G stickers yep
that's all cool let's pop that down there and then you've got a cable for
when it does eventually need a top-up a nice little braided cable there not the
longest in the world but you don't really need it right so let's get rid
of all that and let's start talking about the keyboard itself
so Logitech designed this to be thin which is what I was talking about
already and it's about being low-profile in general so if I take off this plastic
from the rear well that's not a very nice sound so yeah let's get these feet
out here there we go you've actually got two levels of feet
there so you can adjust the angle that you want it out and then when you're
typing oh that's really nice actually feels really responsive so you've got
like a one point five millimeter actuation so you've got you know you
don't really have to press down for it to register that much and the key caps
themselves feel really nice there they're kind of concave slightly
concave I'd say you know enough to be able to notice the difference
between each key and you should hopefully avoid mis-presses and stuff
like that but alongside the keys themselves you've got a bunch of media
keys along the right-hand side let me just flip this up here so you can see a
little bit better so you've got your media keys along here these are soft so
you can tell the difference between them and the standard mechanical keys in the
top right this is a scroll wheel this is mainly for volume but I think you'll be
able to customize this via the G Sync... uh, the G Hub software available for
PC right let's turn it on because obviously it's a gaming keyboard and
gaming keyboards have RGBs so we're just gonna turn the lights down a little bit
so you can see it a little bit better because these RGBs arepretty nice so as
you can see maybe a little bit better now you've got a fully backlit keyboard
here it's individually backlit each key so you can via the G Hub software you can turn on
or off any keys that you want so if you're playing battlefield essentially you
can light up the keys that you need in battlefield and leave everything else
off so you can just quickly a glance look at the keyboard and see where your
keys are which is something I do more than I should if I'm being honest but ok
here we are underneath the key caps you will find choc switches you've got
three types of switch available on both the g 915 and the g 815 you've got the
the fully clicky mechanical feel alongside let me just check on the back
of this box because it does tell you very handily you've got that along he
got GL clicky alongside GL tactile and GL linear now obviously these provide
slightly different typing experience might be a little bit better for if
you're in an office environment or somewhere where people might not
appreciate the the intense click of a fully mechanical
keyboard even that just feels it feels nice and that even though you can still
hear it the sound isn't quite as pronounced as it is with some other
keyboards which is you know appreciated by me at the very least alongside the
left you'll see you've got five programmable switches you can program
these on a per game basis to do essentially whatever you want and of
course the light sync support means that all your lighting will sync up between
your keyboard and your mouse and your speakers and anything else that's light
sync enabled you know to give it a more a tidier look so obviously the main draw
of the g 915 is the fact that it's wireless and with that comes worries
about battery life you shouldn't be that worried though I mean you've got 30
hours on average from this which isn't too bad if you do disable the backlit
keys and all that kind of fun stuff like that logitech claims that it'll last up
to 1200 hours which is absolutely crazy I've actually done a bit of maths on
that side of things and if you use it for about 8 hours a day you get about
164 days of use out of it which not too bad and it's the 3 hour charge life so
that's a fairly decent hand off in my mind so that's the G 915 let's take a
little look at the G 815 and see what the differences are between the two okay
so the box is slightly different on this one - the other one you kind of
lifted up this is more of a standard kind of side opening so let's crack on
with that I should have known there's gonna be another layer of cardboard in
there right let's lift that up and then the grand reveal they're pretty much the
same I'm not sure if that's going to be a surprise to anyone else but yeah so
let's just get this out let's just show so yeah they both look the same
the boxes are essentially the same you don't get the cable in this one or the
receiver because obviously you don't need them with a wired variant so let's
just ditch that box there and let's get these two side-by-side
so as you can see they are literally the exact same in terms of design the same
features that they are across both the only difference the only difference is
that the G 815 comes with a fairly chunky double wire and because it's
wired it also offers USB pass-through which is
quite handy so you can plug in a memory stick or a charger for your phone or
anything like that without having to go to the back of your computer so
that's a win you've got the G815 the G915
logitech's top-of-the-range keyboards for 2019 and probably beyond
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