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Logitech’s G910 Keyboard will elevate your gaming

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Lately the PC peripheral market has been dominated by Razer and SteelSeries – at least locally. Logitech has receded in the background over the years, especially when it comes to specialized PC gaming hardware. That’s slowly changing, and at rAge this year they had two fairly great products to show off.

By far the most impressive of the two was the new G910 Mechanical Keyboard, which has a lot going for it. Sixteen million colors that can be assigned to keys individually, a host of macro programable keys and even a dock for your favorite smartphone. The keyboard is more featured filled than most street illegal cars, as Logitech explained to us.

The smartphone dock is by far the smartest addition. Cyborg added their own screen to one of their keyboards a little while back, but the G910 basically outsources this. You can change settings on the fly and tweak your gaming without having to alt+tab out of anything, which is something I do quite frequently.

The only issue I see here is the price. Logitech was hesitant to give out a locked down figure, especially since the rand can plummet even more between now and the December launch Overseas though, the G910 goes for $180, which is nearly double the price of Razer’s Blackwidow Ultimate. That’s an insanely premium price, although the 70 million keystrokes does make it sound like a long lasting piece of tech.

I also got a brief look at the G402 gaming mouse, which was a little less impressive. In the hands, the G402 felt quite comfortable, and featured most of all the common extras you’d hope to find. A DPI number that you’ll never reach is just the start, but being able to change DPI settings on the fly is personally a must nowadays. The mouse also sports a few programmable keys that can be used for macros.

Logitech has been out of the game locally in terms of gaming hardware, but I was pleasantly surprised by the G910 especially at rAge. Sure, I’ll probably never be able to afford it, but it seems like just the start of Logitech’s re-entry into the market. More quality hardware is never a bad thing.

Last Updated: October 16, 2014

28 Comments

  1. With 16 mil colours per key it’ll take forever to set up just right 🙁

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    • Scruff304

      October 16, 2014 at 15:42

      I actually want this keyboard for just this feature! It would be awesome to highlight only the keys you use in a certain game to light up when playing that game. And then the different skills or functions would be different colours…
      so for FPS, your WASD can be blue, then reload can be red, the rest whatever you want… and everything else black… I need this in my life.

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      • konfab aka derp

        October 16, 2014 at 15:46

        Do you seriously look at the keyboard when you game?

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        • Scruff304

          October 16, 2014 at 15:49

          Well I’ve recently taken to Dota, so still getting to grips with it. When you have those panic moments and lose your bearings, I do sometimes need to have a very quick look down to see when my hands are at.
          But you are right, for BF4 and the likes, I actually don’t…

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        • kinetic static

          October 16, 2014 at 16:18

          exactly, especially when playing russian style

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      • HvR

        October 16, 2014 at 15:50

        And you can bust out a few disco moves if you win
        http://media.giphy.com/media/2K5c7Ab6GmBmE/giphy.gif

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      • PublicStaticVoidMain

        October 18, 2014 at 00:40

        Corsair K95 RGB and K70 RGB does this already, and you have an option of Cherry MX switch you like. If RGB is not important, I would highly recommend The Roccat Ryos MK Pro. Only one color, but so much more smarter than Corsair. I have the Roccat and the a K95.

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        • Scruff304

          October 20, 2014 at 08:30

          Where di you pick up the Roccat from?

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          • PublicStaticVoidMain

            October 31, 2014 at 18:03

            online. amazon. or newegg.

        • Chase Masters

          November 20, 2014 at 19:18

          None of those can touch this keyboard. Its stands in a league of its own. One try and you’re hooked.

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  2. Admiral Chief 0

    October 16, 2014 at 15:44

    Of course it will elevate your gaming, IT IS A PROPER INSTRUMENT!

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    • Scruff304

      October 16, 2014 at 15:51

      For some people, it will elevate more then just your gaming…

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  3. Admiral Chief 0

    October 16, 2014 at 15:47

    Pity about the price though

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    • Alien Emperor Trevor

      October 16, 2014 at 15:51

      Yes, $180 there means around R3k here after all the wonderful fees.

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  4. HvR

    October 16, 2014 at 15:52

    Marketing guy rocking some techno lingo when talking about the mouse …. clearly no idea what it all means.

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  5. Hammersteyn

    October 16, 2014 at 15:59

    My alt and tab is worn out, time for a new keyboard
    http://i.imgur.com/sZyX52S.png

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  6. I_am_Duffman!

    October 16, 2014 at 16:06

    If only LG would start reviewing hardware that normal people would actually buy… Surely I can’t be the only one that thinks $180 for a keyboard is just plain stupid. Why not review products that readers will actually buy? The Steelseries Siberia Raw Prism Zoe did is a rare example. I can’t think of many other examples where I looked at the price thinking, “hmm. That would fit my budget”.

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  7. Matewis Jubilai

    October 16, 2014 at 16:09

    Gather round my children and I shall tell you a tale of a legendary keyboard like no other. My adventures have taken me to all the corners of the desolate wasteland of Pretoria. Accompanied by my great steed, Corolla, I have seen the Northern slopes of the great magalies mountains, the fedid waters of the hartbeespoort where the monstrous babers roam, the dizzying heights of the cable cars, and defeated untold thousands of goblins that wanted to wash and guard my steed. But goblins are but a trifling matter, not at all like the orcs on their great combi wargs of war. But even in their attacking bands of 5 or more, their wargs could not stop me and my mighty corolla steed from soldering on. I visited kfc taverns, pick n pay vendors and absa merchants and sampled all of their wares. It was on one of those days, at the end of a long month of adventuring, that I wished to trade my wares at my local absa merchant, only to found that he had been slain by a one eyed mountain giant called telkom. My items accumulated were too numerous and so I decided to risk going to another absa merchant deep in the murky crime infested territory of hatfield, where creatures the stuff of nightmares reside. Bloodthirsty creatures so vile and loud you can hear them and smell them a mile away. Creatures called students. Yet deep in their territory there was an absa merchant that stood strong in the middle of the madness. The reason I found, was because the merchant possessed an item that even the vile vampirish creatures of the area could not destroy, not even the one eyed mountain giant. An item of pure enchanted silver. A +25 intelligence +35 endurance nigh indestructible keyboard:

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  8. Mark Treloar

    October 16, 2014 at 16:15

    Does it have DRM?

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  9. Doug

    October 16, 2014 at 16:21

    That is one sexy piece of kit

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  10. I_am_Duffman!

    October 16, 2014 at 16:24

    $180 for a keyboard is just insane. I long for the day that LG would start writing articles about products normal people would actually buy. Zoe’s Steelseries headset review the other day is the rare example where the price is sort of normal and what you would expect to pay.

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    • Exalted Overlord Geoffrey Tim

      October 16, 2014 at 16:26

      You can;t afford a R2500 keyboard? what are you, a peasant? Also, yeah. We plan to – we review what we get sent, though, usually.

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      • I_am_Duffman!

        October 16, 2014 at 16:38

        Yeah. I get that. I suppose the only way Logitech would actually sell this monstrosity is with mass exposure, hoping somebody would rob Darryn to buy this.

        If you guys did a review of a keyboard in say the 350-800 bracket, sales of that thing would see a mark improvement in the following days/weeks.

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        • Matthew Holliday

          October 17, 2014 at 00:52

          mid level equipment reviews are best from a consumer standpoint.
          high tier equipment just isnt aimed at reasonable people.

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  11. Rags

    October 16, 2014 at 17:01

    I kinda like that you can change the background color. Different profiles for sotfware shortcut keys 🙂

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  12. Anamech

    October 16, 2014 at 17:04

    I AM SO GONNA BUY THIS!!!!!

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  13. Jedi Consular Kromas

    October 16, 2014 at 17:16

    My second Black Widow is starting to feel a bit sluggish (first one had a cup or two too much coffee (and a brandy)). Time for an upgrade.

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  14. Matthew Holliday

    October 17, 2014 at 00:50

    that keyboard is excessive.
    even for a gamer.

    the individual lighting settings for the keys is usefull, but that whole docking thing and 130 key ghosting and and and seems like a waste.

    Dont like that logitech have gone for the coolermaster type styling either, it just doesnt keep with the times.
    when steelseries, razer and corsair etc, are going for sleeker, simpler and less aggressive designs this one looks like its aimed at 15 year olds, who cant afford R2000 keyboards unless mommy and daddy give it to them… dunno about you guys, but when I was 15, i never had the top range logitechs…

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