Introduction:
The Logitech G500 is a real progress that justifies itself as mice rival, previously highly rated, see their grades go down. In addition to a design that seems interesting, the mouse has a thumb rest and most importantly more rounded curves. Integrating a weight system that can add up to 27 grams, an internal memory for saving various configurations games and macros to enjoy it on any machine with the Logitech SetPoint installed. The wheel features a screen mode and a free mode introduced with the MX Revolution and feet are supposed to ensure a perfect glide on almost any surface.
To give you a quick overview of everything that appealed to us:
- The wheel is on offer, free or ribbed, which is really handy!
- The laser sensor does more wins under 4 meters per second: there is more advantageous to choose an optical mouse (laser mice tended in the past to get from 2 meters per second - we could verify that was not enough for some players nervous)
- The resolution is adjustable in increments of free 200-5700 dpi
- Its new look is a bit more sober, more able to attract an audience beyond the strict bounds of gamers
- The new driver (for download ! the mouse is provided without ...) is unsightly but complete and easy to take in hand
- It allows to build such macros to be assigned, additional profiles, for example, or inserted new third button under the thumb.
Tastes and colors:
The G5 gives way to the G500, the new changes look. Goodbye blue firecracker and cracking black, hello gray spotted black coating - which is reminiscent of the green cardboard 80s, says Florence Legrand. Not true. Is it beautiful? The writing is shared. This is not the beautiful mouse unanimously, however all here agree that it is much better than what Logitech had done on the G5. The alloy of grays and black has a very large interest. The screen and keyboard can be white, gray or black, the mouse does not work at hand.
We appreciated the work done on the coating material. The plastic, very good bill, grip very well under the thumb and ring finger. The shell on top is dry but smooth: there is no problem of over sweating, even with very hot weather like right now.
Appearance:
A vacuum, without weight, the G500 weighs 116 grams. It is perfect as well for us. Those who prefer a heavier mouse, to enjoy a bit of inertia, the weight it can to make it reach the final approximately 150 grams. The cable is braided rope. Good point, it is tough.
The position of the buttons to change because of new emerged. Between the two under the thumb for example, a third makes his entrance. To assign a function, you must first download the driver for the mouse, install, then you can play with all our features. In particular, one can assign Macro tab, not a single function to this button, but a combination of tasks. This serves to jump in a game while pulling and turning for example, or for designers to automate a series of command, creating a new image for example. You can record commands to the mouse, keyboard, play time intervals for these commands ... Your turn!
Behind the wheel, it is no longer the adjustment knobs on the fly, but the command to move the toothed wheel free. Let us be very clear about this: We love this feature, which was very difficult to do without once you have tried. If the toothed wheel is better in games, for office a free wheel is often more convenient, faster to access the bottom of a text, a web page ... Having a choice between the two is also a good thing when more people have to move the mouse. Some will always prefer to catch, others still without ... This freedom of choice will everyone agree!
The central button can also be used to switch from one profile to another. You can set it up again, and then export them to the mouse using a Burn button. This export avoids having to reinstall the driver and reconfigure everything when you want to use the mouse on a position other than yours.
Finally, the two buttons on the fly adjustment of the resolution have been deported to the left, under the index. The location is found. Though we use such a G5 for a long time, we made this new place instantly. Again, it must pass through the driver for setting levels available: from 200 to 5700 dpi. Just for fun, we tested 5700 dpi. We can confirm again if necessary: this announcement is purely marketing and no interest. The mouse loses precision as the cursor on the screen fast lane. Apart from those around him laugh attending the demo, it serves no nothing. For our part, we opted for 5 levels (instead of default 3): 400 / 800 / 1200 / 1600 / 2000 dpi. On the post that was used for testing, we use two 24 inch screens side by side, a total width of 3840 pixels. Climb above us in dpi does not seem necessary.
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