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so a quick news announcement from Logitech before the beginning of PAX Prime 2016 which we'll be covering by the way these are their new products that'll be at the show I've got a keyboard a mouse and a headset and it's called the prodigy line so the idea of the prodigy line is basically to target gamers who don't necessarily call themselves gamers all of the things are pretty much $70 with one exception and before we get into the specs on these of this content is brought to you by iBUYPOWER and their new element gaming PC which has tempered glass for the side window LEDs and a front glass window as well so starting with the keyboards because a little simpler to go over this is a membrane keyboard it's not a mechanical keyboard but it's a bit different so if you've ever used Logitech membrane keyboards the g11 kind of comes to mind is one of the first ones that I used the idea here is that it's got a tuned force profile so they brought the actuation depth up a little bit and it's somewhat very loosely mimics a mechanical keyboard if you're a mechanical keyboard enthusiast and that's the only thing you're going to use you're still not gonna like this but as a mid point for folks who don't want to invest in a mechanical keyboard that's sort of what they're targeting now we will be reviewing this so wait for the review before purchasing as always but a couple interesting points if we take off the key caps you'll see underneath there's actually a lining like almost a mirrored lining on the wall for the switch housing and that actually helps to direct the light up and out and reduce light bleed out the side of the key gap and force it all out through the letters the legend on the key cab itself which makes sense an interesting idea and it follows the Romer G design approach for the G 910 that we looked at previously so the keyboard is the prodigy g2 13 it is a $70 keyboard membrane with the higher actuation depth and it's got no end key rollover but there is anti-ghosting so there's an C Gaussian matrix which mostly helps with that issue a double tap shouldn't be as much of an issue as with other sort of non-gaming targeted membrane keyboards Microsoft keyboard something like that Dell keyboard it's also a 500 Hertz polling rate so unlike the two examples I just gave sort of cheapo Microsoft and dell keyboards this will pull a bit faster those tend to be considerably slower in the 250 Hertz range or so this is 500 Hertz so the only other thing really to mention about the keyboard RGB lights you can work with them through LGS as usual it's got a sort of waterproof marketing we haven't tested that I probably will just because it'd be fun but what we've read from Logitech is that it is waterproof up to about 60 milliliters of water from what they've tested and other than that as always just wait for the review and will let you know if it's worth buying because obviously this is a very competitive market so 70 bucks you can get a lot of mechanical keyboard 70 bucks the Poseidon's ii is one that we certainly liked and there's plenty of tkl options as well you prefer that this is not tkl it's a full keyboard it's got media switches up at the top so the circle buttons are and then other than that I guess RGB LEDs would be the main selling point that kind of pushes it beyond what might be had competitively at this price range as for the mouse there are two mice that have just come out from Logitech this one we talked about in a previous video pretty briefly this is the G Pro Mouse we won't talk about that again here but it's another $70 Mouse they are targeted at sort of the eSports player type of thing very simple Mouse but the same pmw 3366 sensor as and most other high-end mice at this point that's not the new one today though the new one is the g4 o3 it is also a prodigy line product this mouse is pretty simple in terms of everything really it's got only it's got two side buttons they have a dpi switch at the top another button there and then LMB R&B and the middle mouse button so that's really all there is to it in terms of the button input they advertise that there are six programmable buttons which I suppose is correct but of course in that regard you would be reprogramming sort of your three primary buttons you could do it though do it through LGS if you wanted to but would you I don't know either way there's at least two actual programmable buttons that you would probably program plus a dpi switch and then your normal inputs in terms of the actual specs is another pmw 3366 sensor just like the g pro and a lot of the other - we've talked about recently there are two models of that mouse the wired one is $70 Wireless is a and the wireless mouse uses a lot of the same components and design as the G 900 that we recently reviewed and actually liked a lot that received pretty high praise from us though it was obviously very expensive at the times $150 so that kind of eliminated a lot of the market but the same idea with the components 2.4 gigahertz frequency for the wireless if you get that model and it still transmits it does a 1 millisecond response so it's another 1,000 Hertz polling rate as on pretty much every Logitech mouse we've looked at recently Corsair mice all these gaming rights are at that range now for the most part for both mice there's no smoothing or filtering they have a 200 to 12,000 dpi range which gives a good amount of incremental tuning if you really want it to go that high or that low v toggleable DPI settings through the button on the mouse and it's got a 10 gram weight in it so the weight of the wired version without the cable is 90 grams you take and I've just not that it really matters where we did file its head it is actually that weight you can take the weight out if you wanted to get it to 90 or you can put it in together to 100 grams for the wired version the wireless version is at 107 grams you can increase it by 10 grams with the weight if you cared not something I really think weights are pretty cool for mice but not so much anymore I actually prefer the the lighter ones out but you could do that if you wanted to similar respect and durability to previous minus 250 kilometers are moving on the feets the Teflon feet and 20 million clicks on the keys as for the headset this one right here another $70 option so basically Logitech they're kind of the plan for this generation was everything must be $70 except the wireless mouse I guess so this is also 70 bucks makes things easy I suppose it's pretty lightweight we haven't really done any durability testing or anything like that yet but you know not not too bad for $70 headset does have a fold-out microphone it's using 40 millimeter drivers they are neodymium drivers they are not the pro G drivers that we saw with the G 633 and G 933 headset so these are actually different drivers than those you would still need to go to those if you wanted to go for something a little bit higher and then it does fold like most other headsets at this point do so this would be competing directly with something like the HyperX cloud series headsets they've got that cloud revolver now and the cloud - that would be the direct competition - that we've reviewed the cloud headsets and generally actually liked them pretty well depending on what you're doing with them so that would be the next one to look at and we'll be reviewing that shortly as i've said hold off on the purchase we'll look at it let you know what we think other specs for the headset just reading off the sheet here it does have a sensitivity of 90 DB SPL the microphone uses a four millimeter driver not really particularly special or bad and in either way we've had some issues with logitech microphones in the past but it seems to depend somewhat on on what unit you're testing the g6 33 we had issues with 390 33 wasn't as bad as that seems more like a manufacturing difference there frequency response with mic 50 Hertz 20 kilohertz frequency response of the drivers for the ears is the standard 20 Hertz to 20 kilohertz range and then everything else we'll talk about in the reviews as they roll out so that's the new Logitech line I've wanted to do a quick video on it because we're gonna be have packs they'll be there will probably look at it in more depth there and talk to some engineers hopefully maybe get Chris page to talk about the mouse if he's there again but as always thanks for watching subscribe for more content patreon like the postal video I'll see you all next time