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hey everyone this is Steve from gamers Nexus dotnet and today we're looking at this this is a Logitech snoot g 9/10 keyboard using the roamer g switches which it's a brand new switch type it's not cherry it's not kale it's called Romer G it is built by Logitech and they built it for endurance so the big difference here is the switch type which we'll get to in a second going over the features this is a 180 ish dollar keyboard it's fully RGB enabled meaning it's got all the red green blue LEDs you can do tons of color combinations not quite sure how many but it's a lot more than you can care about and it uses a full color palette swatch type thing that you'd find in photoshop in Logitech software to change the colors you can individually change the color of keys so if you want WASD to be different or if you want your mobile keys to be different you can save a profile for that and then it'll highlight those based on whatever you set in the settings you can also do all kinds of breathing effects and things like that if you like the aesthetics there's a lot more to it than that though you can program the RGB switches so that in theory once game developers support this you could actually have a cool-down mapping on one of your keys so if you wanted e to be red when your ability is depleted and you want it to glow or breathe green when it's ready for use you can actually program that into this and that's not the easiest thing in the world to do so if someone else has done it you can grab it online of course on a forum and download the profile so that's pretty cool it's not really implemented yet don't go out buying it expecting that right now but it's something we'll keep an eye on and as soon as I see it available I'll do a video on how to how to implement that and how to program these the keyboard has a full media panel on it's got play stop pause give back which is pretty awesome for gaming because I like to listen to music sometimes when I game but when I'm the last person on the csgo team or whatever I want to pause that music so I can hear everything and make sure I know where the footsteps are that's sort of what this is useful for it also has a volume wheel you need to scroll up and down if you want to change the volume and it's got mute if you want to mute everything and that's been around for a while now on keyboards I'm a big fan of it I know some people aren't but I like it and it's there if you need it it does not have the USB ports that the g7 10 plus had and it the g7 10 plus to two USB slots because would power those USB ports and this doesn't have it which I really wish it did have one because now it makes sense now Logitech has added this they call arcs doc let me see if I can so I pop that up right there that is a phone doc it's a cold doc and all it does is hold your phone which it's dud Y right Y so it would it would be cool if I could power the phone if it were a hot foot or a hot shoe that I could just plug the phone into or have it microUSB coming out of here into the board because then at least you can charge your phone while you're using Logitech's application they have a mobile app that will show you things like your system resource usage and things like that and it sort of replaces the LCD that was found on the g15 keyboard so that's where they've gone with LCD they basically say put your phone in it it's cheaper for all of us and that's true but it all you're doing is killing your battery unless you charge the phone with another cable going up to your desk so I'd really like to see that expanded on in future iteration so that it makes more sense aside from that of course the big news is the Romer G switch I have talked about this with Logitech before we've got a video on the channel discussing the Romer G switches switch types are a big deal with keyboards because that's what creates the mechanical feeling that's why it doesn't feel like a membrane keyboard that a lot of people hate now after being spoiled by mechanical so it switches we have kale we have cherry we have taupe er stuff like that and then we've got now Romer G and there are plenty of other ones in between too but those are the big ones kale and cherry especially cherry is sort of the premier brand they are manufactured in Germany they have switched shortages all the time that's why we have trouble finding hammocks green and they're used in really everything Coolermaster logitech uses them the g7 10 plus which is similar to this in concept uses the MX browns which is that a rubber damped and that rubber damper it's basically just an o-ring on the bottom of the switch so when you push it down it doesn't make as loud of a clack and this is about the same sound and feeling as a rubber damped MX Brown switch so it doesn't have the loud clicky clack e responsiveness that hammocks Blues have but it's also less fatiguing it's quieter people who want quieter keyboards and that's sometimes a thing that's desirable you don't always want the loudest keyboard in the room at least I don't and I know a lot of you do but that's the great thing about switches because we have lots of choices out there so with the romaji switches they're theoretically rated at about 70 million key clicks that is a lot of clicks you're not going to kill this board you'll probably upgrade before you do cherry switches are about 50 million and kale are about at really anyone's guess it's about 40 million from what I've seen but we have no way to validate that with kale so that's it's sort of kale cherry and our emoji in terms of the switch endurance and it's it's there's a lot more to it than switch endurance though there's also the look and the feel and in terms of the feel these feel ok there there's no color variation so it's just romaji there's no Romer Blue Room or brown Romer red whatever it's just rumor that's it that's there's only one so if you don't like it you're out of luck if you like MX browns you should try this see if a local hardware vendor has it that we can try it first but give it a shot and you might like what you feel if you don't like MX brown if you especially don't like damn to MX brown from the 710 plus which is another one you can try then you really you won't like this it's not going to be loud enough it's not going to be tactile clacking enough for you the Romer G switches do have a shallow actuation depth of only 1.5 millimeters so if you are doing a lot of typing this will actually feel kind of good because it doesn't require that much effort to push the keys down it's very easy to depress the keys but it's that's why it's not as loud so it's it's a trade-off there I like the shallower actuation death and the quieter noise you might not that's okay in terms of the look the new switches have a giant hole in the middle for LEDs and that hole comes with it a lens there's actually a lens in the hole to amplify the strength of the LED so it's the LED sits underneath it it goes through the glass lens and then is amplified outward so you get a much brighter more vibrant color with the LEDs as you can see in our shots of the keyboard in the dark and that's a lot different from Cherry where you've got more plastic flanking the LED and sometimes the LED gets in the way of the switch so they have to engineer a new way to push down the switches without really violating the LEDs space as you can see in our Coursera RGB keyboard unveil we did at CES either this year last year that sort of shows that technology as it was being invented and Logitech has furthered it with romaji so Logitech's board overall I'm a fan of the way the switches feel but I also like the way MX brown switches feel when they're damped if you don't like that feeling don't buy this because you won't like it if you like that feeling and the relative quietness of MX browns dent you'll like this keyboard in terms of whether you should buy it it's still $180 board so it's really competing with the 170 Corsair RGB board and that's got similar software it's got Lua scripting support things that Logitech also has Logitech software is much more impressive in my opinion they really they have a lot of things going for them with their software I'm excited to see where it goes in the future that doesn't change the fact that it's an expensive keyboard so you really at this price point you're looking between Corsairs r DB and Logitech's new RGB board this one because the cheaper ones like Roseville's 120 $100 keyboard 120 I think rgba T it is an RGB board but it's tkl it doesn't have this 10 key over here it doesn't have the media panel doesn't have any of the other fancy features and this author is pretty bad so that's what the extra money gets you for Corsair and Logitech in this situation Logitech you're spending a bit extra money for other features definitely spending a bit more premium for the romaji switches but that's what happens when you buy new technology theoretically the romaji switches last an extra 20 million clicks or so over cherry that's a pretty big deal if you're trying to use this forever so it might be an okay investment if you're really able to get that life out of these switches and Logitech does have a warranty program if not but still it's $180 courses is 170 I would be a buyer of either of them at those prices I'd be a buyer at about 150 because I just have a really hard time justifying almost $200 on a keyboard when I know I could spend a hundred get a single color LED which Logitech and Corsair and everyone else makes and then spend that extra 80 ish dollars on something like an SSD which will have any huge impact on your everyday use case scenarios in your computer so that's really where it stands it's how much money do you have to spend for effectively a toy and this is a fun toy to play with because it's got all these cool switch color options in the in the software the software is really pretty advanced with scripting and it's it's fun to play with just do you want to spend the money so that's what you have to think about as a buyer are you willing to spend an extra $80 for RGB colors and and a new switch so that is everything for this review of logitech c910 Orion spark RGB keyboard it is a mechanical keyboard it has romaji switches they feel similar to MX brown dance switches if you don't like those you won't like the keyboard it has RGB colors that is really what you're paying for and that's all you need to know 180 ish bucks check the link in the description below for full details a link to the product and all of that and I will see you all next time peace