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Logitech G110 Gaming Keyboard First Look & Unboxing Linus Tech Tips

2009-12-14
okay so today we're going to be unboxing a pretty cool new product from Logitech this is the logitech gaming keyboard g110 so this is a brand new product in their gaming keyboard line which started with the g15 and the most recent edition was the g 19 with a full-color LCD display up near the top but this one actually brings some pretty cool new features to the table so first of all you've got custom color backlighting so this particular G keyboard can do either blue red or a mixture of the two so you end up with kind of like a purple cool purple backlight okay it can also do programmable G keys just like all of the other G keyboards now you can see it's a bit of an improvement over the last generation value keyboard which was the G 11 actually no it's not really an improvement that way okay well you've got 12 G keys over on the left side here which is better than the g15 Gen 2 at any rate the one that I have on my desk which only has six okay and then the last thing and this is really neat unique to this model is the integrated USB audio so this keyboard actually has an integrated USB sound card that can process audio so you can just plug your mic and headset directly into the keyboard very cool you can have a look at the back it seems like they're basically covering the same basic features of this keyboard that we've already talked about here oh the last thing is that you've got a high speed USB 2.0 port so unlike a lot of the older G Series keyboards which used USB 1.1 connectivity for their ports are for their hubs this one uses USB 2.0 okay so inside you will find the keyboard and I usually like to see the accessories first so why don't we have a quick look underneath wow that is pretty much it okay so we have a wrist rest alright which looks identical as far as I can tell to the remote it's a little bit different okay so we have a wrist rest they've lost kind of the rubberized feel to it and it's more of a plastic which you may or may not prefer that I think it's just more of a personal taste thing than anything else and let's get the keyboard itself out of here oh you've got a QuickStart guide okay then you have some important information clearly labeled it this is important okay so it's probably your warranty and ergonomics you know don't use it and and and hurt your wrist okay they've got they want you to tell us what you think of their product okay then you've got a driver CD download the latest drivers from Logitech calm that is the best way to go about things all right so if I can just figure out how this baggie works oh that's clever it has like a little slit in it for the okay let's attach the wrist rest here so you can see the wrist rest is actually quite large compared to the rest of the keyboard and compared to the previous gen ones it clips on in much the same way so you just clip it in from the bottom just like that yeah okay actually it's a little bit trickier to put in the other ones I hope it's more durable because I've managed to break a couple of these already okay so let's put this down on my desk I apologize for the state of my desk today we would have used the camera man's really but I didn't actually think of it and I already installed the drivers for the g110 on my computer so the cord is a reasonable length okay you're not going to be reaching a computer in a completely different room or anything like that but you're also not going to have any difficulty plugging it into the back of your PC okay let's go through the general layout of the keyboard itself here then so you've got your G keys on the side here and one M 2 and M 3 are three different presets for your G keys so you can actually program in up to 12 times 3 so whatever that is 24 36 different functionalities here depending which one of these is activated then you've got a fairly standard keyboard layout they've changed I think they're using the same key switches as the new G 19 that I can't tell for sure to be perfectly honest it's not the same as the g15 Gen 2 though I can feel that much okay up here we have game mode versus windows mode so basically all that does is it deactivates your Windows key here we have headset off mic off or on presumably here we have a color change oh no this would be the brightness settings for your keyboard and then over here we have your multimedia buttons so play stop back forward mute and then a volume wheel so that is pretty cool and the the key feature here the cool one is the integrated USB audio port so this is your headphones this is your mic and then this is a USB 2.0 port which you can use for your mouse or for a thumb drive or whatever else it is now the cameraman is going to do some close-ups on the keyboard while I crawl over the desk and plug this thing in so that we can have a look at the backlighting and such okay there we go now I've pre-installed the drivers off the Logitech website and you can see it's actually cycling through the colors right now which is kind of cool it settled on purple if I give you enough shade here can you see them yeah you can see that that looks pretty neat so there's a few different rightness settings so there's off dim oh no it doesn't have that okay okay either way very cool and I guess that's pretty much it isn't isn't it thank you for checking out my unboxing of the g1 10 gaming keyboard
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