Gadgetory

so today we'll be unboxing the Logitech G 19 keyboard and since I think this one might actually take a little while I'm going to get started right away just cutting the seals here and I'm gonna try and see if I can install it on my work computer so that I can show some of the cool features of this keyboard so I'm going to need this let's see in box number one which just kind of folds up you'll find the let's undo the zip tie here so what do we have here we have an audio okay we have a USB cable and then we have a oh this is a power cord okay so it actually doesn't take all of its power from just the USB cable for this keyboard you actually need a separate power dongle so I'm guessing that in here yes we will find an AC adapter so the setup for this thing seems pretty pretty straightforward you take the AC adapter plug it into the power adapter there and that was fairly easy so let's get the keyboard itself out pretty shortly here we're actually filming this at my desk so that I can compare against the g15 g2 or Gen 2 sorry that I use day today and plug it in to show some of the cool cool enhancements they have made over the previous generation g-series keyboards so I think there's actually some other stuff in the box here that I wanted to show before we're quite finished ah there we go on the bottom of where the keyboard was you'll find the wrist rest I get that a package here so that clips on just like actually I think this wrist rest is identical almost identical to the one I had on my old keyboard so that's not particularly interesting and then you'll find the Quick Start Guide as well as a driver DVD so there we go so let's get the keyboard itself plugged in put it up on the desk here and since I don't have a powered USB port up at the front I'm actually going to have to go around to the back of my desk and plug this in this is kind of awkward I guess the cameraman can sort of zoom in on the keyboard and show you stuff about it while he's waiting for me to do this and there we go powers in and then I need to put the USB in now there we go okay so is the keyboard on do we have power I think we have power excellent so you can see here we're installing the device driver software on the computer and it's already giving me the options on the keyboard itself - let's see let's give people a look at this so here we go generic USB hub Logitech G 19 LCD human interface device now there's quite a few cool things that you can do with the LCD here you can actually display a lot of the more traditional stuff and you can use these little buttons here to navigate so we can show the LCD clock or we can go back to the menu okay configure oh wow that's cool okay here check this out we pressed configure and it actually gives us a few different options for the LCD clock so if I switch in between all these have a look at the LCD down here it actually just changes it right in real time like that I can just click around and show them so that's uh that's pretty cool and there's also a whole bunch of other black and white options as well so let's go back out of there so okay and then we'll go into the menu no I'll go into ah there we go so you can press this little button right here and you can switch to program so let's see let's find something else there's a media display you can look at pictures you can watch movies I believe you can actually watch YouTube videos on here as well yeah here it is the video player for YouTube and you can use it as a window sideshow device now another really cool thing about this keyboard is you can actually change the lighting settings and I'm not sure if we're going to be able to figure that out in real time here however it is possible we will be able to do it I'm not a hundred percent sure so here's our configuration for the LCD our global settings let's talk a little bit about the other random features of this keyboard as well so it uses actually the keys feel pretty similar to the g15 but I've only looked at it for a second you can see that compared to the g15 Gen 2 the width is about the same but you actually get more macro keys so we've got 12 macro keys on the G 19 and only 6 macro keys on the g15 Gen 2 now you've got ah let me see up here the Gen 2 has your volume buttons like this as well as your media buttons up here on the side of the LCD whereas the new one I actually like the system a lot better it's got the buttons over here where you can more conveniently reach them you know you're not tinkering around up at the top and it has like a volume wheel which is kind of a cool way to be able to adjust the volume another thing you can do with this keyboard as I mentioned is you can change the colors so you can turn your backlight on and off and you can also change the colors in terms of different zones I not really sure how to do that but anyway I think that pretty much covers the keyboard overall thank you for checking out my unboxing video on the Logitech G 19