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welcome to my unboxing and first look at the G 19's this is the first refresh we've seen for a flagship keyboard from Logitech since the original G 19 which added a full-color LCD to the already awesome features of the G 15 unless you count the g7 10 plus which is a mechanical gaming keyboard so the G 19 is not mechanical but it does have their game panel LCD technology as well as their new advanced surface materials so with their new G Series Logitech's sort of tagline is science wins and the idea is that by strategically applying better quality materials and advanced materials to the products they can make them look better over time and feel better to use so inside you find not a whole lot there's a little Quick Start Guide setup guide there's a wrist rest and an AC adapter because it has a built-in monitor basically it has a built in screen on it you actually do need to power this keyboard from the wall in addition to the USB power but the advantage to this is that the built-in USB port on the keyboard itself are not passive so they don't rely on the power provided from your computer which means they are powered ports and you can run more power-hungry devices off of them such as things like I don't know USB speakers or whatever else where a lot of the time with regular hubs built into keyboards you do not have that functionality so on the bottom of the keyboard you've got more Logitech C calling their cable management so you can see here you're able to route your you know I don't know whether it's your probably your headphone cable or whatever else you want to run through here either through this side through this edge through this edge up here down here wherever you want it to go in fact you can have things come out wherever you want down here which is kind of nice because how many times have you guys been sitting playing a game and you got your headset cable over top of your hand it's just I don't know it's just annoying right so there you go there's my little rant about that you can adjust the angle of the keyboard just by pulling up these feet here I wouldn't have minded seeing these with rubber tops on the ends of them however they feel pretty sturdy so I don't think even in a fit of nerd age they'd be at risk of breaking which is the only complaint I had about the g15 Gen one was the the breakable wrist rest but if logitech's whole thing has advanced materials I don't think we're too worried about that anymore we've got rubber feet here so you don't generally have to worry about the keyboard going anywhere so there you go speaking of advanced materials this does feel different from what I'm used to on a wrist rest so rather than being a plastic piece with a coating it feels more like it's a more rugged piece of plastic so the idea is that it's supposed to be hydrophobic which makes it sort of cool to the touch and so that it's not going to get all greasy and disgusting looking and then the same thing on the keyboard itself on the back or on the faceplate is what they're calling it that's supposed to be a fingerprint resistant coating so even though it's glossy Oh check that out I don't know how close in you can get but even if I like try to leave a fingerprint on it it actually works so that would be my one complaint about the g7 10-plus is that the the glossy faceplate yeah is not that fingerprint resistant whereas on this one I really don't see that being an issue that's very cool all right so moving on to the features we've got here is our full-color LCD display which we can be controlled either through the software or through the menu and navigation buttons here we've also got a game button which will disable your context menu as well as your Windows key so that you don't have to worry about accidentally pressing them all of these macro buttons can be recorded on the fly so there's 12 of them with three different layers so that's up to 36 different macro functions and then again you can record them on the fly so that's pretty fly sorry the keyboard layout is very standard long shifts long backspace long enter so nothing that I'd consider to be a cardinal sin that would bother me the WASD Keys are color-coded in a different color and the backlighting of the keyboard overall is customizable which is very cool so you can change the color to whatever you want that's again done through the Logitech software over here on the right side we find the layout is again very standard so you've got more gaming color coding for the arrow keys themselves although I've very rarely seen folks game with these keys speaking of gaining key the keyboard has five key rollover meaning that no matter what five keys you press so if you take your entire hand and kind of go like this they will all be registered correctly without any glitchy behavior number pad is pretty normal the number pad you can like do a turn key with it and then over here we've got a volume wheel this is one of my favorite implementations of volume control many less expensive keyboards will implement it as sort of like a function key with like you know press press press press press for volume control I love the wheel implementation because it's very natural to use you've also got a mute button as well as play stop back and forward and then your LED brightness can be controlled here now I think any kind of video of the G 19's is going to be incomplete without actually taking the thing and plugging it into a computer so I'd like to do that but beforehand I'm just going to let our camera operator who goes by the thuggish name of b-roll go look at it while I figure out if there's anything that I actually missed already advanced surface materials game desktop mode five gear rollover dedicated media control intelligent cable management and a three year warranty there I haven't covered that yet we'll be back in a moment so here we are with the G 19's set up in it's sort of natural environment which is of course right next to a g7 ten plus now I want you to get in nice and close to the g7 ten plus and check out these greasy marks around the arrow keys here there's pretty much nothing you can do about that on the g7 10 plus whereas can you see that at all yep okay whereas with the G 19's no matter what I do to it other than this spot right here this will this will still get dirty but these spots right here due to the coating on it you can see that it doesn't end up looking gross because of what they've done here so that I thought that was really cool that was sort of their point with this keyboard but there you go so okay so this button it turns out actually controls the LCD here and then let's go ahead and a so the backlighting is it's a white backlight on here right now but I've got the Logitech Gaming software going right here so I mean Logitech really does have the most refined software to go with there peripherals so you can see it with the three logitech things that I have built-in I can go okay well I want to select which things I want so I can have a YouTube video player for the LCD here I can have an LCD webcam Bureau that's kind of cool so you could like webcam with your mom while you're actually gaming and you could just have her here sort of tucked away application button will either list the running applet so here let's try the application button which is this guy right here okay so that controls the applets that are running on the LCD screen here itself so we can go ahead and I don't know we'll go to the the video player so we'll go to top-rated how to be beautiful from PewDiePie oh no that can only be a bad thing okay no flash player not installed cancel cancel ah go back go back okay so this is just to browse the YouTube videos well either way we don't want to watch PewDiePie as a video about how to be beautiful so let's go ahead and check out the software so there's also lighting controls that you can change so let's go ahead and kill the house lights and I'll show you guys that we can change the LEDs to pretty much whatever color we want Diesel's hitting the lights for me just using the software control panel here so we can go ahead and go like that so all of a sudden we've got a blue / green backlight we can go like this and we end up with a very deep blue very customizable you can control the brightness as well so here's what it looks like full red here's the brightness control so it has looks like Wow a lot of different brightness steps I've seen keyboards brag about 10 different steps of brightness but this is pretty much linear control you can also quickly select you can have oh you can have different backlight colors per profile so your profiles are up here so you can see that it's already set up that way so I'm switching between those is changing the colors and then of course you can set up all the usual stuff that you can do in Logitech software like setting up profiles per game and it really is a very complete list that they have compared to what other guys are doing as well as programming all the different keys and all the different layers per key right here onboard memory is controlled here so that's how you can save profiles directly to the keyboard itself and I think that pretty much wraps it up thank you for checking out this unboxing and first look don't forget to subscribe - tech tips from unboxings reviews and other computer videos