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a mouse like so many things it's all about the feeling in your hand is it satisfying is it fatiguing is it erotic for the logitech g502 proteus core tunable Gaming Mouse boy is that ever a mouthful the answers fortunately are yes no no and did you seriously put that double entendre in their hotspot shield service makes your internet browsing safer more secure and fully private click now to learn more we'll start with the shape after so many years of loyalty to the classic Logitech performance mouth shape that I've personally been using off and on since 2004 I was worried that Logitech had gone too far out into left-field and screwed things up I was pretty worried about the g502 is ergonomic swen I'd only seen pictures of it now that I've actually used it it's clear to me that they really haven't changed much other than to extend the thumb rest add some much-needed extra buttons improve the feel with soft touch on the back and a super satisfying textured rubber on the sides add a blue LED G logo and otherwise just give it a very sexy makeover the new buttons have been very thoughtfully laid out and unlike most gaming mice I'm able to comfortably reach each and every one of them without altering my grip the default mappings which of course you can change in software are left right and middle click scroll left and scroll right from the mouse wheel tilt profile switching behind the scroll wheel the toggle button dpi up and down to the left of the index finger forward and back in your browser above the thumb and shift just in front of the thumb this lets you hold down a button to temporarily change to your assigned shift dpi for more accurate sniping the one thing that can't be reprogrammed at least right now is scroll up and scroll down something that some gamers will definitely miss but this is actually not my biggest complaint about the scroll wheel first good stuff though Logitech has vastly improved the implementation of their free spinning mode versus the g9s bottom mounted toggle by moving the aforementioned toggle to the top of the mouse so switching between the normal clicky mode versus the spreadsheet friendly free spin mode now superfast the backward step on the scroll wheel though is the metallic finish combined with a fairly heavy click in clicky mode that cost my finger to slip quite frequently when trying to scroll if I end up keeping this mouse as my daily driver I will be looking for something to cover it with to improve the situation I don't like this at all and it's easily my biggest criticism of an otherwise outstanding design on tomorrow things I do like Logitech doesn't name the exact mechanical micro switches they're using in the left and right buttons but they rate them at twenty million clicks and they have a very satisfying not too heavy not so light you accidentally hit them all the time like that bloody Death Adder 2013 weight to them the other buttons are each individually tuned so that the ones that are intended to be hit by leaning on them are light and very easy to press and the ones that are intended to be pushed like a normal button are heavier what a nice touch kudos to Logitech for that one to wrap up ergonomics I'll say this like seemingly everyone else writing reviews on Amazon of this Mouse I loved the g9 shape and performance in fact my clearly well used g9 cord finally started flaking out recently and I've been considering buying one on ebay or something and like everyone else I think the best way I can describe the g502 is to call it a worthy successor to the g9 and that really is high praise coming from me for my small hands I I guess they'd be medium if I was a lady the increased height doesn't affect the claw ish grip that I use and the increased length doesn't bother me one bit because I click almost as easily in the middle of the left and right buttons as I can at the end of them the fact that it has more buttons and I can easily reach them all is a huge bonus and I think my only real complaint aside from that slick material on the scroll wheel is that it's a touch on the heavy side even without the included handy dandy weights however well implemented that system with its handy-dandy magnetic cover on the bottom might be another thing that might be contributing to the heavy feel of the mouse is the unusually thick also heavy cord that drags more than I'm used to when moving it around get yourself a mouse cord anchor of some sort to go along with your g502 for sure here's the one I use at home so on to performance stuff on the bottom of the mouse we've got slippy feet rated for a massive 250 kilometers of travel distance before they're supposed to wear out and then powered by a 32-bit ARM processor under the hood is what Logitech's calling the highest performance optical sensor on the market with zero acceleration zero smoothing or filtering and zero pixel rounding dam other than a couple dissenters on the forums who claim there's some acceleration based on like moving your hand and thinking feeling the acceleration the general consensus is that this is one seriously bad ass piece of gear the sensor goes from 200 to 12,000 dpi and 50 dpi increments without any interpolation extrapolation or other tomfoolery which is something that most people like that the very high end will never leverage but does speak to the overall accuracy of the optics of the mouse now I lack the testing equipment to validate Logitech's claims here but what I can say is that having recently switched to a perfect sensor Mouse the g502 delivers an equally enjoyable experience at least now most of the software stuff I briefly covered in the rest of the video but there are a few things I want to point out specifically all of the changes are applied to the hardware in real-time which is a little bit frustrating when you're changing dpi settings because as you set up each one the Bellis of speed changes instantly making it hard to move to the next one but for everything else it works fine then it's very very efficient Logitech has updated their macro creation interface since the last time I used it on a mouse and it's super intuitive now basically click on the button pick what you want to bind to decide if you want pauses or not and then save your config profile either to your PC or to the onboard memory on the mouse itself and then you can switch between those things with the click of a button angle snapping is handled by a single on/off switch but hint guys just leave that off they also have a new a surface tuning feature now it's not the first time I've seen this kind of thing but it's definitely a first for Logitech anyway so what you do is you run the utility do figure Eight's on your mousepad for a few seconds and then I guess it's optimized I didn't personally notice any difference on this mousepad anyway but I think that's more of a testament to how well it tracks before tuning then a criticism of the tuning feature per se so this is where I would normally do a conclusion but I think I've said all I have to say about the g502 proteus core so I'm gonna shake things up here and close this video with a petty complaint here it goes it is unusual for an $80 Mouse to lack customizable lighting colors and the fact that I even noticed stood out to me because when I'm reviewing a mouse that I don't intend to actually put next to my system where I'll have to stare at it not matching my PC for months on end it's easy to say I don't really care about the LED colors when it's a mouse whose performance and ergonomics I like so much that I'm thinking of switching to it permanently all of a sudden those little details matter a lot more so there you have it the finish on the scroll wheel and the blue LED that's about all I could find wrong with it which is a pretty strong endorsement speaking of something wrong with it you may have noticed that my attire changed a couple of times that was no glitch and in fact it's related to our brand new 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