Why it issues: Logitech has launched a brand new gaming keyboard that it says is designed particularly for professional esports athletes with restricted actual property. The Logitech G Professional X 60 Lightspeed Gaming Keyboard, because the identify suggests, encompasses a compact 60 p.c type issue (11.42 inches x 4.06 inches x 1.54 inches) meant to maximise area and make transport simpler (a semi-hard carrying case additionally comes bundled together with your buy).
The board makes use of GX optical switches (your selection of tactile or linear), dual-shot PBT keycaps, RGB lighting, and Logitech’s Lightspeed wi-fi expertise for a speedy, cord-free connection. Optionally, you may join wirelessly over customary Bluetooth. Battery life is rated at as much as 65 hours, and recharging is so simple as plugging within the included charging cable to your laptop.
Logitech says its GX Optical switches supply sooner actuation than customary mechanical switches, eliminating the debounce required by the latter. They’re additionally factory-lubricated, we’re advised.
Regardless of the small footprint, the peripheral maker managed to squeeze in some bodily creature comforts together with a quantity curler, media controls, and recreation mode switcher, which will be discovered on the facet edges of the board.
Extra performance comes courtesy of Logitech’s Key Management, a instrument inside G Hub that enables customers to assign as much as 15 capabilities per key to create a number of customizable layers. I am undecided how somebody would preserve monitor of which will layers and distinctive buttons, however the possibility exists.
Logitech mentioned it labored with greater than 70 professional athletes who helped them consider north of 30 prototypes earlier than deciding on this design. It is the newest in Logitech’s Professional line of equipment for players, and is kind of only a smaller model of the Professional X TKL keyboard that is already in the marketplace.
The Logitech G Professional X 60 Lightspeed Gaming Keyboard is accessible to pre-order in your selection of white, black, or pink colorways for $179, and comes backed by a two-year restricted {hardware} guarantee. Search for it to ship beginning April 16.
