Saturday, January 3, 2009

The Logitech G9 Laser Mouse Review.

When it comes to design, comfort, and sensitivity, am generally picky on what I would choose regarding mice. However, with the newest mouse from Logitech, the Logitech G9 Laser Mouse seeks to amaze me.





To start out, the G9 specifications are quite spectacular. The G9 comes with Wide Load and Precision grips, the” Wide Grip” offers a more satin finish and wider body, for improving hand and wrist position, while the Precision grip is more of what’s called a “DryGrip” with a more compact shape with more fingertip control. I, personally, prefer the DryGrip. In addition, it includes a weight tuning system, which most mice don’t allow to be customized. You can make it heavier or lighter with a weight cartridge with up to a total of 28 grams of metal weights to customize your G9 for your own personalized feel. I currently, have four 16 gram weights installed into my G9 and love it.





The G9 also features a maximum of 3200 dpi with customizable custom colored LED Display, which informs you on your sensitivity, it can be changed during any time by simply pressing a - and + sign located above the LED display. It has a MicroGear Precision Scroll Wheel with a button located underneath the mouse allowing a perfect frictionless hyper-fast scrolling, or a precise click-to-click selection and a tilt wheel. The bottom of the mouse has an additional button called “profile” which keeps your mouse up to 5 profile customizations, which include keyboard macros, dip settings, LED display colors, which are all stored directly in onboard memory. Its connection is a plug in play, USB. Worked within less the 1 minute after plugging it in.





Overall, the build quality is divine, the buttons responsive, and where some users claim to have experienced 'wiggle' in the snap-on grips, I have experienced none. The custom-colo LED for the DPI display is bling, but it's cute enough to count as cream wafer cookies. The only Con I have is the price of the G9,it retails from 70-100$ which is rather expensive for a mouse.

Here is a little comarison... rather, a list of things the G9 does that many non logitech gaming mice don't do. Few things I didn't mention in my review.

*Sideways scrolling
*Completely remapping keys
*9 buttons
*Cloth covered wire for reduced table friction
*Changeable color LED light
*Adjustable weight system
*Changeable grips
*Hyperfast scroll wheel
*Click-to-Click scroll wheel
*Aftermarket support for grips
*5 built in profiles

I highly recommend this mouse for anyone who wants the best (for now...)

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