by Ian Cutress on 8/5/2010 2:32:00 PM
Posted in News , Logitech , Mouse , Keyboard , Headset

Logitech® Gaming Keyboard G510

Gaming keyboards come in all shapes, sizes, costs, and utilities.  The multi-functional Z-board, with its game-specific overlays has had some attention over the years, as well as the Saitek Eclipse range, and Logitech’s own G-series keyboards. 

The original G15 in the range offered a flip-up black-and-white LCD display, programmable G-buttons, a physical switch to turn the Windows key off, and on-board media controls.  The G11 then offered everything the G15 did, without the display.  The G15 revision 2 integrated the screen into the keyboard, and reduced the number of G-buttons.  The G19 then became an LCD color version of the newer G15, with some other small enhancements. 

The G510 then offers a mix of the newer G19 and the original G15, giving a color display and more programmable buttons.  Alongside this, the keyboard also offers 3.5mm analog headset jack inputs, converting the signal to USB and sending it down the keyboard USB cable.  All the familiar G-series features still remain – media controls, programmable buttons, USB inputs, and color backlighting.  The G110 keeps the gauntlet running, as a non-LCD version of the G510.

 

As one of the first G15 adopters when they were first released, I can confirm that it is still going strong, even if it does pick up mountains of dirt and dust, after thousands of hours of high-impact gaming.  Back then, I paid £55 ($85) for the US import version.  Logitech are selling the G510 from their website for $119.99, or £89.  Again, paying $120 for a keyboard can seem excessive, especially when a $10 keyboard will do what a keyboard was originally designed to do.  Most users however, and especially gamers, will find use for all the extra features that boards such as the Logitech G-seies offers.

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Anand missing? by BabyBear on Thursday, August 05, 2010

What happened to Anand? Hasn't posted since last contest, and winner announcement is week and half late...
BabyBear
RE: Anand missing? by Rajinder Gill on Thursday, August 05, 2010
He's here, been a hectic week. I think you'll have an update shortly...

-Raja
Rajinder Gill
RE: Anand missing? by ltfields on Thursday, August 05, 2010
Still would love to have seen some final pics of Anand's Home Theater setup. I moved into a new house, and have a great basement for it (though I'm a couple years out from the funding to rebuild my HT). Always good to hear his thoughts on that subject, and if Star Trek was as awesome as I would expect in his HT...
ltfields
Gaming Keyboard by Launcelot on Thursday, August 05, 2010
These keyboards are bought primarily for 2 reasons 1) The backlighting 2) The capability to run macros off of these 'G' buttons . They have their own macro scripting tool which lets a gamer run multiple commands scripted together . Some with considerable sophistication .
I myself wound up seperating the 2 functions by buying a keyboard with backlighting and running AutoHotKey an opensource software which lets you do somewhat similar stuff albeit not at the touch of a button . So my solutions works for my usecase which is doing repetitive actions in an MMO but might not work for FPS .
Launcelot
RE: Gaming Keyboard by softdrinkviking on Saturday, August 07, 2010
I can't see a need for extra macros in a FPS, meaning more than a normal keyboard could afford. I think these fancy keyboards are really targeting the MMO community, ala starcraft 2 where you can pre-program a whole command structure for different units or something.
softdrinkviking
lazer -> laser by Yamikotai on Thursday, August 05, 2010
"a ‘gaming’-grade lazer and"
It's laser, not lazer. The 's' stands for Stimulated.
Yamikotai
RE: lazer -> laser by Ian Cutress on Thursday, August 05, 2010
Updated, thanks :)
Ian Cutress
RE: lazer -> laser by DotNetGuru on Friday, August 06, 2010
Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation
DotNetGuru
RE: lazer -> laser by Rookierookie on Friday, August 06, 2010
English people spell it "ztimulated".
Rookierookie
RE: lazer -> laser by silverblue on Tuesday, August 10, 2010
We do? :o
silverblue
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