I spent WAY too much on this keyboard...

all right so this is a bit different I guess I got this whole room done just in time didn't I today we're gonna talk about a video very old-school style me and my home office deal when I was putting together this office one of the things that I had to make a decision on was obviously gonna be peripherals and the problem was in the past I'd always taken like a dining room table or something like that and turn it into a desk cause it's giant has a massive amount of space I could use it for all sorts of activities and stuff rather than just being a desk and so I would drill a hole in there and then pass cables through but the problem is like anyone else I like to throw my feet up on the desk and I like to just kind of lean back with my keyboard in my lap and I got tired of dealing with pulling a cord out and then trying to stuff it back in there and so I took a chance I took a chance on a recommendation of a very expensive Logitech keyboard and much to my surprise when I did this particular video about this space I thought people were gonna ask a lot about my shure sm7b mic i thought people were going to ask about my monoliths amplifier about my hi fireman headphones and that sort of stuff but no the most common question I got over and over and over was tell us about the G 915 and whether or not it's worth it so today I'm gonna give you a very subjective joyride into my thoughts on the logitech g930 okay it's dusty already ooh look at all of that human skin so this is the Logitech G 9 15 I assume you can see it on camera I can't see the monitor I did an audio test the audio seemed ok hopefully this doesn't end up all being a good practice run for this video the Logitech G 915 came out at the end of 2019 I bought this on the recommendation of a good friend of mine who has it and I got to test it once at his apartment but to be honest I couldn't remember much about my feelings about it I was more interested in what it was like gaming on the c9 the LG c9 TV which is the same TV that I put here in this space because of its future GC incompatibilities its future proofed HDMI it's reduced input lag it's extremely fast color or extremely fast gray to gray black the black all that sort of stuff because of obviously being OLED I've had keyboards in the past and the problem with them has been twofold one input lag bluetooth is slow and bluetooth will always be slow but as wireless technologies have kind of improved you have the slipstream from Corsair Logitech is using what they call their light speed and so it gives you a very fast connection albeit over a very short distance so the other wireless peripheral I'm using here is the wireless pro gaming mouse a little bit smaller than I'm used to a lot lighter than I'm used to but I kind of bought them as a pair they're both light speed this isn't about the mouse but I could say right now the mouse has already been proven a lot of people done reviews in the mouse I think even Harbor Canucks has talked about the mouse but what I really liked about this and it's gonna seem very superficial is the fact that it's brushed metal on the top it's real brushed metal which fits the aesthetic of this build perfectly specifically nebula' who is also brushed metal but in terms of a wireless keyboard it is mechanical it is RGB it has various different mode buttons or em buttons here that you can set up different profiles it's got a gamer profile it can connect to bluetooth as well as being slipstream so I can use this to connect to any of my laptops you can use it to connect to tablets so it's got multi functionality there when it comes to the fact that it's got a 10 key I personally like a 10 key I can type very fast on a 10 key when it comes to number input and so I just I prefer a 10 key or full-size keyboard I don't think they make a 10 key list version but even if they did I wouldn't buy it I wouldn't buy an 80 percent or 60 percent I like full-size keyboards but it's got the typical things that you would expect from a Logitech keyboard you've got the G keys right here other than that there's not a whole lot really going on here on the back you've got some fold down feet that also have giant rubber pads on there so they won't slide around as you can see I use a very cheap inexpensive game mat right here for my mousepad slash keyboards or doesn't slide around anyway but it's got a very large battery in there you can obviously hook it up via micro USB if you want it to be a wired keyboard that's obviously how you charge it we're gonna talk about a few things today we're talking about the build quality we're gonna talk about the key switch types the sound will do a little bit of typing test will set up kind of like is if we were doing a live stream so you guys can hear with the click would sound like to your audience and more importantly we're talk about some things I don't like about it and whether or not it's worth it now in terms of construction it is mechanical key cap or key but it is not a standard key cap it uses like Aaron what they call it but it is their own key cap it is a short key which is something that I actually really love about this keyboard one of the things I don't like about cherry switches is the fact that the key caps are so tall which is fine if they're recessed into some sort of a bezel which is very similar to how they were back in the 80s when mechanical keyboards were the only thing that we're around now we look at mechanical keyboards as being a bit of a luxury and so it's one of those things that like it was the only way a keyboard was made back in the day and then obviously the progression of PCBs and then membrane switches and all that sort of stuff now we're back to mechanical as being a bit of a luxury deal this key is obviously what they call clicky as you can hear it's very clicky if you kind of mash it it can get pretty loud but it's got that tactile hump as well as a click now you can get it in linear switch as well I think you can also get it with a with a hump without the click so very similar to cherry but it's whatever Logitech is calling their key cap when it comes to the throw though it's about the typical throw that you would expect for a mechanical key it's which to me is perfect for typing when it comes to typing I'm not the fastest typer I mean usually I can top out about 105 110 words per minute at my fastest but I can tell you right now that on this keyboard I can type phil has seen me go back and forth from different keyboards and just completely obliterate my own typing ability in terms of failure but I can type on this and I can type quickly and comfortably when it comes to the build construction though there's very little creak twisting right now uh-huh moles dropping it it doesn't feel like it's gonna Bend you could definitely Club a an intruder with this if you wanted you probably send key cats flying everywhere so I'm not I feel like the quality is there in terms of the build quality given its price now when it comes to the RGB this is all controlled via their own app now Wireless Keyboard with RGB with all the different modes of stuff I have it set to static blue without it doing all kinds of different modes it does go to sleep quite often not when it comes to button press but the lighting if it sits idle without moving I know that as it has an accelerometer but picking it up keeps it on to not just pushing the button but actually moving it around will turn it back on but the lighting I have set to static a little bit for battery life but when it comes to battery life on this guy I'm really impressed I am now on day five of this charge and if I actually look at the app because I'm kind of curious now just uses the Logitech G hub I mean software is what it is people gonna love it people are gonna hate it I'm at 63% on this keyboard battery I do not turn it off at night although it does have a power switch right here and it just sits here but the thing is if it doesn't detect any input or any movement it does go to sleep but it wakes up extremely fast so if I come in here and I turn on the computer although turning on the computer does wake up the dongle which will wake up the keyboard but when it comes to going to the bathroom or something and you come back and it the lights are off pushing a button will immediately start typing but the lights do take a second or two to turn back on but day five now without a charge it's at 63% same on the mouse if you're curious the mouse is at 38% and it's not been plugged in for the same amount of time so this is the Logitech G hub this is where are your Logitech devices that are compatible with this software will show up obviously I've got my mouse and my keyboard we don't care about the mouse we care about the keyboard now the audio setup that you're hearing me on which is jarring ly better than what you were just hearing me talk on my video is studio grade stuff so this is a shure sm7b dynamic microphone is not a condenser mic it's not powered it is being uplifted by what's called a cloud lifter which is a microphone activator for non condenser mics or dynamic microphones going into my focusrite scarlett solo which is connected via a USB C to the system so the reason why I'm telling you all that is so if you're looking at this from a streaming standpoint of is this keyboard going to annoy my viewers then obviously with the clicky keyboard you want to see how much this can be picked up clicky is probably the most annoying the stream with now in terms of the microphone placement it is sitting forward of the keyboard closer to me with the keyboard more underneath and behind the microphone which is how you would want the setup to be anyway you don't want the mic at a distance and closer to the keyboard so to pick up all the things so when it comes to the app and we'll do a typing test in a second here it's pretty simple so you've got your light sync which I have it set to sort of like a teal II kind of a blue to match nebula right now and you can change different lighting effects breathing starlight screen sampler screen sampler is kind of like the HDMI Philips hue thing where it'll make the lighting match what's on the screen all of these effects that do things are going to reduce your battery life I use a fixed because that doesn't mess up your battery life nearly as much so you've got your animations and stuff what I like about this is although it is taking effect on the keyboard as I make these changes you can also see what they're doing on the screen right there so I just use the fixed preset with the color that I want we've got gaming mode which basically as you can see it highlights which keys it's gonna disable it disables the menu keys like the Start menu the function buttons all that sort of stuff you can also turn it on and on by just hitting that button right there and by setting the game button right there what you do is you can turn on which keys it turns on and off by hitting that button by setting that all up right here now you can this is where you can do all your different assignments and all of your function keys you can assign all these things to different things you can remap them pretty self-explanatory not that surprising of a keyboard when it comes to those functions but very standard if you will so when it comes to the typing test I'm gonna go ahead right now and I am going to type so as you can hear right now you can't see it on the screen because I've got a different notepad up but okay so that was just typing now very often or very not very often when you're streaming are you sitting there quietly typing something like a message now that would be very annoying but let's say you're talking right now and you're like oh no oh god here he is it's on the left to the left ah man he killed me blah oh I'm fortnight II I'm so fort knighting yay fortnight is the best I'm moving fast I'm strafing and so as you can see the clicky keyboard is loud so if I even pushes softly now let's face it none of us game that way when you're gaming you get into it and you start flailing on the keyboard and that's what they're gonna hear so if you're a live streamer then you might want to consider maybe getting one of the non clicky keys now let's go and talk about something that I am NOT a fan of with this keyboard I'm gonna set it down so I stop waving it around in your face probably it's best feature is also its worst and that being the light speed connectivity I had to end up moving the dongle from the tower which you can see is right next to the keyboard to a hub that I have underneath the desk to split the difference between the tower and my racing sim which is right over there literally on the left side of this table because when I'm on the racing sim I need to be able to you know control the keyboard and go into settings and launch apps and stuff like that and I don't like doing any of the desktop stuff from VR because I am using an oculus rift s I just slide my chair over there and use my chair at the table next to my racing sim the problem is once the oculus VR turns on and the controllers are active the keyboard completely drops out there is enough interference and I have no idea what the frequency range of the controllers are maybe Phil if he knows can put an overlay here if not then you can just put nope I don't know but the controllers completely step on the connectivity to the keyboard but not the mouse and considering they're both using Lightspeed I find that very interesting because of the fact that they are using apparently the frame the same technology in the same frequencies but the extremely fast but short range meant that enough interference from just having the VR headset going in the controllers was enough to make it so that the keyboard would not work now it was easily fixable by just like I said having a USB hub under the desk over here on the left side which I already had there anyways I'm using it to charge things like the keyboard and mouse when I want to plug in I also am using it to connect I don't know something else down there I can remember what oh no my amp and my Adak and all that and my scarlet are going straight I don't know I put it there for some reason I don't know but since it's it like I said between the desktop and the rig it made it so that I was able to get a connection back but that means if you wanted to say if you had the TV hooked up like I do over here to a tower all the way over there and you wanted to bring the keyboard mouse over there so that you could use that as some sort of a home theater PC then it'll work until anything that's even remotely more powerful that can bleed over into that frequency is going to step on it and make it no longer work one of the requirements with the FCC in the United States is that things that emit radio frequency have to also accept interference it's a really interesting law but the FCC does require that things accept radio interference as much as admit it I think it has something to do with a pirate radio back in the day and so it's some laws that exist now so obviously we're that accepting interference means it stops working clearly that's not a problem if you're gonna plug it in but if you're gonna plug it in I don't know why you'll get the G 915 anyway the g8 FIFA 15 is much cheaper and a much better deal and it's basically a wired version of this although a little bit different so when it comes to the G 915 a lot of you asked about it and I'm happy with it it fits the needs I have it's expensive though it was two hundred and fifty dollars I've seen it go as cheap as two hundred and twenty nine dollars on sale unfortunately when I bought mine it was the hunt on sale so I did spend the two hundred and fifty dollars on this keyboard would I do it again for this setup yes but would I buy it from my office back at the studio No where do I buy it for any other rig that's just sitting there stationary that you don't have the need to be able to move it around like I do having to go over to the gaming rig and wanting to lay back in my lap and all that and move around the room there are other better wireless keyboards if you can deal with the fact that there's going to be a slight amount of input lag but if you're not doing any sort of competitive gaming or even any sort of extreme FPS what I mean by that is people that are doing like crazy counter-strike and and fortnight twitch shooting type stuff and you probably never gonna notice I had a logitech wireless keyboard bundle that I got for like 50 bucks back at my old house when I had this rig in my upstairs loft if you guys remember that setup that I used all around that room it was a like twice the size of this room at least with no problems whatsoever in the battery life lasted like six months with just regular double-a is they weren't even rechargeable so in that aspect this isn't worth it to that person but I'm pretty superficial and it specifically caught my attention because of its appearance which made me go ooh that's pretty and it meets my needs and it probably won't meet yours I hate to say it's not worth it because obviously worth is subjective but I can tell you right now in this scenario was worth it to me if you're someone that's like man I'm kind of on a budget I would probably look elsewhere and I would probably stick to keep wired keyboards if I were you and then just maybe use some sort of a powered USB hub extension somewhere to get a longer range out of it if you want so there you go you guys asked about my opinion with the g9 15 good keyboard probably would have been worth it at $100 less than it is but at 250 bucks logitech is definitely charging a premium for this so sound off in the comments below and how you guys feel about whether or not this keyboard is worth it to you do you have the keyboard and if you do when you think I missed a very important function or problem with this keyboard then sound off in the comments below I'm not kidding I don't normally do peripheral reviews but enough people asked about this where I went okay I've got to do this review people are asking about it I paid for it so I can tell you from the consumer perspective it was worth it to me but that's a big fat asterisk asterisk asterisk asterisk it's a big fat question mark whether or not it's worth it to you so guys thanks for watching today's video if you have any other suggestions what we can do during this downtime and I'll do more filming from this space because it's really comfortable in here better shooting space I think in the studio right now hey Phil we're gonna move out of the studio he's actually watching this right now for the first time while editing this footage because we are social distancing ourselves anyway I'm just rambling now thanks for watching you guys and as always we'll see you in the well Phil I think we determined I talk better when I'm in my own space huh

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Published: Mon Mar 30 2020

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Not going to watch the video, but just judging by the thumbnail, that could be the Logitech board that uses the low profile switches. In which case, those are actually good switches. They're kailh low profile switches (choc?)

Not that that makes this board worth the price. Maybe it is, maybe it isn't but at least the switches are pretty good.