- I'm still rocking an
original Corsair K70 RGB with Cherry MX Brown switches from a number of years ago. To be clear, I love that thing. It performs exactly like the day I got it. But lately I've been
considering a new keyboard for a little while because I've been finding
myself doing more gaming and less spreadsheets. So I don't really need the
number pad that badly anymore. And this one caught my
eye for a few reasons. It's 10 keyless, which means more room for mousing, a huge consideration for me, since the only games I
really play are Beat Saber, which is downstairs on my VR setup, and Anno 1800, which is basically mouse
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link in the video description. Now back to this thing that I
was already in the middle of. Thank you, sir. That's better. Reason number two is Lightspeed wireless. This is a wireless keyboard. And Logitech's Lightspeed
technology means you get negligible latency while
cleaning up some of the wires that I keep getting attacked about online. Do you know how much flack they
give me about the wire mess at my desk? It's not fair! For the low, low price of
just 220 or 230 US dollars or whatever I can take care of that. Reason number three, look how low profile this thing is. Like, that is a slim keyboard. It actually got a bunch
of messaging bragging about the engineering of
making a keyboard this thin on their website. I guess the engineers over at Logitech have never seen a laptop. (laughs) In all seriousness though, okay, what is special about this is that it uses mechanical switches. These are using what they call
their low profile GL switches and they're apparently high
performance mech switches for gamers with half
of the physical height of typical mechanical switches. And while I wasn't a huge fan of Logitech's Romer-G initiative, I didn't mind them. And they have done so much great peripheral engineering over the last, really, the last five years that I want to give this a chance. I want to give these a try. Oh boy, that's disappointing. Uses a Micro B cable for charging. Yeah, that's a bummer. So, they boast long
battery life on this puppy, 40 hours with the RGB enabled, but like, oh man, micro USB's time has officially ended, as far I'm concerned, on anything that costs
more than like 20 bucks. I understand that the Type-C
connector is more complicated to implement and it is more expensive, but micro B is just, it's too fragile. Look at it. Ew, see? Ew. Oh, yeah, last thing, RGB.
(keyboard banging) Alright, let's go ahead and plug in the. If not, we'll try and plug
in the other side, dongle. There we go, yeah! Cool thing about Lightspeed is I'm already using a G Pro wireless. I actually just switched
over to that recently. So you can use a single Lightspeed dongle to handle both of your
peripherals in that case. And because I picked up a power play, that means I don't have to
have basically any dongles or cables for my peripherals, other than, of course,
a cable for charging. (keys clacking) Oh, interesting. That is not working. Oh, there's your problem. (howling) All right. That is some pretty vibrant RGB, considering this thing
is a wireless keyboard. Does it stay as vibrant? Yes! All right, that's pretty cool. Well, let's take a quick
look-it-e-boo at this thing. So we've got, oh, Lightspeed wireless
versus Bluetooth wireless. Cool, this could actually be handy for me because when I'm streaming I
don't have a secondary monitor. I just have one big ultra wide on my desk. I don't really have anywhere
to put another monitor. So I actually prop up my
phone under my monitor. I have a little stand for it, and I use that to monitor Twitch chat when I'm watching Twitch chat. So realistically, if I was
replying to your Twitch chat, I would probably just say so. Okay, whatever. The point is, we're going
back to Lightspeed wireless. We've also got a gaming button, which as far as I know, just
disables the start menu, although with Logitech software, I'm sure you can configure
it to do other things if you really want to. I never really cared about that anyway. We've got brightness adjustment here. And then media keys. Nice, got the volume wheel. Big fan of the volume wheel, guys. Button's just not a
replacement for a volume wheel. And then, of course, a 10 keyless layout. Now, I wasn't really sure about
the low profile experience, 'cause the thing is what's funny is, if you look at it from the
side, it's low profile, but at the bottom edge
of it you still have, if you want to rest
your wrist on the table, you still have kind of
that angle to your wrist. But what's cool is, even though this is a low profile design, they've gone and they've
included these feet anyway, so you can pop it out. And I would probably go
with just the first level of pop-out here. Pop this puppy out.
(feet clacking) And that actually looks a little better. One other thing I noticed
on the bottom here too, check this out. Little spot for the dongle. This gets overlooked so often
by lesser products, just like, "Hey, yeah, I've got this wireless dongle. "By the way, you're gonna lose it "because we didn't make
a place to store it." Interesting. I'm actually super happy right now. For whatever reason, the vast majority of gamer
marketing key switches out there are linear switches, which I personally find spongy and actually uncomfortable. I do not like typing on them. I make a ton of mistakes. Did this thing just go to sleep? (keys clacking) It's awake, but I'm not getting any input. Having a little derp moment there! Yeah, it wouldn't wake back
up until I turned it off and turned it back on. That's not a great first impression. Let's start with a typing test 'cause I'm ready to jump right into it. I'm feeling good about this. (rhythmic music)
(keys clacking) 85 words per minute with
five errors on a keyboard that I am touching for the first time. (whoops) That is not bad! These have a nice, subtle,
tactile bump in them, kind of like a Brown switch. It's a little heavy. It's not light. You've definitely got that
strong mechanical feel. (laughs) I actually really
like this thing for typing. Thing is, even though I have been doing a lot more gaming lately, I also type a lot at my computer. So it's a consideration
for me no matter what. Let's go ahead and fire up
a game, though, shall we? Currently the only thing we
loaded on this thing is CS: GO, 'cause you guys just love watching me fail at CS: GO, don'tcha? I'm surprised more people don't
practice CS: GO with bots. Seeing all the fake
accounts on social media? You know, it must feel good to really get back at them, right? The bots? (laughs) I completely forgot that
I was testing a keyboard and just immediately got
into playing the game, which I consider to be
an extremely good sign. You can't really see
the crosshair from here. This is not optimal. Oh, oh, Lordy. ♪ I'm gonna die going to the the bumps I ♪ ♪ Oh, no, there they are ♪ (wails) They're harmless bots. Oh, I got killed. This is actually quite comfortable. I'd say there's less of a
distinct tactile bump compared to a Cherry MX Brown, but the travel feels
comparable to a higher profile, full mechanical keyboard experience. Okay, I am really impressed
by how thin it is. This is not your typical laptop keyboard. It's kind of heavy too,
considering its size. Not a lot of flex. I like this thing. Oh, terrorists won. That's why I can't take over the... Wow, did my team lose? Holy ba-nay-nays. That's fine, 'cause I'm
getting it op this time. I'm oppin', boys! Just got to run faster with
my knife and get out there. Oh, no! Oh, no! Oh, no! Oh, no! Oh, no! Oh, no! Oh, no! Oh, I missed! How did I die? I really like this thing. I'm gonna give it a
shot as a daily driver. Maybe you guys will see
a full review over on the Linus tech tips channel
sometime in the future. One thing I would kind
of want to look in to is if there's any way that I could mod it to just run while continuously
charging without a cable, like a power play charger. Do that inside of it
or something like that. That'd be sick. That's the next level for Logitech is they need a power play desk pad that'll charge both your keyboard and your mouse while you're gaming, so you just don't have to
have any cables on your desk. There you go, Logitech. I'm the idea man here, free of charge. All you gotta do is engineer it. So guys, you can check out the link to where to buy one of these. This is the G915 TKL
Lightspeed wireless tactile. So that explains why. Oh, that's why they sent two! Nope, this is also GL tactile. They must just know me pretty well. We're gonna have that linked
in the video description. (claps) And, I don't know, subscribe? We don't really have a
standard outro over here. (bell ringing)
