Wednesday, September 30, 2015

Logitech introduces G410

Whatever they wanted to be call these days, Logi or Logitech is introducing G410 mechanical gaming keyboard.  It's basically G910's little sibling, a TKL version of G910.  Aside from that, it shares many features from G910 such as RGB lighting, the Romer-G switch and assorted gaming profiles controls.  It however, does not have the macro keys that G910 has on the left side.  This board also does not sport the funky key cap surface G910 has, but instead opted for the more traditional shape.  So, for those who cannot stand the key caps on G910, but loves Romer-G, here's your board.  Logitech bills this keyboard as the keyboard on the go.  So, it's designed to be smaller than its larger older sibling while retain many of its major features.  Interestingly, the keyboard interface cable is not detachable.  For traveling keyboard, I can see that detachable USB keyboard cable is extremely useful even though I don't need such thing.  However, I can certainly see this as a breaking point for some people.  The talk is that it will retail for about $130 US dollars.  It's a little less than $170 that Logitech is asking for G910.

After G910 was introduced, the immediate questions was when Logitech will introduce a TKL version.  There was some rumbling in summer 2015 when prototypes were shown.  Now, we have an answer.  Indeed, Logitech intends to make more boards with the Romer-G switch.  I wonder if they will build one for the mainstream K keyboard line with this switch.  I would like to see that sometimes as I don't have a good reason for gaming keyboard, but I love to try out new key switches.  I guess we will see how confident Logitech is with the Romer-G's appeal to business and regular consumers.

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