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	List Price: £69.99 Our Price: £52.20 Your Save: £ 0.00 ( % ) Availability: Usually dispatched within 11 to 14 days Manufacturer: Logitech
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Manufacturer Maximum Age: 18 Binding: Video Game Brand: Logitech EAN: 5099206981522 Feature: Original - Factory Sealed Original Product from Logitech Label: Logitech Manufacturer: Logitech Manufacturer Minimum Age: 36 Number Of Items: 1 Platform: Windows XP Publisher: Logitech Studio: Logitech
Features Original - Factory Sealed Original Product from Logitech Device Type - Keyboard Connectivity - Wired, USB Features - Palm Rest, LCD Display Key/Button Functions - (6) Multimedia, Programmable
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Spotlight customer reviews: Customer Rating: Summary: Works well with Age of Conan! Comment: First of all this keyboard isn't huge, it's the much smaller version 2 of the G15 which is only slightly larger than a standard keyboard. Downside is you lose 12 of the programmable G keys and have a much smaller LCD screen and no volume wheel. Now the reason I got it was for work to automate a lot of godawfully mundane file re-naming tasks but the first day I had it I took it home and used it with Age of Conan. AoC uses a combo based combat system and this keyboard lets you record these keystrokes so next time you want to pull off an attack you only have to hit a single key instead of a series of keys. Lazy, yes, but so far not considered cheating. Thing is, I now use a version 1 G15, which I got from my nephew, at home and have this one at work, where it does do a really good job at what I originally intended. The trouble is, having used the version 1 keyboard, the version 2 seems lacklustre in comparison for games. Unfortunately the version 1 is out of production so the version 2 is all you've got and if I'd never seen the original I wouldn't hesitate to recommend it to anyone. Be aware that use of macros is considered cheating in a lot of online games so check to see if you can use this keyboard with your game of choice before splashing out. Also it's also fair to point out that the free software package called Autohotkey will let you do pretty much everything this keyboard can and a lot more besides but can be a lot harder to set-up. Customer Rating: Summary: g15 is awsome Comment: this is one of the best keyboards i have ever used and believe me when i say i have used a lot of keyboards (too many). any first off the backlight, the backlight is v good for middle of the night gaming which i tend to do a lot of and you can turn it off during the day and you dont have to look for the keys due to periferal vision comes in handy. Sencondly the G-KEYS, the g-key macro software helps when you want to open programms without having to go through start menu, and while in games and in programs and the macro recode helps with on the fly keystrokes that you'll forget. lastly the LCD screen and media keys, this is the selling point the screen is one a focal point and has a lot of uses for media, games, chat progs , and sys info, media keys control all media from the media keys during games without having to alt + tab all the time. In concoulsion i would highly recomend this keyboard to anyone and if it wasnt system access i would take this to work and use it there. Customer Rating: Summary: Not the old G15 Comment: I bought this Logitech G15 because the picture shows the original version with blue LED's,I thought maybe they must still have a few left in stock , I was wrong , it has arived today and is the new version with orange LED's.It looks like the old ones are gone forever!!!! I think i am going to keep it anyway , the orange isn't that bad afterall, also it does make a lot of sense in dim light. That is why it is/was used in submarines. (night adaption) Less stressful than blue light Customer Rating: Summary: A word of warning Comment: I bought the G15 (Blue) in America last year and have been using it ever since, it's an amazing keyboard, not a bad word to say about it. But, when it stopped working (Too many Sprites spilled!) I decided to order a new one from Amazon (With a UK layout). The reason I bought it here was because I thought I was buying the older blue version (With 18 macro keys), beware that even though the blue model is pictured, they're actually selling the new red model (6 macro keys). The red model is quite a bit smaller and the keys feel a lot more solid than the old model. The screen is much smaller but I think the resolution is the same as all of the old applets I had work, this makes the display look a lot sharper. Customer Rating: Summary: Dissapointing Comment: I really, really wanted to like this keyboard; I've read many great reviews of it (including others here on amazon) and having wanted a 'gaming' keyboard for some time i decided to buy a G15. To start with the basics, it's about the same size width as most media keyboards and isn't annoyingly deep either. The keys themselves feel slightly rubberized, a really nice touch, and are illuminated from below. The etching (if thats what it is) on the keys isn't uniformly up to standard, resulting in some of the keys being only partially illuminated but overall its a nice effect and useful when playing in the dark. The included wrist-support is plain plastic and not at all cushioned, its also fairly poorly secured onto the keyboard and there is a distinct gap between the two. The 'G' keys down the left hand side of the keyboard, useful in games as they CAN be (vast majority of games simply don't need that many keys), mean orientating your hand on the keys is difficult to start with (I usually touch the leftmost keys on the keyboard and use them as a reference, so with the addition of the G keys, that reference is now wrong). In addition the keys themselves are in a standard non-ergonomic arrangement, slightly disappointingly at this price especially, ergonomic design and gaming go hand-in-hand in my book. The LCD, straight out of the box, is rubbish. Mine came with something like THREE games having native support and the only one i actually owned was half life 2. Booted it up, the LCD registered the game "half life 2 (single-player) and then promptly did nothing else. At all. No ammo counts, no health counter.. NOTHING. To my mind displaying information thats usually in a games HUD anyway on a keyboard was always going to be of dubious use but if the LCD isn't even going to do that then what the hell is the point? Im going to be generous and assume this was either a bug or me being stupid. A quick browse on the internet will reveal mods adding support for various games, some of which are quite cool (displays of individual weapon stats on counter-strike for example), but the point is you have to go out and install them yourself from third parties, logitech's support is almost non-existent even triple A games like crysis, call of duty etc aren't supported. Overall then the screen was always going to be of questionable use but logitech have decided to not bother making any more useful themselves. Lastly, my absolute biggest gripe, the deal-breaker, is that the response of the keys is AWFUL. There is a significant dead-zone on each of the keys where pressing them won't do anything. This means in games where a single key is being pressed down, you need a fair amount of pressure constantly applied to prevent the key slipping back up into the dead zone and breaking the input. That might sound pathetically pedantic but just picture you're running around in an fps and suddenly you stop running until you push that TINY bit harder on the key. If a GAMING keyboard is going to do anything right it had better not screw you over when you're playing games. It's really disheartening and it's the first time I've had the fun of a game diminished by my keyboard. It might not happen all the time, but the point is it should NEVER happen, ever,ever,ever,ever. And I'm not some 90 year old man who cant press keys either, I'm 20 and have played enough games on enough hardware to know this is just dud. A resounding failure as a gaming keyboard. From my experience I can only recommend buying one if you can test it beforehand to check for the key-response issue. More Reviews
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