Discussing Logitech's New Gaming Mice

Paul writes "Logitech had a busy day announcing three new products designed for gamers. The company introduced the Logitech G15 keyboard, G5 and G7 G-Series gaming mice. TechSpot had a brief talk with Erik Charlton, senior product-marketing manager at Logitech, who shared a few ideas and details on Logitech's newly announced products."

I love logitech

[mvizos]

I will say, however. Screw flanders

Re:Optimus

[Anonymous Coward]

wow, these new mice really hit the G-Spot!

/me apologizes

The last time

[pickyouupatnine]

.. I owned a Logitech mouse.. and it literally caught fire when I played too much Unreal Tournament w/ it. If I ever get back into serious gaming.. I'm gonna blow up one of these.. damn.. been a while since I got excited about a mouse.

Impressive

[mikeophile]

They support screaming fast 20g moves up to 45 inches / second...and even higher, depending upon the surface.

Will they support 20G impacts when I throw the damn thing against the wall after I am fragged by a LAN hacker for the n-th time?

Re:Optimus

[oneiros27]

Kick ass! I can keep track of my key bindings in Duke Nukem Forever [wired.com]!

Re:Display?

[kfg]

Using the latest advancements in computers to create a heads down display.

Ahhhhh! Technology marches on.

KFG

Re:The last time

[Stibidor]

Are you sure you know the meaning of the word "literally"? Your mouse literally caught fire? I hope you used it to roast s'mores or something. :)

Re:Optimus

[JahToasted]

Yeah the optimus will be great for playing Duke Nukem Forever on.

This is a huge scientific breakthrough...

[Malor]

From the writeup on the new mice:

"The low weight of the mouse allows fast moves and zero inertia[....]"

In other words, they've quietly developed an inertialess mouse. The biggest physics breakthrough ever, and they're wasting it on a stupid gaming mouse. Quick, somebody call NASA!

Re:Get a console...

[plover]

Because two groups of consumers drive the absolute high end of home computing: the gamers and the porn surfers.

And porn surfers don't need a two-handed keyboard.

Full-Speed USB!

[NewStarRising]

Don't miss the Full-Sped USB!
"The G7 and G5 are Logitechs first computer mice to leverage full-speed USB. "

Now checking on http://www.everythingusb.com/usb2/faq.htm [everythingusb.com] , we find that
"Full Speed" refers to USB 1.1, while High-Speed (Or "Hi-Speed") refers to USB 2.

So Logitech are bragging about their USB 1.1 mice?

Re:SHUT UP!!!

[Anonymous Coward]

All your keyboards are belong to us.

Re:This is a huge scientific breakthrough...

[digidave]

You assume that space exploration and the revolution of personal and mass transit as well as civil engineering, not to mention the upheaval of our understanding of physics and the universe, are more important than Counter-Strike. I beg to differ.

Yuck

[Gogo0]

I think the new keyboard looks like complete crap.

I will never let go of my 1982 IBM Model M in favor of some 2005 ball of plastic that weighs less than animals I have killed with the Model M.

Re:The last time

[Mornelithe]

'Dude man, I have to tell you the funniest story, man. I was really fucked up the other day and I was hanging out with Jeremy and we were both super fucked up. And we went back to Jeremy's apartment; we split this bar of Xanax, okay? And then he put on that viking hat, you know, that he won at Vegas, you know, then he started dancing around and dude... it's was so fuckin' funny... dude I literally shit my pants!'

Flashback to horrible X-Files episode

[neuro.slug]

Did anyone read what the marketing department put on the LCD console?

Xerious: He's at the bunker.
Scum: I'm on it.
Xerious: Rally at me after.

Jesus tap-dancing Christ, who comes up with this stuff? I suspect it's the same people who wrote the FPS X-Files episode [somethingawful.com]...