Though 7 hours of gaming may not seem like enough for marathon sessions, the charging station will finish charging the first battery before the second runs out. Each charge on the battery packs will power the G7 for around 7-8 hours of heavy gaming, or about 2-3 days of office-style use. The G7 does not forget its sync with the base station, and powers on without a hitch when the new battery is inserted. Hot-swapping the batteries is as simple as ejecting both batteries and switching them up.
#REMOTE MOUSE LASER SOFTWARE#
The LED bar on the G7 alternates between dpi and battery level displays, and the Logitech software can also make a Windows notification when the battery is running low. While one battery powers the mouse, the other recharges in the G7's receiver. The G7 solves the problem with two rechargeable Lithium-ion battery packs. Neither solution was very appealing when you just got waxed in WoW and anxiously need to recover your corpse.
For previous generations of wireless mice, including Logitech's MX700 and MX1000, low batteries meant the entire mouse had to sit in a charging cradle for a few hours, completely out of use, or switching in extra AA batteries.
Those who really embrace the technology will set the sensitivity very high for moments of run-and-gun, and then lower it dramatically to allow for precise sniper aiming.Ī constant fear in every wireless mouse fan's mind is that awful moment when the batteries run out mid-game. Some users enjoy being allowed to dial in their movement speed preference while in the middle of an intense FPS without having to switch into the game's menu system. At the highest level a small twitch will send the pointer across the entire screen, on the lowest level it takes considerably more hand movement to move the same distance. The simple effect of a dpi adjustment is increased or decreased mouse movement speed. Controlled by the small buttons aft of the scroll wheel, the mouse can switch between up to 5 (only 3 if Logitech's software isn't running) customizable settings ranging from 400 to 2000 dpi. The G7's most impressive feature is its ability to make on-the-fly and in-game dpi sensitivity adjustments. Three Teflon feet make the G7 glide nicely, especially on the gaming engineered sUrface 1030 Archetype pad that I use. In our testing the G7 never failed: from desk, to jean, to t-shirt and carpet, it chugged away.
The G7 laser engine allows it to track over more surfaces than the optical mice that preceded it. After weeks of use, we have never experienced mouse lag or stuttering due to signal issues, and even after a battery hot-swap (more on this later), the second the battery is inserted the G7 has a solid connection. The switch to 2.4GHz wireless makes a big difference, as line-of-sight to the receiver is no longer a requirement, and the G7 never enters a noticeable sleep state. As such, wireless mice have long suffered under the misconception that they are simply not suited for gaming. The effect was both annoying and crippling for gamers. All well and good, but some mice would take a good 3 or 4 seconds to wake up when suddenly used. A second problem was the fact that a lot of the past generation wireless mice would enter a sleep mode in order to preserve battery life. Years ago, wireless mice operated on infrared signals for communication with their base stations, which resulted in a TV-remote style of spotty signal that did not produce happy results during twitch games of Quake.
#REMOTE MOUSE LASER PC#
PC gamers have long debated personal preference between corded and wireless gaming mice. While the G5 remains corded and allows gamers to tweak its weight with a system of interchangeable cartridges, the G7 drops the wires and weights altogether, in favor of a 2.4GHz wireless connection and hot-swappable, rechargeable, Lithium-ion battery packs.
#REMOTE MOUSE LASER SERIES#
Both G series mice use Logitech's new laser tracking engine, capable of dpi settings from 400 to 2000 and image processing of a rather impressive 6.4 megapixels per second.
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