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Take a look at it, the Logitech G13
Gaming Pad. Now I saw this thing |
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at CES and I was really, really excited to
see it. If you have a G15 already, |
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and especially if you play World of Warcraft,
you play RPGs, or RTSs, |
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you know that these things are invaluable.
They give you programmable keys. |
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You have macros. You have all
this great stuff that you can do. |
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And sometimes, especially if you're playing
WoW, or if you're playing |
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real time strategy games, sometimes even
the programmable keys on the G15, |
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are not enough and you need more.
Check this little G13 Gaming Pad out. |
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This is an incredible little device.
It's a gaming pad. |
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It gives you a bunch of extra programmable
keys, macros. It gives you a little |
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display so you can show
system information, |
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or game stats. Pretty much a bunch of stuff
that you can program on there. |
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It's got a great SD case that you can
program stuff manually. |
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Game developers are working on
porting that so they can use |
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all sorts of game stats on here.
Now, let's go into the review. |
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Let's talk real quick, first of all, about
the ergonomics and the design in general. |
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Just so you can see where everything's
at. Now, this is perfect for me, |
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seeing that I have one hand. |
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First thing you're going to notice is
obviously it's got a very nice, |
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comfortable base. So, for long-term gaming,
if you're going to be gaming |
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for eight hours straight,
you're not going to get uncomfortable. |
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You're not gonna get Carpal Tunnel Syndrome.
You're gonna be okay. |
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Another thing you're gonna notice
is the design of the keys. |
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They're kind of angled down and that's the
contour to the natural tendencies |
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of your hand to point down. You're also
going to notice that what would be |
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your WASD keys, are actually concave.
So, if you're late at night, |
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and you don't want to be using the backlit
keys, which this does have the option |
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to backlight the keys,
you can also just go by feel. |
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So, pretty much the concave keys,
you feel them. |
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This is normal, this one's got a concave
inside. These are your WASDs right here. |
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So that is very, very cool. Very ergonomic,
it's got a very stable base. |
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If you look at the bottom,
you actually got rubber feet here, |
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here, here, here and you
got two more here. |
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So, it's also got a good weight
on it too. |
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About, I think at about 8 ounces
that they said. |
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So, it's pretty stable. It doesn't move, you
see. I'm pretty much putting a lot |
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of force there. And it is not
going anywhere. |
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To get it to move you
gotta really, really push this. |
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That's going to be great for ergonomics.
Now, let's talk about how programmable |
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this thing is, and what the buttons do.
First of all, you do have |
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25 programmable keys up here. So that
is a lot of buttons that you can program. |
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You also have this joystick
key, which is not exactly a mouse. |
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It pretty much only does up, down,
left and right, even though |
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the thing spins all the way around.
But this lets you access in game menus |
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quickly and easily. Besides that, the 25
buttons you have are 22 right here, |
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and then you have this, 23 and 24. And then
you can program your macro keys up here. |
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So 25 programmable keys. Another good
thing to note is that this actually has |
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onboard memory. So, if you were to unplug
this via the USB port, |
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take it to another friend's computer
to keep gaming, you don't have to worry |
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about losing all your settings.
All your macro settings are gonna be |
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stayed, are gonna stay on the onboard memory.
That's not going to be a problem, at all. |
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So that's really cool. Another thing
you have is you have Quick Macros, |
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where you can actually assign
these macro buttons on the fly. |
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So let's say that you have them
and you're repeating. |
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This is gonna be really good in RTS games
and also in RPGs, as well. |
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You can make a macro on the fly.
You push a button, you assign it, |
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which macro key you want,
you do the combination of macros, |
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and you program it and boom, it's set.
It's stored into memory. |
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You can take it with you anywhere.
But that's more important kind of |
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on the fly. You're doing a specific type
of task over and over again. |
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You want to make it quicker. You want
to do it better than your opponent, |
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you just boom, boom, boom,
keep clicking it there and it's great. |
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Now, as far as everything else.
Let's talk about the game panel LCD |
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that they have right there. You can
pretty much put anything you want in here. |
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Team communications,
game stats, PC stats, |
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you can put your temperatures of your CPUs
and your GPUs, if you'd like. |
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Or how much CPU and graphics you're using.
How many frames per second you're getting, |
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if you want to use Fraps.
And, Logitech is always been really good |
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with making their displays
compatible with lots of other stuff. |
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So they have a very good Open Source SDK
for all the game developers |
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and people at home to make their
own little systems that you can put up here |
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whatever you want to show.
If you want to show game stats, |
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it will tell you your team stats.
It'll let you get instant messages from |
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other players on your team or on the other
team. And, it'll pretty much let you monitor |
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just about anything you want
on here. It's also backlit, |
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so if you want to turn it off,
it's not backlit anymore. |
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Boom there it is. And, as well as getting
the game pad, you also get an extremely |
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good set of drivers,
or software for this. |
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It's really easy to program. You can
put whatever you want on the screen. |
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You can program all the keys
on the fly extremely quickly. |
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It's a great interface.
And that is pretty much it. |
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This is the Logitech G13 Gaming Pad.
Excellent again, for real time strategy games |
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and for RPGs. You can also
use it for first person shooters |
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if you'd like. And also it can
supplement your G15 keyboard. |
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So if you have a G15, and even like a G5
mouse, or a G9, |
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you can have so many programmable
keys separate. |
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This has its own keys.
They keyboard has its own keys. |
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And the mouse has its own keys. |
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You will be completely customized
and you can do so many things, |
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so fast. Great product, like it a lot.
Very comfortable to use. |
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If you have any questions on it,
email me. And I'll see you guys next time. |
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For more information on
the Logitech G13 Gaming Pad, |
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type in:
L23-0012 |
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into the search engine of any
of these major retailers. |
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For Computer TV, I'm Albert. |
