Death of a legendary keyboard

Sep 10

Death of a legendary keyboard

A Product Review, archmaille, gaming, General Computer Use Add comments

New G15 vs old G15 Logitech Keyboards

(I have the older 2005 model, and glad I do since the G keys is what makes this keyboard for me)

If you noticed my last post was about me getting a new keyboard… honestly the only thing that’s kept me from getting a new keyboard for so long is that I really love my Logitech G15. В Don’t get me wrong, I would LOVE and I do mean LOVE to have an ergonomic keyboard, however… that would mean giving up my favorite feature of all time: G keys. В The Logitech G15 has a feature that as a webpage designer is near and dear to my heart, instant recording macro keys! В All you have to do is push the “MR” key, the G key you want to assing the macro to, and type out your macro. В After you’re done you can repeat the macro as many times as you need. В I generally used these macros for website addresses that I was using in coding, or lines of code used often such as <strong> or anything else like that, that may be typed in a hundred times in a website. В It just saved time! В I’m giving up my macro keys now though… It’s a sad day for me because I really REALLY liked them. В However, the keyboard is dying, and I really should get a keyboard that is more comfortable to type on for long periods of time.

The Logitech G15 has lasted me a full 3 years, not terribly long, but a while for keyboards under the kind of stress that I put them under. В Besides the fact that I type an average of 81,000 keystrokes per day, they also travel to LAN Parties (as this G15 has seen the most travel of all my keyboards). В Bought in 2005 the day it released from NewEgg I’ve spent a lot of time getting used to this Logitech G15 keyboard… but it’s dying off. В The first sign I had of it dying was that the volume wheel at first would only sometimes work, going from not changing the volume at all to blaring it because I’d get frusterated and just sit and spin it trying to get it to change the volume. В Later the volume wheel stopped working all together. В After that the Esc key started acting erratic, mostly just not working from the many times jamming it five times in a row to skip past all the videos and loading screens of games, also being used for getting out of most games, online videos, etc. В The latest problem I’ve noticed with the keyboard is the LED’s that backlight the keyboard will now flicker going from dim to bright repeatedly until one day I’m sure they’ll quit working all together too.

I don’t really plan on finding that day when they quit working though. В I’ve got an order with the Logitech Wave Keyboard in the works. В Not to be untrue to my gaming roots, but a run with an ergonomic keyboard would be nice! В Maybe I can find a good mini-keyboard that just has macro keys to make me feel more at home when programing.

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