When I bought a diskette at Sejin Computer Land and upgraded to the Sambo Changeup, my computer was white. But when I look around the desk, everything from the keyboard to the mouse is all black. It is especially dark when you use a monitor, speaker, and mouse on a gaming laptop. To illuminate the dull desk, I put up the ‘Logitech G Aurora Collection’. The bright colors, soft texture, light hand taste, and even the feeling are new.
Products that respect taste
As the term ‘desk terrier’, which combines desk and interior, is popular recently, PC peripherals such as keyboards and mice are now more than just tools, they are becoming a means of expressing users’ individuality and taste. However, the choices become narrower as we go toward high-performance premium products. There are overwhelmingly many black-and-white products as if only dark colors express the professionalism of the product. As in the case of gaming-specialized products, the black LED lighting has taken its place as a symbol.
Logitech’s new gaming gear collection, ‘Logitech G Aurora Collection’, breaks away from the existing dark colors and combines high-performance gaming technology with a white-tone design to give users a new choice. This product reflects Logitech’s vision to provide a pleasant gaming experience to all gamers, including women who have been marginalized in the gaming gear market. With a luxurious and soft texture and retro sensibility, it is a design that is satisfactory enough without any objection from the point of view of an adult male.
The Logitech G Aurora collection launched in Korea consists of three types: the wireless gaming keyboard ‘G715’, the wired gaming keyboard ‘G713’, and the wireless gaming mouse ‘G705’. If you look at the cute design with a preconceived view on gaming gear, you may wonder if it can perform properly, but it is impressive that it is not inferior to existing high-performance peripherals or gaming gear in terms of performance. Considering that most of the products targeted at women have focused only on design without considering performance, it is a welcome attempt to meet new demands.
add performance to your design
The G715 and G705 gaming keyboards from the Logitech G Aurora collection are also the first to pay attention to their design. The soft white color and space-efficient tenkeyless layout add neatness and brilliance when placed on the desk. A cloud-shaped palm rest is included as a basic component, so you can create a cute interior with just this product.
In particular, satisfaction was high in terms of materials. The keycap of this product is made of double-injection PBT material with high durability and is not easily engraved. The texture is soft and matte, so it is comfortable to use for a long time. Both products adopt GX Brown and GX Red mechanical switches, so you can use them according to your desired feel. This time, I was able to feel the light hitting sensation unique to a mechanical keyboard with a moderate repulsion. If you turn the softly rotating volume control roller, you can see naturally that it is a quality product.
G715, a wireless product, has ‘LIGHTSPEED’ support and has a response speed that is as fast as wired, and Bluetooth connection is also possible. The battery can be used for up to 25 hours when fully charged through the USB-C port. The wired product G713 can be used by connecting it with a detachable USB-C cable.
G705 is a wireless mouse that can be used comfortably even by users with small hands with a compact size and weight of only 85g. Although it is small in size, it has a curved structure that matches the outline of the finger, so it does not feel uncomfortable even for an adult male to use it. This product also supports both light speed and Bluetooth connection, and supports up to 8200 DPI and can be adjusted, reducing the range of tracking error due to movement and improving accuracy.
Easily transform into ‘my own product’
The Logitech G Aurora Collection was satisfactory in both performance and design, but the highlight was customization. In the meantime, decorating the keyboard seems complicated and there are a lot of things to buy separately, but in the case of this product, you can easily customize various parts to suit your taste, so you can make your own ‘keyboard’ that you are more attached to.
First of all, with the release of this product, accessories including keycaps, top plates, and mouse pads are also released, so you can use them according to your taste. The pink and green color keycaps and keyboard top plate can be easily replaced without tools. The G640 Aurora Collection mousepad, which consists of three colors of pink, green, and white, is also generously sized and boasts a perfect compatibility with the product if you place a keyboard and mouse on it.
All of the products included in the Aurora G collection can be configured with detailed LED lighting effects through the ‘Logitech G HUB’ software. In addition to various presets, it provides a total of four signature animations unique to the Aurora collection. By making each key in the color you want, the keyboard looks prettier to my eyes, even if others don’t know it. It was a fun product to decorate, and it was a different experience in that it stimulated creativity as well as functionality and design.
By Nam Do-young, staff reporter [email protected]