Like anyone considering this keyboard, I thought the price was very high. Then you keep wondering whether you need it, whether you think the price outweighs the ease of use and the associated benefits. You make your list of pros and cons and then decide whether you actually buy the keyboard. What type of switches do I take? I really wanted the quietest switches (linear circuits) but I couldn't find them anywhere. Watched many videos on Youtube in which this keyboard was reviewed and especially looked at the possibilities in GHUB and the sound that the linear and tactile circuits produce.
In the end I went looking for where I could buy the keyboard in the version with linear switches. Unfortunately I couldn't buy these anywhere with a reasonable delivery time. In the end (partly due to the fact that I am inexperienced with linear circuits) I went for the tactile switches as this was also available in a Second Chance deal at Coolblue.
After having reserved the product, I was able to pick it up at the local store the next day.
The first experience with the product is of course the unpacking. When I took it home I noticed that it is quite a heavy keyboard; I have never had such a heavy keyboard. In principle, I don't mind the weight, I will use this keyboard for my desktop for programming, development and occasionally for gaming. It feels and looks very robust and I think you have spent quite a bit of the cost there. It won't be a keyboard I take with me on the road.
CONNECT
Since it is a Second Chance product, I plugged the Lightspeed USB receiver into my PC, turned on the keyboard and I think GHUB detected it immediately. It may be that I had plugged in the USB cable, but the keyboard was already almost fully charged and I quickly removed the cable again.
LEDs_BATTERY TIME_RESPONSIVITY
Since I'm not a fan of RGB fairground lighting, I set my keys to a low intensity and a fixed color. To me this looks nice and quiet and it looks quite nice. Partly because of this, I take quite a long time after fully charging the battery. The other reason that the battery lasts quite a long time is because my keyboard goes into low-power mode relatively quickly (first the LEDs go at 50% lower intensity, then they turn off within 2 minutes). This is also adjustable and you can also set that the keyboard will never automatically dim and go into sleep mode.
As soon as you press a key, you have already sent the input to your screen. With my older bluetooth/2.4Ghz keyboard this could take 5 seconds but that was a cheap RAPOO 8000 series model. I use my G915 via the Lightspeed connection but you can also connect it to your PC via Bluetooth. If you use your keyboard via Bluetooth, you have fewer LED lighting options and you can store a maximum of 3 profiles in the memory. Since I don't use the keyboard in bluetooth mode, I can't say too much about this. It looks like the keyboard has the same responsiveness during programming as in Lightspeed, but I haven't tested it in games.
The LEDs can be quite bright; if you have a Logitech mouse with the LEDs set to the highest intensity, you can imagine how bright the logo and keys on the keyboard can be. By the way, the intensity button on the keyboard is nice, with this you can change the LEDs in 5 steps from the set intensity to completely off. Nice when it gets darker and you don't want a lot of light from your keyboard all the time.
KEYS_TYPES_SOUND
Typing is fine, but it took a few days to get used to touch typing. Apparently I unconsciously search the bottom left key with my left pinky, so I often pressed G5 and G4 instead of CTRL or SHIFT respectively (these have the keys F5 and F4 respectively by default). This also ensured that I was always 1 key to the left of it when I started typing. At first it is of course terrible to get used to a new layout but I was mostly used to it by 7 days. This will of course vary from person to person. What I'm not alone in is that I'm surprised that the secondary characters on the keys are printed on the keys in a dark gray color; the secondary keys should have been transparent or printed with white ink.
The keys click reasonably, but they don't make any noise that bothers you. I think it all depends on who is typing. I know people who type that sound like they're breaking through their keyboard. So far I have not received any complaints during meetings about the noise that the keys make; I can imagine that if you have a headset where the microphone has a fairly high gain (or a low noise gate threshold) that people can be annoyed by it. Not many Youtubers have made a realistic recording of the sound of the keys but I think this is a realistic example: https://youtu.be/pdZPpbdsR8c?t=1034
GHUB
One of the reasons I bought this keyboard is the fact that you can set macros in GHUB for the G1 to G5 keys. Unfortunately, these are the only keys where you can set macros; with the M1, M2 and M3 keys you can jump to other settings for your G1 to G5 keys. This provides a total of 15 keys that you can freely set yourself in the Lightspeed connection mode. Over time, GHUB has become a bit nicer to work in than how it used to be. However, sometimes I still miss some freedom in making Macros. By the way, you are always free to link certain applications to one of the G# buttons. It took a while to figure out how to put a default profile in the memory of your Logitech keyboard; when the keyboard comes out of sleep mode, it still has a default profile. By switching on onboard profiles and setting up a profile without LED lighting, you can ensure that your keyboard does not have the standard rainbow LEDs when it comes out of sleep mode.
You also have quite a few LED lighting options in GHUB, so you can synchronize your Logitech devices with the same colors and animations.
BATTERY
Finally the battery. As mentioned before, the battery life is very good as I use the keyboard. There are guidelines on several websites where you can see the battery life if you use the keyboard at 100% intensity and with all the RGB options on. Just before that, I had also purchased the G502 wireless mouse and it has a less good battery capacity. Before this I had the G603 wireless mouse and I loved it because of 1 very strong point: it holds 2 AA batteries (or 1 if you want the mouse less heavy). I would have loved it if I could (re)use my rechargeable batteries across multiple devices. But this is a personal preference (minus that I do not include in the final score) and I will not criticize this keyboard for that. Incidentally, the G915 battery can easily be replaced if it has deteriorated significantly.
SUMMARIZED
Versatile keyboard with ease of use. Easy to use via Lightspeed or Bluetooth and does what it's made for. Typing is nice, takes some getting used to at first, but that is with any keyboard. If you hate cables or want a desk with no wires over them and spend all day working at your PC then it's perfectly substantiated to buy a keyboard of this price. In any case, I think it's worth the investment and I'm very happy with it so far!
