Logitech G915. What a lovely keyboard!

[Firegod]

Just arrived, thanks OCUK! Munching away on the Haribo and thinking to myself this is a lovely keyboard (how sad!). The GL Tactile keys are perfect. Just the right amount of bump and no overly annoying "click" sound when pressed. Lovely muted sound and typing is so smooth and quick!

And it looks incredible. Yes it is expensive, but I can see where the money has gone. It has a good weight to the keyboard for something so low profile, and compact. The volume wheel on the top corner is also strangely delightful to use.

Just waiting to see if the 30hr battery life holds true, so I'm charging it up as I type.

Some pics!

 

[OpenToSuggestions]

Looks really decent, but then at £200 it had better be .

 

[PC777]

Very nice, full size, number pad, media controls, looks amazing. If it really is quiet that might be a luxury upgrade for me one day if I decide go to wireless.

How quiet is it compared to a laptop style scissor key? I have to work late and have to use quiet ones.

 

[V F]

Is it almost laptop style keys?

 

[Firegod]

Haha thanks all. Yeah it was my treat to myself as well. Been eyeing up a nice Wireless / Bluetooth gaming keyboard that I can also use with my work laptop and this seems like it will fit that bill. And of course, work well with gaming hopefully (still yet to be tried). I won a little bit of money on the Grand National so that went towards this, so that helped.

So key wise, just comparing it to the Lenovo T490s I have next to me from work, I would say that key noise is nearly identical. All depends how hard you press I guess on the G915, I'm quite light handed. But just testing now with different levels of pressure I'd say the G915 is slightly louder than the laptop keys. Whereas I can be almost silent with the laptop keys if I almost roll from one key to the next; I can't with the G915. It always emits a muted tap sound when pressed. But nothing like the "clicky" based keyboards or those high pitch tappy keys you find on office keyboards. I'd personally think if working late, it would be a worthy contender to consider.

The keys themselves are not laptop in style, they do have more height. Again just comparing to the laptop next to me. They're almost a half way house between full / normal height keys and the almost flush laptop keys. A quick measure with a ruler. My old keyboard that had fuller height keys, the ESC key is about 11-12mm in height. The ESC key on this G915 is about 4-5mm. And I can't get the ruler into the laptop lol they are that shallow.

Hope that helps.

 

[PC777]

Thanks, a nice mini review, will definitely keep a look out for this. Really like its style and media buttons and number pad a must for me.

 

[d_brennen]

It really is, I was hesitant of the price, but got a G815, same thing but wired, for a shade over £100. Worth it at that, but I'd still wince at £160.

Lot profile really helps with my wrist/hands

 

[EsaT]

Is it almost laptop style keys?

It's not laptop keyboard thin, but makes normal mechanical keyboards look thick overeaten fatsos:
https://youtu.be/9-O0uSUVRE8?t=98

It really is, I was hesitant of the price, but got a G815, same thing but wired, for a shade over £100. Worth it at that, but I'd still wince at £160.

While standard price is salty, G815 has occasional very good discount like Logitech's previous mechanicals.
In fact I've bought all three mechanical keyboards (MX Brown G710+, Romer-G G810 and G815) from such discount for around ~120-130€.

 

[clone]

I have the tkl white version it's a great keyboard.

 

[Yaayuh!]

Slightly confused by wireless mechanical keyboards.

Hilarious price aside for the moment, one of the key benefits of a mechanical keyboard over a standard membrane/scissor switch is longevity. But what will last longer, a membrane/scissor switch or the realistic and convenient use time of a battery in a wireless keyboard? My money would be the switches.

 

[Jenz]

Love my TKL version. I figured if the battery failed I could hopefully still use it wired.