Logitech has introduced the Professional X 60 Lightspeed, the corporate's first wi-fi gaming keyboard that is available in a 60% compact kind issue. Accessible by means of the gaming-focused Logitech G sub-brand, the keyboard is offered now for $179 in a alternative of two kinds of GX optical switches (tactile or linear) and three colours (black, white or pink).
Positioned as a compact follow-up to Logitech's G Professional X TKL Lightspeed, the Professional X 60 consists of lots of the similar options. Customers get three connectivity choices: wired utilizing the included 6-foot USB-C to USB-C charging cable, or wi-fi through Bluetooth or Logitch's Lightspeed dongle, the latter providing a polling price of 1000 Hz.
One key distinction is that, in contrast to the Professional X TKL, the Professional X 60 will not be a mechanical keyboard – it's optical, so the texture is totally different. Neither keyboard gives hot-swappable switches. Each the GX tactile and optical linear switching choices for the Professional X 60 have an actuation level of 1.8mm and a journey distance of 4mm, with an actuation drive of 50g and 60g respectively.
Further customizations for issues like assigning macro shortcuts, lighting and audio results will be carried out by means of the brand new Keycontrol instrument in Logitech's G Hub software program, with key remappings able to giving every key as much as 15 totally different capabilities. It additionally helps Logitech's Lightsync RGB lighting, which is pre-programmed to a static blue out of the field to scale back distraction, however will be personalized to permit your alternative of lighting colours and sequences to shine by means of the dual-shot PBT keys of the Professional X 60. Battery life when related through Lightspeed wi-fi with lighting enabled is roughly 65 hours on a full cost.
The Logitech G Professional X 60 additionally comes with some quality-of-life options like a quantity rocker that's simply accessible when your fingers are positioned over the WASD keys, a sport mode swap on the facet that disables keys just like the Home windows key that may very well be distracting whereas gaming and a carrying case to take the keyboard on the go. The principle attraction right here is that every one these options and customizations can be found in such a transportable kind issue – for those who take pleasure in aggressive gaming and journey continuously, this can be a lot simpler to slide right into a bag than a keyboard with a glance fully.