 Welcome to my unboxing and first look at the G500s from Logitech. Now I've checked out the G400s and the G100s and quite frankly This is the one that I'm genuinely excited about because there's some Logitech features that I really felt were missing from the other ones that I guess you just got to kind of you got to pay to Play and if you wanted to get access to them you had to go for the premium G500s So let's take a look at the overall specs really quick So it does everywhere from 200 to 8200 DPI. This is a laser mouse and it is serious business about the DPI's I mean, I don't think you'll ever really use 8200 DPI, but if you wanted to this mouse is capable of Actually getting a useful input if it's traveling at 4 meters per second Which if you think of it in terms of like if you're a low sensitivity Gamer and you were going 4 meters per second to do like a turn you'd have to basically go like Waaah, you'd have to like jump and spin in order to actually trip this mouse out and have it not work So there you go up to a thousand reports per second Which is the maximum USB is capable of max acceleration of 30 G's 20 million clicks is what the buttons are rated for and the feet are rated for 250 kilometers now I kind of mocked them with the 250 kilometers in my G500 or G400s unboxing and I was like well Do they mean on asphalt or do they mean on? a piece of glass, but it looks like they've actually thought of that tested on wood veneer desktop So they actually tested it before they rated it for how long it's actually going to go for so there you go I thought I thought that was interesting if nothing else so the first mouse I ever used with adjustable weights was a Logitech mouse And I really felt like that feature Separates it in terms of customizability from the other things on the market I mean nowadays a lot of mice have adjustable weights or like you know adjustable You know wrist straps or whatever kinds of adjustable things that go on but for me personally I would rather find a mouse that is truly sculpted in the shape that I want And then I can tune the weight because that's the thing that matters most to me So they've gone with the sort of classic Logitech weight system Which is a cartridge that loads in from the back at the rear Get it cartridge loads, okay, never mind, so there's a cartridge that loads in here Which is where we found the the battery insert for the old g7 Which I still have one of kicking around somewhere, and then there's a little eject button right there that kicks it out the not the slippy feet on the bottom are at the front side and Back and let's go ahead and get these opened up I'm gonna need a minute for that though So the mouse is lightweight without feeling cheap, and it really doesn't it feels very solidly built However you can add up to whatever nine times three you can add up to 27 grams to the mouse which will put it at the heavier end of Of mice and then what you can also do is you can adjust where you want the weight So if you put more of the weight towards the front you'll have a bit more of a front heavy mouse what I would probably Do personally as I'd load more of the weight towards the back so that I can more easily move this way Which is the way that I tend to use my mouse even though it's sort of bad for your wrist And you're not really supposed to do that so logitech's whole thing with the new g series is their science wins branding Where they're talking about the advanced materials that they're using on the mouse now the difference between the g500 s and the g400 s aside from the fact that this is using a gaming grade laser sensor as opposed to the optical sensor in the g400 is that the grippy sides feel more rugged, and they feel more robust on the g500 s like I actually Don't think I can scratch any of this off even if I go straight at it with a fingernail This was the one complaint I had about the g9 which was otherwise my second favorite mouse ever Because it's awesome was that like the the anti-slip coating just came off About a year into owning it, and I really just I don't feel like this would happen with this But it's impossible to say without waiting a little bit a little bit longer So other logitech features that I feel very strongly about this guy right here the unlocked scroll wheel Love to see that implemented It's things like back and forward buttons unlock scroll wheel Outstanding precision that really set a mouse apart from another one so all you have to do see that so you can probably You can hear there's actual clicks to the mouse wheel now you go ahead and press this and it disengages the gear and It spins freely so it's great for scrolling through long documents I actually used my g9 at work almost exclusively because of that because I was often in long Excel documents But the problem with the g9 is the buttons on the bottom Which is not as good as having the button right here where you can decide? What mode do I want to be in and you can change it on the fly? You've also got DPI changing buttons here back forward as well as another programmable button here on the side It looks like yep. We've got DPI indications here So that has one two three settings, and you can program all of that in the logitech software I just want to see if there's anything that I forgot that I wanted to say I don't know if I mentioned the three-year warranty already, but there you go and I think that's pretty much it. Oh, yeah You can reprogram all the buttons if you want and unlike the g100 s and the g400 s the cable is braided So it's got that premium braided look and it is less susceptible to damage from cats. I've actually had cables saved From cats vibrating so there you go. It's a thing don't forget to subscribe for more tech tips from our boxing reviews and other computer videos