Logitech has announced a caller low-profile gaming keyboard, nan G515 Lightspeed TKL Wireless, featuring upgraded low-profile switches that are now compatible pinch Cherry MX-style keycaps, improving nan keyboard’s customizability.
The G515 is simply a invited upgrade to Logitech’s G915 Lightspeed Wireless keyboard, which debuted successful 2019. The caller G515 features a TKL (tenkeyless) creation that’s akin to nan smaller Logitech G915 TKL update from 2020; this 1 wholly eliminates not only nan G915’s number pad but besides nan wide measurement instrumentality that sat supra it.
Saying goodbye to that beingness measurement instrumentality leaves nan G515 keyboard, which should beryllium disposable today, pinch a $139 value tag that’s importantly cheaper than some nan $249.99 G915 and nan smaller $229.99 G915 TKL. That’s not quite arsenic inexpensive arsenic nan $104 Keychron K1 Max QMK wireless low-profile keyboard, which offers a batch of akin functionality, but for those looking for an moreover much affordable constituent of entry, a wired-only type of nan caller G515 is besides en way and expected to waste for $99 erstwhile it’s disposable later this year.
The caller G515 continues to usage nan company’s low-profile GL mechanical switches that, erstwhile they debuted connected nan G915 almost 5 years ago, were found to beryllium tweaked versions of Kailh’s Choc V1 low-profile switches, which made them difficult to customize and switch successful alternate keycaps.
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For nan G515, Logitech is introducing an updated creation for its GL mechanical switches featuring a “polyoxymethylene (POM), transverse style stem,” making nan keyboard compatible pinch low-profile Cherry MX-style keycaps. We’ve reached retired to Logitech to corroborate whether aliases not nan caller G515 is utilizing Kailh’s Choc V2 low-profile switches, which characteristic nan aforesaid 1.3mm actuation distance that Logitech’s updated GL switches boast, aliases if they’re a customized proprietary type instead.
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Unlike nan G915 Lightspeed Wireless keyboard that offered users nan prime of 3 move types — linear, tactile, and clicky —the caller G515 only offers quieter tactile and linear options pinch 45g and 43g of actuation force, respectively. It’s besides disposable successful either a achromatic aliases achromatic decorativeness pinch matching double-shot PBT keycaps that each characteristic individual RGB lighting supporting 16.8 cardinal colors, customizable done nan Logitech G HUB app.
The G515 supports 3 different ways to link to a machine aliases different devices: Bluetooth, USB-C, aliases nan company’s proprietary 2.4GHz Lightspeed technology. Opting for nan second offers a more reliable relationship pinch improved wireless performance. And while it does require nan usage of an included USB dongle, conscionable 1 is needed to link 2 Logitech Lightspeed devices, perchance freeing up a USB port.
When utilizing nan keyboard wirelessly pinch nan Lightspeed dongle, artillery life is rated astatine up to 625 hours pinch RGB lighting turned off. That drops to up to 120 hours pinch nan RGB lighting group to 50 percent brightness aliases up to conscionable 36 hours pinch nan brightness astatine 100 percent — a important deed for those wanting a agleam ray show beneath their fingers.