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Today we have Logitech’s brand spanking new G310 Atlas Dawn compact mechanical gaming keyboard, which uses the companies patented Romer-G switches. The G310 does away with the num-pad, making it quite a bit shorter than its bigger brother, the G910. Despite significantly reducing the size of the G310, Logitech has failed to do the same with the price and this is an issue... Almost a year ago Logitech announced their most important gaming keyboard to date, the G910 Orion Spark. The G910 was an important product for Logitech that was designed to help them stand out of the ever growing pack of companies jumping into the gaming peripheral market. Logitech claimed that the G910 was the culmination of years of ongoing development by their engineering team. With feedback from gamers and eSport athletes they set out to develop the next-generation mechanical key, the end result was what they called Romer-G mechanical switches. While everyone else was busy ordering ship loads of Cherry MX switches, Logitech went about creating their own.  For the most part the G910 received positive reviews, though the main sticking points were the keycaps and the palm rest. The non-unified keycaps were by far the most criticized part of the keyboard and I have to admit we didn’t really enjoy them either. The uneven wrist pad was also horrible for typing and only suited for gaming, there was even two included and they both sucked. Whereas the Cherry MX switches have a solid feel and a nice clicking noise to go along with it, the Romer-G’s feel squishy and have a hollower sounding click if you will. That said a lot of gamers really liked the switches, while others said they could live with them if not for the keycaps. Since pushing out the G910 some 11 months ago now we are yet to see another Romer-G enabled keyboard from Logitech. That was of course until they announced the G310 Atlas Dawn, a compact Romer-G mechanical keyboard. As the name implies the G310 is a slimmed down version of the G910. Gone are the macro keys along the side and top of the board, as are the media control functions. The number pad has also been given the boot. The reason for removing these features has been to develop a lightweight and compact keyboard that’s better suited for travel to LAN events or to fit into smaller gaming spaces.  Almost everything about the G310 is smaller than the G910 but one thing in particular isn’t, the price. The G910 originally retailed for $180 but has since dropped to $140 where it is much more competitive. The G310 on the other hand is starting with an MSRP of $180, the same price bigger brother once sold for. Naturally we are wondering if the G310 is worth paying more for than the G910… |
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bobber |
Posted on: 10/25/2015 08:29 PM
this is an attempt to eat some of cherry's market share, like the time they created a waterproof keyboard. |