Logitech G410 RGB Tenkeyless Mechanical Gaming Keyboard

I think I paid the right price for this keyboard. Been using a Razer Blackwidow Ultimate for quite many years. The only reservation I had with that was the clicky noise (that one has the Cherry MX Blues) and the singular colored blue backlight. But that keyboard still lives. It didn't die or anything. I just wanted a little change, and some RGB. The G410 is a nice change... TKL gives me more room; I like the form factor. PROs: - The price. I read and heard it was higher before. But a ~$70 tag is justified. - Form-factor. Takes considerably less room than my former Razer. - Matt-black finish as opposed to finger-print magnet lover glossy Razer. - Weight. Pretty light to move around. - Logitech's alt-RGB goodness. They're right when they say that Logitech centre-key lighting has a better look & feel. - Software, customization. Logitech has masterfully maintained it's stable and practical no-BS software suite. Options are smooth. Customized lighting (for my music visualization, as I'm a half-audiophile and I like those lights moving up and down with my music) is a great finishing touch. CONs: - Plasticy. Still good, but would've loved more some use of metal somewhere. My Razer has a metal base that mounts the keys. Still, maybe it's plasticy cuz its cheaper still. Guess you get what you pay for. Still, no complaints... the plastic is top notch. - Miss the ten keys sometimes, but that too is at the benefit of more space on my desk. Trying to learn my way around with the QWERT num layout. - Someone mentioned the odd shaped wrist-rest. True that. I think I don't want that down there. It is oddly shaped, that extension on the left side. Feels... unnecessary. - USB Cable not detachable. This should've been included just for the heck of it. Companies need to learn that detachable is now a thing, no matter what the price tag. Just detach that bit which makes it more versatile, helps swap and is simply an assurance of longevity for that matter. THE FEEL... yeah, let's talk about that... Now a lot of videos I say and people I heard complained have a problem with the feel of the keyboard, saying to the extent that it does not have that mechanical feel... I agree to half of that. Yes, there is slight a lack of it (or maybe I am too accustomed to that typewriter feel my Razer gave me) but then my mind tells me that maybe it was the clicky-ness of the Cherry blues that makes me feel that way. Someone once said it feels like a Cherry Brown with rings. I think that may quite be the case. I did try the Cherry browns myself, and maybe they were a tad bit lighter; the G410 suggests a lighter keystroke pressure, but it feels to me sometimes and understatement. I do feel just a little more heaviness, even comparing it to (apparently, heavier keystroke pressure counterpart) my Razer. This is not really a con, but yes, this keyboard sometimes feels like something between a mech and a dome. A handful of times I felt that I could not quite tell when the key registers (on-screen and in my mind) the way you can tell and are never wronged by a Cherry counterpart. Still, my experience is still coming up to speed, and I think I can overlook that - it is still a mech kb and my typing is getting better (there is a slight learning curve to it, even if this surprises you, when you switch from a Cherry to this one). Still, the Cherries are now expensive, and Razer is no longer even using cherry so, it was this or a much, MUCH pricier Corsair. I choose Logitech, and I don't think I'm wanting to look back. In essence I guess you can't be wronged by the reputation of Logitech's delivery of quality and experience. I already have their G502 Spectrum, and the two fellas make a great pair I must say... they seem like a package. And the keyboard, delivers.

Here's my review coming from a different perspective than almost everyone else who will and has purchased this keyboard! For all of my life, I've used a membrane keyboard when it came to typing and gaming. I went with the G410 as my first mechanical keyboard to try and make the switch from my old keyboard that took up almost my entire desk (keys were bigger, had macros on the left and numpad on the right) My first impressions upon using the keyboard was that the keys didn't push down as far as my last membrane keyboard. Rather than a very satisfying bottoming out of the keys like you would find on a membrane keycap, these romer-g switches just stop what feels like half way through the expected travel distance. Other than that, gaming with the keyboard on the first day was definitely a struggle, I was pressing the wrong keys which I still am today and am still getting used to how it feels/the size! While all of that is no fault of the keyboard itself, here are some personal flaws I've found I'd like to point out! First off and most obvious, there is a wrist rest on only half of the keyboard. I feel as if it would be better to either go with a full keyboard wrist rest or none at all. This just feels wrong. The next and biggest complaint I have is the space bar. After long periods of typing (like right now) or gaming my thumb will start to hurt because of the space bar. I'm not exactly sure what they were going for with the shape but it really bugs me! When I press the space bar, It's angled up in a way that it just hits the bone in the middle of my thumb when I press space. Other than all that, the keys feel great as long as you can learn to get used to the new keyboard and try your best not to bottom out the keys which will just leave you with an unsatisfying click that just comes to a sudden halt. If you are looking for a ten-keyless board and don't mind what I've explained, this will be just right for you!

TL;DR Would recommend the keyboard when it's on sale for half the price. The switch is very neat for typists and gamers alike with less actuation force. I did my homework and aimed at Corsair K65 RGB, Cherry MX Speed. But this Logitech piece was 55% off, I couldn't let it pass. Although, there are a lot of bad reviews about the Romer-G switch, I want to see what the fuss is all about. So here we go. Lightning effects are amazing. It's love at first sight. I don't like the whole leaking lightning like other mechanical keyboards, it's quite distracting to say the least. This one shines up through their own key caps, and bright in the dark. Their Logitech Gaming Software is super easy to use. I can set up different profiles for various applications and games. The key caps are made of high quality materials, matte finish, with the coating that prevent fingerprints and sweat. Which is something I love since I sweat sometimes. So switching to this one feels very pleasant to the touch. Tenkeyless feature is also a must for small desks, or you just want more room for everything else. To my surprise, I love the Romer-G switch. And that's purely a personal preference. I see where people are coming from when they prefer the Cherry MX more. I use both and they're like day and night. You can't compare them when they're far different frome each other. The Cherry MX sounds very good to be honest, I do miss them. This one sounds weird for the lack of better words. It has some spring feel/sound to it. You're not supposed to bottom out because the keys are very responsive and bounce back pretty fast, which is great for gaming and fast typing. It is quieter than Cherry MX Brown. The tactile bump is less noticeable. So it would take sometime getting used to not bottom out and use less force. Things aren't perfect when you look at the body. It's overly designed for sure, but for professional gamers. Hence the weird left handle for gamers to carry their keyboard around. The attachable wrist rest is only on the left side. The body is of plastic, but it has some weight and very sturdy. I'm a casual gamer, so I don't use the Arx Control, but consider it as a free phone stand. Lol.

Update: Stopped working. Money on trash! Do not buy this product! Amazing product. I choose this tenkeyless model because it's way smaller than a traditional keyboard and, sincerely, I rarely use the number pad. The clicking is very satisfying and it seems durable. The lights are perfect and very cool to play with. Regarding some reviews saying that it doesn't look premium, I disagree. It is plastic, but it's very well built. Nothing to complain on my opinion. Now I have a G600 (mouse), G933 (headset) and G410 (keyboard). Very happy and satisfied with logitech products.

It's a fine keyboard. The switches feel pretty good, albeit a little inconsistent. But after living with it for a few months, I'm looking for a replacement because there are a few deal-breakers and I wish I would have done a little more research before buying. My biggest gripe is with the software. On two different builds (AMD and Intel) it hasn't exactly been reliable, crashing more often than I'd like. But even when it does stay running, it's just not very usable. Even something simple like creating and assigning profiles is clunky and unintuitive, and the software still lacks the ability to do things that the competition offers, like setting different color modes for sleep and active states. As for the hardware, one of the reasons I went with the tenkeyless design was to save some desk space. However, Logitech took great liberties with the OMG L33T GAM3R aesthetic and the footprint of this thing is much larger than I'd like. And I know it's gonna sound petty to 90% of you, but the font used on this keyboard drives me insane. It's hardly readable. Every now and then I glance down to the keyboard for, say, the ampersand symbol, and I'm thrown off and have to pause because it looks like the GBP symbol. Same goes for the @ symbol. I grew up behind a keyboard, but I've never had a keyboard make me second-guess my touch-typing skills. I know it sounds petty but they had a million fonts to choose and they chose some unreadable garbage for l33t haxx0r cred. Thanks, Logitech. And lastly on the hardware note, I thought I wouldn't miss dedicated media keys. Nope. Forget to punch that Fn key every time I try to adjust the volume. Ugh. Just because it's tenkeyless doesn't mean you should have to give up a couple of handy dedicated media or macro keys, especially with the gigantic bezels this thing has. Overall, it's fine. It does everything it promises, but I don't agree with a lot of the design decisions their hardware team made, and the software team needs to get back to work.

I absolutely love the romer-g switches. I've been using Cherry MX clears at work, and Cherry MX browns at home for the last 1.5 years. Both of my old keyboards were WASD brand(CODE) and were very well built and extremely solid. The G410 feels slightly more plastic, but is still very solid compared to other name brand gaming keyboards. The tank-like solidness of the WASD keyboards is almost overkill. The keys are where this keyboard really shines in my opinion: The caps included are perfect, they have a slightly flatter curve to them then my WASD caps did, letting you glide over the top of them more easily, yet without sliding over to the next key by accident. The actuation force and the point where you feel the tactile bump are perfect in my opinion. The actual force needed is the same as the browns(45g), but because you feel the bump sooner (at 1.5mm), it feels slightly stiffer. Key wobble is basically none existent on this keyboard, something I could not say for my two WASDs. The WASD weren't bad, but the romer-g is so much better. As for the rest of the keyboard: Backlighting: really nice and even(every key can be a different color and brightness) Software: a little clunky but you can get the job done eventually Wrist rest: I've heard complaints about this but its more of a thumb rest, and I like it. My wrist doesn't even touch it, so if you wanted to add a gel rest in front of it, it shouldn't be a problem. I wouldn't mind a more minimalist keyboard using these switches in the future, but for now this is my favorite keyboard. Its more subdued than most gaming keyboards in terms of design so it works for me. Enjoy.

I love this keyboard, the keys are very responsive, the colors are amazing and I don't even miss the 10-key since I don't really use them at home. The amount of options you can chose from all the lighting effects is quite amazing. If you want to set a row to red, and the other to blue or green or whatever your heart desires you can do so. Logitech did a great job on this! What really does it for me is this thing is not as loud as you would think when you think of mechanical switches. I know this is Logitech's own switch, but it is a well designed switch. If you have a chance to find one on display so you can hit a couple of keys, I would recommend doing that because it wasn't until I was able to get my hands on it at a local store that I was sold on it. That was even before I saw it light up.

I wanted to love this keyboard, as I am a Logitech man through and through. However, I was taken aback at the shoddy build-quality of this product. The spacebar had a terrible squeaking sound on every activation. I had to take it apart and lubricate a small stainless steel shaft to fix that. In fact, my only gripe with this product IS the spacebar. Every key has a nice audible engage sound, while the spacebar has this horrific plastic smacking sound. Very unpleasant. This is not a fun keyboard to use, unless you can find a way totypewithoutusingspacebar. The colors are great, and the size is excellent.

i was using a g15 and decided i need an upgrade. i was looking for a low end mechanical keyboard for gaming. i realized i never really use the numberpad so i wanted a tenkeyless. this keyboard had all the features i was looking for and then some. very impressed. the keys took a bit to get used to, but i hadnt used mechanical keys before, i got used to them quickly. the keys light up very well, its clear and you can choose from millions of colors for each key, or easily change them all or a section using the software. i had noticed other complaining about no ability to control brightness, there is just a lighting on/off switch. if you dont want it that bright, you can just make the color a bit darker, it makes it dim on the keyboard, so you can actually control the brightness of each key as well as the color. i have the WASD keys super bright so i can see them if my fingers arent on them, but have most other keys much dimmer so they dont distract during games. the software for this is really good, it takes a bit to get used to, but once you figure it out, its pretty quick and simple to change the colors of the keyboard. one thing that is annoying though is i cant figure out how to export or save my settings so that when i reinstall i can easily reload the configuration. the one thing that i have to complain about is the bottom edge of this keyboard. it has an uneven protrusion which looks cool but makes it hard to get your wrist wrest in place, since you cant move it closer on one side, or if you dont use one its weird because the keyboard sticks out on one side.

For gaming on pc one needs most importantly is a good mouse, and those are made by Logitech. if you got Logitech mouse and on budget this is a must keyboard. single software from Logitech supports all there products so it keeps ur system clean from junk and slowing down. I love the RGB lightning and the build quality is very good. I highly recommend to buy this over others in this price range.

este teclado no le pide nada a otros teclados con distintos switches (haciendo referencia a los cherry mx) el tacto de las teclas se siente de muy buena calidad y se agarran muy bien a los dedos. el material de la base del teclado es de plastico pero tambie es bastante resistente, que apolicando algo de fuerza no se dobla tan facil pero claro no estan para esto. tambien la veloscidad con la que puedes escribir es muy buena, la diferencia a los teclados de membrana se ve rapidamente, con el software de este teclado se puede cambiar los colores de las teclas es muchos perfiles casi para cada juego o aplicacion que uses puedes poner una combinacion de colores distinta, lo que no incluye es la posibilidad de hacer macros, aun que con otros softwares como el auto hotkey se puede pero se agradeseria si lo tubiese por defecto. las luces que tiene este teclado son fantasticas mucho mejor de como se ven en la foto del producto y tambien trae los tipicos efectos rgb de arcoiris estrellas y esas cosas. por el precio que tiene es fantastico y casi no tiene defectos. las cosas malas que puedo ver en el teclado son las siguientres: el reposamanos es inutil y nos quita la posibilidad de agregar otro pues el que trae por defecto no se quita. algunas veces los colores asignados a las teclas se cambian sin rason pero pues no he visto que a nadie le pase esto mismo.

Ademas de estar un poco pequeño no me duro ni el año, a los 6 meses empezó a fallar el teclado

Works Great. if it was not for the interface which will make you pull out your hair, I would give a 5/5 The keyboard itself is solid. Yes it's plastic but it is heavier than any cheap KB you may have gotten used to, like I have. I got a flash of the 90's when I picked it up for the first time from the weight... The keys are very sturdy and the typing is very comfortable. If you are coming in with the experience of those membrane keyboards this will be heaven. The KB is NOT matrix based so there is no key blocking or ghosting, evidently this is expected for a gaming keyboard. The only con on the KB hardware itself is the light button which is simply an ON/OFF option. which is annoying as I would have liked it to dim a few times before switching off, especially at night. But even during the day a dim light passes through quite clearly, so I just set my color scheme to be dim. The software is quite crappy. the choices for light effects are great but you instantly wish some of these effects should be part of the User Defined Per Key Lighting. For example you can define key colors for each key, for each game, for example I have wasd brighter in some fps with Q E in others. But the other cool effect, defining a color change when a key is tapped, is in another option which is for the entire keyboard.... So long story short I have Key Press effect for default and the constant light for in game, or in a specific app, where it helps to see what keys are useful. Also the editor to define the color scheme lacks some basic "evident" features like remembering the color in the color picker. so you need to write down the rgb values somewhere or use a screen color picker if you want uniformity between your profiles. also a left right mouse button color painting option like in any paint program would have helped defining my profiles... This makes it very tedious to define color schemes. You can disable keys for gaming on a per app basis. but I have the one complaint: the Windows Key and the Windows Menu keys are disabled for the per app profile and they cannot be re-enabled. It makes sense for games but not for applications. Finally the switch to turn the light on off and the switch to enable/disable app profile on the keyboard does not follow the color scheme when you are in the Key Press effect. These shine at the color you chose for "pressed" always, so you have 2 keys on the keyboard that are rebels :). Anyway. I as I said I would have given this a 5/5; it's worth it, it's the software that ruins it.