


Mid-profile keys provide solid bounce and don’t slow type speed with hard key pressing. The biggest misstep is that the brightness does not adjust for lock commands (NumLock, CapsLock, ScrollLock) when active, the light indicators are obnoxiously bright. The backlight is adjustable with four brightness settings, and is split between the whole keyboard and the WASD keys.
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Four media keys, plus a mute and volume rocker sit on the top right of the keyboard.
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Logitech includes its famed “gaming” button, which just disables the Windows key but does have a light indicating when it is active. That’s not to insinuate that the G710+ lacks gaming and multimedia features. Related: Find more great keyboards by reading our Rii RK100 review Non-traditional keys are seated at the edges macro keys are orange or delicately highlighted lighting has multiple settings so the cold blue light isn’t bothersome nearly every aspect of the G710+ is fine-tuned for an expert typing experience, down to the quiet type. All gaming features are placed in the G710+ with care and subtlety. Don’t misconstrue the meaning, hardcore gamers: a keyboard should always be type first, play second. Logitech focused the design on the typing experience, and made gaming secondary. The G710+ is the start of a separate keyboard line, but it’s also experimental (thus the “+”). This model looks on par with the G110, a short-lived low-end gaming keyboard, not to be confused with the much more powerful (and expensive) G19 or upcoming G19s. In that sense, Logitech took a reserved approach with the G710+, its first mechanical gaming keyboard. Find more keyboard alternatives with our list of the best gaming keyboards. Going ga-ga for these bouncier, louder typing tools came and left abruptly after major game peripheral brands began producing high-end boards to meet the demand of clicky keys and all the traditional gaming needs, such as macro keys and plenty of controls. The gaming world turned head over heels in 2011-2012 for mechanical keyboards.
