G613

Logitech this week introduced its new wire mechanical keyboard aimed at gamers, touting its low input lag for a wireless keyboard as a defining feature. While the Logitech G613 was designed for gamers and has a number of gaming-oriented features, it is not overloaded with them and it can connect to two host systems using different wireless technologies, which makes it suitable for business environments as well. Mechanical keyboards for gamers and wireless keyboards have existed for ages, but well-known manufacturers of keyboards have restrained themselves from wedding “gaming” and “wireless” for multiple reasons; the relatively high input lag being the primary one. Logitech’s Lightspeed platform promises to cut the input lag by optimizing internal architecture of keyboards/mice, decreasing polling rate of wireless receivers to...