3/29/2024 0 Comments Logitech setpoint mouse battery![]() Surprisingly, it doesn’t integrate with Logitech’s SetPoint software, used by the brand’s mainstream peripherals products. Like most modern high-end mouse products, the G602 is programmable. Did we mention that the G602’s Endurance mode translates to half a year’s worth of 8-hour days! We haven’t tested it, but we know that the battery life is quite a bit worse than the G602’s (on the order of 20x shorter), while the increased speed may be difficult to take advantage of. Perhaps the closest comparison to the G602 is Logitech’s G700s Rechargeable Gaming Mouse, which combines onboard recharging, ultra-high polling rates, and a laser sensor into one product. Compare that to about 12 hours for the typical Darkfield mouse and you’ll see what we’re getting at here. Yes, that’s nice when your mouse runs out of charge mid-day, but with 250 hours of life in Gaming mode, and 1,440 hours in Endurance mode (selected from the top-mounted toggle), the G602 just isn’t going to leave you handing all that often. And that brings us to the other “missing” feature – a battery pack with USB recharging. We’ve used it in the Anywhere Mouse MX, which we routinely use on glass coffee tables, tile counters, and just about everywhere else a portable mouse might end up, but in a dedicated office mouse, it’s simply unnecessary. ![]() ![]() If you really need to work on glass, then you know where to go, but for everyone else, Darkfield isn’t worth the compromises it brings. In comparison, the optical sensor in the G602 happens to be far more efficient at what it does. You see, to run the Darkfield laser, the MX absolutely burns through batteries. In our opinion, these two trade-offs are well worth making. In comparison to high-end office mice, like the Performance Mouse MX, the G602 loses the included rechargeable battery back with USB charging, along with the Darkfield Laser technology that allows the MX to work on glass. We preferred using it with both batteries in tow. After all, just because a car doesn’t go 200MPH doesn’t mean it doesn’t drive just fine at highway speeds! Note that in one concession to customization, the G602 can run on one battery or two, giving you an option to make it very light. Our opinion is that for all but the most die-hard gamers, the G602 is plenty fast. A wireless connection is never going to have the same potential as wired connection. The weights likely wouldn’t fit alongside the required batteries and internal wireless hardware, and of course the polling rate is a function of the transmission medium. First, it doesn’t have the ultra-high polling rates of wired gaming mice, like the G402, or the adjustable weights of the G502. To hit what we consider to be a very fair pricepoint, Logitech had to sacrifice a few things that are included in its high-end wired gaming mice and its high-end wireless office mice, respectively. As we’ll discuss below, it really is more than just a gaming mouse, which is what makes it such a unique product in the crowded mousing arena. It has a retail price of $79.99 (although it’s always discounted below that), and directly competes with a number of wired gaming mice in the same price range. ![]() The G602 is one of Logitech’s high-end wireless “gaming” mouse, just a notch below its most expensive mousing products. From here on out, if we publish a review, it’s for a product we’d buy ourselves (and in many cases, like this Logitech G602 mouse, we actually have!). The idea behind this is that we’d much rather take the time to publish a review of a product that we like rather than one that we do not. Rather than post reviews of every product that crosses our desk, as many review sites do, we’ll be highlighting one product a month that we’ve tested extensively and recommend. This is our first product review of 2015, and to ring in the new year, we’re bringing you a new review format. ![]()
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