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The Logitech G810 Orion Spectrum is an attractive, versatile keyboard with a fantastic interface & sensible extra features.
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ByMarshall Honorof22 May 2020
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Our Verdict
The Logitech G810 Orion Spectrum is an attractive, versatile keyboard with a fantastic interface và sensible extra features.The trouble with gaming keyboards is that they use some of the highest-unique parts in the business, but cram them into a hàng hóa that would look absurd in anything but a teenager"s gaming nook. The Logitech G810 Orion Spectrum ($160), on the other hand, is an aesthetically pleasing RGB mechanical keyboard that feels great whether you"re fragging foes in Counter-Strike or typing the Great American Novel. Although the keys aren"t the best mechanical offerings on the market, the Orion Spectrum is an attractive, versatile peripheral with a fantastic interface và sensible extra features.
Design
In an era when "gaming keyboard" is almost synonymous with "something a "90s teen movie protagonist would find really rad," the Orion Spectrum"s restraint is almost palpable. Rather than a behemoth covered in arcane patterns like Logitech"s G910 Orion Spark (19.9 x 9.6 inches), the Spectrum is a simple blaông xã accessory that measures 17.5 x 6.0 inches: a comfortable fit for most desktops.
Although it doesn"t come with a wrist rest or much in the way of borders, the Orion Spectrum makes the most of its space. The keys nearly touch the peripheral"s edges, almost like those of a membrane keyboard. The thiết kế is far from flashy, which I found khổng lồ be a welcome change of pace. The Orion Spectrum looks positively dignified, và can act as a sensible addition lớn either an office desk or a grown-up gamer space.
Keys
Logitech"s Orion Spark và G410 Atlas Spectrum keyboards use the company"s unique Romer-G mechanical switches, and the Orion Spectrum follows suit. I"ve never been quite as enamored of these switches as many others in the gaming space, but what they vày, they bởi vì pretty well. While the keys are extremely quiet, they provide a fair bit of resistance & feel substantive sầu. Think of them as Cherry MX Browns with a bit of a softer touch.
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The keycaps, on the other h&, presented a bit of a problem. There was something about either the height or the distance of the keycaps that kept me from typing as rapidly as I normally bởi. When typing out Aesop"s Fables on TypingTest.com, I scored an adjusted 1đôi mươi words per minute (nine errors) with a standard office keyboard, but only 116 words per minute (eight errors) on the Orion Spectrum. In practice, this is not a substantive gap, and would almost surely cthảm bại if I spent more time with the Spectrum. But it may not be as springy as the keyboards you"re used to.
In an era when "gaming keyboard" is almost synonymous with "something a "90s teen movie protagonist would find really rad," the Orion Spectrum"s restraint is almost palpable.
The Orion Spectrum eschews extra keys for the most part, but it deserves a nod for having discrete media controls. Users can pause, play, rewind or fast-forward, plus control volume with a roller. As most gaming keyboards simply double up other buttons, this helps phối the Orion Spectrum apart from the competition. There"s also a button to lớn activate or deactivate the lighting, plus one for a trò chơi Mode that can disable screen-minimizing keys during gameplay.
Features
The Orion Spectrum runs on the Logitech Gaming Software, which continues to be one of the best gaming peripheral management programs on the market. With this program, you can reprogram certain keys, link games to lớn custom profiles và play with the keyboard"s full RGB backlighting. The software will automatically scan your system for games & create profiles for them, so all you have sầu to lớn vì is pichồng a color scheme và assign any extra commands lớn the function keys, if you want.
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Since the Orion Spectrum does not possess any additional macro keys, it employs a novel solution with the F1 through F12 keys instead. You can create profiles for games, and reprogram each of the 12 function keys as any other command, be it a keystroke, a program function or a macro. This is a relatively clever solution to lớn a potential problem, since the function keys don"t bởi much by mặc định in most games.
The keyboard performed superbly, whether it was dealing with a first-person shooter, real-time strategy, action/adventure or massively multiplayer online game.
The lighting options are also strong. You can individualize each key or make use of existing patterns, such asa rainbow wave that passes along the keyboard. You can also have sầu the keys change color when you tap them. It"s not quite as deep as the customization options from competitors like Corsair or Razer, but the lighting does sync up nicely with other Logitech peripherals such as mice và headsets.
I did have sầu a few problems with linking profiles và games, however. While I was able to lớn links most profiles just fine, StarCraft II: Legacy of the Void and Star Wars Battlefront simply would not load profiles automatically. I had lớn manually mix them before I launched either game. I conferred with a Logitech engineer about the problem, and we are trying to pinpoint the solution, but for what it"s worth, he could not recreate a similar situation on his machine. This may not happen khổng lồ you, but be aware that it"s not impossible.
Performance
The Orion Spectrum is an all-purpose gaming keyboard, và as such, I ran it through four very different games: Star Wars Battlefront, StarCraft II: Legacy of the Void, Batman: Arkmê mẩn Knight and Star Wars: The Old Republic. The keyboard performed superbly, whether it was dealing with a first-person shooter, real-time strategy, action/adventure or massively multiplayer online game.
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While the Romer-G keys didn"t vì chưng much for my typing abilities, I found them to lớn be ideal tools for gaming, where keystrokes need lớn be sometimes measured, và other times fast và furious. It was just as easy khổng lồ chase Rebel scum through the forests of Endor on a speeder bike as it was khổng lồ explore Protoss ruins in the Koprulu Sector.
Orion Spectrum is well worth a look for gamers who prefer elegance over flair.
While hardcore MMO players might prefer khổng lồ have extra macro buttons, like those of the Orion Spark or the Razer BlackWidow Chroma, the ability lớn reassign the function keys should alleviate some of their fears. Programming macros for The Old Republic và assigning them to lớn the function keys was no more difficult than doing so with dedicated macro keys. As a gaming peripheral, the Orion Spectrum delivers everything it needs to.
Bottom Line
The Logitech Orion Spectrum is a beautiful keyboard with a lot of smart features to lớn suit a wide variety of gamers. The Romer-G keys are a love-it-or-tolerate-it proposition, and I have a few quibbles about the software & typing experience. Otherwise, it"s a well-designed piece of hardware with gorgeous lighting and some very welcome truyền thông control buttons, making it well worth a look for gamers who prefer elegance over flair.
