Tuesday, January 25th 2022
Logitech Announces G413 Mechanical Gaming Keyboards
Getting the right kind of keyboard for the type of gaming you prefer can be the difference between an enjoyable experience and a miserable one. Gaming keyboards can be complex and confusing, but the Logitech G team and their new Logitech G413 SE Mechanical Gaming Keyboard and the G413 TKL (Tenkeyless) SE Mechanical Gaming Keyboard are designed to upgrade your gameplay experience without breaking the bank.
Our engineering and design teams carefully designed a gaming keyboard that delivers both precision and performance. These two new keyboards offer gaming-grade mechanical switches with extremely durable PBT keycaps that are wear, fade and shine resistant, at a low price. With a black-brushed aluminium-magnesium alloy top case as the keyboard's backbone, and white LED lighting, they will look great on your desk. Also, it uses low-carbon aluminium to reduce its carbon footprint, so it doesn't only look amazing, but is also much more sustainable.
Not only do the keyboards look great, they have gaming-grade performance. The G413 SE and G413 TKL SE Mechanical Gaming Keyboards feature Tactile Mechanical Switches, which deliver uncompromising performance and give discernible actuation for gamers who prefer direct feedback. In addition, the keyboards feature PBT keycaps, engineered with quality material and designed to hold up over time, these keycaps are heat- and wear-resistant; making them one of the most durable PBT keycaps designed.
Lastly, the keyboards were designed to deliver reliable key input versus other non-gaming mechanical keyboards, with the addition of the 6-key rollover anti-ghosting performance. Designed to ensure reliable rollover, which means multiple keys can be pressed simultaneously and all register at the same time so that a special move is triggered.
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Logitech
Our engineering and design teams carefully designed a gaming keyboard that delivers both precision and performance. These two new keyboards offer gaming-grade mechanical switches with extremely durable PBT keycaps that are wear, fade and shine resistant, at a low price. With a black-brushed aluminium-magnesium alloy top case as the keyboard's backbone, and white LED lighting, they will look great on your desk. Also, it uses low-carbon aluminium to reduce its carbon footprint, so it doesn't only look amazing, but is also much more sustainable.
Lastly, the keyboards were designed to deliver reliable key input versus other non-gaming mechanical keyboards, with the addition of the 6-key rollover anti-ghosting performance. Designed to ensure reliable rollover, which means multiple keys can be pressed simultaneously and all register at the same time so that a special move is triggered.
32 Comments on Logitech Announces G413 Mechanical Gaming Keyboards
BTW, my rock is only a 1BR. If there were mechanical keyboards, before they went with these romer-gs, they're trying to hide.
I'm glad to see they make a TKL version now and they are uping the quality. I'd gladly get another one in TKL form if it had a detachable cable but I didn't see that called out as feature. A wireless version would be a nice option too but something to allow me to switch from work to personal systems is kinda a must.
If you're looking for unicomp you might want to take a look at www.keyboardco.com/ (their reseller in the uk) though with brexit it might not help much.White keys can get discolored as well, I bought a keyboard on black friday with white backlight and 3 of the keys are yellow-ish. Not enough for me to care but disapointing with how new the keyboard is
Fun fact: only the blue LEDs died, blue only.
Switched to Blackwidow Lite Stormtrooper Ed. 1 year ago, with pure white LED, no LED has died ever since. I don't miss the RGB, Pure white LED looks so good and clean.
As a result of the race-to-the-bottom for membrane keyboards, the difference between mechanical and membrane is getting larger.
If you have a decent-quality, older membrane keyboard then yeah, there's no real reason to upgrade.
Even before membrane keyboards were still membrane keyboards imo. The problem I see with mechs is that they became "gamer" focused and prices skyrocketed. Like this example it self, an SE lower cost version that's still 70$ or when Cherry released a cost focused switch (Cherry viola) and the only keyboard I've seen use it was the Corsair K60 and it still cost 90$
Honestly this looks like overpriced junk to me. To each their own.
These days mechanical keyboards are all about the ARGBLED, childish styling and stupid fonts on the keycaps, ridiculous (and often janky or intrusive) software to control it all, coupled with obscene pricing for what is usually plasticky non-premium build quality and material finishes.
For $100 I want a steel baseplate, an alloy or at least a durable abs top deck that isn't covered in nasty, short-lived soft-touch paint, N-key rollover, and a standard layout. That shouldn't be too much to ask for but it so often is.
I bought one for a build for a photo editing build and yeah it feels like a cut above my G413 in terms of feel. I'm not sure I'm enough of a keyboard aficionado to switch to it but it is really nice and would be on my short list if I just wanted the hardware and none of the gamer software.
Since you mentioned Das. I had one of those before the G413 (I got rid of it cause I didn't like the bulkiness of it and I don't like media keys) and the ENTR better built than that too, frankly I think the G413 has more quality feels than the Das.