I have never reviewed a perfect product but the wire -wire -wire -wire -wire -wire system approaches. For more than three years and counting, never loved me THINK About loading my wireless mouse. Soon so simple, it feels like magic and it is a shame that most people probably can’t afford it with $ 120.
Good news: Logitech is emitting a new $ 100 version in March, called Powerplay 2, and is just as easy to settle. Connect the mousepad, grab a magnetic “charging” coin at the base of your mouse, then place the mouse in the mousepad to constantly load.
Bad news: It’s only $ 20 cheaper, however she feels like Logitech made her mousepad more than $ 20 cheaper to hit that goal.
Mousepad comes with improvements. Logitech proud of having a 15 percent wider loading area and is thinner at only 3.5 mm, and that is what I see with my review unit. Now, as long as the whole of my G502 Lightpeed mouse is resting within every mousepad corner, the charging indicator is lit, which was not true enough for the original. My caliper read 3.5 mm when I am measuring the charging base and its thin surface of clothes together.
But my caliper also shows that the charging base is exactly the same thickness 2.7 mm as before, and the old mousepad was not much thicker: just 4.3 mm before 3.5 mm now, a change I do not feel. And do you leave your mouse all the way in the corners of your mouse? Again, I have spent over three years loading this mouse in old mousepad without even thinking about it. I never worry about repositioning my mouse in my old Powerplay to make sure it is loading; I just remove it when I finish using it, and I never finished once free of charge.
What do we lose with Powerplay 2? First, while Logitech has rejected the old micro-usb cable, we are NO taking USB-C. Instead, Logitech chose a fixed Cable, so I can’t remove the mousepad so easily from my table on the day I need more space on my table.
Great: There is no longer wireless mouse receiver built into Powerplay 2, a feature that I found useful with the original. Now, my mouse requires two full -sized USB ports instead of one because I still have to leave the mouse dongle inserted even in my PC. I can’t leave the dongle placed on the mouse for hijacked trips and can’t leave it on my laptop and pass between the laptop and the desktop more turning on and off the mouse and whitening the Powerplay outlet.
There is no more programmable RGB light within the Logos Logitech G. I do not miss much, as I do not synchronize the gamer lights. But the dull black logitech G feels cheaper; Previously, RGB was at least a beautiful insurance memory that my mousepad was properly taking USB power and was ready for action.
And as I like the newest Mousepad the thinnest coming with Powerplay 2, which seems to be unable to delain from its support as easily as the original (is a part of the Powerplay that has worsened over the past three years), The original Powerplay came with two mousepads (a hard, a cloth) in the box. Now, you get it.
(Like fyi, the new Powerplay 2 charging coin does not seem to work with the original pillow and vice versa. You cannot mix and match those parts.)
I tried hard to get Logitech to show me more benefits because the original is one of my favorite products. Maybe this is so much easier for Logitech to produce that will offer some excellent discounts, or sell amazing packages after starting? Or maybe that 15 percent larger loading area will be available for additional potential supercapacitor additional mice that will react worse than battery rats if not fed reliably, although current G309 seems to work well with Original power initially tests.
Logitech will not comment on future Supercap products, it would not mean sales and would not promise its own packages – though Logitech “predicts retail sellers will offer packages immediately after starting”, according to the top marketing manager Logitech Andrew Siminoff.
Original Powerplay is no longer in stock on large retailers, so I expect it will soon receive a premium price on eBay. But Powerplay 2 still looks like a good product that achieves the essential goal. Crossing fingers coming on Black Friday, we will be able to buy a combo pack with it and the cheapest compatible mouse of Logitech – that G309 – for under $ 100 in total.
Powerplay 2 should be available on the Amazon and Logitech site on March 11.