Logitech's New Gaming Mouse Has 250-hour Battery Life
Logitech's newest G-series mouse goes the distance.
Logitech today announced the release of its brand new G602 wireless gaming mouse. Logitech is claiming that the G602 'redefines the laws of wireless gaming' thanks to a battery life that spans 250 hours.
The Logitech G602 runs on two standard AA batteries and packs a 2,500 DPI optical sensor with Logitech's Delta Zero sensor technology, 11 programmable G-keys, a lag-free 2.4GHz connection, and a 500 GHz report rate. The mouse uses 'Endurance Mode' for longer lasting battery and 'Performance Mode' for gaming. The former will actually stretch the battery out for 1400 hours, while Performance offers 250 hours of battery life. Users can switch between the two with a mechanical switch on the top of the mouse.
"We set an outrageous goal, and we hit it. Doubling, tripling or even quadrupling the battery life of ordinary wireless gaming mice wasn’t enough," said Ehtisham Rabbani, general manager of the Logitech gaming business group. "We wanted to bring gamers an innovation that would change the face of wireless gaming forever. With 250 hours of battery life, the G602 does exactly that. It’s time for gamers to get real science behind them so something as fundamental as a battery doesn’t get in the way of winning."
The G602 is set for September availability and will be priced at $79.99 when it does go on sale.
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8 Hours per day for 5 Months (which is basically my take on your stated battery life) is about 1200 hours - Which is less than what the logitech one gets in "endurance mode"
Considering that the Logitech mouse is more capable than an MS one (thought not necessarily "better"), I'd say it's a nice improvement for the battery life, all things considered :-)
Logitech makes some great mice if you want a wireless mouse with long battery life. I have one of their M705 Marathon mice at work and it's rated for an absurd 3 years of battery life off of 2 AA batteries. I've had it for 6 months and in the SetPoint software it's still reporting an estimated remaining life of over 1000 days on a pair of cheap alkaline AA's.
I bought it last year...
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my MX1100 has seen better days and is looking like its on its last leg. The battery life on it was already nice. If only they could make a better one.
I think their big revolution to battery life that they say is when you compare it to their previous gaming mouse that you could both run usb or wireless. I think the thing lasted barely 10-20 hours or so, useless. So compared to that, its a big improvement indeed. Compared to my MX1100, its "meh".
500 Ghz report rate??? Are we sure that's accurate?
I'm certain they meant 500hz. Their top end gaming mice do 1000hz, so this is a slight step down, though not really problematic.
While I sure it can't compare to Logitech's offering, this is by far my favorite mouse. Size, weight, comfort, macro programmability, and surfaces it works fine on is amazing.
I have it and it has 3 modes, Power saver, Normal gaming, and Max gaming
Max gaming is pretty much the mouse pretending that it is connected through USB. It does not use any power saving.
Normal gaming will go into a low power state after a few minutes of not being used, and power saver is your classic battery powered mouse mode where where the laser will switch to a very low polling rate within like 5 seconds of you not moving the mouse
The polling rate from the mouse to the USB receiver is pretty much always the same (what you set, so on any mode, lowering the polling rate will increase battery power)
Max gaming mode and 1000Hz polling rate will drain the batteries in about 6-8 hours (hope you have the USB cable or extra AA rechargeable batteries on hand
It seems the G this time around is designed with a more energy efficient sensor. (the biggest power usage on the G700 was that 5700 dpi sensor)
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For the user claiming a 2 hour battery life on the g700, make sure you didn't get a bad battery.
it should be a sanyo eneloop battery and with the settings maxed out, you should be getting 6-8 hours of use, and on power saver you should get a few weeks depending on use (though powersaver can drain the mouse quickly if you are playing a game where the mouse is constantly moving)
If a mouse has a low power idle state then usually depending on how often you actively use the mouse, you can probably go 6 months+ between charges.
If a mouse has a full standby function then it can essentially go idle and use only a few microamps with probably a 1ma load every few minutes to keep the connection alive, then when the mouse if moved, the mouse can kick into a high power state,.
Most sensors that offer a low power state will go to a slow poling rate of the sensor, at a very low resolution with the goal of just detecting movement of any kind (not caring about direction (just for something to change) then within a few milliseconds, the sensor switches to a high powered state offering the normal performance.
most non gaming mice have a permanent idle profile where if the mouse goes into standby while you are using it, eg you stop moving it for a few seconds, then when you move the mouse, there is like a quarter second delay before it responds.
Gaming mice simply disable that state, or set the delay to be very long (eg 10 minutes) (or in cases of many wired only mice, no idle state what so ever (eg the logitech MX518 ) (it never goes into standby and always polls the sensor at full speed regardless of dpi setting or anything else.