First and foremost, Logitech products speak for themselves. The exceptional build quality, features, and customer support make them the gold standard of PC peripherals. I have been a Logitech customer since 2004 when I bought the MX510 optical gaming mouse. After about four years and hundreds of hours of gameplay on that mouse, I finally upgraded to a laser G5 gaming mouse. The G5 was even better than my MX510 and has been going strong ever since. When Logitech gave us the opportunity to do a hardware review on the G500, I was full of excitement like a kid on Christmas morning.

Features

The G500 is basically the G5 chassis with an upgraded laser, onboard memory, a couple of extra buttons, and the ability unlock the scroll wheel so it can spin freely for speedy internet browsing. The G500 uses the familiar weight tray setup with customizable weight configurations to make the mouse as comfortable as humanly possible. Once I took the mouse out of the box, I noticed it was a bit lighter than the G5. However, this was easily compensated for with the 27 grams of weight to spread across a six slot weight tray and before I knew it, I was up and running. The upgraded laser is probably the most recognizable change to the mouse. Going from a G5 to a G500 is like going from a Chevy Malibu to a Corvette. I had to dial down the sensitivity a bit just so I could slowly get used to the much faster response time of this mouse.  Once I got used to the speedy response, I was amazed at how much faster I was able to do little tasks here and there because I did not have to move the mouse quite as far.