Logitech – G PRO Wireless Optical Gaming Mouse with RGB Lighting – Black

Very dang good mouse. Should of went wireless a long time ago. Great for FPS games and all shooters no lag just a perfect mouse.

I have been using the G Pro Wireless for about 2 weeks now. I have gamed with it, worked with it, and made it my daily driver for this time period to get a good feel for it. My normal work mouse is the Logitech M705 Marathon mouse (used for over 7 years now), and my original gaming mouse was a Logitech G602. I love wireless mice, and refuse to use wired because I hate dragging the cord around. That’s what drew me to this mouse. The super fast Lightspeed transmitter really makes the difference, and I had no discernible input lag. I am also a sucker for RGB peripherals.
When I first pulled the mouse out of the box I honestly didn’t care for how it felt in my hands. The outer shell felt too smooth to me. The G602 has a textured outer shell and the M705 has a rubber coated shell. I had always preferred a textured/grippy outershell for any mouse I used. I got used to it pretty quickly, but it was off-putting at first (mostly due to callouses on my hands not feeling any grip). In the end I got used to the texture and had no problem gripping it – the shape of the mouse is really comfortable which helped. The next thing I noticed was how light this mouse is. 80 grams! My M705 is 135g and my G602 is a whopping 152g! Even my kids’ little M325c weighs 93g, and its tiny! I never noticed how heavy my mice were until I started using this mouse. It’s insane how light it is. Several of my gaming coworkers commented that it felt too light for them, so I let them drive it for a half hour each. When their half hour was up they were much more open to it, so maybe it converted them? The weight of the mouse just lets it become an extension of your hand vs. a paperweight you drag around. It really disappears, and the shape is ergonomically pleasing.
Most of my time was spent using it for work – I spend 8+ hours a day at my work computer doing 3D CAD modeling, as well as CorelDraw, and database work. These last few weeks I have been churning out a lot of new models and drawings, so I have been clicking and moving this mouse around like a madman. In my past experience with my M705 I would experience wrist and index finger fatigue from this level of activity. I didn’t feel that at all with the G Pro Wireless (GPW). The lightweight (80g) body of the mouse just kind of melted away and made it easy for rapid movements around my model. The LMB click weight is also super light, and vastly more responsive than my M705 and G602. I can honestly say that I have gotten finger cramps in the past from working like this, but the GPW never left my finger feeling strained. My only complaint for office work is the lack of Hyper-Fast Scrolling that my M705 has. That is a super handy feature when doing database work, but I know the weight of the Hyper-Fast wheel is a penalty for a mouse trying to be as ultralight as possible.
For my time spent gaming I played Far Cry 5 and Overwatch. FC5 doesn’t necessarily need an ultralight high-speed mouse, but I wanted to play it the last few nights ¯\_(ツ)_/¯. The jump from my G602 to the GPW was dramatic. My god the weight savings were so beneficial – being able to easily flick the mouse with no effort was awesome. The Hero sensor is so much more accurate than the sensor in my G602. I always had trouble being consistent with my shots using the G602. I can tell my accuracy has been sharpened with the Hero sensor. I can run at a higher sensitivity now, and still be accurate whereas before I would find myself overshooting my onscreen target. That lightweight LMB click was so crisp in comparison to the G602, that I got back into using McCree for my hero for the first time in a while. I found it difficult to use the right-side rear button in practice (I’m right handed btw), so I swapped out the button for the ‘flush’ mount button. It was pretty easy to setup a game profile in the Logitech Gaming Software, so I assigned the side buttons (and disabled the one I swapped out) for my Overwatch profile. PC gaming stuff isn’t supposed to be this easy to work with, but here I am happily playing my games with a new mouse without a care in the world.
For my gaming sessions I picked up the Logitech Powerplay mouse pad that wirelessly charges the mouse. I played games with and without the wireless charging weight, so I could get a accurate impression of its effect. The wireless charging disk on the bottom of the mouse adds about 10g – still a svelte 90g for the whole mouse. After a couple of hours playing with and without, I honestly couldn’t tell much of a difference. The extra weight barely registered on my performance in Overwatch. I did fiddle with my DPI settings to account for the change in weight, which I think softened its effect on my games. Also, the RGB on the mouse syncs with the RGB of the pad – very nice.
Overall, I am really enjoying the G Pro Wireless. The only drawback I found was the lack of Hyper-Fast Scrolling (like in the G903), but I can get over that because there are several great features that make up for it. If you are a serious gamer with equally serious reservations about wireless, I would say that the GPW can assuage those fears. Good luck and happy gaming!

I am strangely picky about mice. I can’t stand Bluetooth mice because the latency, and the imperfect tracking drives me crazy. This mouse supports Bluetooth, but also supports its own proprietary wireless mode in conjunction with an included USB adapter. My last mouse was a razer pro click wireless, which supported these same modes, but it was white and didn’t match my new PC setup. I tried the Logitech MX master 3, but I found it’s wireless adapter mode to perform no better than Bluetooth (poorly), so ended up returning it. Unlike the MX master, this mouse performs excellent with its wireless adapter.

This mouse is the lightest mouse I’ve ever held. So if you are looking for a light mouse, this is it. About how fast it responds, well, I don’t notice a lag, but I didn’t notice a lag with some cheaper wireless mice. But I’m assuming it’s doing its job because this is Logitech and I doubt they would lie about its speed. The reason I didn’t give this mouse 5 stars is because I don’t think the price is justified in the mouse for the following reasons:
(1) Button Placement. This mouse only has two side buttons on each side, and they are placed in positions that I didn’t find comfortable (I was used to playing with a mouse that had 12 buttons on the side that were in much easier to reach places). If you are used to the positions on these buttons based on previous mice you have used, then this shouldn’t be a problem. But as for me, it really hurt my hand to get my thumb to move to those positions. I’m now proficient at it after 2 months of using it and it no longer hurts.
(2) Accuracy. I didn’t notice a difference between this mouse and other mice that are much cheaper, with regard to their accuracy. Maybe I’m not pro enough to evaluate this mouse in this regard. I am only rated 3400 SR in Overwatch (Diamond), I’ve never been to Masters or Grand Masters. Maybe one of them should write a review in regards to its accuracy, because as for me, I don’t notice a difference. All this talk about a 16K accurate sensor, it might be that accurate, but I can’t tell it apart from cheaper mice.
(3) Don’t get tricked! This mouse is reported to have a 1ms response rate, which is on par with wired speeds, but what they don’t tell you is that the reason it has 1ms response rate is because they have a USB extender attached to the wireless receiver, that you must place within 20 cm of your mouse to achieve those speeds (about 8 inches). To be honest, that kind of defeats the purpose of having a wireless mouse. Also, the booklet does not go into detail about whether the front of the mouse must be within 8 inches, or the whole mouse has to be within 8 inches (I provided pictures so you can see what that looks like). Based off the drawing, it seems like only the front of the mouse has to be within 8 inches, which in this case, is actually not that bad if you are already used to playing on medium sized mouse pads. I am one of the few gamers who needs an XL gaming pad due how spread out my arms are when I game. But, if you think you can keep all your mouse movements within 8in of the wireless receiver, then this shouldn’t pose a problem. I just don’t like that they hid this fact in their promotion of the mouse. Seems a little deceptive.
All in all, I decided to keep the mouse because I really hate wired and because I have the cash to burn. But I don’t think a lot of gamers think $150 is burnable money on a mouse, so in that regard, I don’t think the price is justified in the tech specs. As a result, I only give this 4/5 stars.