The G19s is in a weird spot right now when you consider its price paired up with the fact that it isn't a mechanical keyboard. At this price point you will normally find higher end mechanical keyboards do to their increased construction costs (those cherry switches aren't cheap).

Everyone needs a keyboard. From a cheap $10 Walmart special to get the job done to units costing hundreds of dollars, they're everywhere and very essential. What should you spend on a keyboard? Well that's entirely up to you. What do you want in a keyboard? Do you need something unique? Do you game?

The addition of a directional pad for navigating through the extensive number of widgets on the LCD screen is not only useful, but when coupled with the back and menu keys, makes the Screen itself more usable.

Gaming and second-screen technology don't always mix. Nintendo's DS experiment proved to be a resounding success, while Xbox owners have yet to make much use of SmartGlass. Logitech has thrown its hat into the second-screen ring with the Logitech G19s ($200), a keyboard that has everything but the...

Gorgeous LCD screen; Wonderful software

Applets not very useful; Weak illumination; Prohibitively high price; Outdated game optimization

When most people start PC gaming, they start off with what they have. That means they start out with what's usually a crappy keyboard that the system they bought came with or whatever crappy keyboard got handed down to them.

[[Introduction & Features]] Logitech sent us two gaming keyboards a few weeks ago; one of them was the G710+ and the other is the one we will look at here – the G19s. The latter is Logitech's highest-end model and costs a whopping RM699.