We got in our hands the Logitech G403 Prodigy that we have put through its paces in order to find if it is actually a perfect mouse or do the specs deceive us?
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The G403 is a part of the new Prodigy line from Logitech, reportedly engineered to make high-end gaming gear more approachable. They do so in the tested mouse by removing some whistles of their top-of-the line products, but still keeping the internals great and utilizing a classic shape.
Gaming mice are often defined by their exotic shapes, but the Prodigy line takes things back to basics. Logitech employs a classic design for the G403 that feels natural and familiar, with a slightly tapered grip where your thumb and ring finger rest on the mouse, it glides across most surfaces with ease. It takes design cues from the acclaimed Razer Deathadder and looks eerily similar to the EC series from Zowie that almost every CS:GO professional uses.
The Logitech G403 just barely flirts with ‘gaming gear’ conventions by keeping the look minimal and clean with its matte black. It’s understated and stylish without being in-your-face such as the Asus Spatha that we take a look at in our other video – you could use this thing in the office and nobody would bat an eye.
The matte finish feels good in your hand, and doesn’t attract fingerprints. The two thumb-side buttons are positioned well, toward the top of the left side, just out of the way enough to avoid accidental clicks and close enough to your thumb that they’re easy to press without reaching. The two primary buttons, the left and right click, feel sharp and snappy, while the scroll button is responsive with a medium distance to actuation.
When it comes to the weight, the G403 was engineered to be light and we thought it was already quite nice - but then we discovered a 10g weight on the bottom. Therefore if you need your mouse to be light, look no further.
Customizable RGB lighting is now expected on a mouse and in this aspect the G403 delivers - as the LEDs are bright, but muted by a soft touch overlay which helps keep them from being too showy. They shift smoothly between the 16.8 million colors available, or you can program them to any color you’d like via the included Logitech Gaming Software. The RGB LEDs tend to have a blue hue if you change them to any color that strays too far from red, green, or blue, but that’s a problem all LED diodes have, not just the ones included in the mouse.
Inside of the G403 is probably the best regarded mouse sensor on the market - the PWM3366 that supports resolutions between 200 and 12.000 dpi, 40G of acceleration and tracks 300 inches of surface per second. Also it is one of the so-called perfect sensors that has no jittering, mouse acceleration or any other imperfections. How you move the mouse is how it is interpreted, but beware of pointing fingers to the mouse when getting killed, as it surely wasn’t its fault if you use the G403.
A few minutes in and we have still not talked about what makes the tested product actually stand out - it is its wires, or lack thereof. G403 borrows the whole wireless system from its bigger brother, the G900 that we reviewed above, for which it was empirically showed that it either matches or outperforms wired connections, as was our experience while using the mouse for the solid two weeks.
The battery life is also a non-issue. Once per week we plugged it in for a few hours or overnight and it was once again ready for a full week’s use.
To be entirely honest it is hard to fault the G403, as it is a spectacular mouse if you are a right handed user who would like to get rid of the annoying wires, yet not compromise anything on the performance side. If I were to nitpick, I would suggest Logitech add more lighting locations - maybe similar to the Pro Gamer for which you can find the review above, as it is now only present on the scroll and the logo - a bit dull if you ask me.
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