Logitech’s affordable new low-profile keyboard also fits Cherry MX-style keycaps

Logitech has announced a caller low-profile gaming keyboard, the G515 Lightspeed TKL Wireless, featuring upgraded low-profile switches that are present compatible with Cherry MX-style keycaps, improving the keyboard’s customizability.

The G515 is simply a invited upgrade to Logitech’s G915 Lightspeed Wireless keyboard, which debuted successful 2019. The caller G515 features a TKL (tenkeyless) plan that’s akin to the smaller Logitech G915 TKL update from 2020; this 1 wholly eliminates not lone the G915’s fig pad but besides the wide measurement instrumentality that sat supra it.

Saying goodbye to that carnal measurement instrumentality leaves the G515 keyboard, which should beryllium disposable today, with a $139 terms tag that’s importantly cheaper than some the $249.99 G915 and the smaller $229.99 G915 TKL. That’s not quite arsenic inexpensive arsenic the $104 Keychron K1 Max QMK wireless low-profile keyboard, which offers a batch of akin functionality, but for those looking for an adjacent much affordable constituent of entry, a wired-only mentation of the caller G515 is besides en way and expected to merchantability for $99 erstwhile it’s disposable aboriginal this year.

The caller G515 continues to usage the company’s low-profile GL mechanical switches that, erstwhile they debuted connected the G915 astir 5 years ago, were found to beryllium tweaked versions of Kailh’s Choc V1 low-profile switches, which made them hard to customize and swap successful alternate keycaps.

For the G515, Logitech is introducing an updated plan for its GL mechanical switches featuring a “polyoxymethylene (POM), transverse benignant stem,” making the keyboard compatible with low-profile Cherry MX-style keycaps. We’ve reached retired to Logitech to corroborate whether oregon not the caller G515 is utilizing Kailh’s Choc V2 low-profile switches, which diagnostic the aforesaid 1.3mm actuation distance that Logitech’s updated GL switches boast, oregon if they’re a customized proprietary mentation instead.

Unlike the G915 Lightspeed Wireless keyboard that offered users the prime of 3 power types — linear, tactile, and clicky —the caller G515 lone offers quieter tactile and linear options with 45g and 43g of actuation force, respectively. It’s besides disposable successful either a achromatic oregon achromatic decorativeness with matching double-shot PBT keycaps that each diagnostic idiosyncratic RGB lighting supporting 16.8 cardinal colors, customizable done the Logitech G HUB app.

The G515 supports 3 antithetic ways to link to a machine oregon different devices: Bluetooth, USB-C, oregon the company’s proprietary 2.4GHz Lightspeed technology. Opting for the second offers a more reliable transportation with improved wireless performance. And portion it does necessitate the usage of an included USB dongle, conscionable 1 is needed to link 2 Logitech Lightspeed devices, perchance freeing up a USB port.

When utilizing the keyboard wirelessly with the Lightspeed dongle, artillery beingness is rated astatine up to 625 hours with RGB lighting turned off. That drops to up to 120 hours with the RGB lighting acceptable to 50 percent brightness oregon up to conscionable 36 hours with the brightness astatine 100 percent — a important deed for those wanting a agleam airy amusement beneath their fingers.