And sure, Hero’s partially to thank, but I can’t stress enough how far both batteries and power management have come in the last few years. To whit, the G502 Lightspeed will reputedly last up to 48 hours with the RGB lighting zones on, or up to 60 hours with them disabled. Those numbers are largely meaningless though, with most players staying in the 400 to 3,500 DPI range, and Hero’s primarily noteworthy for being a high-performance sensor that’s less a burden on battery. The Hero sensor is essentially a power-efficient version of the PMW3366 that first catapulted the Logitech G502 to fame, slightly upgraded to reach 16,000 DPI instead of 12,000. The core of the G502 Lightspeed is the same flagship Hero sensor used on all Logitech’s mice these days, including last year’s G502 Hero model. There’s now a large U-shaped pad following the rear contour, which makes a subtle but significant difference. ![]() I’ve also found the G502 Lightspeed glides better, probably due to the way the feet have been redesigned around the Powercore module. If anything, you might be tempted to load it up a bit to match the old model. If you had no problem with the G502 before (and I didn’t), then the Logitech G502 Lightspeed should be no issue. The big worry though was that a wireless G502 would add to the wired model’s already prodigious weight. It’s still on the heavier end, for sure, weighing more than both the G703 (106 grams) and the G903 (108 grams) as well as Razer’s recent Mamba Wireless redesign (106 grams). Think about it: The G502 Lightspeed looks and feels like its predecessor, but includes both a battery and the necessary wireless hardware-and yet it weighs less than the G502s of old. Seven grams might not seem like a lot, but it’s a minor miracle. But the G502 Lightspeed somehow cuts the weight to 114 grams. The G502 Hero weighed in at a whopping 121 grams, and topped out at 139 grams-well above the 100 gram benchmark held as the industry ideal. ![]() That said, the Logitech G502 Lightspeed is actually the lightest G502 to-date, addressing a common complaint kicked around since the mouse’s first iteration. Suffice it to say, if you’re determined to weigh down the G502 Lightspeed, you can. You can slot in up to four 2.0 gram weights though-all of them, or two balanced out, or arrayed so the weight distributions thrown to one side or the other like the previous models. Like the older G502s, there’s a removable plastic panel you can peel off-though the one on the G502 Lightspeed is smaller and arrayed more towards the front of the mouse. Thus the Logitech G502 Lightspeed features a second system for weight customization. There’s an obvious caveat though: Powerplay users can’t take advantage, because these weights fill the same space as the Powercore module. There’s no easily-lost second disc, and it’s a more granular system. Where the G703 and G903 shipped with two discs, one empty and one filled with a single 10 gram weight, the G502 Lightspeed allows you to remove the included circle of plastic and insert up to two 4.0 gram weights straight into it, adding up to 8.0 grams of weight to the rear of the mouse. The design’s been slightly refined this time though. IDG / Hayden DingmanĪnd like the G703/G903, this circular disc allows for some weight customization. Like the G703 and G903, this means every G502 Lightspeed ships with a placeholder, a circular plastic disc that slots into the bottom and is held magnetically. ![]() ![]() The Logitech G502 Lightspeed is Powerplay compatible though (more on that later), meaning the underside needed to be redesigned around the circular Powercore charging module. Since its initial release, the G502’s underside has featured a large removable panel that allowed the user to insert up to five 3.6 gram weights, either to make the mouse heavier overall or to skew the weight distribution to one side. Most of the noteworthy changes have been made to the bottom of the Logitech G502 Lightspeed though. The more fastidious among you might notice the G502 Lightspeed trades out solid metal for the spoked wheel already in use on the Logitech G903, cutting down on weight without reducing actual performance-though I admittedly find the soft-touch rubber coating less distinctive than the raw metal of the G502 Hero. The G502’s traditionally used a solid metal scroll wheel, a fairly heavy piece of hardware. There have been slight changes, of course.
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