Apex pro
The Apex 7 we were supplied arrived with the QX2 Red switches, something we’d tested before on the Apex M750 back in 2017.
#APEX PRO SOFTWARE#
The built-in effects in the Engine 3 software paired with the bright, vibrant LEDs under the keys works well, and thanks to clever positioning, the letters on the keys appear to glow brighter than any of the competitors, which may be down to the larger font used, but either way, it’s great.
#APEX PRO PRO#
RGB lighting on both keyboards, at least with the naked eye, appears to be identical, so the Omnipoint Mechanical keys don’t appear to change that it certainly wouldn’t be wise to offer different LEDs anyway, with the Apex Pro using a mix of QX2 and Omnipoints. SteelSeries, if you’re sticking with the OLED screens on peripherals idea, making it a bit more accessible would be great. Logitech did a similar thing with their G15 keyboard over a decade ago, and that was angled upwards for that very reason. You need to be hunched over forwards with your chin above the keyboard to see the screen, which definitely isn’t good for posture. We liked the OLED screen, it was fun to play around with and put our logo on, but like we said in the performance testing section, if you sit back in your chair at all, the screen becomes obscured by the keys in front of it, making it almost pointless 95% of the time. Not much more you can ask for from a piece of software, particularly in this day and age of half-baked software releases. The SteelSeries Engine 3 software is one of the best offerings out there, we’ve never had a problem with it during our years of testing it’s intuitive, looks good, isn’t hard on system resources and is 100% stable.
The keyboard also feels heavy, helping it remain in place if you tend to push your wrists into the front of the keyboard or type with heavy fingers.
The Apex 7 and Apex Pro are both well thought out, properly engineered and worthy of the SteelSeries name, but the pricetag, particularly on the Apex 7, does make things a little trickier.įirst off, the build quality is rock solid on the most part, the 5000-series aircraft-grade aluminium frame is incredibly stiff, preventing any kind of twisting or deforming.