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good people hello I'm Dimitri I was just thinking about the other day no how do you make keyboards cooler hello good people on three tree and I was thinking the other day what could be the next cool thing when it comes to keyboards and you know what SteelSeries is out do the bang at Computex releasing eight keyboard my friends you know giving a little flavours here and there for your preference so let's take a look at the new apex pro and apex seven lines right after this huge thanks to fan thick sand steel series for sponsoring our Computex visit so the first one here is the apex pro keyboard we actually just came from their booth I actually get to experience it and also we kind of stole one with the condition that we return it tomorrow but don't worry I'll definitely get some in the studio right after the show so stay tuned for our full review then so the apex Pro it is top of the line and I'm very happy with its feature set the board design looks great with that thin profile without any oversized frames or weirdness going on and actually really awesome illumination we have an aluminum base plate a really nice soft touch magnetic rest rest on both the tkl and full-size variants there's a USB pass-through port on the left side that is illuminated 3-way channel for the cable underneath that is non removable and multifunctional roller and button in the top right that is for your media control volume and navigating that screen now that magnetic wrist rest it feels so smooth and satisfying we do have some concerns about that collecting lint and other particles over time when we try to clean it with a microfiber cloth it left a bunch of particles but in terms of its surface texture and its feeling in your fingers and on your wrist it is really smooth the only thing that I would comment on about the physical characteristics would be the cable it is quite thick it requires dual connections because of that USB pass-through and one power in the keyboard so just keep that in mind now let's talk about that monochrome OLED display and it seems like that's coming back and while I thought it was pretty gimmicky on the rival 700 Mouse with the vibration motor and the slide display on the right side to give you some information I think that it's a mutation on the apex Pro and the apex 7 key is actually well done what you can do with it is lighting navigation profile selection on-the-fly macro recordings you can see your system statistics like hardware usage or temperature of the hardware there are plenty of in-game integrations too with csgo and dota 2 to see your kill to death ratio plus all types of unique graphics based on these titles it's got a notification system built-in for Spotify and this chord so you can see visually things coming in it won't be like a thing that you can read an email on that's kind of pointless because the screen is pretty compact and it's further away from you if the screen was somewhere beside the escape button then it would have been a bit more visible but it being in the corner it's only there when you really need it and you can also use the screen to adjust the actuation point for the new SteelSeries omni point switches which is awesome you don't require the software now i've made the whole video about the omni point switches you can check it out over here but to recap they wanted to create something linear something that is light at 45 grams something that mimics the gaiter on red switches and actually co-developed it would Gator on and this which is now patented and the main selling point is the ability to adjust the actuation distance on when that key is registered from point four millimeters all the way up to three point six millimeters so if you like to bottom out on the keys and have that typewriter feel you can set the actuation point to register at three point six versus if you like to really just fly on those keys without bottoming out or just pressing them it's slightly a slight amount then you can have a much shorter actuation point all the way up to point four if you prefer that but as everybody jokes around in the suite like you can just blow on the keys and they'll register of course that's not the truth but having that really low actuation point is unique but it's also probably not necessary for majority of people and this actuation customization is done on the perky bases which is fantastic so you can customize your writing area for something else and maybe the numbers to be slightly deeper or was the area to be faster but everything else to have deep actuation points we don't accidentally press them while maneuvering your hand within a certain area of your game so that is awesome they are rated at 100 million clicks versus 50 million on them exchange so they should last you for a very long time and they've been testing it for months trying to click it and 100 million is at least as what you can get you can do probably can do more than that now if you don't really care about the whole actuation customization element about the apex Pro that is why apex 7 exists it offers identical features to the apex Pro in terms of the tkl versus full-size magnetic wrist rest the oled display everything is identical but the switches and the switches on the apex 7 are Gator on bread brown and blue fantastic switches and that gives you the option to save a bit of money if you don't want the whole customization element and that's what the OLED screen I'm curious to see how the experience will be like in the long term is this something I will actually use or just occasionally come back to it to set my lighting presets and maybe change up the actuation point and I'm guessing that is going to be the the usage case scenario but the whole idea of it displaying some hardware statistics or something in-game I feel like that's going to be a nice attractive point of why you should maybe consider the apex pro or the apex 7 so stay tuned for my full review and finally here are the prices for all the new keyboards a bit on the premium side due to all the loaded features one thing I'm really happy about is that SteelSeries is launching both the cheeki L and the full-sized versions at the same time and we don't have to be asking for tkl variant of something like it and it's cool because the apex pro and the apex 70 Cal versions also have the display that has the same functionality as the full-size alright so that's all from SteelSeries check out our omni point explained video if you are still confused on how that whole thing works and yeah thanks for watching I'll talk to you guys in the next video