SteelSeries Apex Pro TKL Gen 3 Wireless Mechanical Gaming Keyboard, OmniPoint 3.0 Adjustable HyperMagnetic Switches, Double Shot PBT Keycaps, US English Layout, Wireless Connectivity, Black
SteelSeries
- WORLD'S FASTEST KEYBOARD — Push the boundaries with cutting-edge OmniPoint 3.0 Adjustable HyperMagnetic switches and new features
- OMNIPOINT 3.0 — More than just fast, our newly redesigned Hall Effect Switch have 20x faster actuation and 11x quicker response time, with 40 levels of adjustable actuation
- GG QUICKSET — Game-ready presets for your favorite settings; recommended actuation levels, Rapid Trigger, Protection Mode, Rapid Tap and more with just a few clicks
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Details
- Shipping Weight
- 1.95 Kg
- Shipping Dimensions
- 7.00 cm x 40.50 cm x 20.00 cm
- Key Switches
- OmniPoint 3.0 Adjustable HyperMagnetic Switches (Analog Hall Effect Magnetic Sensor)
- Switch Rating
- Up to 100 million keystrokes
- On-Board Memory
- 5 Custom Profiles
- Processor
- 32 bit ARM
- Adjustable Actuation Points
- 0.1 mm - 4.0 mm
- Response Time
- 0.7 ms
- Connection
- Wired / 2.4 GHz / Bluetooth
- Battery Life
- 37.5 hours (Wireless) / 45 hours (Bluetooth) (default lighting)
- Width
- 355 mm / 14.0 in
- Depth
- 129 mm / 5.0 in
- Height
- 42 mm / 1.7 in
- Weight
- 1038 g / 2.3 lbs
- Height Adjustment
- Rubber Tri Level Feet
- Lighting
- Per Key RGB Illumination
- OS
- Windows, Xbox, PlayStation, and Mac OS X* (USB port required)
- Software
- SteelSeries Engine for Windows (8.1 or newer) and Mac OS X* (10.13 or newer)
- Note
- Not all software features supported on Mac OS
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Theo E. Used for: 6–12 months
Pros
Legends have not faded a bit
Comment
The caps are doubleshot and it shows: nine months of use and the letters are as crisp as they were, though the case has picked up a scratch or two
Daisy W. Used for: 6–12 months
Comment
Good keyboard, dragged down by the thing wrapped round it. The hardware deserves nothing but praise: silent stabilisers, adjustable switches, a case that does not flex when you press the middle of it, and legends that have survived a lot of use. SteelSeries GG is the problem. It is not a driver, it is a platform, and it arrives with a game recorder and an audio mixer nobody asked for. It also has an unfortunate habit of announcing an update the moment a match starts. Set the board up, write it to the onboard memory, then remove the lot.
Henry E. Used for: 6–12 months
Pros
No stabiliser rattle at all, even on the shift keys
Cons
The wrist rest fabric is already looking grubby
Comment
Stabilisers are the thing I check first on any board and these are genuinely silent. Left shift, right shift, enter, space, all of them land with the same note as a letter key, which is rarer than it ought to be at any price. The wrist rest is the weak point. It is a soft fabric over foam, it is magnetic and it lines up well, but seven months of use has left it visibly darker where my wrists sit and there is no obvious way to clean it without soaking the foam.
Oscar M. Used for: Less than a month
Pros
Onboard profiles mean it works on any machine
Comment
Took it to a LAN, plugged into a strange PC, and every setting was already there!
Sophie M. Used for: 6–12 months
Pros
The rapid tap feature is the reason to pick this over a normal mechanical
Comment
Whether you need this board comes down to one question: do you play anything where you change direction quickly? If not, a decent mechanical at half the money will serve you just as well. If you do, the release detection is transformative. A key counts as up the instant it starts to rise instead of when it clears a fixed point, and the practical effect is that strafing stops feeling like wading. I noticed it in the first hour and I still notice it now!
Poppy H. Used for: More than a year
Pros
Still dead accurate
Cons
I do miss having a numpad for spreadsheets
Comment
Not one dropped keystroke in all that time, though I do still reach for a numpad
Thomas B. Used for: 3–6 months
Pros
The actuation range genuinely spans two different keyboards
Comment
Set at its shallowest this thing triggers if you breathe on it, which is superb in a shooter and unusable for typing. Set deep it behaves like an ordinary mechanical. Having both on a hotkey is the trick. Marked down one because the OLED is squeezed into the corner where the numpad row used to sit and is far too small to read anything but a two-word notification from a normal sitting distance.
Louie R. Used for: 1–3 months
Pros
Actuation adjustment saved to the board, not the cloud
Cons
The software wants to install a whole suite
Comment
Came from a board with Cherry reds and the adjustable switches took a couple of evenings to settle on. Once the numbers were right I wrote them to the onboard slots and uninstalled the software entirely, and the board has carried on exactly as configured ever since. That is how it should work!
Oliver E. Used for: Less than a month
Pros
Compact enough to leave room for a big mouse mat
Cons
You will be relearning the numpad-free life
Comment
The desk suddenly has room for a proper mouse sweep, which was the whole reason for going TKL
Freya A. Used for: 6–12 months
Comment
Went tenkeyless deliberately to bring the mouse closer to centre, and my shoulder is the better for it. The adjustable actuation was a bonus I did not care about when ordering and now use constantly, with a shallow profile for games and a deeper one for writing.
