 You know, I think it's been about five years since SteelSeries sponsored a video from us about one of their keyboards. Though in fairness, it's been about five years since SteelSeries has really innovated on their keyboards. That changes today. So behind me, I've got their Apex 7 lineup. They're actually launching eight keyboards today. These ones are using switches that were created in partnership with Gateron. They've got browns, blues, and reds, and they operate about like you'd expect, and then they've got a couple of pretty nice creature comforts. True to SteelSeries tradition, they've got a really nice magnetic wrist rest. My wife is gonna absolutely love this feature. And they've got, oh, check this out, illumination on the USB passthrough. The coolest thing though is this OLED screen that's up here in the top right corner. You use these two buttons to interact with it. Actually, I don't think this... oh yeah, there we go. You've got a scroll wheel and a button right here, and that allows you to control the five profiles that you can have pre-loaded on the keyboard. Pretty nice RGB lighting, all the stuff you'd expect. But that's not the crazy town thing today. That is reserved for the Apex Pro and the Apex Pro TKL. These are the first keyboards in the world that use what they're calling... what is this? OmniPoint Mechanical Adjustable Switches. So I've got one of those little keyswitch samplers here that has a bunch of stuff you're used to. There's your little blue click and all that good stuff. Now this one with the white stem at the end, this is what they call an OmniPoint. And what it can do is it actually allows you to adjust in software the actuation point of the key. So you can do anything from 3.6 millimeters, which is basically all the way down. Like if you're one of those people who types with your fist, all the way up to just 0.4 millimeters, which in practical terms amounts to basically brushing up against the keycap. So what this results in is real-world improvements in responsiveness. So they are claiming eight times faster response time, five times quicker actuation point, and then I mean you're not stuck with that you can adjust it, and two times the durability. Because honestly there is no actual contact between any part of the switch in order to complete a circuit like you would have with a traditional switch. Instead the way that it works is inside every one of these key switches is a little tiny magnet. So on the PCB of the keyboard, now it's only this part here, those are the ones that are adjustable. But on the PCB of the keyboard under every single one of these key switches is a hall sensor that is taking readings at least once every 0.7 milliseconds for the strength of the magnetic field in the key above it. So that's how the keyboard constantly knows exactly where the key switch is. So what that means is in addition to being able to individually adjust your RGB profiles or whatever the case may be on a key-by-key basis, now you could actually adjust the sensitivity of every key here, so all 63 of these on a key-by-key basis depending on whether you, you know, maybe you like to type by bottoming out, so if you're typing you could set it like that, or maybe when you're playing shooter games or whatever else you want to basically treat your keys as almost touch sensitive. That can all be controlled within the SteelSeries software the way that you typically would. So you got all your profiles, you can automatically switch profiles when you open up a given program or whatever the case may be. Now, you might think, wow, G-Linus, that sounds pretty compelling, but how does it work? Is it any good? The demo here is actually really impressive. So we've got their W key here, and you can see we've got it adjusted to not even as sensitive as it can be. There we go. So you can see I'm actually just adjusting it with the wheel here. All right. Now, you can see here I'm just going to like brush against it, barely touch it. And it's actuating. Crazy, right? Then I go ahead and I change this all the way to the end. And now I try and do the same thing. No typing. Now I got to mash it. Now, this is not the kind of thing that happens overnight. The actual original patent drawings for this thing, you can look them up online on Google, were submitted five years ago. But I think for the gamers out there who want the ultimate in customization, it could end up being well worth the wait. Now, one thing I haven't mentioned yet is what type of switches it? Well, the thing is with a blue or a brown where you've got that actuation at about two millimeters, the idea when they're designing those switches is to have the tactile bump as close to the actuation point as possible. So you get that feedback in your fingers. Well, you obviously couldn't do that with an adjustable actuation point, unless you could also adjust the tactile point, which these guys are crazy enough. It wouldn't surprise me if they're trying to figure that out. But they haven't gotten there yet. So it's a linear switch just like a red. So what I want to hear from you guys, here's about where a red would actuate. Where would you put it? Here, here, here, here? I guess the choice is kind of yours. So these are coming soon. They're going to be available for $179 for the TKL version and $199 US dollars for the full size one. Or if you're in another region, you can find the full pricing and availability at the link in the video description. So thanks for watching, guys. 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