The design of the oled and media buttons is quite tasteful, the scroll wheel is made of metal and has a nice diagonal curved pattern that acts as texture. On the top right of the keyboard, you’ll find a marquee feature of the keyboard, an OLED display with a media volume wheel and button. The pass through has a neat white illumination, in case you forget where your pass through port is. You’ll also find 3 cable routing channels for the Apex Pro’s thick usb cable, the cable itself is non-removeable and really thick due to the USB type-A pass through. The feet are single stage so you have the option of feet up or down, generally, I’d advise to use the keyboard with the feet down to reduce the amount of flex your wrist undergoes to type. The net effect of the weak feet is an unstable keyboard when used with pressure. This is actually a problem, when pushed the keyboard does slide up and can push the feet closed. The flip up feet are coated with a slightly grippy rubber material but it’s not as grippy as the standard rubber feet. The underside of the keyboard actually has fewer rubber feet than the wrist rest does.

On the underside, you’ll find that the rest has a a large amount of rubber feet to add stability. The wrist rest is made from a soft touch rubber that I personally don’t like, would much rather see a pleather material, the soft rubber looks to be a finger print magnet and for a clammy hand like mine, is much too grippy for a wrist rest. In most cases the magnet wrist rest will cover up the front lip logo, with the wrist rest sporting its own subtle logo. On the front lip of the keyboard case there’s a small steelseries logo, but you looking at the front you can see how thin the case is overall. The case and backplate in the Apex Pro come in on the thinner side, the keyboard is an average weight with a moderate amount of flex when twisted. For gaming, I’d suggest going with the TKL size to give more room for your mouse to roam.

The Apex Pro comes in full size and TKL options, with a standard bottom row and one colour/material choice, all black. Overall, an attractive looking keyboard with no obvious unique qualities to its design with minimal branding. The Steelseries Apex Pro has a fairly standard design with a low profile aluminum case and per key RGB. Connectivity: USB, 1 USB 3.0 pass through.Media keys: Dedicated play/pause button, mappable function keys.Switch options: Omnipoint switches (Hall Effect).

Apex pro keyboard