Apex 7 TKL Mechanical Gaming Keyboard – SteelSeries – RGB Backlit
Original price was: $99.99.$79.99Current price is: $79.99.
SteelSeries Apex 7 TKL Compact Mechanical Gaming Keyboard offers an OLED Smart Display, USB passthrough, media controls, and quiet red switches for enhanced gaming. RGB backlit.
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Elevate your gaming setup with the SteelSeries Apex 7, featuring an innovative OLED smart display that serves as your integrated command center. Effortlessly adjust settings and track real-time information from your favorite games, Spotify, Discord, and other applications, all from a crisp 7-inch display. Built from aircraft-grade aluminum alloy, this keyboard promises remarkable durability and stability, ensuring it withstands the rigors of intense gaming sessions and daily use.
Customize your experience with vibrant RGB illumination, offering an unparalleled spectrum of 16.8 million colors per key, allowing you to create a stunning visual environment tailored to your style. The premium magnetic wrist rest provides full palm support, enhancing comfort and promoting an ergonomic feel during those marathon gaming sessions.
Designed for PC platforms, the Apex 7 is compatible with both Windows and Mac OS X, requiring just a standard USB port for operation. Weighing in at 1.7 pounds and with compact dimensions of 5.48 x 13.99 x 1.6 inches, it fits seamlessly into any setup. The classic Red switch offers a linear and quiet typing experience, perfect for both gamers and typists seeking a responsive feel without the noise.
Experience precision, style, and performance like never before with the SteelSeries Apex 7, and turn your gaming environment into a state-of-the-art command center.
| Standing screen display size | 7 Inches |
|---|---|
| Brand | SteelSeries |
| Series | Apex 7 |
| Item model number | 64646 |
| Hardware Platform | PC |
| Operating System | Windows and Mac OS X. USB port required |
| Item Weight | 1.7 pounds |
| Product Dimensions | 5.48 x 13.99 x 1.6 inches |
| Item Dimensions LxWxH | 5.48 x 13.99 x 1.6 inches |
| Color | Red – Linear & Quiet |
| Power Source | Corded Electric |
| Manufacturer | SteelSeries |
| Language | English |
| Country of Origin | China |
| Is Discontinued By Manufacturer | No |
| Date First Available | June 20, 2019 |
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Malgorzata Holeniewska –
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Excelente teclado. Una muy buena alternativa a marcas populacheras y comunes.
PROS
. Excelente construcción. No rechina, no tiene ruiditos raros, ensamble muy bueno.
, Materiales resistentes. El chasis se siente muy bien. Tiene una textura mate que no va a dejar manchitas de grasa.
. Teclas resistentes de PBT que supuestamente es más resistente a que se despinte. (Tuve un hyperx elite RGB y en año se empezaron a despuntar algunas teclas)
. Iluminación suave y muchos efectos.
. Software de maravilla. Muy personalizable.
. Reposa muñeca es muy cómodo. Tiene una textura sensacional. No es acolchado, es duro. Pero se siente suavecito y es magnético. No es un plástico cascarón como el que traen los HYPERX
. Canales para enrutar el cable por abajo en 3 posiciones.
. Bajo perfil y lijero.
Cons.
. Esta marca jamás fabricará teclado en español.
. Precio! Aunque lo vale… Ojalá fuera más competitivo.
. Brillo del RGB. Aunque es muy bonito y tiene un “no sé qué” que se ve más suave parece un poquito menos luminoso.
. Cable apenitas del largo suficiente. Ojalá trajera unos 30cm más de cable.
. Cable sin protección. No está enmallado en tela como otros. (No se necesita pero se ve más lindo)
. No incluye herramienta para sacar las teclas ni teclas WASD en otro color como el HYPERX (no es la gran cosa)
Erick Gerardo –
Zgodnie z opisem.
Ricardo –
رهييب الكيبورد كان عليه عرض ب ٤٥٠ وشريته جوده ممتازه
بس مشكلته انه ينشبك ب سلكين يو اس بي لو واحد كان افضل و ووفر علينا اماكن لاشياء ثانيه
W.V. S. –
Lo uso para PS5 y va super bien, se siente la diferencia con mi anterior teclado, sin duda lo vale 👍🏼
InkSlime. –
A very high quality product from steelseries. High quality and affordable. The keyboard Led back lighting is extremely bright and noticeable. Of course the led lighting can be dimmed. The customization of the keys are endless. The OLED screen is also very nice. Bright and highly customizable. The keys feel very nice, not too loud, very smooth, just all around amazing. The software (Steelseries GG) can be very clunky sometimes. But it is easy to use. Sometimes my custom illumination for my keys do not load up and I have to manually open up the software and select the content myself. Although a bit tedious at times but the keyboard doesn’t just shut off. It defaults to one of their amazing/beautiful presets that it comes with. I highly recommend this product. Especially for people just getting into computers. I love this keyboard to death and would buy it over hundreds of times.
W.V. S. –
Great RGB keyboard. It’s built solidly; touches like the firm rubberized wrist rest which attaches magnetically and the aluminum frame really make it feel very premium. In terms of switches, I chose the Brown switches, and while I’ve never used a keyboard with genuine Cherry MX Browns before, these feel absolutely great; the tactile bump is there while still feeling light and responsive.
One of the main reasons why I chose this keyboard was actually because it uses standard key sizes. Believe it or not, that’s a rarity among gaming keyboards, as companies like Razer and Corsair like to enlarge the space bar and shrink the Windows keys–which is nice, since the Windows key really isn’t that relevant especially in games, but it also prevents you from replacing the included keycaps with cool alternative ones, like what you can see in the picture I’ve attached. Razer and Corsair have been trying to mitigate this by releasing their own keycaps made to fit their keyboards, but that doesn’t change the fact that your options are more limited by choosing one of their boards.
The RGB is excellent; the lights are bright and result in the keyboard being really eye-poppingly vibrant. The software to configure it is good, although it’d be nice if SteelSeries allowed you to organize lighting effects into layers, instead of having to first set a colour for all of the other keys and then handpick the keys you want to be different. Having five on-board profiles is also great to have, since that reduces your need to keep the SteelSeries software running in the background and also makes sure your keyboard still looks on fleek if you unplug it and use it on multiple devices.
SteelSeries has been adding gimmicky features to their peripherals for a while, but I honestly do like the OLED screen at the top-right. It being there effectively gives you a menu you can navigate on your keyboard to adjust brightness, set macros, and change profiles. It also is nice for setting the mood in some of the profiles, or just indicating what game the profile is intended for. The button and roller next to it are clicky and highly responsive (the roller itself can also click down as an input; it took me a few weeks to realize this), and they work well for controlling volume and media playback when not being used to control the keyboard menu. Do note however that because of this screen, the TKL models of the Apex 7 and Pro omit the Print Screen, Scroll Lock, and Pause/Break keys. These are not very important keys by any means, but they may have a use to you–I personally use the Pause key to open the Steam overlay, since it’s seldom ever used for anything at all.
The actual issue with gimmicks I have is with SteelSeries’s software. When a game integrates with an RGB engine, like Overwatch with Razer or Terraria with Corsair, what I want is to have a dynamic lighting profile that changes depending on what happens in the game and automatically highlights your action keys. Razer Chroma does this brilliantly with Overwatch, having the background key colour change depending on what hero you’re playing as, highlighting your movement and action keys, and even having the action keys flash orange while on cooldown. Terraria’s integration with Chroma, iCUE, and Logitech G also highlights your keybinds and changes the background colour depending on the biome you’re in. These features are excellent; they really make the keyboard feel like an extension of the game and also do wonders helping you remember your keybinds if you haven’t played in a while.
What I don’t want is to have my keyboard clumsily try to indicate to me how much health I have in CS:GO by changing the colour of my number row when there already is something called a MONITOR which tells me the exact health I have in numbers, in a much better location. And no, I don’t want to have to look down at a tiny OLED screen to see my health, either. I just want instant, dynamic lighting profiles for games, that remember my keybinds and highlight those keys, and adapt the lighting based on what’s happening on-screen. And all the game integration SteelSeries does is this stupid health and ammo indicator crap that does nothing but waste my RAM, and force me to still spend all my time working on making my own custom lighting profiles for the games I like. And don’t get me wrong, I do enjoy the creativity involved with that, but I know this keyboard could do more than what I’m capable of given the right software, and I really want it to.
But apart from the software… Everything works very well. This is a great RGB mechanical keyboard, and I certainly do recommend it if you can afford it.
Edwards –
Absolutely love this keyboard! I decided to spend a little more, and get this one, after returning a “hot-swappable” mechanical keyboard from a different make. The customization and convenience of this keyboard is where is stands out for me. I love the USB port on the back, and the colors are very vivid. The feel of the Red switches are perfect for me, It is a bit loud at times, but I kind of like that so it doesn’t bother me. the sensitivity is pretty shocking actually. Sometimes I realize that just resting my fingers on the keys is enough to trigger the switches, which some people do not like. If that sounds like you, avoid the red switches. I think I’m going to get a different set of switches just to swap some that I do usually like to rest my fingers on. The build quality and design of any SteelSeries product is Top-Tier. Always highly recommended!
AxisAmazing –
I ended up going with the Apex 7 Brown version of the keyboard. I was coming from a Logitech G510 rubber dome keyboard.
After using it for a while, I’ve noticed a few things:
The keys are a little bit higher, so my hand sits at a slightly different angle than I’ve been used to for almost a decade; so that has been an adjustment. I never used the G510 wrist rest, and I currently don’t have it on the Apex 7. I may need to start though because it does compensate a little bit for the shift in key height.
Despite the description of the keyboard, the “tactile/quiet” doesn’t quite accurately describe the sound. Playing games can be quiet if you’re only using a smaller subset of the keys (WASD type deal) and press them less frequently, but if you are typing fast (or even average speed), the keys are noticeably louder than the rubber dome keys. I’d say so much louder that I cant imagine the clicky keys on the blue is much louder when typing. My wife has complained about the loudness of my typing now that we share an office.
In terms of key feel, I really like it compared to the rubber dome. I wouldn’t say it is similar in feel by any means though. It takes less force to push a key down, but because it feels less “mushy” I feel like my typing is more precise. If you were to go with the clicky blue version, I’d say you’d get more of that “key pressed” feel you get on the rubber dome when you push past the force required to activate a key. On the brown switches, you can push a key slowly down and only feel a minor bump when activating the key.
Having per-key color customization and profiles is a neat feature especially if you’re going for A E S T H E T I C S on your build. Definitely an improvement over the G510 in terms of brightness and color definition.
The inclusion of 6 macro keys is a nice carryover option from the G510, and I definitely didn’t need 18 of those. Haven’t really had an opportunity to use this feature yet, but it is nice that it is there.
One feature I miss is having a clock on the LCD screen. I’d say that as of now, the LCD screen is useless for my purposes with the current app options available. I currently just have a gif on it and the screen serves no functional purpose. The only apps available for the LCD screen from steel series are games I don’t really play, or visualizers I won’t ever use. If you want a clock, or to display song info (from things like spotify), you’re going to have to find someone that has made it and install it manually, or code it yourself.
The volume slider is exactly as it was on the G510 and I’d say its even better since you get a little tactile bump each time you spin it. This is a feature I’m glad is exactly the same.
The single play/pause/skip key under the volume wheel took a little bit of getting used to, but works as intended. The only negative I’d say is that unlike the G510, when you use the button to play/pause/skip and your monitor is asleep (but PC is still playing music in the background) it wakes your monitors up. The G510 buttons did not do this, and it is something I miss from that keyboard.
Final thoughts is that this keyboard has enough features (that I wanted from my G510) to warrant the upgrade. It is a nice keyboard that should hopefully last me the next 10 years. The difference between brown and blue switches is probably just feel and not necessarily noise level (and the reds didn’t interest me at all).
Dan Deer Park, IL –
Updating my review after 8 months of use. Aug 13th, 2021
After getting use to the feel of the keys I have come to realize this is the best keyboard I have ever owned. This is comparing it to my Corsair K95 Platinum XT keyboard, my Razer BlackWidow, and my Logitech 710+.
The ability to adjust the actuation of the key, the actual action of the keys, and the lack of noise when typing cannot be beat. You do not have the traditional mechanical feedback but it is obvious when a key actuates. I have never mistyped due to lack of tactile feedback.
The ability to adjust when each of the primary keys activates it fantastic. When I game I rest my finger a little harder on the A key than the WSD keys. To compensate for this I simply changes the activation setting on the A key. Problem solved.
They keyboard is very responsive. I do not feel like I have to type any differently on this keyboard vs any of my others.
The lack of noise is great for working from home and when on comms for gaming.
The ability to switch between profiles directly that not only controls lighting but the key settings is great. I can work all day and then at the end of the day switch profiles directly from the keyboard is great.
Yes, you may get a keyboard that is broken but if you can handle dealing with the return it is worth the trouble.
The bad.
The frame is aluminum so they must have a piece of ferrous metal inside the frame for the magnetic wrist rest to attach to. On my KB there is no ferrous metal on the left side so only the right side attaches. Frustrating.
I picked the brown switches. They are defiantly quieter but feel like chicklet keys. Almost zero mechanical feedback to let you know the key actuated. This is after using reds for the last few years.
The OLED display is basically useless since it sits flush with the KB. It needs to be raised at least a 1/2″ to really be useful.
The good.
The form factor is compact but still has a number pad.
The KB feels well made. I expect it it to last a long time.
The software is easy to use for the basic functions. Per key lighting, profiles, OLED display.
Overall a nice KB but the too common issue of poor quality control is frustrating. I have to return my KB and there are none in stock from authorized sellers so I am not able to get a replacement. Very frustrating.