



You can set some very pretty light shows and although this is hardly a compelling reason to purchase, it's a nice bonus. This helps drive such features as the dedicated multimedia controls custom on-board profiles the OLED Smart Display 'command centre', showing in-game alerts, gaming profiles, Discord messages, current song information etc and the delightful per-key RGB colourful setting and animations. Ruggedly housed in an aircraft-grade aluminium alloy frame, with a premium 'soft-touch' magnetic wristrest to accompany it included in the box, the Apex Pro's engine is powered by a 32-bit ARM processing chip. Other languages are also in the pipeline. The Apex Pro works with PC, Mac, Xbox One and PS4 and is available in English (as tested), Nordic, French and German, with Taiwanese, Thai, Korean and Japanese due shortly.

The reassuringly solid box in which it arrives instils confidence, along with the rallying cry 'For Glory' emblazoned on it. We've tested it both ways to see how it performs, battering it for hours on a daily basis. We've spent a few lockdown months with the Apex Pro, moving it back and forth between its daytime role as typing workhorse at the WFH desk to its nocturnal position as illuminated centrepiece at the gaming station beanbag of idle joy. Originally released in late 2019, there's still been no contender to beat it. When it comes to the humble-no-more computer keyboard, the pinnacle of the state-of-the-art is the Apex Pro - not unreasonably described by its creators, Steelseries, as "the world's fastest mechanical gaming keyboard". This is especially true in the world of gadgets, where a few tweaks to eke out a little extra juice in order to gain some critical advantage or additional power is a fine art. We now live in an age where precision and performance tuning can be - and frequently is - applied to almost every aspect of our consumer technology lives.
