{"video_id":"jEI9kPgX7O4","title":"Why does this keyboard have a MAGNET in every key? - Steelseries Apex Pro First Look","channel":"Linus Tech Tips","show":"Linus Tech Tips","published_at":"2020-05-05T14:53:29Z","duration_s":372,"segments":[{"start_s":0.24,"end_s":5.04,"text":"you know i think it's been about five years since steelseries sponsored a","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":3.76,"end_s":9.12,"text":"video from us about one of their keyboards though in fairness it's been","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":7.2,"end_s":13.679,"text":"about five years since steelseries has really innovated on their keyboards that","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":11.36,"end_s":17.84,"text":"changes today so behind me i've got their apex7 lineup they're actually","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":15.599,"end_s":21.039,"text":"launching eight keyboards today these ones are using switches that 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2019.","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0}],"full_text":"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 apex7 lineup they're actually launching eight keyboards today these ones are using switches that were created in partnership with gadaron 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 going to 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 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 what is this omnipoint mechanical adjustable switches so i've got one of those little key switch samplers here that has a bunch of stuff you're used to there's a 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 pipes with your fist all the way up to just point four 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 .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've 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 gee linus that sounds uh that sounds pretty compelling but uh how does it work is it any good the the demo here is actually really impressive so we've got their 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 see 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 match 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 switch is it well the thing is with a blue or a brown where you've got that actuation at about two millimeters um 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 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 if you disliked this video then you must not like innovative keyboard technology come on guys appreciate it we don't get this very often but if you liked it hit like get subscribed or maybe consider checking out where to buy the stuff we featured at the link below also down there is our merch store which has cool stuff like the shirt that i'm wearing okay not exactly this shirt but similar shirts and our community forum which you should totally join so thanks again for watching and thanks again to steelseries for sponsoring this video here at computex 2019."}