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you know i think it's been about five years since steelseries sponsored a

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video from us about one of their keyboards though in fairness it's been

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about five years since steelseries has really innovated on their keyboards that

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changes today so behind me i've got their apex7 lineup they're actually

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launching eight keyboards today these ones are using switches that were

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created in partnership with gadaron they've got browns blues and reds and

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they operate about like you'd expect and then they've got a couple of pretty nice

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creature comforts true to steelseries tradition they've got a really nice

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magnetic wrist rest my wife is going to absolutely love this feature and they've

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got oh check this out illumination on the usb passthrough the coolest thing

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though is this oled screen that's up here in the top right corner use these

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two buttons to interact with it actually i don't think this oh yeah there we go

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you've got a scroll wheel and a button right here

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and that allows you to control the five profiles that you can have pre-loaded on

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the keyboard pretty nice rgb lighting all the stuff you'd expect but that's

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not the crazy town thing today that is reserved for the apex pro and the apex

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pro tkl these are the first keyboards in the world that use what

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they're calling what what is this omnipoint mechanical adjustable switches

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so i've got one of those little key switch samplers here that has a bunch of

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stuff you're used to there's a little blue click and all that good stuff now

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this one with the white stem at the end this is what they call an omnipoint and

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what it can do is it actually allows you to adjust in software

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the actuation point of the key so you can do anything

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from 3.6 millimeters which is basically all the way down like if you're one of

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those people who pipes with your fist

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all the way up to just point four

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millimeters which in practical terms amounts to basically brushing up against

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the keycap so what this results in is real world improvements in

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responsiveness so they are claiming eight times faster response time

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five times quicker actuation point and then i mean you're not stuck with that

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you can adjust it and two times the durability because

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honestly there is no actual

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contact between any part of the switch

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in order to complete a circuit like you would have with a traditional switch

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instead the way that it works is inside every one of these key switches is a

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little tiny magnet so on the pcb of the keyboard now it's

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only this part here those are the ones that are adjustable but on the pcb of the

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keyboard under every single one of these key switches is a hall sensor that is

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taking readings at least once every .7

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milliseconds for the strength of the magnetic field in the key above it so

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that's how the keyboard constantly knows exactly

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where the key switch is so what that

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means is in addition to being able to individually adjust your rgb profiles or

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whatever the case may be on a key by key basis now

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you could actually adjust the sensitivity of every key here so all 63

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of these on a key by key basis depending

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on whether you you know maybe you like to type by bottoming out so if you're

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typing you could set it like that or maybe when you're playing shooter games

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or whatever else you want to basically treat your keys as almost touch

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sensitive that can all be controlled within the steelseries software the way

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that you typically would so you've got all your profiles you can automatically

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switch profiles when you open up a given program or whatever the case may be now

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you might think wow gee linus that sounds uh that sounds pretty compelling

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but uh how does it work is it any good the the demo here is actually

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really impressive so we've got their their w key here and you can see we've

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got it adjusted to not even as sensitive

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as it can be there we go see you can see i'm actually just adjusting it with the

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wheel here all right now you can see here i'm just going to like

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brush against it barely touch it

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and it's actuating crazy right then i go ahead and i change this all the way to

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the end and now i try and do the same thing

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no typing

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now i got to match it now this is not the kind of thing that happens overnight

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the actual original patent drawings for this thing you can look them up online

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on google were submitted five

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years ago but i think for the gamers out there who want the ultimate in

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customization it could end up being well worth the wait now one thing i haven't

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mentioned yet is what type of switch is it

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well the thing is with a blue or a brown where you've got that actuation at about

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two millimeters um the idea when they're designing those switches is to have the

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tactile bump as close to the actuation point as possible so you get that

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feedback in your fingers well you obviously couldn't do that with an

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adjustable actuation point unless you could also adjust the tactile point

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which these guys are crazy enough it wouldn't surprise me if they're trying

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to figure that out but but they haven't gotten there yet so it's a linear switch

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just like a red so what i want to hear from you guys here's about where a red

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would actuate where would you put it here here here

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here i guess the choice is kind of yours so these are coming soon they're going

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to be available for 179 for the tkl version and 199 us dollars for the

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full-size one or if you're in another region you can find the full pricing and

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availability at the link in the video description so thanks for watching guys

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