There are a whole load of secondary actions on the board by default, the function keys, home, end, page up, page down, even media keys like play pause and volume. No function keys – not even arrow keys are left! You do still technically have that functionality, but it’s hidden behind the Steelseries branded FN button and WASD. The other more subtle benefit is since there isn’t a physical mechanism to wear out or need to debounce, these switches should last considerably longer than standard mechanical switches, and should even have a faster response time too.Īs for the APEX PRO MINI WIRELESS itself, it’s a 60% board which means it’s pretty much just the core alpha-numeric keys. On this APEX PRO MINI you can map up to eight dual action keys. Normally to sprint you’d have to hold both “Shift” and “W”, but with this you can map “SHIFT + W” to the bottom of the “W” key so when you just lightly press it you walk normally, but if you bottom it out you’ll start sprinting. The best example I can give is with the “W” key to go forward in games. The other main feature is the ability to map multiple actions to the same key – but at different points of the travel. Well, with the APEX PRO line that’s something you can control – hell you can even control it with hotkeys on the keyboard let alone in their software! You can change between 0.2mm and 3.8mm actuation distance. To make your moves snappier and more responsive. But, for gaming, you might prefer a higher actuation point – to make it feel like a hair trigger. For typing you might prefer to smash your keys like I do, so setting the actuation point relatively deep means you won’t have any accidental keypresses as you have to push each key most of the way down to get them to trigger. The most universally useful option this gives you is the actuation point control. That lets them do some pretty cool and unique features that very few other boards can offer.
Unlike the Wooting keyboards that used Flaretech optical switches with mirror elements, these Omni-point switches use magnets and hall effect sensors to know how far you’ve pressed any of the keys. I first reviewed these almost exactly three years ago and liked them a lot, and I’m happy to say they’ve gotten even better since then. Steelseries has one key unique selling point when it comes to their keyboards – these Omni-point switches.
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