The SteelSeries Apex Pro has always been the talk of the Hall effect town, offering adjustable switches in a super high-quality chassis with fantastic typing feel. The new Gen 3 model takes that luxurious foundation and adds new actuation features and a boosted dampening design. Throw in a new software mode designed to offer easily accessible presets for a range of games and new generation optical switches and it’s easy to see SteelSeries is working hard to differentiate its latest model.
There’s no getting around it, though, these decks are pricey. At $219.99 / £209.99, it’s up there with flagships from Razer and more. It’s got some serious competition in the Razer Huntsman V3 Pro, a full-sized keyboard that doesn’t use full Hall effect switches but still packs customizable and dual-step actuation while also throwing in an analog mode for extra joystick-like inputs.
