Typing is also excellent, making this a great choice for anyone who works or games late at night. It doesn’t have the same immediately snappy response that mechanical keyboards do, but the keys are as quiet as advertised and feel fantastic to use (after a brief adjustment period). In gameplay terms, the SteelSeries Apex 3 feels fine to use. We do wish it had a braided cable, but this is really a minor gripe. On the whole, the aesthetic choices and manufacturing standard hold up well against both more expensive keyboards and the Apex 3’s immediate competitors in the $50 range. There are channels under the keycaps running to small drainage holes on the base of the chassis, allowing a spilled drink to drain out harmlessly. One benefit of these switches is that they make the keyboard waterproof or at least, IP32-rated dust and water resistant. The membrane switches in the Apex 3 are SteelSeries’ own ‘whisper-quiet’ design, and that does ring true much like the Razer Cynosa V2, the keys feel a bit spongy, but make little to no noise. The big design ‘flaw’ here for many potential buyers is the lack of mechanical key switches. That includes three-way cable routing channels along the underside and 10-zone RGB lighting, which looks great and is good to see in a budget gaming keyboard.Īlso returning from other Apex models is the dedicated media wheel, a dinky metallic roller in the top-right corner that can be used for scrolling and clicking. It does retain a lot of features, though. There’s no tiny OLED display for quick customization here as per the SteelSeries Apex 5 (one of our picks for the best gaming keyboard), nor is there a USB passthrough, the latter of which is a shame but unsurprising in a more affordable keyboard. Yes, the SteelSeries Apex 3 lacks some of the fancy add-ons boasted by its more expensive siblings. Switches: SteelSeries Whisper-Quiet Switches
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