SteelSeries Apex 7 TKL Compact Mechanical Gaming Keyboard – OLED Smart Display – USB Passthrough and Media Controls – Linear and Quiet – RGB Backlit (Red Switch)

Really like this keyboard. With brown switches its a very light touch for standard typing but is also good for gaming. Perfect feel for me. It is more clicky than my old MS keyboard for sure but its not obnoxious. I really like that you can set different colors for each and every key. I use this so I can more quickly find where the line of numbers are vs Fkeys and also put different colors on the movement keys (like backspace, delete, return, alt ctrl etc.) and disable keys like shift-lock and INS which I never use but keep the option to put them back in use with the simple switch of the profiles. Which brings me to my one and only issue. The software for managing the keyboard has a few MAJOR BUGS that caused me to lose a lot of work setting up profiles. After setting up a few profiles, I wanted to look at some of the built in profiles which you can do using the illumination menu on the small OLED screen. The problem is, once I did that, it overwrote my profile. This happened multiple times after using the mini screen to load profiles as well. And I made SURE I was doing a LOAD PROFILE and not a SAVE PROFILE. But very odd things happened going back and forth between the OLED screens settings/profile/etc. menues and loading up the SteelSeries Engine software. I would find my old profile names replaced, names copied from one profile to another and just completely wiped out. To avoid this issue I keep a number of backups of my profiles so that if it gets wiped out again, I can seem to use the SteelSeries Engine to load one of my backups and then use the mini OLED screen to Save Profile etc. But its a big pain. I have found that if you just avoid using the OLED screen menus to load up illuminations/presets or use it to change profiles you will probably be ok. But I know there are some pointer issues or memory leaks or bad de-references in the software because sometimes my profile name will get overwritten with a name I never even typed that looks like a join of other names. Also, the name of the extra configs that you create.... those names will be overwritten with the names of the names of the build in profiles etc. So, some major bugs in the software really take away from an otherwise great experience. TIP to SteelSeries: Run your software through a good static analysis tool (i.e. SonarQube) and fix the bugs. UPDATE: Works great for one computer for the second computer in tin used to reset and I have found no solution even though I have exhaustively looked on the Internet for a solution. The only workaround for the reset is to unplug it and plug it back in which is totally annoying. Therefore I drop the rating. It’s unfortunate but it works so well on one computer it’s so poorly on another. FINAL UPDATE: I found that using USB 2.0 connections worked better than USB 3.0 connections. Also using a USB-C switch/KVM will likely cause problems. So if you’re using with a single computer and find the USB connection that works, It’s gonna be a great keyboard. However, you may find the notorious repeating reset bug which makes the keyboard unusable. I had to buy a separate USB 2.0 switch and connect to USB 2.0 connections in order to use this with two computers. Kind of a big pain but I figured it was better than returning a keyboard that I really liked.

First off, this was the first mechanical keyboard that I have ever owned. I am very pleased and happy with this purchase. I chose the brown switches because Ive heard that theyre good for typing and gaming overall. The rgb is consistent and you are able to change it with the steelseries software. The oled display is a cool feature to have. Overall, 10/10

So this is my first SteelSeries keyboard I have ever bought, and I have owned probably 20 different ones. I like it, it is overpriced for what it is. It doesnt use Cherry MX switches it uses SteelSeries own brand of mechanical switches which honestly I didnt care for too much. They didnt feel like browns at all, it barely had a bump. I returned this but it was decent to use. I like Cherry switches too much so ill stick with those.

This keyboard is great. Browns are clicky and satisfying, not exactly quiet at all. Why on Gods green earth did they waste budget into this useless white led screen on the keyboard.

This keyboard is hands down my favorite Ive used so far. Started from a Corsair Strafe to an Apex M750 and now to the Apex 7 TKL w/ cherry switches. I am glad I did. The extra space for the mouse on the mousepad (I use an XXL reflex lab mousepad) is fantastic. The OLED screen, while some find it to be gimmicky, I find is pretty cool. On the fly settings access without going into the engine software is a really nice feature. For the price, I dont think you can find a better TKL keyboard. Highly recommend.

2 Keys stopped working, an one is duping key actions , good keyboard but the second time that this happens to me with steel series keyboard.

amazing product i really enjoy the feeling of the typing altho its little bit easy to click on other keys sens its linear keyboard so if u have chuby fingers mabye its not the best keyboard for you. really cool led screen with alot of options on the system keyborad 910 !

for a few weeks usages, SteelSeries Apex 7 TKL is great (red switch). just want to let the next buyer know that if you buying the Red switch, you probably want to lube the switch because if you crazily press a certain key like me, the switch will starting to have loud spring noise, so lube the switch will help a lot on the pressing experience as well as the sound quality. Secondly, the cable is super thick, I looking forward to seeing the change with it.

A little louder than expected, but the keyboard is very nice. i’ve had it for about a month now and i really like it! it looks very pretty and all the color options are great.

its good