The mechanical switches feature magnetic sensors that allow the actuation to be adjusted from 0.4mm to 3.6mm for each individual key. There’s also a rubber flap that hides a key extraction tool. Underneath, the keyboard has feet that give players the choice of two angles of adjustment. The RGB lighting finished off a very stylish device. The frame is also made of aluminium, giving the keyboard a solid feel. Unlike other small keyboards with their nondescript “chicklet” keys, the Apex Pro Mini is a mechanical keyboard. I successfully used the keyboard on both an Xbox Series X, PlayStation 5, and even my Huawei mobile phone. If you’ve got the cable, the keyboard can also be used with devices sporting a USB Type-C socket as well. The Apex Pro Mini’s smaller footprint made it easy to have at hand as I commenced the tiresome task of duplicating two PCs with limited desk space.Ī removable USB Type-A to USB Type-C cable provides the keyboard’s connectivity to devices with a USB Type-A socket. The absence of the number keypad may be a problem for those that rely on that part of the keyboard, but for most of us, it’s not a problem. The smaller keyboard has all the functionality of its larger brethren, you just need to remember some extra button presses. integrated into the main keyboard as toggled functions. To reduce the width, everything east of the enter key had been removed, with the likes of the print screen, home and page down, etc. Similarly, the tilde key is shared with the escape key. These are all shifted down a row, and accessed using a special key with the SteelSeries logo. It does away with the top line of dedicated function keys. The Apex Pro Mini is about is about two-thirds of the size of a regular keyboard. The process required the two PC to be operational at once, with two sets of mice and keyboards available. Not a task that I was looking forward to, especially from a continuity of business point of view. I was in the midst of swapping out the Intel i9 10900K-powered review rig for the Intel i9 12900K equipped PC that I’d been using as a test rig for the last few months. The SteelSeries Apex Pro Mini turned up with perfect timing. SteelSeries has taken the design of its range of Apex keyboards to create a smaller version, the Apex Pro Mini.

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