Ultimately the Apex 9 TKL is a mixed bag. I think I'd probably prefer it to not be illuminated at all if that's going to be the case, as the rest of the board lights up in whatever colour and pattern I prefer.
It's just a play/pause button that's oddly illuminated with a white LED and is not programmable to any other colours in the app.
Similarly, I had initially thought the independently lit button beneath the volume wheel to be some kind of multifunction button programmable in the GG app, but it's not. It's very thin versus a lot of others on the market, and there does appear to be more space around it to expand out further. On the flipside, I'm not hugely impressed with the volume wheel on this board. Wooting doesn't use optical switches anymore, preferring instead to use Hall Effect switches with a similar feature set, but that experience with a board that really took advantage of optical inputs has always left me wanting more out of the bigger brands' more recent optical keyboards.īest gaming mouse (opens in new tab): the top rodents for gamingīest gaming keyboard (opens in new tab): your PC's best friend.īest gaming headset (opens in new tab): don't ignore in-game audio Actuation points, special keystroke shortcuts, and analogue input are all on the cards while also netting the other benefits of optical switches that the Apex 9 TKL maintains. That was my first real taste of what sort of expanded functionality an optical switch could offer, and it did it all very well. Whereas regular hot-swappable mechanical switches can be swapped for all kinds of flavour and feel.Īdmittedly, I still find many major firms using optical switches to not quite offer the flexibility that the original Wooting One (opens in new tab) did. You have to replace any removed switches with some to match, and that means more OptiPoint switches. The OptiPoint switches also offer the benefit of being removeable in the Apex 9 TKL, though the optical-ness of them does limit that hot-swappable functionality somewhat. I mostly just leave the keyboard on Gaming Mode and live with my typing mistakes. Ultimately, it's one of those features I tend to not mess around with too much.
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