Just let that sink in for a second, less than half a millimeter to press before the keys register. I’m a huge fan of Gateron Red switches, they are currently my favorite and the Omnipoints remind me of those with their incredibly smooth travel distance throughout the entire range, which is exactly what you need when you can customize the actuation points from 0.4mm to 3.6mm. I will say that the Omnipoint switches really saved the APEX PRO and the PRO TKL keyboards because they really are fantastic at what they do and how they feel. That is of course my opinion based on my recent experience. But do you ever really look at the keyboard for any information outside of maybe readjusting your hand or seeing where certain characters? Basically the display on the keyboard is more of a gimmick than it is actually useful in real life. Of course, you can do cool things with animated GIFs and actually draw your own little graphic to display. From my perspective, given the supported games list is so little, unless you play one of the supported games this is really not a value add. But the screen is kind of out-of-sight, when I’m playing a game I’m never looking down to see what my kill-to-death ratio is and what round it is. It works in games like CS:GO or DOTA 2 or Minecraft and you can see your kill-to-death ratio, you can see which round you’re on, you can customize when those appear and for how long they stay on screen. The reason why I say the screen is pointless for in-game integrations and applications is because it is so limited.
I love the low profile and really smooth wrist rest, and the fact that it attaches magnetically is wonderfully executed. I love the low profile nature of the actual frame, there is no excessive pieces sticking out above the F keys, nothing on the sides, nothing below the space bar. Now before we get into the meat of the Omnipoint switch, let’s talk about the keyboard itself. Overall I’m pretty happy with the execution of the Omnipoint switches, but it is an expensive keyboard for $199 or $179 for the TKL version. But this isn’t something that Steelseries invented, so I wanted to clarify that here. So the Omnipoint direction with magnets a kind of better in a way because we have a much larger range of actuation customization.
So there’s a laser and it detects how much distance is passed between the stem and the bottom. It is important to know that measuring this magnetic flux – known as the Hall effect – is nothing new, this is not something that Steelseries has patented and in fact we’ve seen this sort of a actuation customization that on the Wooting One and Wooting Two keyboards a via the Flaretech optical switches.
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