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| [* black] Time for us to do what we do best: jam tools into things and see what comes apart. | |
| [* black] Let's start with some keycaps. Remember the [guide|50995|Magic Keyboard]? It's a well-liked and reliable desktop design that Apple says served as the inspiration for the redesigned keyboard in this new machine. | |
| [* black] ''Inspiration'' might be understating it slightly: side by side, we're hard pressed to spot ''any'' differences. Scissor switches, check. Slide-and-clip keycaps, check. There's slightly less ''space'' surrounding these new keys, and pundits will celebrate those reconfigured arrow keys—but the switches underneath look nigh identical. | |
| [* icon_note] ***News flash***: there's not even a [https://www.ifixit.com/News/apple-macbook-keyboard-cover-up|dust-proofing membrane|new_window=true] covering these new switches. We're inclined to take this as a ''very'' good sign. It means we can finally eat Doritos during teardowns again. | |
| [* black] To round out the comparison, here's the controversial (and notoriously temperamental) "butterfly" switch in the 15" MacBook Pro [guide|123653|released just a few months ago|stepid=239249]. | |
| [* black] But why stop there? Here's the scissor switch in the old-school "unibody" [https://d3nevzfk7ii3be.cloudfront.net/igi/ByGdohI3TXsljKJH.full|2012 MacBook Pro|new_window=true] design... | |
| - | [* black] ...and the hybrid scissor in |
| + | [* black] ...and the hybrid scissor in Apple's last laptop with a "good" keyboard, the [https://d3nevzfk7ii3be.cloudfront.net/igi/6amtLxVRM1bTvn1c.full|2015 MacBook Pro|new_window=true] with Retina display. |