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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 |
| + | [* black] Let's start with some keycap recap. 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 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. |
| + | [* black] ...and the 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. |
| + | [* black] ''Arthur- I removed "hybrid" as I found out that the Cmd key has the metal bars only because it's oversized. Normal sized keys of this gen do not have the metal bars. Not sure how to re-word this.'' |