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| + | [title] Taking a look into the keyboard |
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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 iMac's [guide|50995|Magic Keyboard]? It's a well-liked, reliable design that Apple calls the "[https://www.cnet.com/news/apples-phil-schiller-on-reinventing-the-new-macbook-pro-keyboard/|core technology|new_window=true]" for the redesigned keyboard in this new machine. | |
| - | [* black] That might be |
| + | [* black] That might be a slight understatement: side by side, we're hard pressed to spot ''any'' differences. Scissor switches, keycaps...There's slightly less ''space'' surrounding these new keys, and pundits will celebrate those reconfigured arrow keys—but everything else looks 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] on 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 a third image showing 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? [https://d3nevzfk7ii3be.cloudfront.net/igi/ByGdohI3TXsljKJH.full|Here's a shot|new_window=true] of the scissor switch in the "unibody" 2012 MacBook Pro design... | |
| [* 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. |