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Smart Keyboard Teardown

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  • We peel up the top layer of mysterious fabric (we think it's nylon—our teardown engineer notes that it feels like a windbreaker) to find blank keys.

  • Perhaps Jony Ive was worried about your keyboard getting get too cold?

  • Moving past the fabric, we begin prying out the individual keys and get our first glance at the dome switches underneath.

  • As Apple stated during their keynote, these switches are the same as those found in the 2015 Retina MacBook.

  • One design choice we like is the placement of a stiffening weight in the spacebar.

  • The addition of this bar means the spacebar key can register a push no matter where you tap on it. No wobbly spacebar woes here.

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