Apple readying all-new all-non-butterfly keyboard for MacBookKuo Ming-Chi reports that Apple has new scissor switch keyboards on the way for the MacBook Air in 2019 and MacBook Pro... in 2020?
Back in May, I talked about the scuttlebutt going around that Apple would be replacing the butterfly keyboards in MacBooks going forward with an everything-old-is-new-again scissor switch design.
Now, supply-chain exfiltrator extraordinaire, Kuo Ming-Chi, has some details. Text via MacRumors:
There have been successful developments in the new scissor keyboard. The new keyboard could improve the typing experience by offering longer key travel and durability by adopting glass fiber to reinforce the keys' structure.
This, allegedly, for a 2019 MacBook Air update.
If you're not up on your keyboard nomenclature, then scissor switches are the fairly standard mechanisms Apple used to use across their laptop lineups. At least prior to 2015 when they introduced their own, invented-at-Apple butterfly switches to the newly redesigned 12-inch MacBook, and...
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Apple readying all-new all-non-butterfly keyboard for MacBook
