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« on: November 17, 2019, 04:05:21 pm »

Check out iFixit's initial look inside the new 16-inch MacBook Pro keyboard

Let's get a look at that keyboard!

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iFixit has published its initial teardown of the new 16-inch MacBook Pro.
They wanted to take a good look inside Apple's brand new laptop keyboard mechanism.
iFixit seems confident that MacBook's woeful keyboard days are behind it.


iFixit has published its initial teardown of Apple's brand new 16-inch MacBook Pro, giving viewers a look inside the new scissor mechanism keyboard, and the internals of the device.

In its teardown, iFixit reports that Apple's new keyboard is very much an improvement on the Butterfly mechanism of old:


  The new Magic Keyboard in the 16-inch MacBook Pro uses a scissor switch that looks almost identical to the switches in the desktop Magic Keyboard, and MacBooks sold before the butterfly blunder. The switch is two plastic pieces, crossed, with a pivot in the middle to control key movement. It's more robust than butterfly switches, and there's more space to tolerate debris within its movements. ...

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