Author: Chaim Gartenberg
Photo: iFixit
iFixit hasn’t been able to do its traditional teardown of Apple’s new Magic Keyboard yet (citing “social distancing and teardown schedules”), but the company has done the next best thing for anyone looking to see what makes the new $350 keyboard accessory tick: provided X-rays of the insides of the Magic Keyboard, produced by Creative Electron.
As one might expect from a $350 keyboard, there’s a lot going on inside the Magic Keyboard. For example, the X-ray confirms that, like all of Apple’s newly refreshed MacBooks, the Magic Keyboard uses proper scissor switches instead of the awful butterfly keys that plagued the past few years of Apple laptops as well as the previous Smart Keyboard for iPads.
There’s also a new trackpad design,...
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iFixit hasn’t been able to do its traditional teardown of Apple’s new Magic Keyboard yet (citing “social distancing and teardown schedules”), but the company has done the next best thing for anyone looking to see what makes the new $350 keyboard accessory tick: provided X-rays of the insides of the Magic Keyboard, produced by Creative Electron.
As one might expect from a $350 keyboard, there’s a lot going on inside the Magic Keyboard. For example, the X-ray confirms that, like all of Apple’s newly refreshed MacBooks, the Magic Keyboard uses proper scissor switches instead of the awful butterfly keys that plagued the past few years of Apple laptops as well as the previous Smart Keyboard for iPads.
There’s also a new trackpad design,...
Continue reading…
Continue reading...