![]() Update April 22nd, 7:54AM ET: Updated to note that the Touch ID sensor on the new Magic Keyboard doesn’t work with the M1-equipped iPad Pro. Apple has updated a support page for its iPad Pro Magic Keyboard to clarify that last years attachable keyboard model does fit the just announced 12.9-inch iPad Pro. For example, it started selling the gray keyboard, mouse, and trackpad for anyone to buy in 2018, after previously limiting them to the iMac Pro in 2017. As Apple’s press release explains, the new keyboard requires the Secure Enclave in the M1 processor to encrypt the transmitted fingerprint information end-to-end.Īlthough the Touch ID keyboard is currently only available with the new all-in-one, MacRumors notes that Apple has previously opened up exclusive accessories for general sale. The keyboard itself will reportedly function, just not the biometric security. The bad news for owners of older Macs is that the Touch ID functionality in the new keyboard won’t work with any Intel-based machines. It was 40 percent thinner, in fact, a haircut achieved by swapping in a mechanism that depressed straight down the middle, the plastic supports flapping like wings with every keystroke.You can only buy them with the M1 Mac (for now?) but you can use them (with Touch ID!) on other M1 Macs, or just as BT keyboards (no Touch ID) on Intel Macs/other devices. Scissor-switches became standard largely because they’re quieter and have a lower profile than their clickety-clack mechanical keyboard cousins.īut five years ago, in the space-saving ethos that seemed to inform every product of the late-Ive era, Apple asked, What if the keys were even lower? The butterfly keyboard was its answer. In that system, two criss-crossing pieces of plastic sit under every key and above a membrane when you press down, they collapse like a beach chair and register your stroke. ![]() Most consumer keys use a traditional “scissor-switch” mechanism. The butterfly keyboard was a marquee feature of Apple’s innovative, expensive 2015 MacBook, and a gamble from the start. But the announcement's ultimate significance lies less in what the new laptop adds than what it subtracts: Apple has finally abandoned its uncomfortable, vexing, eminently breakable butterfly keyboard. ![]() Apple has updated its 13-inch MacBook Pro workhorse with all the iterative tweaks and polishes you would expect from a surprise Monday morning laptop reveal. ![]()
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