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It's interesting that Apple's keyboard designs all revolve around on-demand parts. The holes can be milled to any arbitrary size or shape. The labels on the key
by astrodust 11y ago
It's interesting that Apple's keyboard designs all revolve around on-demand parts. The holes can be milled to any arbitrary size or shape. The labels on the keys themselves are lasered on as necessary.
Apart from the membrane and the key shapes, this keyboard looks like it's intended to be highly reconfigurable.
This probably makes it easy for a single assembly line to slot in the keyboard for the destination region without too much fuss. Russian keyboard on one unit, Belgian on the next, no big deal.
I can only imagine how complicated that might be for a company like Logitech or Dell where the caps themselves are injection molded with the letters built in.
- TazeTSchnitzel 11y agoIndeed that does seem to be how they do it. Here in the UK, when you order a keyboard or a MacBook from the Apple Online Store, it gives you a bunch of language options, which doesn't affect the delivery time. I think you can only get ones with the same physical shape (no Japanese), but there's a choice of lettering.