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It's hard not to suspect Apple is semi-officially throwing in the towel on the butterfly key switch with this repair policy. It's gone through several iteration

It's hard not to suspect Apple is semi-officially throwing in the towel on the butterfly key switch with this repair policy. It's gone through several iterations across several different models and they clearly haven't been able to get it to a point of adequate reliability. So the answer to your question is probably "yes," to the degree that Apple is going to do an actual redesign that they think fixes the keyboard for realsies. (Personally, I would say the answer is "just put the damn Magic Keyboard in the laptops and get over your pretty pretty selves about the extra 0.5mm," but I have an unfortunate suspicion that's way too simple.)

Wowfunhappy 8y ago
Is the magic keyboard substantially thinner than their old laptop keyboards? I would rather they just went back to those. They feel great. Typing on the magic keyboards is only marginally better than typing on the butterfly keyboards on their laptops. We have one in the conference room at work and I hate whenever I have to use it... Edit: To clarify, Apple's newer "magic" Keyboards aren't the same as their older desktop keyboards. They use a butterfly mechanism just like the laptops, and have barely more travel.
- chipotle_coyote 8y ago
  The Magic Keyboard has about half the travel of the old laptop keyboard. The butterfly switches have half the travel of the MK. (IIRC, it's something like 2 mm, 1mm, and 0.5mm travel respectively.) The MK does not use butterfly switches, it uses ultra-low-profile scissor switches. Obviously, this is a YMMV thing. I personally just tolerate the butterfly switches, but prefer the Magic Keyboard to the older Apple laptop switches. This is not a preference on my part for low travel switches, either -- my favorite keyboards are actually mechanical ones. But (to me) the MK is the best scissor switch keyboard I've ever used, save for its dumb arrow key layout.

Wowfunhappy 8y ago

Is the magic keyboard substantially thinner than their old laptop keyboards? I would rather they just went back to those. They feel great. Typing on the magic keyboards is only marginally better than typing on the butterfly keyboards on their laptops. We have one in the conference room at work and I hate whenever I have to use it... Edit: To clarify, Apple's newer "magic" Keyboards aren't the same as their older desktop keyboards. They use a butterfly mechanism just like the laptops, and have barely more travel.

chipotle_coyote 8y ago
The Magic Keyboard has about half the travel of the old laptop keyboard. The butterfly switches have half the travel of the MK. (IIRC, it's something like 2 mm, 1mm, and 0.5mm travel respectively.) The MK does not use butterfly switches, it uses ultra-low-profile scissor switches. Obviously, this is a YMMV thing. I personally just tolerate the butterfly switches, but prefer the Magic Keyboard to the older Apple laptop switches. This is not a preference on my part for low travel switches, either -- my favorite keyboards are actually mechanical ones. But (to me) the MK is the best scissor switch keyboard I've ever used, save for its dumb arrow key layout.