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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,
by 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.