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Only for Apple silicon Macs. Shame.
by carl_dr 5y ago
Only for Apple silicon Macs. Shame.
- smoldesu 5y agoOf course, it's not like older Macs had access to some kind of security coprocessor to secure this... oh wait
- carl_dr 5y agoYeah, indeed. My 2019 MacBook Pro has a touchbar, but 90% of the time, I use it in clamshell mode with two external monitors. I can use my Apple Watch to authenticate things like passwords in Safari, but I would MUCH prefer to not have to lift my hands off the keyboard. A lot of the time I just type my password. A million times a day. This would be a quality of life improvement.
- philistine 5y agoJury’s still out but I’m not convinced this is a software limitation. It is possible that Apple’s previous implementation of a Secure Enclave couldn’t electrically work with any external handshake.
- smoldesu 5y agoApple should have designed the keyboard with older devices in mind, then. It's a little bit frustrating from a developer standpoint, knowing that the entire purpose of the T2 chip is to facilitate this exact type of "next generation" hardware, yet it's being laid to waste since the engineers didn't want to factor in back-compat.
- threatofrain 5y agoDoes this not include the new M1 Mac Mini's?
- carl_dr 5y agoYeah, it does, M1 is Apple silicon.
- rsync 5y ago"Only for Apple silicon Macs. Shame." You mean the touchID integration, right ? That is, this keyboard would still pair and function with any old bluetooth host, right ? Right ?
- carl_dr 5y agoMaybe? But you would save yourself $50 and get the non-TouchID one surely?
- floatingatoll 5y agoIs the keyboard materially improved over the previous model in various ways? I’ve burned through several of the previous model and I’m wondering if they brought back key switch changes from the laptops.
- floatingatoll 5y agoRight.