(I’m sure I’ll adjust.) The function keys, formerly half height, are now full height. The major key differences are the left and right arrow keys, which are now full-sized-I used the empty space around the arrows to orient on the keyboard, so occasionally I find myself completely at sea when typing and my text editor will get xinikerejt xibdyaws. The key caps are slightly larger, but the overall layout of the keyboard is pretty much the same as on all Apple keyboards since the last major Apple keyboard redesign back in 2007.
This is a second new keyboard design from Apple in a year, and this one’s a lot more mainstream: It eschews the butterfly mechanism on the MacBook keyboard for a more traditional scissor mechanism, albeit one that Apple says has been tweaked to provide one of the features of the MacBook keyboard: improved key stability. If nothing else, the new $99 Magic Keyboard 1 seems to suggest that the keyboard dystopia I fear won’t come to be.
The fear I had was that Apple would decide that the work it had done on the MacBook keyboard shouldn’t be limited to that product, and the result would be that a design fit for a tiny laptop would spread across every Mac. I’m on the record as not being a fan of the new MacBook’s keyboard, but as a compromise in order to get that laptop to be as thin and light as possible, it at least makes sense.
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