Apple hasn't made any dramatic changes to that TouchBar (the context-sensitive OLED strip still sits above the keyboard), except there's supposedly a little more room between it and the number row to lessen the chance of accidental taps. The same rings true for the Touch ID fingerprint sensor, which sits separately next to the Touch Bar. The physical Escape key has returned, and the arrow keys have a more traditional layout, updates that make them easier to find without looking at the keyboard. Apple conceded late last year and made improvements to the MacBook Air and MacBook Pro keyboards-and also expanded its keyboard repair program-but the butterfly mechanism was still present, and the keyboard failures continued to happen. Those butterfly keys are completely gone.Īpple may have had noble intentions when it switched to the butterfly mechanism, but the design of the keys made it so that a single speck of dust could disable the mechanism of a key, and the fix was costly. The latest 16-inch MacBook Pro, announced today, has a whole new keyboard. Modern MacBook keyboards are Apple's biggest blunder in recent memory, but the company is finally taking steps to rectify the mistake. It helped make MacBooks thinner and lighter, but it also rendered them a lot less reliable. The culprit is almost always Apple's butterfly keyboard, which was introduced in 2015, changing the design of the keys to have an innovative flapping-wing-like mechanism under them. Other writers on staff have dealt with a litany of other keyboard problems in the last few years. The E key recently broke off WIRED senior writer Lauren Goode's MacBook Pro.

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