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By thickening the MacBook Pro, the company was able to add that scissor keyboard, a bigger battery, and improve the heat management system. The 16-inch Pro will replace the short-lived 15-inch model.Īpple has already applied the bigger-is-better philosophy to its latest iPhones, which have been made thicker to accommodate beefier batteries. It's an especially odd time for the change, considering that Apple refreshed its 13- and 15-inch MacBook Pro line earlier this year, and the MacBook Air late last year-all with the butterfly keys.
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There's a standard Mac trade-in program you can use to lower the cost of the new 16-inch Pro, but that's about it. So unless you can pay the $2,399 starting price to buy a big new MacBook, you won't benefit from these improvements. The new keyboard with the updated layout is only available on the new 16-inch model. 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.
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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.