Scissor Switch Butterfly Keyboard Vs Magic Keyboard

After five years of applying bandages to the butterfly keyboard apple has switched over its entire laptop line to the scissor switch based magic keyboard in the span of six months.

Scissor switch butterfly keyboard vs magic keyboard.

The magic keyboard is a return to the reliable scissor switch mechanism. Scissor switch keyboards vs mechanical keyboards. At this point it s very clear that both mechanical and scissor switch keyboards have their pros and cons. The new magic keyboard on the 16 inch macbook pro delivers the best typing experience ever on a mac notebook.

The tech giant opted to use a traditional scissor style switch in its new 16 inch macbook pro and is expected to ditch the butterfly. Another way of putting it the scissor switch has an x shape while the butterfly key is closer to a wide v in some ways this is a genius design. The scissor keyboard wobbles from the corners and needs to be press at the center in order to get a keystroke wherein butterfly has pressure at the center due to its design and doesn t matter where you press the input stroke will happen. How a butterfly switch keyboard works.

Although the keyboard was finally fixed the display remained the same. It s a thinner mechanism and in. However don t expect it to last forever. When any key pressed the function below that key has v shape which more like butterfly wings and hence got it names butterfly.

The days of apple s troubled butterfly keyboard are numbered. With no design flaws reported since the launch.