iFixit teardown found: In fact, the most obvious improvement of the new MacBook Pro is its keyboard

However, although Apple has introduced a long-term introduction to the hardware configuration of the new MacBook Pro on the official website, it also gives a comparison of the performance of new and old devices. But such things as the original True Tone color display screen and the replacement of new processors, these hardware changes are not obvious in our daily use.

In fact, the best place to showcase the benefits of the new MacBook Pro upgrade is the new butterfly keyboard that Apple claims to be a "silent keyboard".

Recently, iFixit, a well-known foreign website, has dismantled the keyboard part of the new MacBook Pro. But before understanding the new butterfly keyboard, let 's see why the old butterfly keyboard was criticized?

From the advent of today to today, it has always been a product that everyone spits

butterfly keyboard appeared on the new MacBook. After getting good word-of-mouth and sales results on the MacBook Air thin-and-light notebook, Apple has decided to "resurrect" the MacBook line of lighter and thinner MacBook Air products at the spring conference 2015 Smallest "New MacBook".

A thinner body naturally means thinner Internal support , for example, the innovative battery stack at the time and the Type-C interface "one hole in the world". The MacBook Air / Pro's scissor-structured keyboard (commonly known as the X-keyboard) is obviously not compliant with the thin, lightweight features of the new MacBook. Finally, the new keyboard has been replaced by a butterfly structure that reduces the size of the MacBook Air / Pro. 39, keyboard thickness of 40%.

The traditional scissor structure adopts a split design, and the two pieces of support are performed through the rotating shaft. Connected, the keycap of the scissors-foot structure has a better resilience than the traditional membrane keyboard.

The butterfly structure adopts an integrated design, and two symmetrical support pieces extend respectively to the left and the right, which has the advantage that even if the two support pieces are pressed on the edge of the button, the pressure effect can be performed together. A new thinner keycap (17% increase in area) has also been added to the new MacBook, reducing keyboard thickness and increasing input accuracy.

So it seems that Apple's update of the butterfly keyboard should be a harmless upgrade, how can he be spit?

The starting point is indeed good, but it's not without drawbacks. After launching the new MacBook, I had a colleague who used MacBook Air to buy a new MacBook for the first time. The first day of getting started, so it is the evaluation of the keyboard of the new machine:

The typing on the keyboard is as short as the typing on the desktop, and it must be done. adapt to a period of time.

For the old users who are used to the scissors foot structure, the first generation butterfly keyboard The short and poor strikes are really powerless. Obviously Apple knows it too, so on the updated MacBook Pro in 2016, Apple offered a second generation butterfly keyboard that improved the comfort and stability of the keyboard.

This update, the rebound of the keycap has Comfort has good strikes, but it's easy to break. In May this year, Apple acknowledged the absence of keyboard design flaws in the 2016 MacBook Pro and the free service of spare parts for products that meet maintenance standards.

So although the butterfly keyboard can bring a thinner size to the MacBook today, due to reliability issues, the user's note of the butterfly keyboard is still mixed.

A piece of silicone pad, dust and noise-proof?

Starting from iFixit's new MacBook Pro keyboard disbadembly scheme, the structure of the new butterfly keyboard is almost the same as the old one, but the new computer has a translucent layer between the keycap and the base. of the butterfly structure. Organic silicone film.

According to iFixit, Apple does it to prevent users from l & # 39; use. When the keyboard is used, dust in the air and dirt on the hand penetrate inside the structure through the key slot, which affects the use of the keyboard. In fact, Apple has already had patents in this area before, in order to prevent foreign material from invading.

iFixit pointed out that this film is mainly used for the prevention of dust, and Apple says "quieter C is" the "side effect" caused by this movie. "TechCrunch shared a comparison of the typing noise between the old and the new MacBook Pro, and concluded that" It is indeed quieter as Apple has said:

In addition to reducing dust and noise, this new addition The diaper film can also bring a more comfortable typing experience to the new keyboard. The publisher of PC Mag's technology website commented:

I've used the MacBook Pro code words 2017 and 2018 this morning, obviously the latter will be better than the old. But this experience It's not perfect, however, it has already brought me an experiment More comfortable long-term strike experience.

Is this movie really so powerful?

For other hardware details of the new MacBook Pro, iFixit said that a complete teardown report will be announced shortly.

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