Kuo says that Apple’s butterfly design was expensive to manufacture due to low yields. Apple fans who have bemoaned the butterfly keyboard should be optimistic about a return to scissor switches. The new scissor switch keyboard is a whole new design than anything previously seen in a MacBook, purportedly featuring glass fiber to reinforce the keys. The MacBook Pro is also getting the new scissor switch keyboard, but not until 2020.
In a report published today, Ming-Chi Kuo says that Apple will roll out a new keyboard design based on scissor switches, offering durability and longer key travel, starting with the 2019 MacBook Air. Apple is apparently set to ditch the butterfly mechanism used in MacBooks since 2015, which has been the root of reliability issues and its low-travel design has also not been popular with many Mac users.
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