![]() ![]() What looks like multiple buttons in the X-ray is actually just one button and a simple, elegant lever system. Update #2, from Taylor Dixon, teardown engineer: Believe it or not, the trackpad was easy to disassemble! A little bit of heat and an opening pick got us past the adhesive holding it down, and now we can answer the question on everyone’s mind: how does this thing work? There’s more going on inside this keyboard accessory than there is in many laptops. That’s an improvement over the older unibody MacBook Pros, where it felt thinner clicking near the top of the trackpad. It’s different from MacBook trackpads, which have no buttons and use haptic feedback to simulate “clicking.” Are these multiple physical buttons, catching your finger-pressing intent wherever you place it?ĭaring Fireball’s John Gruber and The Verge’s Dieter Bohn wondered aloud on a podcast discussion of the Magic Keyboard how this trackpad manages to click evenly wherever you press. Our best-selling toolkit includes our 64-bit kit and most popular opening tools. Update: As one of our commenters rightly pointed out, these are, of course, weights-providing a counterbalance to stop the whole thing from tipping over when an iPad Pro is mounted at the other end. We’ll need to dig in with our opening tools to know more. That guess is bolstered by how much is going on beneath the trackpad surface between the two plates. Our first guess is that these big opaque fellas, with two eyes you can’t unsee once you notice them, reinforce the keyboard body and prevent against bending. Just below the keyboard, where your palms typically rest, we see some … large metal plates. This is the least complicated thing we can see on the Magic Keyboard, and it’s probably the biggest improvement. What makes this the Magic Keyboard instead of a Smart Keyboard? Scissor switches, which proved much smarter than butterfly switches over (too) many years. But rarely have we had so much to think about from a single image. We X-rayed the last generation of Smart Keyboard, which showed some of the design cues you see here. We’ve physically torn down the Smart Keyboard before, to, shall we say, messy and inconclusive results. There is so much going on here, you might never guess that this is technically an accessory to the actual iPad Pro (until you notice the $330 price tag). Behold the 11-inch model (and click if you would like a larger higher-res image): Sometimes they look neat, sometimes they’re mostly just a really big battery and a wireless charging coil blocking everything.īut sometimes-sometimes? You get to look at something like Apple’s newest Magic Keyboard for the iPad Pro. These scans help us get ahead on opening up devices by seeing what clips, wires, or other traps might await us. Like us, there are very few things they don’t want to X-ray. ![]() We enjoy the luxury of being friends with, and being near, the X-ray geniuses at Creative Electron. ![]()
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