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Judge agrees to Apple’s $50 million proposal to settle butterfly keyboard class action lawsuit

If you had trouble with a MacBook Pro featuring a butterfly keyboard, you’re in luck. According to Law360, Apple’s plan to pay $50 million to settle a long running class-action lawsuit over the faulty butterfly keyboard today received preliminary approval from a California federal judge. The payment will include $13.6 million in attorney fees, up […]

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iFixit publishes initial teardown of 16-inch MacBook Pro notebook, highlights changes found within keyboard design

The cool cats at iFixit have completed an initial teardown of the new 16-inch MacBook Pro and discovered an updated scissor mechanism that seems to be a massive improvement over the prior butterfly mechanism.  Over the past few years, Apple has taken hits over the butterfly keyboard mechanism found on its MacBook and MacBook Pro […]

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Rumor: Apple’s 16-inch MacBook Pro to launch in Q4, switch to scissor mechanism keyboard

The rumor mill currently has it that Apple plans to incorporate a scissor mechanism rather than a butterfly mechanism for its upcoming 16-inch MacBook Pro. The rumor emanates from reliable Apple analyst Ming-Chi Kuo, who offered the opinion in a note published on Friday to investors. Kuo stated that the 16-inch MacBook Pro will come in the […]

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Rumor: Apple to transition to new scissor-action keyboard for upcoming MacBook notebooks

The rumor mill currently has it that Apple may be removing the infamous butterfly keyboard from its MacBook. Per a new report from analyst Ming-Chi Kuo, Apple may at last be reverting to the scissor-switch design for this year’s MacBook Air and 2020’s MacBook Pro. Instead of bringing back the scissor-switch keyboard from older MacBooks, […]

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iFixit tears down Magic Mouse 2, Magic Trackpad 2 and Magic Keyboard, posts results

The new Apple peripherals are out and the ice-cold felines at iFixit have torn them down and posted the results. The Magic Trackpad 2, the Magic Mouse 2 and the Magic keyboard apparently share many of the same chips. All of them sport the Broadcom BCM20733 Bluetooth 3.0 chip, even though the Trackpad 2 officially […]