More Hope for the End of the Butterfly Keyboard

While I don’t cover a lot of rumors here, the latenst nugget from Ming-Chi Kuo is worth mention. Reportedly, we’ll be getting scissor switch updates to the smaller MacBookPro and and MacBook Air by June. I sure hope he’s right. While the butterfly keyboard was a mistake, the bigger mistake (by far) was extending it through the line and keeping there so long. We have a MacBook Air in our family that lasted 9 years. Another person in my family still works on an 11 year old MacBook. There is no way those butterfly keyboards in the currently shipping MacBook Air will last that long.

Written by David Sparks

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