Time will tell in regard to its reliability, but we haven’t had problems with this laptop, the 16-inch MacBook Pro and the new MacBook Air so far. The new Magic Keyboard is much easier on the fingers and the ears-it has a softer, more comfortable feel, and isn’t as noisy. The butterfly keyboard was hard on the fingers, loud, and so unreliable that Apple had to start a MacBook Air, and the implementation in the 13-inch MacBook Pro just reinforces what we like about it. Our preference for the new Magic Keyboard was documented in our reviews of the It’s now completely gone from Apple’s laptop lineup and it won’t be missed (though Apple does insist that the butterfly keyboard had its fans). With this update, the butterfly keyboard farewell tour is now complete.

The MacBook Air followed suit when it was updated in March 2020, leaving the 13-inch MacBook Pro as the only laptop left with the butterfly keyboard. With the release of the 16-inch MacBook Pro back in November of 2019, Apple started phasing out its much-maligned butterfly-mechanism keyboard in favor of its new Magic Keyboard, which uses a scissor-switch mechanism.

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