Nov 25, 2019 10:30:00

The new 16-inch MacBook Pro breaks away from the butterfly keyboard and evolves into a more quiet design

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16-inch MacBook Pro ' announced by Apple on November 14, 2019 is a high-end model that uses an Intel Core i9 processor with a 16-inch Retina display and up to 8 cores / 16 threads. Speaking of Apple's MacBook, it was rumored that a class suit was filed due to a structural defect of `` Butterfly Keyboard '' which is a proprietary keyboard mechanism, and that the keyboard design will eventually be reviewed, In this new 16-inch MacBook Pro, the keyboard has been changed from a butterfly keyboard to ' Magic Keyboard ', and it has become clear that not only the structure has been improved but also the silence has increased.

The Best Laptop Keyboards (Oh, and the Best Laptops, Too!)-WSJ
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Is Apple's 16-inch MacBook Pro keyboard quieter?-9to5Mac
https://ww.9to5mac.com/2019/11/24/16-inch-macbook-pro-keyboard-sound/

In the new 16-inch MacBook Pro in November 2019, the keyboard structure has been changed from a butterfly keyboard to a Magic Keyboard. According to Apple's explanation, this Magic Keyboard is 'It has a scissor structure and the key is 1mm. It is responsive and comfortable, and you can enter characters quietly.'

16-inch MacBook Pro appears — Apple-YouTube


The Wall Street Journal is conducting an experiment to test the quietness of the keyboard on multiple notebook PCs including the 16-inch MacBook Pro in an anechoic chamber of Cooper Union . The reason why the test was performed in an anechoic room is that the reflection of sound is absorbed in the anechoic room, so only the magnitude of “sound directly from objects in the room” can be measured.

In addition to the typewriter , MacBook Air (with 3rd generation butterfly keyboard), Surface Laptop 3 , XPS 13 , 2015 model MacBook Pro, Google has a keyboard structure called `` hash key '' Pixelbook Go, which enables “almost silent keyboard typing”, is also included.

New Chromebook `` Pixelbook Go '' with Chrome OS appeared-gigazine

As a result of the quietness test, the strength of the sound produced when typing the keyboard of each terminal is as follows. In addition, the strength of the sound that appears when you are typing on the keyboard is expressed in decibels (dB), and the larger the value, the stronger the sound that is produced.

Typewriter: 60.2dB
MacBook Air (with 3rd generation butterfly keyboard): 41.9dB
Surface Laptop 3: 33.8dB
XPS 13: 32.3dB
2015 model MacBook Pro (1st generation butterfly keyboard installed): 31.2dB
16-inch MacBook Pro (with Magic Keyboard): 30.3dB
Pixelbook Go: 30.1dB

The quietness of the 16-inch MacBook Pro keyboard was the second lowest of the tested devices, and was about the same as the hash key of Pixelbook Go, the quietest keyboard. On the other hand, Surface Laptop 3 just announced in October 2019 is 33.8dB, quietness is not good for the latest model notebook PC.

In addition, Apple-related media 9to5Mac wrote, `` Apple brought back a butterfly keyboard, which has been unpopular for a long time, to a keyboard with the same structure as before, bringing about a good change in the whole keyboard such as reliability and silence. '' The