The keyboard: We got it all: a return of scissor key mechanisms in lieu of butterfly switches, a return of the inverted-T arrow key arrangement, and a hardware Escape key. Apple stated explicitly that their inspiration for this keyboard is the Magic Keyboard that ships with iMacs… Calling it the “Magic Keyboard” threads the impossible marketing needle they needed to thread: it concedes everything while confessing nothing. Apple has always had a great keyboard that could fit in a MacBook — it just hasn’t been in a MacBook the last three years…
I expected Apple to do this — to correct the mistakes of the previous keyboard. But I feared that they wouldn’t, out of stubborn pride or just plain bad taste in keyboard design. It is a bit frustrating that it took them three years to do it, but they did it. This is what their modern MacBook keyboards should have been like all along.
MacDailyNews Take: The 16-inch MacBook Pro is better in every way – a bit more weight and thickness in exchange for better battery life is a trade we’d make any day (to a point; a point we’re nowhere near) – but the biggest improvement (even more than its gorgeous display) is its keyboard which is once again, as it should be and as it never shouldn’t have been, THE BEST IN THE BUSINESS.