13-inch MacBook Pro to Get the New Improved Keyboard Next Year

Apple recently launched a 16-inch MacBook Pro with a bigger battery, slimmer bezels, improved thermals, and most chiefly, a new-old keyboard mechanism utilizing the good-old scissor switches instead of the new Butterfly switches it has been using since it redesigned the MacBook Pro back in 2016.

Now, a new report is claiming that Apple will bring the same, improved keyboard to the thirteen-inch MacBook Pro next year. The report comes from DigiTimes, and corroborates what we've heard before from famed Apple analyst Ming-chi Kuo. That aforementioned report also claims that the updated 13-inch MBP will be launched in the first half of 2020.

Yous may remember that Apple's Butterfly keyboards have been a massive pain in the neck for a lot of users, with reports arising that even a small amount of sand or clay can render keys useless on the keyboard. The trouble caught so much attention that Apple even launched a complimentary keyboard repair program for the new MacBook Pros. Moreover, the extreme lack of travel in the new keyboard also annoyed most users.

With the new xvi-inch MacBook Pro, Apple tree finally went dorsum to using the scissor switches information technology has used in the older MacBook Pros, and it'due south a change that reviewers are loving and so far. I've not used the new sixteen-inch MacBook Pro, so I can't really say how good the new keyboard is, just based on what I've heard and read most the new laptop online, things are looking skillful. Let's hope that Apple makes the switch to the new keyboard for the thirteen-inch MacBook Pro every bit soon as possible.