Apple on Monday unveiled a brand new 13-inch MacBook Professional, formally discontinuing its final remaining mannequin with the much-hated “butterfly” keyboard.
The brand new Professional, which begins at $1,299, contains a keyboard modeled after the corporate’s widespread Magic Keyboard that’s based mostly on an older, scissor-like mechanism.
Apple 4 months in the past launched a 16-inch MacBook Professional mannequin with its new keyboard design that ditched the “butterfly” design, which Apple had launched to allow ever-thinner laptops, however which proved defective.
Along with keys which might be vulnerable to sticking and breaking when crumbs or mud will get underneath them, customers griped that the butterfly keys had been vulnerable to typos and felt bizarre to sort on.
The unreliable keys compelled Apple to introduce a free keyboard restore program in 2018.
The up to date MacBook model will present double the storage of its predecessor, with a capability of as much as 1 terabyte.
The corporate additionally stated the brand new MacBook Professional shall be accessible in choose shops later this week. Apple shops around the globe stay closed as a result of coronavirus pandemic, however just lately started to reopen some shops in South Korea.
Shares of Apple had been up 0.three % Monday afternoon, at $290.02.
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