Teardown of the Apple's A1243 Keyboard
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Teardown of the Apple's A1243 Keyboard
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#2I like the key travel on the A1243. I wish their newer scissor switches were just a little bit taller.
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#3my fav apple keyboard is the from the green PowerMac G4 generation, with the clear plastic casing, and hefty mass.
Just don't look at the underside, where food crumbs, hairs that fall into the key holes are forever trapped.
https://www.reddit.com/r/VintageApple/comments/ax9hqm/got_an...
Re: Teardown of the Apple's A1243 Keyboard
#4I like the key travel on the A1243. I wish their newer scissor switches were just a little bit taller.
Thanks. Again I am glad I am not the only one.
0.7 mm - Butterfly keyboard
1 mm - 16” MBP "Magic" ( Scissor ) keyboard
1.3 mm - old scissor keyboard
It is only 0.3mm but it is a world of difference. And at no point would I want a 0.3mm thinner Laptop at the expense of much better typing experience.
Even Microsoft copy the 1.3mm Key Travel Design with their Surface Book.
Re: Teardown of the Apple's A1243 Keyboard
#5I like the key travel on the A1243. I wish their newer scissor switches were just a little bit taller.
Thanks. Again I am glad I am not the only one. 0.7 mm - Butterfly keyboard 1 mm - 16” MBP "Magic" ( Scissor ) keyboard 1.3 mm - old scissor keyboard It is only 0.3mm but it is a world of difference. And at no point would I want a 0.3mm thinner Laptop at the expense of much better typing experience. Even Microsoft copy the 1.3mm Key Travel Design with their Surface Book.
I'm measuring 1.8mm of total travel on my A1243, and 0.8mm on my 2020 Macbook Pro but it could just be a matter of technique. 1.3 would probably be great.
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#6This is my favorite keyboard.
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#7I forgot about these until this post. I used to have one when they came out, and I worked at a retail store where all of our kiosks had these.
Does anyone else get electric shocks often from them? I would get them anytime I touched the metal case of it. I never thought to google it or anything.
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#8I love and loathe Apple keyboards. On the love side, the original 1984 Mac, and the Apple ][. On the loathe side, most anything in this century.
I like the IBM model M's, too, so there's that.
My daily drivers now are Cherry Blues or Browns.
Re: Teardown of the Apple's A1243 Keyboard
#9I forgot about these until this post. I used to have one when they came out, and I worked at a retail store where all of our kiosks had these. Does anyone else get electric shocks often from them? I would get them anytime I touched the metal case of it. I never thought to google it or anything.
Usually when electronic devices have a metal housing, they're tied to ground. Getting shocked could be a sign of a wiring issue in the building. Ground should be at zero electrical potential.
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#10I hope Twitter doesn't become a commonplace location to put this type of info. I love teardowns, I loathe Twitter.