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Magic Keyboard, Magic Mouse 2 and Magic Trackpad 2 References Found in OS X 10.11.1 Beta
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The keyboard is great, I go months and months on everyday use, but the mouse is terrible. Once a month battery change at minimum. I said I was going to get a rechargeable battery set next time I was at the Apple store, but haven't been there in months.
Wasn't there a backlit keyboard leaked a while back? I'm guessing this new kb will be backlit and BT wireless at least (this is a welcome change for me since I sit in the dark a lot with my iMac)
Does anyone else notice the sides of their Magic Mouse flaking off? The silver turns dark gray and chips off. Not from a drop or impact, just wearing down over time.
A new touch pad and keyboard would be nice with touch id and force touch. I just hope they will not restrict them to new imacs. I would buy the accessories but am in no need of upgrading my imac. Hoping to hear the magic words "compatible with all imacs that support el capitan."
Here's some possibilities based on what we've heard to date...
- New designs and/or colors
- Bluetooth 4.2
- Built-in rechargeable lithium-ion batteries instead of AA batteries
- Backlit keys on the keyboard
- Force Touch
- Touch ID (seems unlikelier)
I use the wired full keyboard but would prefer a rechargeable wireless full size to simply reduce the number of wires.
Those 2 terms are bit in the air at the moment. Personally, Force Touch is a better term and everyone who has an Apple Watch knows how it might work. Introducing another term just confuses the normal user.
But I understand that there are levels of pressure in 3D Touch, hence that name.
Force Touch and Touch ID are unlikely because both would need Bluetooth to transfer information. The latter is likely out of the question over Bluetooth. When/if the a Mac gets Touch ID it will likely have to be on the Mac itself tied to some sort of "secure enclave". We'll see.
Force Touch uses levels of pressure too. That's how the regular click vs the force click thing works. The technologies are identical.
My ideal Magic Mouse:
- Force Touch/Taptic feedback
- Integrated Touch ID
- Integrated battery
- Wireless charging
- Latest BT with lower power requirements
- Little bit more curved and ergonomic
- Black color option
- HBacklit capability
- Somehow touch sensitive for swipe cursor moving gestures like on the iPad keyboard and 6s keyboard
- Improved key press sensation
- Integrated battery
- Wireless charging
- Latest BT with lower power requirements
- Black color option
Interesting, I can see Apple use the lightning connector to charge the Magic Mouse, Keyboard & Trackpad so it would look like a wired peripheral while charging.
Funny! Although it's from Wikipedia, when you force click on Force Touch, you get:
"Force Touch is a technology developed by Apple Inc. It is currently used in the 2015 MacBook, 2015 MacBook Pro models, the 2015 Apple Watch, and the iPhone 6S and iPhone 6S Plus."
I guess this hasn't been one of Apple's more successful obfuscations!
I wonder if we get Skylake MBPs yet this year and if we do does that mean the MacBook Airs hang around for another year? I can't see redesigned MBPs being relegated to a press release and I can't see MBAs going away until the MBP is redesigned to be lighter.
I think 3D Touch will be the name moving forward and most likely for a marketing point of view as I believe Force Torch means something else to some people, and it's not good.
Originally I thought that Apple got rid of the name 'Force Touch' because it's implication as a rape....
But thinking about it, if the advertising was correct, we wouldn't even think about that...
I'm surprised Apple didn't keep 'Force Touch' and use it with Star Wars ads! 'Use the Force Touch! Yoda and Luke do!'
I hope they allow more gesture modifications directly through apple with Magic Mouse. Magic prefs was great but broke shake to find mouse in el cap.