New CURVED keyboards for BOTH 17" and 15" MBP ?!

It looks like the keyboard on the 17" is changed - and the keys are no longer flat (as they currently are on all models, and the external keyboards), but slightly curved.. ?!!

What's more, Apple seems to have sneaked that into the 15" as well, as it now too is shipping with the new keyboard (while the Air, MB and external keyboards remain flat)...

Odd?! I also wonder how much 'better' the feel of the curved keys is....

Dan

Mac Pro Octo 3.2, 32GB, GT8800, MacBook Pro 2.8, 4GB,, Mac OS X (10.5.6)

Posted on Jan 6, 2009 1:27 PM

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Jan 6, 2009 1:50 PM in response to LukeD

Luke,
you are not blind 🙂

The pictures of the 17" shows the curbed keys - it's hard to see, but check it out. The pictures of the 15" have NOT been updated yet.
HOWEVER, the text under 'details' for both the 15 and 17 now say (i.e. the 15 was changed this morning!) that the keys are CURVED.

Cheers,
Dan

Jan 6, 2009 10:16 PM in response to ollilay

I agree, they seem to be using the old keyboard on the show models. I assume these are NOT production models.

Fact is: Apple deliberately changed the text of the 15" features, and added the 17" features pages to say "...And the keys are curved to perfectly fit fingers. The result? Pure typing bliss. The keyboard is also illuminated, so...".

If you look at a cached 15" site, the 'curved' feature was not part of it. Also, it is still not on the MB and Air.

The Apple picture of the 17" online (17" details) does, to me, seem to have the curbed keys. Hard to tell, as it's straight on.

As you can see on the show-models, they clearly are not curved keys - which is contrary to the 'new features' Apple is praising for the keyboard....

Cheers,
dan

Jan 7, 2009 11:43 AM in response to demolasko

Don't know... the pic of the 17 on Apple's site does seem to show the light curving to me - but I agree it's hard to see.
However, never mind the pictures. Again, Apple states in their specs now that both the 15 and 17 DO have CURVED keys now - and it's a new features as the text of the 15 was specifically changed to include that....
I agree, the pictures of the 17 at MW - probably not production models, certainly still have the flat keys.

cheers
dan

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