That brings us to a specific and common type of rubber dome membrane keyboard: the scissor switch. Scissor switches are like rubber dome keys, but they add a cross-arm mechanism around each dome.

While you might think a "scissor switch" has to do with mechanical keyboards, this is actually a type of membrane keyboard switch. It's an improvement on the original simple membrane keyboard ...

With a scissor switch keyboard, the keys are attached to the keyboard using two plastic pieces that interlock together in an X shape like a pair of scissors, hence the name. The two pieces snap to ...

In general, a Magic Keyboard is any product that uses Apple's scissor-switch mechanism. It has applied the term to multiple products over the years. Later, Apple used the term again for the iPad ...

But finally in November of last year, Apple did what at one point seemed impossible: it reverted to the 2015-style scissor switch keyboard. The new “Magic Keyboard,” which has been praised for ...

If you want to go really out there, perhaps this is the actual replacement for the butterfly keyboard? The scissor-switch keyboard in the new MacBook Pro is arguably the same design used by the ...

Ming-Chi Kuo correctly predicted back in July that the 16-inch would be the first of Apple’s notebooks to see the keyboard updated from the troubling butterfly design to the scissor switch.