December 12, 2024

Jarrod Loves the Touch ID Magic Keyboard

Jarrod Blundy, on heydingus.net:

I really should have more to say about this after many years of waiting it out to get one, but the simple truth is that the Magic Keyboard with Touch ID is just a great keyboard. I probably should have caved years ago to purchase one.

Don’t get me wrong; there were things that I quite liked about the Keychron K3 Ultra-Slim keyboard that I used to use — namely, its fun light-up colors, slick design, and trendy mechanical keys. But no one else can make a keyboard with Touch ID, and that’s the killer feature.

The arrow key layout is a deal-breaker for me… but is it? I respect Jarrod’s opinion too much, and he’s even coming from basically my same keyboard1. I can understand how TouchID will make up for the arrows abomination. But I love the keyboard sound/travel from mine, and I use both plugged, so connections is a non-issue.

At the same, the Apple Watch does cover the most usual TouchID use-case with Auto Unlock and password requests approval. Still, if Apple ever sells a TouchID thingy, they’ll get my money.


  1. Keychron K3 Ultra-slim v1 at work and Keychron S1 at home, both with with brown switched.↩︎


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