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Among the hardware ever to come out of Apple's workshop is the standalone Magic Keyboard. In today's article, we will briefly summarize the history of its development, its functions and other details.

A keyboard named Magic Keyboard was introduced in the fall of 2015 along with Magic Mouse 2 and Magic Trackpad 2. This model is the successor of the keyboard named Apple Wireless Keyboard. Apple improved the mechanism of the keys, changed their stroke, and made a handful of other improvements. The Magic Keyboard was equipped with a lithium-ion battery, which was charged via the Lightning port on its back. It was also equipped with a 32-bit 72 MHz RISC ARM Cortex-M3 processor from ST Microelectronics and had Bluetooth connectivity. The keyboard was compatible with all Macs running Mac OS X El Capitan and later, as well as iPhones and iPads running iOS 9 and later, as well as Apple TVs running tvOS 10 and later.

In June 2017, Apple released a new, slightly improved version of its wireless Magic Keyboard. This novelty featured, for example, new symbols for the Ctrl and Option keys, and in addition to the basic version, users could also purchase an extended variant with a numeric keypad. Customers who bought the new iMac Pro at the time could also get a Magic Keyboard with a dark-colored numeric keypad - which Apple later also sold separately. Owners of the 2019 Mac Pro also received a Magic Keyboard in silver with black keys along with their new computer. Users especially praised the Magic Keyboard for its lightness and scissor mechanism. In 2020, Apple released a special version of its Apple Keyboard, which was designed specifically for iPads, but we will talk about it in one of our next articles.

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