Three-and-half months after launching the Magic Keyboard with Touch ID, Apple is finally breaking it out from its iMac bundle. The accent is now out there as a standalone, via Apple Stores and the corporate’s web site.

There are two variations: the usual and an extended mannequin with a numeric keypad (just about what the corporate presents with all of its Magic Keyboards), operating $149 and $179, respectively. There’s additionally a $99 model that retains the brand new rounded, compact design, however drops the Touch ID in favor of a key that locks the system. But the place’s the enjoyable in that?

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All of the fashions have keys dedicated to Spotlight, Dictation, Do Not Disturb and Emoji (I ended up disabling the latter on mine, as a result of I couldn’t keep away from unintentional presses 🙁🙁).

An necessary caveat in all of this: Touch ID solely works on Macs operating the M1 chip, which disqualifies a fairly large chunk of the Macs at the moment available on the market. If you do personal a kind of fancy new programs, the function can be utilized for safe logins, purchases and the like. The limitation seems to be a results of Touch ID’s use of the Secure Enclave discovered on Apple’s new chip.

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The keyboard features a woven USB-C to Lightning cable, although Touch ID additionally works when the keyboard is related wirelessly by way of Bluetooth. Also new are redesigned variations of the Magic Mouse and Trackpad, operating $79 and $129 every.