Protect your 12-inch MacBook keyboard

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If you are a user who reads us daily you will know that about a month ago I got a unit of the new 12-inch MacBook. That laptop criticized by many for its supposed low power but in my case it adjusts quite well to my daily use. However, I do not come to talk again about whether it is a good laptop or not since there are already various articles related to it on our blog.

Today I am going to show you what I have decided to do and that is that I have bought a protector for the keyboard of my little MacBook. It is a second skin for the keyboard with which I will keep it safe not only of possible spills of liquids on the computer but of the inevitable wear that the keys suffer. 

One of the novelties of this new Apple laptop was its keyboard. New key drive system that makes it finer, new key-by-key backlighting and a key size more in line with current times. In short, a total redesign of the keyboard that for my taste is totally successful. At no point have I felt uncomfortable typing on this new keyboard. You adapt in no time and when you return to a MacBook with the previous keyboard you miss it.

So far, I have found a protector for my keyboard on the Internet. MacBook. Now you ask yourself, why do you want such a protector? The question he was giving me note that the "matte" color As you use it, the keys acquire a slight shine that is more intense on the keys you use the most, of course. In keyboards such as the iMac in which the keys are white, this effect is less noticeable and in MacBook without the new keyboard, since the keys are smaller, that brightness is also disguised.

However, on the MacBook keyboard, as the keys are larger and black, that small effect of brightness is noticeable. To avoid having to continually clean the keyboard of grease from your fingers I decided to buy this second skin that, in addition to giving it a softer touch, protects it from wear and tear and liquids. 

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You may think that it is a crude protector but until I have had it in my hands I have not been able to experience that it is really a second skin. The touch resembles the latex of a glove. Yes, I am not raving, the first thing I thought was that it had the same texture although the thickness is a bit more. As you can see in the photos, it fits perfectly. You can buy it in a transparent finish or in different colors. I opted for the same black color as the letters. As for the backlighting, it is so fine that when the light from the keys hits it, it is able to pass through it and although the light is dimmed a bit, it does not eliminate it.

I have paid around four euros for two units and I have bought them in the AliExpress store. I leave the link so that you can observe the options that you have available.


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  1.   Joseph M. said

    How do you detail that you want the European keyboard model? I do not identify on the web that you can specify between the US and European models.

    1.    Peter Rhodes said

      When you make the order, you specify it in comments in English and he sends you the European

  2.   Irene said

    The page on that link is not available, I don't know if the seller doesn't have it anymore ... but I'd like to find it, help?
    Thank you

  3.   Davis said

    Hello,

    Is there a way to remove that shine or wear and tear from using the macbook pro keys?

    Thank you