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I'm a bit baffled by the changes to the Apple version of the MX Keys. Aside from the change in tone to match the Apple hardware, the original keyboard seems superior in a few small ways.

The original universal version of MX Keys has split opt/start and cmd/alt buttons with the Mac keyboard iconography and omits the redundant right-side OPT button, opting instead for a FN (function) key. The Mac version FN key replaces the Insert key up near the home/end/delete/page buttons. Also because Mac keyboards apparently still need a dedicated disc eject key for some reason in 2020 (?!?!) the Mac version loses the dedicated 'minimize all windows' button on the F5 key. I understand this is probably necessary to comply with Apple's standards for stuff marketed as "made for Mac" or whatever they call it now, but that seems like a unfortunate technicality.

Perhaps 'Insert' and 'minimize all windows' isn't supported in Mac OS, but either way, you'd be buying a version of this $100 keyboard with amazing multi-device capabilities and losing general cross-OS functionality while gaining nothing Mac-specific. If you expect you'll never hook this up to a Windows machine and especially care about the aesthetics, I can see the appeal of getting this version. Otherwise, get the (better looking IMO) slightly darker gray universal version.

Also FWIW, the MX Master 3 mouse is the same exact one that's been on sale for the last year or so. Alluding to it as a Mac version is purely a marketing play. But that hardly matters, it's a super badass mouse no matter how it's labeled. That scroll wheel alone makes it a true magic mouse.

king editor the grate said:

These at least look like a plausible set of eyewear, unlike many of the monstrosities to which we've been subjected.

I think an important consideration to keep in mind is that these glasses aren't tracking your head movement, are unaware of the environment, and are using your cellphone for some of the computing. The monstrosities out there like Hololens and the upcoming slightly less monstrous Magic Leap One are packed with an armada of environmental depth mapping cameras that enable inside out positional tracking so you can move and AR objects remain realistically positioned in the real world. This takes a higher spec on-board computer (or dedicated belt-clip compute unit thingy) to handle high frame rate, low latency 3D rendering like that.  Apple is going this more advanced route supposedly, most likely with good looks even better than this pair in the article here.