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This made me do a double take: "The key board on Macs has artificial clacking?" but of course this actually mutes your microphone, not your keyboard.

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I was very confused as well, since that's exactly what it sounded like.

That said, I wouldn't have been surprised at all. I was never more shocked that when I discovered that the trackpad on my MacBook Pro didn't actually buckle a millimeter, and was instead entirely simulated by the haptic feedback. Mind. Blown.

I had a similar experience with my iPhone 7+. I had forgotten I'd turned it off. I picked it up, and wondered if the home button was broken, because it wasn't moving when I pressed it. Then I realized it was off, and had that OH YEAH, it's just a sensor with haptic feedback... pretty amazing!

Yeah, that feeling still does not go away for me. It really feels like the phone is dead, when it is off / the battery is actually dead

Although Force Touch is simulated clicking, the trackpad does flex slightly when pressed hard. It doesn't depress as a button, but it doesn't maintain rigid position. I don't know if it's intentional or just weak metal, but it's good because it relieves pressure on fingers.

I have thought it silences keyboard in a room completely with some active noise canceling magic. Such would be helpful to not wake up my spouse at night.

My mouse only has artificial clicking. It's a rollermouse without any real click in the roller-bar. It's quite trippy to disable the clicking-sound, suddenly it doesn't feel like I'm actually pressing the bar. But with sound it feels like I have haptic feedback.

I think the trackpad on my previous mac was similar? Or, it had haptic feedback, but it was artificial and could be tweaked in SW.

Certain model M keyboards have speakers in them, possibly for audio feedback for the otherwise quiet keyboard. /s

Please don't post sarcasm. You can make an equivalent statement ("it almost seems...", "I can imagine...") without the needless twist into a false/sarcastic formulation that just makes your post needlessly harder to understand.

Good thing "/s" tagged remarks barely qualify as sarcasm, then.

Haven't used a Model M in 25 years but this comment brought me back to that time, wondering what the apparent speaker grill underneath was. For those who are also curious, here's what Wikipedia says:

>Until the late 4th-generation variants, most Model Ms have a 1.25" slotted, circular speaker grille in their bottom surfaces. Relatively few contain an actual speaker, however, which was useful only for sounding beep codes on older terminal systems. The most common P/Ns with speakers are 1394540 and 51G872, made for RS/6000 UNIX workstations.

Yeah, a little confusing. I updated the text on the Unclack landing page to specify that it mutes your microphone, not your keyboard. Appreciate the feedback!

I thought the same thing! :'D Thanks for enlightening me

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