[swombat]

But the Apple keyboards are mechanical - just with less give. The analogy is more that in one case, you have to punch a heavy hanging weight and get it to hit the wall, whereas in the next case, you can just quickly flick it with your finger to achieve the same effect.

I'm "trained to touch-type" on old keyboards, since I learned to touch-type when I was a teenager playing MUDs and there were none of these newfangled Apple keyboards. And yet, I made the transition without even thinking about it. It's not an iPad keyboard, it's a real keyboard with real keys in all the right places, and you don't have to smash it quite so hard, but it's still "mechanical"...