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it's a whole new look for apples Mac accessories I'm Dan Ackerman and we're here taking a very quick look at the new magic keyboard Magic Trackpad 2 and Magic Mouse 2 from Apple I've got apples pneumatic accessories lined up with the old versions you can see the difference the biggest thing is course is that they're getting ridley disposable batteries you have to put in there and that lets them be rechargeable connect by a lightning to your backhand and actually sync that way and also lose these sort of big cylindrical battery containers they used to have so the keyboard used to have this big thing right here we have to slip in your batteries now the new keyboard is flat a little bit of a wedge shape there the key faces are actually slightly larger Apple says that it's about 13% smaller in terms of the desktop footprint the mouse is pretty much the same it's a tiny bit lighter and the little rubber runners on the bottom have been cleaned up just a tiny bit of doing that the only real Mouse changes that again no more batteries lightning connector right there I think the real star of the show however is the Magic Trackpad 2 now I've used a Magic Trackpad for years and again it's got this cylindrical battery compartment here still work perfectly fine the new version ditches that silver color now it's kind of a white / off-white it gets rid of the battery compartment so again it lies flat a little bit of a wedge shape lightning connector right there just like everything else and a much larger surface area Apple says that's 29 percent bigger and besides this having more fingers to do all your multi-touch gestures it supports force touch which is the new touchpad technology found in a bunch of the Mac books and even in the iPhone and the Apple watch and that means that on the computer version you you click once and these kind of four sensors here sense that you're clicking give you a little bit of haptic feedback as opposed to sort of a diving board hinge and you press harder you get a second perceived click that gives you contextual information a definition for a word a preview of a file or even Apple map directions if you do that on an address so if you're looking to give your Mac a facelift you don't have to get a new one you can just get these new accessories and add it on there it's $99 for the new keyboards 79 for the mouse and 129 a little bit more expensive guess for the Magic Trackpad - I'm Dan Ackerman taking a quick look at Apple's new Mac accessories