Editing Apple Extended Keyboard II (section)

====Alps SKCM Ivory====
The most common switch in the Apple Extended Keyboard. The slider has a cream off-white colour.
The switches are tactile and comparatively quiet. The sound is dampened by small rubber inserts on either side of the [[slider]] which cushions the impact at the end of both the downstroke and the upstroke.
Because of the dampening and high tactile point of the Ivory Alps switches, the keyboards are sometimes mistaken for having rubber dome switches.

This switch has been "resurrected" in the form of the [[Matias switch#Matias Quiet switch|Matias Quiet switch]].

If the label has a symbol in the bottom right corner of a 'S' within a square, then that is an indicator that the keyboard has dampened switches.
These have only been spotted on M3501s made in the USA or Mexico with ivory or white damped switches. Keyboards made in Ireland (of which all had ivory switches) have not been spotted with the symbol.