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launch_3b: Specs, overview, & repairs#347

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@jacobgkau jacobgkau commented Mar 18, 2026

This adds the Launch 3B (launch_3b) to tech docs. I simply dropped in new photos with the updated keycaps & powder coating, and didn't touch the text aside from adding a note about that (which I think is useful since we don't actually show the b on the physical engraving, per my photo of the photo unit).

By switching from WebP @ 80% quality to AVIF @ 60% quality (which has similar visual fidelity), the size of the section's photos was reduced from 8.3 MB to 5.6 MB (about 33% smaller). This savings probably isn't worth immediately re-encoding older images, but can help slightly slow the growth of the repo's size going forward.

(The only exception that I left in WebP format was the hero image; something about its compression from how it was produced on marketing's side, or possibly its fading effect, causes it to be a much larger size in AVIF to achieve the same quality.)

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Is the plan to add launch_heavy_3b in a separate PR?

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Is the plan to add launch_heavy_3b in a separate PR?

Yes, or we can sit on this for a few more days until the Heavy section's ready if you'd prefer not to publish them separately.

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Nope, I'm fine with them being merged separately. Just making sure that's what the plan was. This looks great, thanks!

@jacobgkau jacobgkau merged commit a179564 into master Mar 24, 2026
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