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Do y'all just work on laptops, or do you usually plug in the laptop to an external monitor/keyboard/screen, then use the laptop solely when in meetings/away fro

Do y'all just work on laptops, or do you usually plug in the laptop to an external monitor/keyboard/screen, then use the laptop solely when in meetings/away from your desk? I couldn't imagine using the new Macbook's keyboard full-time - I've broken the keys (in half) on the 2015 Macbook repeatedly just by typing. For now - and this seems to be the feeling around me, better to use an external keyboard for most of the time. I personally cannot even touchtype of the 15" keyboard on the new Macbooks, as it differs ever so slightly, but too much from my 13" at home. I'm already mentally-mapping out four other keyboards I work on. I may not be able to do a fifth!

DonaldPShimoda 8y ago
> I've broken the keys (in half) on the 2015 Macbook repeatedly just by typing What? How?? Like are you just an extremely heavy typist or what? I've been using my 2017 15-inch MBP for probably multiple hours a day (on average) since August, and I've had no problems. I get that there's a fair amount of luck involved there, but I don't understand how you can literally break the keys just by typing.
- justinator 8y ago
  "typing" (banging) on them too hard. I have very large, very strong hands, I guess. The keyboard did develop a separate (but related) issue though: certain key presses weren't being registered, unless I really pressed down HARD. No amount of cleaning seemed to help. I just thought something wrong with my fingers/hands, from typing so much in my life! Was I developing a working disability, akin to carpel tunnel or something? It was only when I replaced the keyboard in full did I realized my slowness and difficulty in typing was the keyboard, and not me! My WPM count went up almost 2x. I enjoyed writing for pleasure, again.
artursapek 8y ago
It is a remote company; our devs are all over the world. So people travel and move around a lot, and as a result use their laptops “naked” a lot of the time. One guy on my team likes to set up a desk in a forest and work outside most of the day using cellular internet. Maybe it matters less in a co-located space where everyone is at a desk all day.
- justinator 8y ago
  Nice. Yeah, I can't ever seeing using the new Macbook 15" remotely. It seems so very fragile. I've taken my 2012, 2013, and 2015 Macbooks on full on offroad bicycle trips without a problem, but the current crop just seems to tip into "too wimpy" territory.

DonaldPShimoda 8y ago

> I've broken the keys (in half) on the 2015 Macbook repeatedly just by typing What? How?? Like are you just an extremely heavy typist or what? I've been using my 2017 15-inch MBP for probably multiple hours a day (on average) since August, and I've had no problems. I get that there's a fair amount of luck involved there, but I don't understand how you can literally break the keys just by typing.

justinator 8y ago
"typing" (banging) on them too hard. I have very large, very strong hands, I guess. The keyboard did develop a separate (but related) issue though: certain key presses weren't being registered, unless I really pressed down HARD. No amount of cleaning seemed to help. I just thought something wrong with my fingers/hands, from typing so much in my life! Was I developing a working disability, akin to carpel tunnel or something? It was only when I replaced the keyboard in full did I realized my slowness and difficulty in typing was the keyboard, and not me! My WPM count went up almost 2x. I enjoyed writing for pleasure, again.

artursapek 8y ago

It is a remote company; our devs are all over the world. So people travel and move around a lot, and as a result use their laptops “naked” a lot of the time. One guy on my team likes to set up a desk in a forest and work outside most of the day using cellular internet. Maybe it matters less in a co-located space where everyone is at a desk all day.

justinator 8y ago
Nice. Yeah, I can't ever seeing using the new Macbook 15" remotely. It seems so very fragile. I've taken my 2012, 2013, and 2015 Macbooks on full on offroad bicycle trips without a problem, but the current crop just seems to tip into "too wimpy" territory.