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IIRC the keyboard has hardware problems and dead keys are common
by jpmoyn 8y ago
IIRC the keyboard has hardware problems and dead keys are common
- throwawaymath 8y agoSure, that would be shitty. But do we have an authoritative and empirical source indicating a meaningful increase in keyboard hardware problems? When I search for information about this, I come up with articles like [1]. But none of the data is provided and the analysis isn't exactly...rigorous, to put it charitably. EDIT: Why in the world has this been downvoted to -3?! This is a reasonable comment to make complete with an example. If you disagree, blindly downvoting isn't informative of anything except that you don't like a comment. _________________ 1. https://appleinsider.com/articles/18/04/30/2016-macbook-pro-butterfly-keyboards-failing-twice-as-frequently-as-older-models https://appleinsider.com/articles/18/04/30/2016-macbook-pro-...
- jetsnoc 8y agoGoogle apple keyboard class action lawsuit
- untog 8y agoThe only people that could conclusively provide that information is Apple, and they have no desire to do so. So all we have to go on is anecdata. My personal experiences suggest that the keyboard is problem is widespread, though by no means common.
- skygazer 8y agoUncommon but widespread: Sparse?
- ecnahc515 8y agoThe fact that Apple has made a keyboard repair program available indicates just how bad this is directly. We don't have numbers, no, but it's pretty obvious it's not just a small number of users experiencing this given their response.
- grey-area 8y agoBut do we have an authoritative and empirical source indicating a meaningful increase in keyboard hardware problems? Apple has that information, and they've decided it's a big enough problem to issue a repair program and adjust the keyboard in the new version: https://www.apple.com/support/keyboard-service-program-for-macbook-and-macbook-pro/ https://www.apple.com/support/keyboard-service-program-for-m... So, in answer to your question, yes we do have an authoritative source - Apple.
- throwawaymath 8y agoOkay, that's fair. It looks like it goes beyond the tech reporting bubble then. Thanks for being the only one to provide a cited source in response to my own. I'll concede that the hardware flaws - independent of personal taste about the touchbar or function keys - is a major problem then.
- torstenvl 8y agoYou can walk into any Best Buy or other non-Apple retail location that sells Apple computers and find at least one machine with keyboard issues. The most common one I've found is a left shift key that doesn't work unless you press it exactly in the center or with excessive force.
- idlewords 8y agoThis is abslutely crrect.