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Naa you’re not alone. I love the new MBP keyboard. My experience to suggests what we have here is a vocal minority. I type faster with the new style keyboard, I

Naa you’re not alone. I love the new MBP keyboard. My experience to suggests what we have here is a vocal minority. I type faster with the new style keyboard, I enjoy the springiness of the keys and their much larger size than previous iterations. I also like how their backlighting works compared to the old style. If people are having trouble with them, Apple should resolve those issues, but in my opinion the keyboards and new MBPs are excellent machines.

geerlingguy 8y ago
I love the feel, but in my 2016 I did have the spacebar stop working on one side (the side I tend to use more often) because of dirt ingress. My favorite keyboard ever, though, is the current 'Magic Keyboard'. It's like the perfect medium between the old chicklet-style that felt rather mushy to me and the new butterfly mechanism that's almost too rigid. Sadly, it seems Apple does not want to go back to that feel in their mobile line :( The grip I have with the newer Pros is the *@($ Touch Bar. It's sad that the new Air has exactly what I wanted—addition of Touch ID but no Touch Bar—but the so-called Pros still have the Touch Bar. I have yet to find a touch typist who believes the Touch Bar to be a good reason to pay a few hundred extra for it.
- rbanffy 8y ago
  Keyboards are a very personal thing. I think the butterfly is usable and pleasing, but that the magic keyboard is a dreadful downgrade from the previous one that was more or less identical to the previous-gen Macbooks (which were very adequate). My favorite keyboard, beam-spring being a thing of the past, is the Model M (Unicomp still builds them). I love it, even if my family would rather have me not typing after 10 PM.
- cnf 8y ago
  I absolutely love my touchbar, and would hate to see it go. I know per context where each key I need is.
fumar 8y ago
We should all advocate for continuous improvements for machines we rely day to day. What I learned is that no one else is making a better laptop than Apple. I tried a lot of machines and spent way too much money and time trying to make them worthwhile. The Surface line is riddled with issues. I defended it in the past (see old comments from me), because I felt Apple was not innovating. But, hindsight I would rather have a reliable machine. Wifi would break all the time on Surfaces, battery would drain on its own while in my bag, the pen would lag, etc. I don't think anyone would be happy if Apple release a similar product. I gave the Surface team several tries through their iterations and they never fixed the main issues. Someone else said it, the new Apple wireless keyboards are great. I have one at work and at home.
JonathonW 8y ago
Same here as well. I've had stuff get caught in my (mid-2017) keyboard a few times, but never anything that didn't clear on its own after a few keypresses and I've never had issues with repeated or missed keypresses. (That said, I have to agree with one of the other child commenters here-- the current Magic Keyboard is actually my favorite of Apple's recent keyboards. Similar feel to the tbMBP keyboards (more crisp and clicky than the older keyboards from the pre-touchbar rMBPs), with a bit more travel and a more robust mechanism, and the numpad version has a nice, big T-layout for the arrow keys rather than whatever the heck is going on with the arrow keys on the tbMBP.)

geerlingguy 8y ago

I love the feel, but in my 2016 I did have the spacebar stop working on one side (the side I tend to use more often) because of dirt ingress. My favorite keyboard ever, though, is the current 'Magic Keyboard'. It's like the perfect medium between the old chicklet-style that felt rather mushy to me and the new butterfly mechanism that's almost too rigid. Sadly, it seems Apple does not want to go back to that feel in their mobile line :( The grip I have with the newer Pros is the *@($ Touch Bar. It's sad that the new Air has exactly what I wanted—addition of Touch ID but no Touch Bar—but the so-called Pros still have the Touch Bar. I have yet to find a touch typist who believes the Touch Bar to be a good reason to pay a few hundred extra for it.

rbanffy 8y ago
Keyboards are a very personal thing. I think the butterfly is usable and pleasing, but that the magic keyboard is a dreadful downgrade from the previous one that was more or less identical to the previous-gen Macbooks (which were very adequate). My favorite keyboard, beam-spring being a thing of the past, is the Model M (Unicomp still builds them). I love it, even if my family would rather have me not typing after 10 PM.
cnf 8y ago
I absolutely love my touchbar, and would hate to see it go. I know per context where each key I need is.

fumar 8y ago

We should all advocate for continuous improvements for machines we rely day to day. What I learned is that no one else is making a better laptop than Apple. I tried a lot of machines and spent way too much money and time trying to make them worthwhile. The Surface line is riddled with issues. I defended it in the past (see old comments from me), because I felt Apple was not innovating. But, hindsight I would rather have a reliable machine. Wifi would break all the time on Surfaces, battery would drain on its own while in my bag, the pen would lag, etc. I don't think anyone would be happy if Apple release a similar product. I gave the Surface team several tries through their iterations and they never fixed the main issues. Someone else said it, the new Apple wireless keyboards are great. I have one at work and at home.

JonathonW 8y ago

Same here as well. I've had stuff get caught in my (mid-2017) keyboard a few times, but never anything that didn't clear on its own after a few keypresses and I've never had issues with repeated or missed keypresses. (That said, I have to agree with one of the other child commenters here-- the current Magic Keyboard is actually my favorite of Apple's recent keyboards. Similar feel to the tbMBP keyboards (more crisp and clicky than the older keyboards from the pre-touchbar rMBPs), with a bit more travel and a more robust mechanism, and the numpad version has a nice, big T-layout for the arrow keys rather than whatever the heck is going on with the arrow keys on the tbMBP.)