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Am I the only person who likes the butterfly keyboard? I like the feel of the low travel and the clickiness, whenever I use an old style MacBook the keys feel m
by shawkinaw 7y ago
Am I the only person who likes the butterfly keyboard? I like the feel of the low travel and the clickiness, whenever I use an old style MacBook the keys feel mushy.
I have had reliability problems though. Mostly I’ve had keys that don’t respond, but have always been able to fix those with compressed air. But once I had a sticky key that popped every other time I pressed it, that required a free Apple repair.
- hn_throwaway_99 7y ago> Am I the only person who likes the butterfly keyboard? Yes
- lloeki 7y ago>> Am I the only person who likes the butterfly keyboard? > Yes No. I like it. To me it feels precise enough for a laptop keyboard, and better than the good but mushy previous version, with which I could have tactile feedback but no key event from time to time. The only issue I have with it is the Damocles sword of reliability (crossing fingers here, it's been perfectly fine for now) and the up/down arrow keys but I'm a liberal user of vim as an editor and generally emacs shortcuts so it doesn't bother me too much.
- RyJones 7y agoNo. I love it. The only downside is it's hard to take notes in meetings without it sounding like I'm shooting a machine gun
- hombre_fatal 7y agoThe problem is how fast they wear and fail. Especially if you're not dainty on the keyboard. Also, they lose their clickiness rapidly. It would be a great keyboard if you got a new one every month. But I expect mine to last the full life of the laptop just like my 2015 Air did.
- kkarakk 7y agoi love it but in the time i owned it, the thing jammed up full of dust/crumbs and failed 3/4 times necessitating trips to the service center coz compressed air just wasn't doing the job
- hyko 7y agoYou are not alone! I like it too, I’ve never had the reliability issues.
- eddieh 7y agoYou’re not alone. I really love the butterfly keyboards and I really hope we are not forced to regress back to the old keyboards.
- ggregoire 7y agoNo, but it's kinda normal to hear mostly people who hate it. Especially on Hacker News where people have such strong opinions about these things.