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Like it or not I just wanted to buy a Mac that didn’t have a ticking time bomb of a repair. Thank god the M1 macs don’t have the keyboard. It’s the reason I hav

• rbanffy 6y ago
  I completely understand that. Still, it's a shame not even the mechanical design wizards at Apple couldn't make it reliable. I have a couple scissor keyboards (the pre-magic ones) and, alternating between the laptop and the desktop one just makes it clear how much the butterfly feels better.
  • headmelted 6y ago
    Im pretty sure they did make it reliable, but the ship had sailed by then. I haven’t heard of any trouble with the fourth gen (the last one before moving back to scissor-switches) at all. It’s really unfortunate - a lot of people really liked the butterfly keyboard - but the reliability issues in earlier versions combined with the criticisms on key travel meant those voices just didn’t win out.