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13-inch MacBook Pro (non Touch Bar) Battery Replacement Program

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Re: 13-inch MacBook Pro (non Touch Bar) Battery Replacement Program

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The keyboards on this new range of Apple laptops are a single unit with the logic board, very costly (to replace). They're extremely fragile and essentially booby trapped so that if you try to replace keys yourself, you may end up breaking the keyboard and thus the logic board as particular keys such as the spacebar are replaced differently. From a usability standpoint, the keys are so shallow that the tips of your f…

The keyboard is shameful. I'm traveling so I can't replace it, but inside of five months, two of my keys (A and T) will lift up with my finger as I type, right off the keyboard. No physical damage either. The C-clamp holding them in just loosened a nanometer and it doesn't work anymore. If I could go back five months, I'd replace my MBP with an old Air. I would've thought I had a particularly defective unit had my fr…

Jesus, me too. Same keys. Are we able to replace them at all? I keep reading mixed opinions and I'm not sure where the facts are. I found some replacement tutorials but it required buying an entire keyboard's worth of keys, haha. Maybe at this rate I'll need them...

Easily the worst keyboard I've had on a laptop. It's pretty awful for a $3000+ CAD investment.

Re: 13-inch MacBook Pro (non Touch Bar) Battery Replacement Program

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The only thing that keeps me with OSX instead of Linux on laptop is awesome touchpad in MacBook. Wandering if there are any ThinksPads/System76's with comparable touchpad quality ?

I love Thinkpads but, no, I've never seen one with a comparable touchpad to a Macbook. The closest PC device is Microsoft's Surface Laptop, but the Macbook still takes the crown, it is just a much tighter contest.

My 2017 Thinkpad x1c touchpad is as good as any Macbook. And the keyboard is probably the best on any laptop I've ever used.
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