MacBook Pro Keyboard Drives Me Crazy

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Post by ryanbigg » Wed, Aug 28, 2019, 11:07 PM UTC

MacBook Pro Keyboard Drives Me Crazy
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Post by jeremyis » Wed, Aug 28, 2019, 11:26 PM UTC

+1 they're horrible. I feel like I wasted $3k and if I could return it, I would.

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Post by throwaway_391 » Wed, Aug 28, 2019, 11:26 PM UTC

> For the most part, it sits on one of two desks that I use or it sits on my lap on the train.

If this is the case, do yourself a favor and go and buy two ergonomic screens, keyboards and mice - one for each location.

It'll save you becoming a hunched over laptop gremlin.

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Post by piinbinary » Wed, Aug 28, 2019, 11:27 PM UTC

I want Apple's screen and trackpad and Lenovo's keyboard, ports, and cooling.

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Post by dvtrn » Wed, Aug 28, 2019, 11:28 PM UTC

piinbinary wrote: post #4

I want Apple's screen and trackpad and Lenovo's keyboard, ports, and cooling.

Daily driver for work is a Thinkpad E580 and it’s by far the closest thing I’ve typed on to the vaunted 2015MBP keyboard to the point of me considering buying one for personal use and throwing Linux on it.

Plus it has a numpad!

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Post by snockerton » Wed, Aug 28, 2019, 11:29 PM UTC

I'm glad that others are voicing the same issues I'm experiencing. Sometimes I wonder if I'm taking crazy pills.

My solution has been to place an Apple bluetooth keyboard -on top- of my 15" MBP keyboard and that seems to work pretty well, but wow, it shouldn't have come to this...

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Post by AndrewBissell » Wed, Aug 28, 2019, 11:29 PM UTC

It's funny, I resisted an upgrade until my 2015 MBP became unusable, in part because I dreaded the keyboard. I do miss physical function keys, but I actually like the more clacky & tactile butterfly keys.

Maybe I'll feel differently once I finally manage to work a crumb underneath one of them.

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Post by ngngngng » Wed, Aug 28, 2019, 11:30 PM UTC

Switched to a thinkpad x1 carbon just over a month ago, coming from years of macbooks. I'm over the moon. The trackpad isn't as good, but all the things I use the trackpad for are easily replaced with keyboard shortcuts.

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Post by rednerrus » Wed, Aug 28, 2019, 11:30 PM UTC

I just got an old one (2015) out of the closet at work when they offered me the new one.

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Post by therein » Wed, Aug 28, 2019, 11:31 PM UTC

> If Apple releases their new Macs with an identical keyboard, then I'm ditching Macs and will pick up a Microsoft Surface Book or something similar. Whatever it is, I'll make sure to pick a laptop that has a god damned functional keyboard.

Same here, MBP keyboards are unbearable. Trying to develop on OSX has become a hassle. Gotta jump through hoops to get gdb to work. Windows with WSL on a Surface Book feels extremely tempting as of late.

I could grab a copy of Windows 10 LTSC and not have to get bothered by untimely updates, Cortana, other bloatware and even telemetry.