In the past year, my mac has been repaired twice, one is for the keyboard problem, the other is for the touch bar problem. So the top case has been changed twice. Now, there are some problems with the monitor. WTF!!! Every time to repair it, I have to wait for a week. I have brought a monitor now. I will repair the monitor until I have some replacement for the mac.
MacBook Pro Keyboard Drives Me Crazy
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#542Zero idea what everyone’s complaining about. I’ve had the new one for five months. Never even had a second thought about the keyboard and I code for real, as in, I get paid for it.
A real coder. Heh guys we have a real coder here. He gets paid and everything! Not a factor. I also know people that don't have a problem with the MBP keyboard, I also know many colleagues who are driven to distraction daily (myself included).
As in I spend a long time on the computer too. Literally depend on it for my livelihood.
And so do millions of people so,how come my mass produced keyboard works just fine? Am I too insensitive or what? Something wrong with me?
I guess I can’t understand how anyone could be driven to distraction. If it’s that bad, it’s time for Aderall, not a blog post.
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#543Zero idea what everyone’s complaining about. I’ve had the new one for five months. Never even had a second thought about the keyboard and I code for real, as in, I get paid for it.
Does that make me not a real coder? ;)
It’s a lot like how we’re all supposedly all switching to Thinkpads or like how the end user is supposedly pissed off at Javascript
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#544Zero idea what everyone’s complaining about. I’ve had the new one for five months. Never even had a second thought about the keyboard and I code for real, as in, I get paid for it.
The keyboard issues are inevitable with this design unless you work in a literal clean room. Check back in a year.
My desk is messier than you would believe. I’m not proud. As in, only reason I’m cleaning the house today is because they’re gonna start showing it tomorrow.
I cannot see any problem with my keyboard. Yet, everyone condescends like I’m stupid.
Same old HN
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#545The monotony of this complaint is driving me crazy. It's really simple. 1. If you don't care about MacOS, and want a different keyboard, please buy a Lenovo Carbon X1 and leave us happy Macbook Pro users in peace. 2. If your keyboard breaks, Apple will replace it free. The newer gen keyboards generally don't break. 3. If you really can't type on this keyboard and you really love MacOS, there are lots of decent thin B…
A lot of people are stuck developing on macbooks if they're creating mobile apps
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#546Earlier quoted context omitted.
Curious if you’ve tested this. I thought the keyboard was slowing down my speed, so I did a lot of wpm testing and was surprised that I was slightly faster. I still feel slower after the tests and have verified it a couple of times. I’m not sure how to account for this phenomenon other than possibly the lower travel feeling like less intense effort.
I feel that I am more likely to brush a neighboring key and that key is more likely to trigger on the butterfly keyboard of my 2017 work machine than on my 2014 home machine. I end up doing a lot more corrections on the butterfly keyboard. It seems like the tighter spacing and lower travel result in more unintentional key presses.
Yes, I think the keyboard needs the typist to adapt to it more than is appropriate for a mass market keyboard. I had the 2014 also and had to unlearn how I rested my hands on it and touched it. Not everyone will equally succeed at that, as evidenced by my coworkers who are still hitting the 2017-2019 keys way too hard.
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#547Earlier quoted context omitted.
Remap caps lock.
I wish I could remap my MBP arrowkeys to grow up and be full-sized keys...
Well, you're at least halfway there with the butterfly keys, since their left and right arrow keys are full-sized and only the up and down keys are half-height! Mac laptops previously have had half-height arrow keys literally for two decades, going back to 1998's PowerBook G3.
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#548Earlier quoted context omitted.
The ability to modify literally anything you can interact with is amazing on linux. However.... it's also very time consuming, so I basically never do that. Linux out of the box without tweaking it will have a lot of behavior you may or may not agree with. I found it to be very difficult to adjust away from the cohesive interfaces found on the mac—you can use readline keybindings on all forms, which only very rarely…
> Linux out of the box without tweaking it will have a lot of behavior you may or may not agree with I hear this from people who choose to use arch and Gentoo then complain that Linux requires much tweaking. Install Ubuntu and be done with it. Or if you want things to work like a Mac, go with elementary OS. If you still feel it's not _exactly_ to your liking, then I suggest you move back to osx.
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#549The worst part of the keyboard is the touchbar. I'd say well over 50% of my attempts to adjust sound level fail due to triggering other functions. I've been using this thing for over a year, and I hate it more every day. I don't even have the option of getting a normal keyboard if I want the fastest mac. It is as though they did no user testing at all.
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#550So he's writing today about last year's keyboard, when the laptops introduced a few months ago have a different keyboard already? I mean, good for him, but his complaint is literally a duplicate of what other people said about the butterfly keyboards for a couple years. I'm not aware yet of these complaints continuing to apply with the newest rev. Obviously Apple fucked up on these, and obviously they're trying to fi…
So basically "buy the newer hardware and shut up"?
My point is that
(a) he's on very, very well trod ground, and
(b) Apple has already taken steps to correct the problem he's yelling about.
So what's the point of his post?