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Apple Engineers Its Own Downfall with the Macbook Pro Keyboard
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#512> [Apple quietly announced][1] that they were extending the warranty on their flagship laptop’s keyboard by four years. No, they didn't. If you read the very source the article cites for this, you find, > The program covers eligible MacBook and MacBook Pro models for 4 years after the first retail sale of the unit. The original warranty was 1 year[2]; this is a three year extension. "Extending by 4 years" is just too…
Exactly, As I said before, they should rise the price a little and offer 2 years standard warranty on all products, iPhone and Mac. It is not like they are replacing those panels or parts for free under warranty, you still have to paid for it, just a little cheaper. And 2 year is, for EU, UK, and AUS part of the law anyway.
And like you said many Notebook now offer 2-3 years warranty as standard. Apple?
It is rather unfortunate we don't have anyone to challenge them in both PC and Smartphone space.
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#513I was one of those annoying Apple evangelists for years. My 2010 MacBook Pro was my baby and I loved it. Eventually it got to the point where I had to replace it (after 7 years!) and when I went to look around at the new MacBook Pro range, I was so disgusted by all the problems that I ended up getting a Dell XPS 13. I consider my original MBP and the following models to be some of the best laptops you could buy at th…
The 2015 MBP is still available, though not that obviously: https://www.apple.com/macbook-pro/specs-2015/
No it's not available. If you click the "Buy" button, it will redirect you to the newest macbook page
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I feel the same. Especially the endless Update-hell in Windows which regularly and spontaneously brakes things and consumes hours and hours of your time. Never experienced this on my Macs. (Of course nothing is 100% perfect, but the difference is huge in my experience.)
Yeah, updates is why I really dislike Windows. The rest I can live with. I prefer Ubuntu + i3 or Mac OS X, but if I have to use Windows, then it’s mostly doable besides the updates. Be it updates to the OS or Visual Studio (which is why I do use it; Xamarin); random breakage and it takes far too long and happens far too often.
Honestly updates seems to be a more or less solved problem in Win10, for general use at least.
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#515I bought my 2017 MacBook Pro from an Apple Store in Tokyo back in March. Would it still be worth buying Apple Care given the new warranty I'll have on the keyboard?
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Not sure how this can fly over peoples heads, but the point is marketing. There is virtually zero disadvantage in making the phones 2mm thicker and add to their robustness and battery life this way. Virtually zero... except _marketing_ and hence sales.
If Apple released a new phone or laptop this September and specifically marketed it as being better built and longer lasting (and therefore thicker and heavier), I'd buy it. Am I the only one?
I'd buy a fatter, easier to repair, MacBook Pro (like the old model they still sell), but only if I could order it with 32 GB of memory.
The thing is Macs used to last a very long time. I kept my 2008 MacBook for about 8 years and it was still a fine laptop until the last day. Today, my work requires a little bit more memory and 16 GB doesn't quite cut it anymore.
This is probably why I'm getting a hefty Thinkpad E for a fraction of the price of the laptop Apple can't build yet because thinner parts don't exist.
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Especially in cases when it doesn't need to be thinner. I just tried out a Apple Magic Keyboard, which is a razor blade for some reason, and had wrist pain within a few hours of using it. Everybody's different, but this keyboard is trash. It is designed solely to look pretty in marketing photos. I'm not a keyboard snob. I don't need Cherry MX Blue's to be happy. I thought the Apple Wireless Keyboard (with the AA batt…
I am currently using this horrible keyboard. Hate this thing. Before I've been using a mechanical keyboard, but coworkers complained that it was too loud. I like loud keybords. The sound is so pleasant and satisfying I want it to be even more intense. I want to feel vibration every time I hit the key. And when I hit enter I want there to be a minor earthquake. This apple trash keyboard doesn't have Shift+Insert. The…
I have used http://matias.ca/quietpro/ in an office environment.
It feels 90% as good as a clicky keyboard and the colleagues I've asked about it don't mind the little noise it does put out.
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I am currently using this horrible keyboard. Hate this thing. Before I've been using a mechanical keyboard, but coworkers complained that it was too loud. I like loud keybords. The sound is so pleasant and satisfying I want it to be even more intense. I want to feel vibration every time I hit the key. And when I hit enter I want there to be a minor earthquake. This apple trash keyboard doesn't have Shift+Insert. The…
The Microsoft Sculpt Ergonomic Keyboard does not have loud switches, but feels much better than the Magic Keyboard. Only the function keys are not great.
I use its forerunner the Ergo 4000, nice to type on, quiet, full keyboard and works out the box with its media keys on Linux.
Ironic that I use a Microsoft keyboard to type code in a Microsoft language in a Microsoft editor on Linux.
The world is a strange place.
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#519I honestly don't understand all these quality sacrifices just to make things thinner. It makes the product actually feel somewhat cheap and brittle. The same thing confuses me with smartphones. Everyone keeps making these bacteria and finger print magnets thinner... the minute you drop it, it's shattered or unuseable... and so then you're buying a case to protect it from scratches and shatter... so what's the point o…
If they're making the phone thicker solely to make it not shatter, what you're doing is just building in a factory phone case, which you then can't easily remove or replace. So why not just let people buy their own cases that suit their needs?
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At same boat as you, and just have migrated all my activities to Windows on 64 Gb Core i7 8 gen CPU desktop. It's a real booster for my day to day work. I love and miss the aesthetics of macOS and Magic Mouse swipes. However let's face it, Apple alone cannot stand the pace. It just cannot compete with hordes of companies from all over the world who do their part of job really really good. Gigabyte, ASUS, Samsung, Int…
We all lose in the long run. Those companies all existed in 2005, but Apple was streets ahead of them for the average person. Apple pushed the industry forward. Remember what the typical phone was like before the iphone? Or the typical mp3 player before the ipod? Sure, the ipod may have had less space than a Nomad and no wifi, but it was what people actually wanted. The question is, is apple really going backwards, o…
Apple is really going backwards, no doubt in that. It still has a lot of momentum though but it's been mostly downhill since Steve Jobs unfortunate departure.