The Great Apple Keyboard Cover-Up

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Post by shritesh » Sat, Jul 14, 2018, 1:01 AM UTC

The Great Apple Keyboard Cover-Up
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#2

Post by tcoff91 » Sat, Jul 14, 2018, 1:28 AM UTC

I’m curious to know if the membrane improves the feel of the keys. I hate how the butterfly switches feel.

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#3

Post by pier25 » Sat, Jul 14, 2018, 1:32 AM UTC

tcoff91 wrote: post #2

I’m curious to know if the membrane improves the feel of the keys. I hate how the butterfly switches feel.

Some articles say it feels a bit softer, but I doubt it will make much of a difference.

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#4

Post by sillysaurus3 » Sat, Jul 14, 2018, 1:36 AM UTC

My too-expensive 2015 MBP has a nonfunctional keyboard. I have to type using external keyboards, which is quite "fun". Apple wants $500.

Dragging an old $10 USB keyboard around with you makes you look like you really like mechanical keyboards.

It's been about a year and a half now. I guess you get used to it.

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Post by phlyingpenguin » Sat, Jul 14, 2018, 1:37 AM UTC

I’m confused. Are we supposed to be bandwagon mad that Apple took steps to fix their busted keyboard?

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Post by lancewiggs » Sat, Jul 14, 2018, 1:38 AM UTC

They fixed the keyboard, increased the max memory to 32GB and stuck to their guns on the touch bar - and that all seems reasonable to me. (I’m far more annoyed by Microsoft removing ESC as the dbox cancel key for errors in Excel than the disappearance of the ESC key)

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Post by dingo_bat » Sat, Jul 14, 2018, 1:41 AM UTC

Reading the comment under TFA it seems macbook keyboards have no water resistance? Seems a bit weird for such an expensive device.

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Post by madeofpalk » Sat, Jul 14, 2018, 1:42 AM UTC

This is in-line with the the 'under promise and over deliver" mantra I was taught at Apple Retail. Don't make any promises you can't keep, and silently start to fix issues like this.

Apple having a hardware fix for their keyboard disasters in this revision is also inline with their repair program they just issued.

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Post by paxys » Sat, Jul 14, 2018, 1:45 AM UTC

phlyingpenguin wrote: post #5

I’m confused. Are we supposed to be bandwagon mad that Apple took steps to fix their busted keyboard?

No, we're supposed to be mad because they still refuse to acknowledge that it was a real problem to begin with.

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Post by princekolt » Sat, Jul 14, 2018, 1:45 AM UTC

sillysaurus3 wrote: post #4

My too-expensive 2015 MBP has a nonfunctional keyboard. I have to type using external keyboards, which is quite "fun". Apple wants $500. Dragging an old $10 USB keyboard around with you makes you look like you really like mechanical keyboards. It's been about a year and a half now. I guess you get used to it.

There is a service program to replace these keyboards for free. They are even refunding people who paid to get their keyboards fixed before the program launched. This is almost a non-issue at this point if you can use a replacement computer while they fix yours.