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The new MacBook keyboard is ruining my life

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Bought a new Macbook Pro in April. Keyboard failed in June. "n" and "o" keys were flakey and either double typed or didn't type. It went back and got a new top case. No computer for three weeks.

Fast forward to October. Same computer now has the same issue with the 'x' key. Double types or doesn't type.

Should I seriously accept this as "fluke"? There are more examples in our company of this happening with the 2016 Macbook Pro. The design is flawed.

Web sites that are dead unless you enable JS, then have constant animations and hyperbole when you do, are ruining my life.

I'm here marveling at the amount of stretching the author did to make this article as hyperbolic and clickbaity as possible. The only actual point here:

"My keyboard broke. They fixed it for free under warranty. If other people's keyboards break later, they'll have to pay money".

> I'm here marveling at the amount of stretching the author did to make this article as hyperbolic and clickbaity as possible.

Seriously agree!

Further, I’ve owned both the new MBP and also the 12” MB. Personally, I LOVE typing on them, although the 12” could be a little clacky noisy at times. I’ve taken them through all kinds of abuse and not had this dust issue. Am I just lucky?

The title is indeed quite ludicrous. The author clearly needs a good talking to by someone with a sense of proportion (and I write as a long-time macbook user who will never buy another one because of the fake keyboard).

I'm a long time mac user with a 2012 era Macbook Air that I'd like to replace, but I've heard enough bad things about this keyboard that I'm still sitting on the sidelines and wondering what to do.

Apparently writing angsty articles is the thing to do!

I had a weird reverse issue in that I experienced some seriously bad OS software behaviour, not entirely fixed yet, which I even whined about to Tim Cook (though I doubt he saw!), and Apple insisted on replacing my perfectly OK 13" MBA hardware even though it tested perfectly...

I've no clue which "Genius" decided to kill such majestic thing as the MacBook Air, and come up with this shit. I'm still working on my MBA '13, waiting for something similar to pop up.

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