Hacker News Reader

I had a Dell keyboard with a similar design years ago. These individual scissor keys were painful to clip replacements (or just popped off keys) on. Dell themselves just replaced entire keyboards.

Assuming given the extra decade, Apple's keys are hopefully more durable, but it's still no pain free job either.

View on HN

It's not something manufacturer do since it can be time consuming, but if you have a spare afternoon it's fairly easy to do.

The only cases where I have personally seen that a whole keyboard replacement was needed were those caused by a liquid spill, but Apple is never going to cover those since they could easily damage the logic board and you wouldn't be "safe" even after months.

But yes, at the end of the day using screws instead of rivets would be better for everyone

Reply on news.ycombinator.com