The touchbar is still 100% useless. I don’t want my keys to keep changing on me, did no one do any usability studies on it? It’s absolutely stupid. And the previous keyboard is pure incompetence.
But the new keyboards are better. They should really just go back entirely to the 2015 keyboard.
personal advice: modify it to always show the exact same set of buttons at all times.
settings > keyboard > touch bar shows > expanded control strip
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Most people seem to feel this way. I'm guessing Apple wants to get rid of its TB parts in stock before making it optional or entirely removing it from the next models.
Personally even if it was somewhat useful I'd rather not have it. How much is Apple charging for it to the end user? $200-300? No thanks. I also feel it's a ticking bomb.
I just want a 2015 model with updated specs.
At the time I lived in Cancun and the 4th gen CPU got too hot to use comfortably in my lap (indoors with AC). Sharing the screen on Skype put the fans to the max which I found very annoying. I also had issues when trying to record my screen while running Ableton Live.
I ended up buying a 5K iMac in early 2018 which was the best option available which is what I still use 90% of my time. Sometimes I still use an old 13'' 2014 rMBP when I'm away from my desk at home.
Nice comfortable curved keys with a decent throw. The curvature let your fingers know they were centered over the keys, and spread the force over the entire surface of your finger instead of a hotspot of pressure in the center.
flat keys are dumb.
Older thinkpad keyboards are nice too.
However, the MacBook 12" had the bad keyboard from the beginning. It came out first in 2015.
I've given up on the lot of them, and I now carry around a standard-layout 104-key keyboard with me wherever I carry the laptop.
It's not that bulky, and I'm way more productive on the standard layout I've used for two decades compared to whatever moronic, or even intelligent compromise some committee of designers came up with to squeeze it down to 2/3 of its original size.