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That’s me going bye bye then. It was fun while it lasted. After the keyboard fiasco and “Vistalina”, this would be the last straw.

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I, too, make major decisions based upon limited information.

I used the conditional, didn't I?

The keyboard "fiasco" was fake news. Overblown by the loud minority and with later iterations probably not an issue at all. But it's a stain that couldn't be washed away (they tried with the replacement program, but likely wasn't effective enough).

At worst the keyboard "issue" is just a preference.

>At worst the keyboard "issue" is just a preference.

Yeah, I prefer to have my B key registering 100% of the time instead of 80% of the time.

What segment do you envision preferring keyboards with keys that randomly fail?

I've had 3 Macs with these keyboards (should have been two, but one died completely and had to be replaced), all of them had this issue to varying degrees. This was not uncommon for the other Mac users at my workplace.

Even if fiasco is an overstatement, the initial denial of the issue I think is the major source of it becoming a media issue.

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