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> I wish it was different

Amen to that, my keyboard on my m1 air recently failed. I was horrified to find out it is literally riveted to the frame. I got this close to buying a new one. Something annoyed me about this perfectly good laptop being rendered compltely useless and I ended up buying a replacement keyboard, ripping out the old one and shimming this one with paper. Its not perfect but here I am typing from it.

But you are 100% right, there is just nothing better on the market. The gap is so big.

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The riveting sounds, as you say, horrifying. Congrats on making it your own again.

It’s still remarkable to me that it’s even possible to do it at all. The amount of tech and miniaturization crammed into that thing — it would be easier for them to rivet, weld, and glue every part, and cheaper. And if the build quality weren’t so high to begin with, it wouldn’t have withstood the repair at all.

A good friend has a Framework, and it’s cool as hell, but incredibly primitive compared with your M1.

Primitive in what sense though? As I have had one for longer than my Macbook lasted in the same situation, plus it is upgradeable as and when I choose. I loved apple of old, and the classic apple that was the framework of it's time regarding upgradeability, has long gone.

Framework owner here: The fw just does not feel as sturdy as a Macbook, it does the job and it's ok but not macbook grade. The framework feels like it's been built with just enough whereas the macbook feels strong and self-contained.

It doesn't feel as sturdy, but I have actually had less issues with it in the same amount of time, and each one I have been able to fix myself cheapily and easily. The Macbook does feel sturdy, but it is deceptive as one issue means the whole laptop is almost needing to be replaced which is not strong in reality.

You do get a new battery with Keyboard replacement. So it is not that bad although it may still be better to buy a new MacBook considering the cost.

How did it fail?

no idea, space started typing a "}" followed by a space. Few other keys started doing wonky things aswell.

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