Nop, I havn’t fogottn how to wit. No did my dito go on vacation.
You s, to sha th pain of using an Appl laptop kyboad that’s faild aft fou months, I could only think of on ida: tak all th bokn ltts out of my column. Thn I alizd that would mak th whol thing unadabl. So to…
Why is th baking of my MacBook Ai kyboad so insanly maddning? Lt’s tak a tip down Mmoy Lan…
Work of art by Joanna Stn.
The link is behind a paywall.
Works fine for me and I have no WSJ subscription. Maybe it’s being geoblocked?
anevilyak,
Yea, the WSJ’s paywall is IP based. I believe US users are more likely to hit their paywall since we’re the main demographic and they want us to pay. But I think they use an algorithm to selectively allow some users through the paywall in order to encourage more 3rd party links to it’s content. If everyone were consistently blocked equally, then they’d receive very few inbound links.
Sometimes I find interesting articles on WSJ that I would share here except that I realize other people will just hit the WSJ paywall when they click on it, so I never bother posting any WSJ links.
A can of compressed air fixed my MBP keyboard problem… I was about to toss the damn thing out a window and go buy a PC laptop.
Because you think PC laptop are exempt from flaws ? Indeed, QC seems to be a bit more thorough since there is competition, what Apple is not afflicted with.
Wow! Did Apple just admit a hardware flaw?
BTW I think a millimetre or two of extra thickness is negligible and doesn’t justify the whole butterfly keyboard thing. Which makes you wonder: Do customers consider those 1-2mm to be important, or does Apple think they do?
Apple customers consider important what Apple do
After several earlier responses that always partly addressed this issue but never truely acknowledged any problems Apple’s CEO Tim de Kok finally addressed the issue of the MacLaptop Keyboards by announcing their revolutionary new professional machines, the MacBookPadPro. Again, Apple revolutionises the industry by having the courage to entirely do away with Keyboards. Not only the physical keyboards on the devices, but also the software keyboards. Instead full animated VR emoji’s can now be used to convey all your 2^16 emotions in an effortless and universal way. Of course you can also dictate these emoji’s directly to Siri
2019-03-28, Appels Cupido Headquarters (make love, not keyboards)
Disclaimer: This article was automatically transbribed from FAVR emoji to plain old text to be compatible with legacy readers.
Source: I completely made this up
Or simply
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9BnLbv6QYcA
avgalen,
I had to look up “MacBookPadPro” just to be certain. I think people would buy it 🙂
A lot of mac-os users don’t want IOS replacing mac-os (and I wouldn’t either), but it does seem like apple’s been moving in this direction. The phase out of mac-os within apple may not be overtly stated, but at least in terms of projects it chooses to invest in and promote it seems to an outsider like me that attention to mac-os has been on the decline for a long time.
https://www.macworld.com/article/3309677/why-ios-apps-on-the-mac-will-not-just-improve-the-mac-but-ios-too.html
“Appl’s buttfly mchanism”….
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I think there’s some dust stuck under your capslock key
I don’t understand why anyone buys macs anymore. I really don’t. Its cool that someone wrote some software that can mitigate the problem. Its also terrible that someone could write a program to monitor keystrokes… Yeah you could also probably do that with windows, but antivirus should pick up on that in most cases, at least I would hope. Not sure if wayland prevents that on linux. I think it reduced the scope of when that was possible, but if its still run by the the current user in their session its probably possible. A hat tip to the dev that solves that problem.
AV programs generally detect key loggers, not keyboard monitoring software. There are a lot of legitimate uses for the latter (accessibility aides, text expanders, global macros). AV programs don’t generally try to detect these, as the number of false positives would be off the scale. They typically try to detect key logging, which is not keyboard monitoring alone.
>> I don’t understand why anyone buys macs anymore
macOS
I heard somewhere that Apple was working on a keyboard which is just another screen with haptic feedback and/or somewhat flexible glass. The advantage for Apple is that they would no longer have to stock different keyboards and computer models for every language. So one MacBook Pro model to suit nearly everyone in the world. Only difference would be in the power adapter. Sure sounds like the kind of supply chain management that Tim Cook likes.
Or go full berserk : https://www.artlebedev.com/optimus/
I designed an LCD keyboard for the Amiga almost 20 years ago. It’s not new or innovative, it’s just cheap enough now to actually be profitable. Lots of inventions are too expensive when first developed, but become hits 20 to 30 years later when the price drops considerably… and after all applicable patents run out. 😉
I wonder what the failure rate is. Apple must obviously think it’s worth it. My macbook pro, late 2018 with a gen 3 keyboard, have these issues. A key have gotten stuck twice. I could fix it by blowing air under the key. But the backspace key have started registering double presses randomly and blowing air doesn’t help there. And this is after only about 4 months. Pretty bad for such an expensive computer.
In the office, we have 7 macs with gen2 and gen3 keyboards. One of the gen2 has some keys that are stuck, but it looks like something was spilled over it. I have the 15″ model, and I do appreciate that it is both powerful and compact, which is perfect for me as I travel for sales, but also do R+D (I work for a startup …).
My old Duo 230 from the 90s was let down by the unreliable keyboard. It was a notorious problem, but Apple expected the users to live with it. At one point, I ended up opening it up and cleaning the contacts with alcohol, but it didn’t do that much good. I ended up buying a couple of replacement keyboards from Ebay, but they all went bad after a while.