Ahhh feck. Someone told me the keyboard got "redesigned" back to raised chiclet style -_- turns out nope, just "new materials!".
Personally I hate the zero travel flat unresponsive feel to them, but I could forgive that as personal preference IF they worked correctly. I've had to book in 5/6 MBPs we have for keyboard replacements, one of them twice, and one of them like 4 times now. And ofc because the keyboard is glued to the top case and battery it means I have to book it in and collect days later, which is **** when it's a CTO build with a giant *** SSD in it that means I can't just restore the TM backup to a spare mbp -_- ARGH. Only slightly bitter about the whole experience
The most telling thing is the company having to respond with extended warranty periods for this specific issue, then they go and release the new/improved model *without* changing the underlying hardware causing the ****ing issues? God damn if that doesn't say enough about what Apple care about these days idk what does. Long gone are the days of "it just works"
Personally I hate the zero travel flat unresponsive feel to them, but I could forgive that as personal preference IF they worked correctly. I've had to book in 5/6 MBPs we have for keyboard replacements, one of them twice, and one of them like 4 times now. And ofc because the keyboard is glued to the top case and battery it means I have to book it in and collect days later, which is **** when it's a CTO build with a giant *** SSD in it that means I can't just restore the TM backup to a spare mbp -_- ARGH. Only slightly bitter about the whole experience
The most telling thing is the company having to respond with extended warranty periods for this specific issue, then they go and release the new/improved model *without* changing the underlying hardware causing the ****ing issues? God damn if that doesn't say enough about what Apple care about these days idk what does. Long gone are the days of "it just works"