2017 macbook pro spacebar sticking

[Garage Battle]

APPLE FIX THE ******* KEYBOARDS JFC

 

[macjunk(ie)]

Good point. That is one reason I always have a few backup systems lying around. I cannot afford to stop working because a piece of office equipment died.

Yeah...I see where you are coming from. I personally have one as well and I had to go to great lengths to convince myself of the extra costs involved in that. I come from a time and a background that made it very difficult to own even a single laptop, let alone own multiples. Chalk up yet another expense for being in the Apple ecosystem.

This. Many of us buy expensive laptops not just because of design and durability, but also because of reliability.

Yup. And this is where my disappointment with Apple begins. When they began soldering everything, many knowledgeable members in this forum consoled the community by saying this will lead to a more reliable system. However, I have personally been on the wrong side of that equation multiple number of times.

Exacerbating this issue is the fact that Apple's designs of today are more prone to failure (e.g., keyboard of the 2016/2017). More people buy into Apple nowadays and that leads to longer service times at the store.

Another interesting side effect is how this approach impacts the whole 'Apple is green' badge. While Apple might run on renewable energy sources, most of its customers don't. So someone drives 50 miles to drop their MBP at the store cause the 'b' key double types and another 50 miles to pick up the laptop. Many members on this forum had to visit the store multiple times to get their keyboard (and perhaps regression failures) fixed.

So even if Apple has a fancy robot that is able to break down a MBP logic board to re-usable components, I don't think Apple deserves a pat on the back. The real victory would be to use that robot less and less cause Apple's customers own very reliable machines and in the rare case it fails, they can hope repair it themselves cause Apple had designed the machines in a modular fashion. That robot is used when we finally hand over the laptop to Apple for recycling, a decade since purchase.

That is the Apple I can be happy for, not the one of today: a giant shareholder pacifying, short term thinker and executor.

 

[Queen6]

Good point. That is one reason I always have a few backup systems lying around. I cannot afford to stop working because a piece of office equipment died.

I always travel with two notebooks as I work in isolation, equally I don't want the hassle of my primary failing. For me the cost of downtime would exceed the cost of the MBP. I certainly wont purchase a notebook with a known design issue as it simply doesn't make sense...

Q-6

 

[jerryk]

I always travel with two notebooks as I work in isolation, equally I don't want the hassle of my primary failing. For me the cost of downtime would exceed the cost of the MBP. I certainly wont purchase a notebook with a known design issue as it simply doesn't make sense...

Q-6

For me the notebook is a secondary machine, so is less critical. All notebooks are a compromise of size and weight at the expense of processing power and good ergonomics. So, I tend to do my critical work on a deskside machine with loads of memory, multiple GPUs, etc.

The laptop is for quick on the go prototyping and Office tasks. And if it dies on travel I can get by with online or tablet versions as a stopgap measure.

 

[Queen6]

For me the notebook is a secondary machine, so is less critical. All notebooks are a compromise of size and weight at the expense of processing power and good ergonomics. So, I tend to do my critical work on a deskside machine with loads of memory, multiple GPUs, etc.

The laptop is for quick on the go prototyping and Office tasks. And if it dies on travel I can get by with online or tablet versions as a stopgap measure.

Agreed, however a notebook it is when travel is a dominating factor, which it is for me. Therefore I want the best notebook reasonably possible and Apple has well and truly put itself out of the equation. This year I'll likely punch up to a hex core, 32Gb and a GTX 1080, currently the quad core, 32Gb & GTX 1070 is more than "keep the wolf from the door"

Considering the Asus ROG GL702ZC as that 8 Core, 16 thread CPU is a killer, equally the GPU is not very inspiring. Apple, well they make nice Ultrabook's these days

tbh I didn't think punching up to 32Gb RAM would make much of a difference, however I've found it to allow a more solid and productive experience, more akin to a desktop, just pile it on and the system is absolutely indifferent , and that I like.

Q-6

 

[exogeneity]

This one turned out to be a quick fix. Apparently, when they replaced the upper lid on my MBP, they didn't properly seat the connectors for the right speaker. I dropped it off for service early this AM, and within an hour they said it was fixed and ready to go. Fingers crossed this is the last time I need to call Apple service.

Mine was like that too. Speaker cable was not connected properly after a topcase replacement.

But my machine came back 3 days later with a dent too!