Unless they have to buy now, people should probably wait to see what problems the early purchasers find.
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Apple Debuts New 8-Core MacBook Pro With Updated Keyboard
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Unless they have to buy now, people should probably wait to see what problems the early purchasers find.
Agreed - we very well could see a newer design this summer boasting better thermals and 16".. making the line up
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16 (starting somewhere in the neighborhood of $4000 and only for demanding Pros)
don't give up hope. and also don't buy into this marketing of apple simply releasing a new keyboard for repairs but their marketing team had to tie it onto something so they beefed up the i9...……………
Think of this as the iPhone X event.. ( 2 normal iphones we have seen before and 1 new one..)
Find you a 2012 or a 2015 Refurb. The keyboards are better.
one sec while I mortgage my house, sell my car and my kids. They were cutting into my Mac budget in a bad way.
All laptop keyboards have the potential for failure. “Eliminate” would be misleading.
Nobody will ever say eliminate in that context. All keyboards fail. This butterfly one for Apple has just done so at a seemingly very high rate. All they can say is reduce. By how much remains to be seen.
So the 13" is the exact same computer with a 100mhz speed boost on the same processor, only the 15" gets the 9th gen. Ugghhh, for work reasons I can't wait any longer. Hopefully, the 512gb model from yesterday goes on sale again tomorrow for the April price of 1500.
I would still ask right away.
Yes. Repair Program was launched today:
https://www.apple.com/support/keyboard-service-program-for-mac-notebooks/
That is the hope. I've LOOKED at new MBPs for a while, but the keyboard is the biggest pain point and I see no reason to drop $2500+ on a keyboard that has a better failure rate than all other manufacturers combined. Ok, I'm exaggerating.... a little.You get the idea.
Exactly. I would bet that not one person that is babbling about keyboard problems has ever had a keyboard problem.
Are you running an Adobe suite??. Steve Jobs professed that he "hated" Flash...stuff makes your CPU run SO hot. I almost had to get rid of an iMac because of this!
Like... these few people?
With Navi gpus out soon, I wouldn’t trust Apple not to do what they did last year and release a better gpu option in a couple of months. That coupled with the no-redesign makes this so disappointing. No miniLED tech in there for HDR at least? Even laptop PCs have gone OLED this year! 8 cores in this design will be pointless too. Man oh man this hurts.
It take real courage to double down on a garbage keyboard design for the 4th consecutive year rather than redesigning it.
At least the 2018 is in the repair program now.
I wonder if the new butterfly will be retrofitted to earlier 2016-18 when they need repairs.
It's the Apple management team. Need a new CEO. <--- Puts his hand in the air. Round Rock, TX??
I've had a 2009, 2012, and 2014 MBP, I do want to move on eventually and as a video editor updated specs are somewhat important. If I was just banging away on Facebook with my MBP it'd be a no brainer tho lol
What's wrong with the Touch Bar? I understand people complaining about the missing Esc key, but apart from that, what's the problem with the Touch Bar? I for one like it a lot and use it every day.