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Apple's Butterfly Keyboard Repair Program for MacBooks is Nearly Over
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You forgot daring to use your laptop outdoors
I have two older apple laptops that i used on my balcony for years. Keyboards still work perfectly.
I also had a butterfly keyboard mbpro. Keyboard lasted like 3 months before the first key started acting up.
The worst part is that even if you get the free replacement, it's also defective by design and will fail in the same way unless you move the laptop to clean room use only.
What I would have done upon receiving the free replacement would be to sell it immediately with the marketing note of "brand new keyboard" and buy any M1 Mac with updated keyboard.
I had my display cable fail less than a year after getting the keyboard replaced and just as the replacement keyboard was starting to act up again.
The Retina was the last model that had actual engineering behind it. After that generation, Jony Ive took over design and engineering.
It appears that we have engineers back at the table again with the Apple Silicon redesigns.
I love my mini and mostly love my iPhone, but honestly if this happened to me I’d have probably walked from the entire ecosystem.
We are, as a whole, unconditionally loyal to Apple ... sadly, sometimes, Apple is not unconditionally loyal to us.
I still have a 15'6 2019 i9. WHat an overheating POS. I am an apple enthusiast, but this whole generation was a ripoff.
Too bad that silicon is behind a barrrier. Now.
(Edit, 3 repairs and counting)
Too bad that silicon is behind a barrrier. Now.
(Edit, 3 repairs and counting)
most of the models with butterfly are obsolete by now or at least, a few latest models with it remains.
no need to worry about this now.
but...not a single user I had talked to ever have any problem with it at all.
no need to worry about this now.
but...not a single user I had talked to ever have any problem with it at all.
100% disagree, I think it was easily Apples best designed keyboard. I had one from each generation. No issues at all. I loved the slim profile.
I have 2 dogs & 3 cats - hair gets into EVERYTHING. No keyboard protector. It is used every day, she’s watching videos on it in bed next to me right now.
The only problem with this computer is the USB port… over the last few months it’s gotten to the point that the charging cable needs to be pulled “upward” to connect. And of course, there’s only the one port 😬
But, my wife loves this laptop ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ it was mine; I replaced it with a 2018 MacBook Air that was a gift from work… then traded that for a M1 iPad Pro 12.9”, then got a M1 Max MacBook Pro 16”. I tried to give my wife the iPad but she wouldn’t hear of it, this is HER computer. I’m just waiting for the USB port to completely die, so we can get her a MacBook Air M3. It’ll be a happy day for me (getting her into Sonoma) and a sad day for her, losing her beloved 12” Mac.
I’m glad I skipped these generations of Mac, and I’m glad they never brought it to the standalone keyboards. Issues with the design aside, I never liked the feel of the keyboard. It was also too easy to accidentally hit the corner of another key and it registering. Good riddance!
Even apple admitted it was a huge problem and switched kind of keyboard,, even Apple did not do what apple apologist are doing.
Glad Apple understood ( losing money replacing parts helped them do ) and made the only sensible thing, change the damp they created in the first place.
I personally think the issue is overblown. I know some had issues but we had dozens of Macs at work at the time and not a single one had a keyboard failure.
Stop calling people "Apple Apologists" because they liked a product. Apple admitted a flaw in the first gen but the design itself was still good and just needed improvements. It was a super nice very minimal key travel. We had dozens of Macs at work at the time, 1st gen butterfly keyboards and not a single one had issues.
I like the product too but I admit when they screw up, and it is for the better of the company.
People finding excuses to "protect" Apple are apologist... just using the right name for them.
They admitted the screwed up and went back to the regular keyboard after many attempt to fix the unfixable, then they realised they screwed up and went to the working on..
Only some people keep defending them while Apple itself moved on to a working keyboard.
I personally never had much problems with butterfly keyboard on my 2016 MacBook Pro. I still have it and I still use it from time to time and it works fine. I even kinda like it more than the one in my current M3 Pro MacBook Pro. Especially the perfectly even backlight without any light bleeds.
The only reason I had it replaced was because of battery.
That thing failed TWICE. The battery health went under 80% with not even 300 cycles. And that happened in the first 3 years. After that I used this MacBook plugged 95% of the time with 80% charge limit.
The only reason I had it replaced was because of battery.
That thing failed TWICE. The battery health went under 80% with not even 300 cycles. And that happened in the first 3 years. After that I used this MacBook plugged 95% of the time with 80% charge limit.
That's a lot of words to say "Yep, I'm being petty".
People like different things, it doesn't make them apologists. Apple iterated on the design and version three was fantastic. That's how product development works. They just happened to go a different direction because of feedback.
Again, just because someone likes a product doesn't make them an "apologist".