This is an HP-67 calculator made by Hewlett-Packard around 1978. It still works as a programmable calculator 40 years later. As you can see, all of the key etchings are still visible. HP used to have a very strong reputation for quality products.
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First key of Macbook Pro 2018 is already chipping off
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This is an HP-67 calculator made by Hewlett-Packard around 1978. It still works as a programmable calculator 40 years later. As you can see, all of the key etchings are still visible. HP used to have a very strong reputation for quality products.
I've got several Model M's. All of them look fantastic. A few have other issues, but cosmetically you can't tell the difference between the injured ones and the healthy ones.
Model M's use a different kind of plastic though and those keycaps don't need to be translucent. It'd be awesome if Apple used shine resistant doubleshot PBT plastic for their keycaps, but they might not be translucent enough and might be too thick.
I've had many keyboards lose their legends, but few started wearing off as quickly as it did on my previous 2016 MBP and none of them were part of something quite so expensive. The interesting thing is that it didn't happen in the expected pattern. A few letters wore down within months and the rest were fine after two years. On my current 2018, everything's fine after 6 months. Maybe it's a quality control issue.
I like they current gen of Apple keyboard, but the quality of the keycaps are just appalling. I'm one of those oddballs who buys nicer keycaps to replace the stock keycaps on my external keyboards just for a nicer typing experience. I can't do that on a MBP. Even without the problem of the lettering wearing off, they just feel cheap. I suppose that's the price of thinness.
UPDATE: I went to the Apple store today with my 3 month old MacBook Pro. The guy at the Genius Bar replaced my Command key in a matter of minutes, no cost. They seem to keep extra keys on hand so it should not be a problem.
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Ha ha. I love those HP calculators. Good memories!
wow... I owned it ... a life agoThis is an HP-67 calculator made by Hewlett-Packard around 1978. It still works as a programmable calculator 40 years later. As you can see, all of the key etchings are still visible. HP used to have a very strong reputation for quality products.
I saw one in the Smithsonian in the 1990s. My daughter tells me that they sell for a few hundred on Ebay.
MacBook Pro 2018 here. Purchased late October 2019 (5 months of light use).
This is what mine looks like. Seems like a common issue, especially with the Command key. Very annoying, considering that this is a very new, >$3000 machine. I've had many, even cheap-ass laptops in my past for years and years and never experienced chipping. Will bring to the store once they reopen due to the COVID-19 and see if they'll replace it. Though I expect it to chip off again.
This is what mine looks like. Seems like a common issue, especially with the Command key. Very annoying, considering that this is a very new, >$3000 machine. I've had many, even cheap-ass laptops in my past for years and years and never experienced chipping. Will bring to the store once they reopen due to the COVID-19 and see if they'll replace it. Though I expect it to chip off again.
That's interesting that it seems to affect the command key disproportionately. I had a 2016 MBP and also had the finish chip off of the CMD key like that. It chipped off a few other keys too. The chip on the CMD key appeared almost right away in my first couple months of owning it.
I've had a 2018 MBP for a year now. No chips. I haven't done anything different.
MY wife's 2017 MBP's A key is doing this. But she is a HEAVY user of her keyboard (PhD student - year 2.5 of 5) and uses her laptop every day for hours and hours and hours.
Snap! This is my command key on my Core i9 2018 MacBook Pro 15" - I'll be going to an Apple Store too then I guess
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Working with quite a bit of sunlight behind me, and noticed that the replacement keys from Apple aren't actually black, and have a pinkish/purpleish hue to it. Under normal circumstances, they look fine, which is probably why I haven't noticed it before.
Is this normal? Or could it simply be because the buttons are newer than the rest?
Is this normal? Or could it simply be because the buttons are newer than the rest?
Update: note that there is a keyboard replacement program for most MacBook Pros. Check out Apple’s support website. On top of the chipping, some keys started to fee smushy. I brought it in, and they replaced the entire keyboard. Although, I learned that it’s not a different design. So all the keyboard problems are not guaranteed to be fixed permanently.
I have exactly the same peeling off pattern on my Command key - and only on that key - pretty annoying.
My MacBook Pro is a 15" 2018 model
I'll wait for my new 16" MacBook Pro to arrive on Dec. 21. 2020, before I contact Apple to get the key replaced - I can't live without my MacBook Pro, while someone try to replace the key - or as I sadly foresee that I probably need a new keyboard, because the "support" here in Denmark is not performed by Apple them self, and the knowledge and know-how is not the best - and they are very slow too.
Ha!! I've got one of these (for Sale if anybody's interested) and yes, still perfect after 40 years whereas my 2018 MBP has keys starting to peel off!This is an HP-67 calculator made by Hewlett-Packard around 1978. It still works as a programmable calculator 40 years later. As you can see, all of the key etchings are still visible. HP used to have a very strong reputation for quality products.
