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Gen 3 butterfly keyboard
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Sorry you had to go through all of this. I've been using my keyboard non stop as my main daily keyboard when attached to a monitor. Luckily, no issues. Nice of them to allow you to upgrade to the Vega 20 model. Hopefully the next model (4th gen) introduces a better keyboard.
I don't expect any major change in 4th gen. They could hire the best engineers to fix it already. It's not quantum mechanics, just a keyboard.
well it kinda is...
You never know whether it works or not when the lid is closed.
Haha, Schrödingers keyboard.
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well it kinda is...
You never know whether it works or not when the lid is closed.
The Apple's Uncertainty principle.
I would have to agree. I think that the Apple Magic Keyboard is one of their best.
Although it also has a butterfly mechanism, I would surmise that it's either too thick or too expensive to replace the keyboard in the MacBook Pro.
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I think they care about their stock price
.As someone with a magic keyboard laying across a defective MBP keyboard, I agree that it's really nice to type on and seems to have a really nice travel distance. For the price though it's ridiculous that it doesn't have backlighting.
Sounds like a good experience given the situation. Obviously you would prefer to not have the issue at all, but if it happens, this sounds like the best solution you could hope for.
Do you seem to notice a difference between the official "Magic Keyboard" and the Space Grey version bundled with the iMac Pros? I tried both out in the store and found that the iMac Pro's edition had a slightly firmer feel to it. It came closer to the feel of the butterfly keys than the normal white version.
At least it seemed that way. It wouldn't make sense why they would manufacture the regular silver keyboards differently from the space grey ones. It could have been just that I happened to stumble upon a space grey keyboard that was fresh out of the box and wasn't broken in yet.
I found the lower profile Magic Keyboards to be a pretty good typing experience and I really wonder why they didn't go with that design as well. It would seem to be something that has a good chance of keeping both the pre-2016 enthusiasts happy along with the fans of the butterfly keys.
this feels quite firm; not at all like the old wired one. I don't have another one at me, but the feels it not unlike the butterfly, which is why I'm even more confused why apple chose the faulty butterfly mechanism
I may give it another look then. I was really quite impressed with that one copy of the Magic Keyboard that got my attention. It had an amazing amount of tactility for a scissor switch... or maybe I won't tempt myself. After selling off some of my keyboard collection last year, I'm trying to keep it from multiplying again.
One of the reasons I was so pi**ed off was that this was possibly the nicest keyboard I have ever used. Srry, eever ruseed. Soft, quiet, lovely, I found a way to make the Touch Bar useful, it would have been my favourite Apple product ever... had it not been for... my irrrrattional eeasonstoo leave theecosystem.
Short answer: no.
Long answer: NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO.
I think it was spending three hours searching for the reason why my screen changes colour profile when I switch between a mostly white page in a browser and Spotify's dark interface and that colour profile is changed gradually JUST slowly enough to make me angry. I found out I had to go to the Registry (where else?), change a key from this to that, and three days later I had to find it again because Windows' nightly update returned it to the previous state. This is exactly the type of problems that macOS never has.
Yes, macOS these days is kind of boring, really. This is what an operating system should be. Let me do my things and stop forcing me to waste time on idiotic problems such as "Windows Update encountered error -400001 while downloading an update for Windows Update". (I wish this was a joke. I needed to manually update Windows Update before it could update *itself* to download updates. I still wake up at night screaming. It took me eight hours total.)
– sent from my Yoga C930 which is currently running three operating systems and only one of them requires multiple updates per day
I love the ThinkPad keyboards! The are fantastic. The issue I have run into with Windows 10 is to only install Windows 10. The extra vendor programs often cause problems.
I just purchased a 2018 13" MacBook Pro to replace a 2013 MacBook Air. I hope I don't have these keyboard issues! I have to say I enjoy the 2018 keyboard. It is very comfortable to me.
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I haven't had that issue with the Surface either. Was the issue with the Razer and BIOS setting overriding the Windows 10 settings?
My 2016 gave me on and off trouble like that for the first year. Every 1 to 2 months, something would jam from anywhere between a few hours to a few days. Fortunately, it stopped entirely after one year. It's been over 13 months since my last jam. Like you, I use it in clamshell mode often and actually mostly used it in clamshell mode initially. The more I used it directly, the less it jammed. Hopefully yours just needs some breaking in like mine.
Try pressing it down in the middle and gently rotate it clockwise and then counterclockwise while it's held down. Repeat a few times.
*sad chuckle*
– sent from my "cheap" non-Apple laptop which doesn't require being pressed down in the middle and gently rotated clockwise and then counterclockwise while it's held down
(seriously though, imagine the glee of MR users if the middle-pressed-gently-rotated-while-held-down computer in question was produced by Samsung)