They'll fix the keyboard and break something else no doubt.
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Kuo: Apple to Use New Scissor Switch Keyboard in Future MacBooks, Starting With 2019 MacBook Air Refresh
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You can dream...but you know Apple will never allow you to do that without upgrading your laptop.
Same hostility to human factors that gave us the atrocious low-travel Butterfly keyboard. What kind of “more space” do you really believe reasonable key travel costs? One, maybe two millimeters? Please.
I imagine they'll continue to hold back on storage and memory on the less expensive air models. The Airs make up their cheapest practical option for most people, so I would imagine they would be hesistant to apply a large price increase there. I could be wrong. They have raised prices by a considerable amount over the last few cycles without really adding much that I would personally value.
That would be incredibly uncomfortable if you do a lot of typing and wish to maintain reasonable pace. Most of your muscles, including small ones, require some range of motion to maintain comfort. The current ones are already uncomfortable for me, which is why I don't use one. I tend to think the trend to chiclet keyboards and now this hasn't been worth it. It improves compactness by a small amount at the cost of worse ergonomics.
Just as ive's departure wasn't "suddenly decided". It sounds very logical to me. Perhaps apple -apparently- deciding to ditch the butterfly keyboard was the reason Ive finally decided to leave.
We still don't know if this rumor is true, but if it is, it's hard to deny a connection between both events.
Of course they understand. If you get lost in a dark cave and see a speck of light, you would celebrate.
I thoughtt people were crazy until I got a new MBP for work. I have to type every sentence 3 times due to this keyboard. It's total junk.
Just a quick question. What is the type (name) of the keyboard that Apple previously used before being switched to the Butterfly?
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Add me to the list: I was in the market to replace my 2011 MBP since late 2014. Wasn't convinced by the performance difference of the model in '14 so I held back. In '15 the then-current machine looked somewhat outdated considering the price. 16 and onwards and after trying the keyboard: no sir, not buying this torture-device without ports. Was cursing myself for not having bought the '15 model regardless of the price, too.
My laptop has been written off for 5 years now, ready to be replaced ... yet still trucking along.
Normally I'd have upgraded to yet another model again by now.
There's however so much wrong with the MBP at the moment that it's hard to see them come around. It's like a PC ultraportable now, priced like a mobile workstation.
The original butterfly keyboard was in the 2015 retina 12" macbook. In 2020 that will have been FIVE years.
it was 4 years before they even offered a replacement program.
I've been putting off an upgrade due to the keyboard issues but i'm at the point now where I suspect they'll screw the new machines in some other boneheaded way like price.
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Yup.
guessing macbook sales are going to tank until this new model comes out
Whether it's true or not, I won't be replacing my MBP 2014 until they resolve the keyboard issue....
You guys do realize that the newer keyboard may cause the current computers to be 1, maybe 2 mm thicker to accommodate this design, don't you????? The shock!!! The horror!!!! What's next? Adding another mm or two to the thickness and make the units have user upgradable RAM and SSDs? What about a replaceable battery??? What's going on here? How can Kim Kardashian strike a pose for the cover of the National Enquirer if the computer doesn't look ultra, ultra thin and slick with no hideous and unfashionable access panels. Surely no one actually ***USES*** a computer for anything, do they????
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I'm glad to hear you say this. I hope we can see the iMac gain 10mm of thickness and have a user replaceable hard drive again. I've moved my iMac exactly once, but need a $50 kit with new adhesive to upgrade the hard drive...
*sigh* The point of the comment/joke was that the rumor is making it seem like Apple is going back to tech that worked and wasn't done for "courages" sake.
you showed us most impressingly that you have NO glue about qualitity testing.
the major point in quality testing IS to recreate REAL life usage!
[doublepost=1562310531][/doublepost]i wonder if i really care what apple does - using my surface book 2 with TOUCH display hahahaha - not touch BAR
If they are reverting to scissors mechanism it’s and indicative that the problems with butterfly keyboard cannot be fixed, don’t you think? It would make absolutely no sense to keep improving the mechanism only to abandon it once you’ve finally fixed it.
Maybe,maybe not (he wasn’t too involved recently according to latest articles so new KB can be other teams idea) but Ive was 100% responsible for the horrible butterfly KB.that’s what we know for sure.
Apple Power User has morphed from creative/developer/scientist defined by amount of sustained horsepower you need to accomplish your work -> Kardashian/Influencer/Fashionista defined by the number of followers you have. By those metrics they've been making the right calls over the past few years