I like this cat more every day. And the movie was just about perfect.
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Movie Director Taika Waititi Tells Apple to 'Fix Those Keyboards' at Oscars
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I’ve had the same RSI issue, but it’s because of the Force Touch Trackpad. Your thumb needs to exert lot of pressure to register a click and maintain that pressure for a drag, more than even the hinged trackpads on 2015 MacBook Pros. I’ve noticed my 16” needs less on the lowest 3-D touch setting than my 2018 15.4” did, so that’s a help, but as someone who does a lot of dragging sliders in Lightroom and FCPX, I’m still recovering. I’ve coped by activating three finger drag but it’s not as accurate or immediate as a click and drag, and even the lowest setting still needs too much pressure in my opinion.
A mouse isn’t an option in all cases either. Force Touch really wasn’t necessary when they introduced it and it’s been enhanced even less than the touchbar (which I do use and appreciate a lot actually).
A mouse isn’t an option in all cases either. Force Touch really wasn’t necessary when they introduced it and it’s been enhanced even less than the touchbar (which I do use and appreciate a lot actually).
He directed, amongst other things, Thor 3 Ragnarok.
That said, the keyboard on my Microsoft Surface Book 2 is just about perfect.
That said, the keyboard on my Microsoft Surface Book 2 is just about perfect.
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I continue to hang on to my 2012 MacBook Air for non-work activities. For work I have a 2017 MacBook Pro and I really do hate the keyboard.
Apple: please go back to old keyboards.
Apple: please go back to old keyboards.
I think I see someone in the running for a gig in a new Macbook Pro with improved keyboard commercial.
He also played Korg in Thor Ragnarok, which was personally my favorite character in that movie.
I get a million replies on here accusing me of being a paid Apple shill. Except every time I complain about having had to suffer with that garbage butterfly keyboard nonsense for the last 3+ years with a few different machines, each of which have had keyboard repeatedly start doubling-up keystrokes or missing keystrokes, regardless of how much compressed air i use, and not wanting to be without my machine for a week so that Apple can fix it by replacing with an identical screwed up keyboard.
When I post those messages, I am accused of making a big deal out of nothing, Apple knows better than I do what their keyboard return rate is, blah blah blah.
Anyway... I finally tested out the new 16” MBP and keyboard in an extended session at the apple store yesterday. It was like heaven. Barely perceptible difference in key travel from the external magic keyboards, but that difference is made up for by the fact that the keys seem to be more stable laterally. Definitely going to buy one as soon as they update the 16” with intel’s 10th gen, and will probably by a smaller MBP or MBA as well once they switch those keyboards over.
When I post those messages, I am accused of making a big deal out of nothing, Apple knows better than I do what their keyboard return rate is, blah blah blah.
Anyway... I finally tested out the new 16” MBP and keyboard in an extended session at the apple store yesterday. It was like heaven. Barely perceptible difference in key travel from the external magic keyboards, but that difference is made up for by the fact that the keys seem to be more stable laterally. Definitely going to buy one as soon as they update the 16” with intel’s 10th gen, and will probably by a smaller MBP or MBA as well once they switch those keyboards over.
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Apple's getting humiliated a lot lately, Linus exposed how awful the new Mac Pro is;
The keyboard is just the tip of the iceberg with these Macs, but it’s the poster-child for the entire flawed design philosophy.
The arrogance of forcing a keyboard redesign that didn’t need to happen, removing I/O to force USB-C when 90% of the world still uses USB-A/HDMI, forcing the touchbar nobody finds useful, taking away upgradability, forcing a flawed T2 chip that adds an entire new point of failure.
That’s aside to the durability and quality control of these machines. You shouldn’t feel the need to purchase another $400 warranty in case of another logic board failure, or because there’s some other half baked idea Apple added in that potentially breaks the laptop.
The arrogance of forcing a keyboard redesign that didn’t need to happen, removing I/O to force USB-C when 90% of the world still uses USB-A/HDMI, forcing the touchbar nobody finds useful, taking away upgradability, forcing a flawed T2 chip that adds an entire new point of failure.
That’s aside to the durability and quality control of these machines. You shouldn’t feel the need to purchase another $400 warranty in case of another logic board failure, or because there’s some other half baked idea Apple added in that potentially breaks the laptop.
You are wrong. Yeah I (and many others) said it. Butterfly switches are not fine.
I like the feeling of the Magic Keyboard. I think it's just enough travel.
Apple should implement the same scissor mechanism in their Apple keyboards without making any adjustments to it. As it is it's perfect.
I find even the keyboard on the 16-inch uncomfortable to type on as well. I’m considering a Surface Laptop at this point.
While I have had no major issues with the butterfly keyboard on my 2016 MacBook (besides some mistyping keys every once in a while), I don't like how it feels when typing.
For some reason the way it feels makes me mad after a while.
Apple should replace it with a scissor keyboard.
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Switching to a Surface just because of the way a keyboard feels seems kind of extreme. The Surface has its own share of issues, more serious than the MacBook keyboard. A company I work for bough lots of Surface tablets, that now are sitting bricks on their IT Department shelf because these wouldn't last (power supply and other issues that made them expensive to repair). Their latest decision was not to buy them anymore. It's now either a Lenovo laptop (easy to repair, not as expensive) or an iPad.
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I’ve done plenty of research on the Surface line and I’m aware of its problems. Surfaces aren’t the only ones with issues—my MacBook (2017) had so many problems that I’m now very hesitant to buy another Mac.
And as someone who predominately uses my laptop to write and do research, having a reliable, comfortable keyboard is a must for me. I found the 16-inch keyboard uncomfortable, and the Surface Laptop’s in comparison is a delight to type on. I spent a few hours with the Surface Laptop recently and I was very impressed with it.
Might be gone, but not forgotten. 🍏 will change the lineup & maybe try the same stunt in 5-7 years!😜🤣
Love him. Jojo Rabbit was brilliant. I’m glad Apple is taking steps toward better keyboards with the 16” MacBook Pro.
Shipping was unwise but understandable (sometimes you just don’t really know until it gets into widespread public use - gamma testing).
the problem is, they didn’t say, 3 months in, “OMG, this is a problem we need to stop and fix right now”, instead they doubled down and put the same keyboard on other machines, and tried to paper over it with little tweaks to the same bad mechanism, and let it go on for years.
Apple's behaviour was shameful, sleazy, reprehensible and Cook should take the fall for it but in the twisted Cook era Apple universe, he undoubtedly was rewarded with additional stock options for "fooling the customers" to the benefit of Apple's revenues. Very sad indeed.
Apple should be publicly criticized for the same number of years this keyboard was sold.
