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The New MacBook Pro Keyboard Resists Dust Much Better Than Previous-Gen, Reports iFixit (9to5mac.com)
iFixit tore apart the new 2018 MacBook Pro keyboard to see how well the silicone membrane works to protect the butterfly mechanism from dust and debris. After showering a 2017 and 2018 MacBook Pro in dust particles, the repair site found the newer generation holds up surprisingly well. 9to5Mac reports: As shown in the photo, the blue paint particles coat the outside of the keycaps and the edges of the membrane, but the silicon covers stop most of the particles from getting into the key mechanism -- which is what causes the sticky key issues on the previous models. However, the silicon covers have to have holes in them to allow the keycap clips to attach. Naturally, dust can and will get through these holes over time. iFixit placed some sand particles into the "danger zones" of the keycaps, and confirmed the keys will break/become-unreliable when that happens, just like the second-generation butterfly keys. The non-cocooned 2017 keyboard was "almost immediately flooded" in the particles, unsurprisingly. Clearly, the 2018 model is greatly improved in regard to reliability, but it remains to be seen just how much better it is in real-world use. Over time, you only need a couple specks of dust to get in the keycaps and the keys will get stuck. It's just the chances of dust getting in are greatly reduced with the 2018 models.
Not using a decent spring is courage.
HUGE fan of the MagSafe , it has save my laptop from the grandkids and the dogs a number of times.
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And in the same time I have seen a number of PC laptops come in with damaged power connectors and broken screens
My PC owing friends say its the one thing they wish their PC had.
Resisting dust may or may not be an improvement. After all, once the dust gets in there, those silicone membranes also almost certainly make it harder to get the dust back *out*.
Crumbs under keys cause problems. Nothing surprising there. There are only two possible design changes that could significantly improve things:
Any other change is likely to be largely meaningless in the grand scheme of things.
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Looking at a PC laptop and throwing Linux on it, or buying a 2nd hand early 2015 MBP, the last good laptop Apple made.
Go look at the new ones.
Headphone socket on the RHS at the rear, where as headphones have the cables on the left.
This forced the cable to drape over the keyboard / trackpad.
Jobs would have fired the idiot who made that decision.
I think anyone that cared on the Mac side of things has left.
Makes me wonder what the heck Apple is doing with their tens of thousands of engineers and billions of dollars. They put out around 2 new phones a year, although arguably those phones are near or at the cutting edge. Laptops and PCs are refreshed on an industry-slowest timeline and targeting a narrower and narrower market with each revision.
I guess if you can print money you don't need to design more than 4 products a year. Must be a very nice place to work.
Even those who arrange and design shrubberies are under considerable economic stress at this period in history.
They are working on ways to push users into their ecosystem deeper.
Make SSDs too small to be useful but too expensive to upgrade, suddenly you want to pay for iCloud storage to store all your photos and music.
Doesn't matter if it "resists dust much better". Doesn't change the fact a multi-thousand dollar investment can be rendered useless by a dusty room. Apple may have their "keyboard replacement program" for out of warranty machines, but you know what it takes to remove that obligation? A sticker on the box, making sure buyers are aware of the flaky keyboards. Under most countries' consumer protection laws, you're only entitled to a remedy if you can claim the seller didn't make you reasonably aware of an issue. It's like when you buy the shelf model from a shop, if the salesman points out a cosmetic scratch, agreeing to buy it is agreeing you're fine with the scratch. At some point, Apple can successfully claim that agreeing to buy their defective product is agreeing you're fine with it.
Admit it. You post strawman arguments as AC so you get modded Insightful for refuting them, rather than Troll
No, the vast majority really aren't. They don't have the surge protection you'd expect from most AC adapters.
It might work OK for an emergency situation, but god help you if you ever hold that thing in the middle of a thunderstorm while it's charging off an adapter with $10 worth of components instead of $50. Your life is *not* worth saving a few bucks for a cheap adapter. Some are good; the vast majority are crap. Tear a few open sometime and look for yourself.
My 15" 2011 MacBook pro died and was replaced with a 2017 MBP model. I hate the Touch Bar-- screw you to whoever greenlit that idea. And the keyboard is a sorry replacement for the 2011's.
I did find out how to bring my 2011 model back to life! It involves a soldering iron to permanently disable the GPU. Two things don't work anymore-- external monitor support and brightness control. Otherwise, it works great. Here is the link:
https://realmacmods.com/macboo...
That is why Microsoft licensed MagSafe tech from Apple for their Surface line.
There are also third-party magnetic adapters for USB and Lightning that turn the connectors into magnetic connectors.
However, I believe that magnetic adapters for USB Type C support only slow charging and slow speed over the USB 2.0 subset, making them not suitable for charging laptops.
"We mustn't be caught by surprise by our own advancing technology" -- Aldous Huxley
I guess other manufacturers are afraid of Apple suing them over their bullshit patents. The system was in use for years before Apple "invented" it, but they seem to have been granted a patent because it was for low voltage DC rather than high voltage AC as used in cooking appliances.
Anyway, you can get USB-C magnetic connectors supporting PD that seem to get reasonable reviews on Amazon.
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This is, ultimately, the argument against monopolies in a nutshell (and this includes monopolies owned by the government). With no competition, there's little reason to care, and we see that in spades with the current state of Macintosh.
Phones are still being innovated because it's a highly competitive market. But it's clear the Mac is simply an afterthought at Apple now. They've allowed the entire line - desktops, laptops, mini - to completely stagnate and become borderline irrelevant. I am heavily invested in Mac hardware and software, but I'm considering going Windows/Linux at some point.
I require Photoshop, and don't care to drop $50/month for it since I own CS6 on a Mac. But I can do development just as well on a Linux desktop, and have a Windows machine around for Photoshop and testing with IE/Edge.
I require USB ports on a laptop. I will always use external hard drives regardless of how good the cloud is or how fast my internet connection is. I strongly desire magsafe power connectors. That was such an incredibly useful innovation and one of the best hardware advantages that the MacBook lineup had. I'm simply dumbfounded that they would give that up along with useful ports and such.
If they were trying to kill the Mac off completely, I can't think of something they would be doing beyond what they're doing now.
It's obvious that Tim Cook was a good CTO and everybody says his supply chain knowledge is top notch. But it's also more obvious that his place is as a CTO on a team with a good CEO, which he'll never be. I say that with confidence because if it was going to happen it would have by now.
I know Apple's stock is high, and that's one measure of the CEO. But their longer term prospects are hurting. Macs are required for iPhone/iPad programming. They need to get serious about Macs again.
Do you have ESP?