I’ve been using one for six months - in my experience, the keyboard is awesome to the point that I hate going back to my other, older machine.

I reckon there’s been a bit of an unfair perpetuation of this idea that it’s particularly bad, though I accept that some other people have different tastes!

Yeah, I'm the same. I really prefer the new keyboards, though there are clear durability problems (possibly now improved) and noise can be a bit louder than desirable (also now improved).

It’s very different. I personally prefer it to the retina MBP one, which I never liked much (and which was a step down from the pre-retina one), but I can definitely see that some people wouldn’t like it.

Interesting. Maybe I need to evolve.

It's not necessarily that you're wrong or anything! I totally appreciate that people have different tastes in keyboards. I'm just aware that I've heard an awful lot of people talk about how bad it is, without having actually used it – to the point that I was really rather surprised when I started using it and realised how nice it is!

Since everyone has an opinion, I think the keyboard is utter garbage.

I always hear people tout the build quality of Macs, but from my experience I see just as much failure with Mac books and normal PCs.

I used to see a lot of software failures on old versions of Mac OS, but it hasn't been as bad in the past year. I am, however, on my third MBP in 10 months due to hardware issues mostly around the keyboard/touchpad and the chassis.

The only issue I've had is the large touchpad area. The keyboard has been fine for me - different and in some ways better.

And it looks like they may have fixed the keyboard issue...

Yup, you nailed in. I think I can get used to the new keyboard (despite the messed up arrow keys and lack of travel), but the touch bar just kills the purchase for me.

I thought about making a hackintosh laptop, but it doesn't seem like there are super reliable options out there. Guess I'll have to bite the bullet and make my next laptop a Linux one (despite the pain that tweaking the OS or even installing some software can be).