An ode to Apple’s awful MacBook keyboard

Re:An ode to Apple’s awful MacBook keyboard by boubiyeah on Monday September 03, 2018 @06:22AM (#17901678)

I feel exactly the same way. Just bought the new 2018 model and I can't shake the feeling they're completely off-track. The trackpad and screen are excellent, the OS is okay but boy, that thinness chasing is so dumb! I make many more typos on this keyboard than on any other. There are only dumb thunderbolt ports. The touchbar is the dumbest gadget I've ever seen (RIP physical escape key) and it even crashed on me keeping the sound control stuck to the maximum.

Considering the price of these machines, I feel they're really playing with fire.

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Re:An ode to Apple’s awful MacBook keyboard by whywhywhywhy on Monday September 03, 2018 @10:03AM (#17902630)

This doesn’t get mentioned much but they wrecked the physical media keys because of the touchbar. You can no longer control iTunes globally, the media keys only work with the focused app because that’s what the touch bar does.

So if a web page is playing a muted ad with sound your media keys wont do anything if you try to pause iTunes.

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