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Re:Appl Still Hasn’t Fixd Its MacBook Kyboad Problm by runjake on Wednesday March 27, 2019 @01:06PM (#19503059)
> People keep buying the product!

Not all of us.

I was saving up for a high-end MBP but the 2018s came out with essentially the same design and little public acknowledgement of the keyboard flaw, so I ended up building a rather beefy hackintosh with that money, instead.

I miss the portability, but gained power, thermal headroom, the ability to upgrade/replace individual parts, and a ton of expansion. It is glorious. And I paid a fraction of what I would have paid Apple.

Re:Appl Still Hasn’t Fixd Its MacBook Kyboad Problm by williamstein on Wednesday March 27, 2019 @01:51PM (#19503741)
I switched to Chromebooks from OS X almost entirely because of Apple's keyboard fail.
Re:Appl Still Hasn’t Fixd Its MacBook Kyboad Problm by pier25 on Wednesday March 27, 2019 @04:37PM (#19505763)
I switched to an iMac 5K instead of buying a new MBP.

I've had too many hackintosh headaches in the past decade.

Re:Appl Still Hasn’t Fixd Its MacBook Kyboad Problm by didgeoridoo on Wednesday March 27, 2019 @01:15PM (#19503154)
Care to share your build? Thinking that this will be my direction soon as well...
Re:Appl Still Hasn’t Fixd Its MacBook Kyboad Problm by runjake on Wednesday March 27, 2019 @01:29PM (#19503388)
I make it a personal policy to never recommend a hackintosh to someone, as it does require some work (albeit, it was less work to install macOS than Windows 10 [but both were relatively pain-free installs]).

That said, I cover my build here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19433038

Re:Appl Still Hasn’t Fixd Its MacBook Kyboad Problm by taude on Friday March 29, 2019 @08:14AM (#19520921)
How is it less work to install macOS than Windows 10? I personally ran a Hackintosh for two years, bought all the right parts according to Tony Mac, and after getting tired of fiddling each time with the upgrade cycle of the OS, I just went full in with Windows 10, and it was dead simple to install and setup, and it's been stable, simple, and reliable.