The MacBook keyboard fiasco is way worse than Apple thinks

Re:The MacBook keyboard fiasco is way worse than Apple thinks by velcrovan on Tuesday April 02, 2019 @10:39AM (#19554538)

Same, still using my early 2015 rMBP, and to be fair it is working great. As long as I use it I will never have to worry about the keyboard flaking out, plus it has magsafe.

Prior to this laptop I would upgrade every two years.

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Re:The MacBook keyboard fiasco is way worse than Apple thinks by davb on Tuesday April 02, 2019 @11:10AM (#19554937)

I have the same, but the proprietary SSD interface and soldered RAM mean I can no longer upgrade so have to move on. I'm looking at either the Lenovo E490 or T490 (learning towards the E). For half the price (in the UK) of a current-gen MBP with an i5, 512GB SSD and 8 GB DDR3, I can get a base model Lenovo E490 with i7 and upgrade to 1TB SSD and 24GB DDR4. There's just no competition.

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Re:The MacBook keyboard fiasco is way worse than Apple thinks by alain94040 on Tuesday April 02, 2019 @11:42AM (#19555322)

How fast is the SSD on that machine?

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Re:The MacBook keyboard fiasco is way worse than Apple thinks by davb on Wednesday April 03, 2019 @05:00AM (#19561867)

The Mac or the Lenovo?

I'm not sure about the Macbook's bundled SSD.

For the Lenovo, I'm incorporating the cost of upgrading to a 1TB Samsung 970 Evo Plus NVMe SSD (which has a stated sequential read/write speed of 3500/3300 MB/s).

And because the Lenovo is not using a proprietary connector (as my current Macbook is) and does not have soldered RAM (as my current Macbook does), I can upgrade both of those components down the line too.

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Re:The MacBook keyboard fiasco is way worse than Apple thinks by stanislavb on Tuesday April 02, 2019 @10:54AM (#19554723)

Same story. Yet, should I buy a new laptop, it’d be a very difficult decision... considering a Linux machine too.

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Re:The MacBook keyboard fiasco is way worse than Apple thinks by firepoet on Tuesday April 02, 2019 @11:01AM (#19554814)

I went with a System76 laptop for precisely this reason.

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Re:The MacBook keyboard fiasco is way worse than Apple thinks by velcrovan on Tuesday April 02, 2019 @11:44AM (#19555349)

How do you like it? Been looking at those.

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