Apple Updates Air, Pro Laptops, Kills Off the MacBook

Re:Apple Updates Air, Pro Laptops, Kills Off the MacBook by cold_fact on Tuesday July 09, 2019 @06:59PM (#20397611)

my 2015 Pro is so much better than mycompany 2017 Pro w/ touchbar

like people are saying, most people just don't care about the touchbar. It does get annoying at times (as a vim user). Why WHY do they hide the esc key and have it take two inputs to increase the volume/brightness by more than 1 tick (sliding is terrible).

Other than that, I totally agree, the real focus should be the keyboard. Because it's shit. Here aresome of the awesome problems I go through on a daily basis at work.

- space bar double spaces all the time. Turned off key repeat and also whatever other suggestions I could find on Stack

- backspace deletes too many characters

- keys double type or are just not responsive (space, left shift, fucking / for some reason)

yeah, real fun using it especially while I'm on call right now and working on prod servers!! WORK ON THE KEYBOARD APPLE

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Re:Apple Updates Air, Pro Laptops, Kills Off the MacBook by snowwrestler on Tuesday July 09, 2019 @07:11PM (#20397707)

You can just put your finger on the volume or brightness icon and slide it. You don’t have to pick it up or wait for the slider to appear.

You can also set the esc key to stay visible.

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Re:Apple Updates Air, Pro Laptops, Kills Off the MacBook by cold_fact on Tuesday July 09, 2019 @07:21PM (#20397780)

yeah I downloaded Dock to display my dock and esc key at all times.

Thank you for the tip. Knew you could use the slider but thought you actually had to be on dot, feel so dumb. Never tried sliding in place!

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Re:Apple Updates Air, Pro Laptops, Kills Off the MacBook by Zarel on Tuesday July 09, 2019 @07:50PM (#20397948)

For your keyboard problems, just get it repaired. It's free under a four-year warranty, and it usually only takes one day: Just drop it off at an Apple store, and pick it back up the next day.

(Also, if you're a vim user, you should really remap Caps Lock to Esc. There's a pane in System Preferences for it, and it should be done whether or not you have a touch bar.)

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Re:Apple Updates Air, Pro Laptops, Kills Off the MacBook by AlexandrB on Tuesday July 09, 2019 @09:02PM (#20398315)

Caps Lock is better remapped to CTRL in my opinion. However, with Vim I always use CTRL+] instead of ESC because I think it’s easier to reach.

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Re:Apple Updates Air, Pro Laptops, Kills Off the MacBook by infectoid on Tuesday July 09, 2019 @08:15PM (#20398089)

Pretty sure that having a work laptop gone for a day is not an ideal situation for most people.

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Re:Apple Updates Air, Pro Laptops, Kills Off the MacBook by chrischen on Wednesday July 10, 2019 @04:25AM (#20400138)

I'd also like to add that there's a chance they also swap out your battery during the keyboard repair.

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