MacBook Pro Keyboard Drives Me Crazy

Re:MacBook Pro Keyboard Drives Me Crazy by dpedu on Wednesday August 28, 2019 @07:42PM (#20825225)

The Surface Book 2's (the model I own) keyboard is probably one of the best laptop keyboard on the market today. Proper key travel and spacing and it's even backlit. I particularly like that they volume controls are on F1-F3 since they plus the Fn key can be operated single-handedly.

I just wish it ran Linux better - I find Windows unusable.

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Re:MacBook Pro Keyboard Drives Me Crazy by BinaryIdiot on Wednesday August 28, 2019 @07:44PM (#20825240)

I own a Surface Book 2 and a Surface Laptop 2. Both are amazing but I find the Laptop 2's keyboard better because of the fabric on it (which sounds bizarre).

Either way, except for some Windows annoyances I really don't miss my MacBooks.

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Re:MacBook Pro Keyboard Drives Me Crazy by halotrope on Wednesday August 28, 2019 @10:43PM (#20826224)

I just installed Ubuntu on mine and after updating the kernel with surface drivers[1] It works surprisingly well (Touch works, detach clipboard, nvidia-gpu, function keys). Its really a great linux machine tbh 1 https://github.com/jakeday/linux-surface

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Re:MacBook Pro Keyboard Drives Me Crazy by Diggsey on Wednesday August 28, 2019 @08:27PM (#20825509)

When I first got it, it was fantastic, the best laptop keyboard I've ever used - over time the keys have got a little squishy though. Not enough to be an issue but it does make be a bit sad...

I had a Surface Pro 4 before this and the keyboard on that was also amazing despite a much smaller size, and the keys didn't degrade at all.

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Re:MacBook Pro Keyboard Drives Me Crazy by PretzelFisch on Wednesday August 28, 2019 @09:17PM (#20825788)

I love the Surface Book 2's keyboard, but it's trackpad still leaves a lot of room for improvement.

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