![]() The popularity of the MacBook Pro has only been highlighted by the keyboard issues, as no one notices a flaw in their tools more than people who live and die by them. So if you have an Air or a Pro that has issues, it will get the new mechanism.Īs a note, the changes in the keyboards are “under the hood,” meaning they are not intended to change the look or feel of the keyboard and should result in the same typing experience as current-gen keyboards. If you bring a MacBook in with an older third-generation (the one with the membrane) malfunctioning keyboard, it will be replaced with this new fourth revision of the MacBook keyboard. It is making substantial improvements to repair processes in Apple Stores to make repairs faster for customers with issues. Apple tells me that repair times for keyboards have been longer than they would like.This means that current MacBook Pros and even the models being released today will have keyboard repairs covered at no cost, in warranty and out of warranty. ![]() Though Apple believes this change will greatly reduce the issue, it is also including all butterfly keyboards across its notebook line in its Keyboard Service Program.Apple will not specify what it has done, but doubtless tear-downs of the keyboard will reveal what has been updated. Apple says that this new keyboard mechanism composition will substantially reduce the double-type/no-type issue. The MacBook Pro keyboard mechanism has had a materials change in the mechanism.Today, however, they told me they’re taking three explicit steps to help with the keyboard situation: And, Apple never really even said they were making the change. The updates, though seemingly improvements, still resulted in some malfunctions. The industry term for this is “make or double make.”Īpple recently revised the MacBook keyboards quietly with the addition of a membrane that seemed intended to prevent dust and particulates from making it under the keys and preventing firing. Unless you’ve been under a rock, you’re aware that the current generation of MacBook Pro (and MacBook Air) models have had issues with keys either not firing or firing twice, resulting in no letter or double letters typed. The new MacBook Pro models will be available for purchase today.Īpple also told me that it is making three announcements about the MacBook Pro keyboard situation. Amidst a shift in Apple’s business driven by smartphone market saturation, the Mac has continued to grow out-sized to the industry and still acts as a beachhead for Apple in many enterprise businesses. It got an update last July, a graphics update in October and now the i9 update. ![]() The speed boosts of the MacBook Pro and the keyboard changes come after a year of boosts for the flagship notebook. The configure-your-own option gets a 200MHz bump, making it a full 2x faster from the dual-core 13”. The 13″ MacBook Pro with Touch Bar gets boosted 2.4GHz quad-core processors, standard, which will turbo boost to speeds up to 4.7GHz. The top end $2,799 config is now standard with an 8-core i9, two more cores and a 500 MHz increase over the current 6-core config. The $2,399 config of the 15″ MacBook Pro is getting a 2.6GHz 6-core i7 that boosts to 4.5ghz, a 400 MHz increase in turbo speed. Apple says that these boosts mean the 15” MacBook Pro will run at double the speed of the previous quad-core models and hit 40% improvements over the 6-core MacBook Pro model.Īpple says this is its fastest Mac notebook ever. MacRumors has confirmed that the new keyboards are exclusive to the 2018 MacBook Pros, and your earlier model won’t be upgraded to the new keyboard if you bring it in for repair.Apple is updating its 15” MacBook Pro with new 8-core and 6-core processors and its 13” MacBook Pro with Touch Bar with 8th-gen quad-core processors. If you’re hoping that the keyboard service program may replace your earlier model MacBook Pro keyboard with the new silicone-membrane-equipped third generation, you’re probably out of luck. After all, saying it’s “more reliable” implies that there’s a reliability problem to be fixed in the first place. ![]() In other words, Apple is probably trying to downplay any reliability problems with its keyboards, and is using the fact that its new more reliable keyboards also happen to be quieter as a convenient marketing point. And if the reliability issues are primarily caused by tiny bits of dust getting wedged under the butterfly mechanism, implementing its patented solution for “ingress prevention” seems like the logical way to go. If it was only engineered to be less clicky-clacky, Apple could probably employ better methods than this. But iFixit can find no other major changes to the keyboard that would make it quieter. ![]()
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