Because, as I say, the act of using the keyboard results in audible clackclackery. Yes, just a bit of dust! Move over ‘the princess and the pea’: Apple and the dust mote is here! ‘Just use it in a vacuum’ shouldn’t be an acceptable usability requirement for a very expensive laptop.Īpple has also had to make these keyboards quieter.
The redesigned mechanism has resulted in keys that not only feel different when pressed vs the prior MacBook keyboard - which was more spongey for sure but that meant keys were at reduced risk of generating accidental strikes vs their barely-there trigger-sensitive replacements (which feel like they have a 40% smaller margin for keystrike error) - but have also turned out to be fail prone, as particles of dust can find their way in between the keys, as dust is wont to do, and mess with the smooth functioning of key presses - requiring an official Apple repair. Most egregiously it’s not reliably functional. Scattershot staccato clattering, as your fingers are simultaneously sucked in and involuntarily hammer out a grapeshot of key strikes, is what actually happens. Reader, there is nothing remotely beautiful and butterfly-esque about the experience of depressing these keys. This is the keyboard that Apple “completely redesigned” in 2015, in its quest for size zero hardware, switching from a scissor mechanism for the keys to what it described then as the “new Apple-designed butterfly mechanism” - touting this as 40% thinner and 4x more stable.
But I am also very annoyed so I am adding my voice to the now sustained chorus of complaints about Apple’s redesigned Mac keyboard: How very much it sucks.
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