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Judge certifies class action lawsuit against Apple over butterfly keyboard

Monday, March 22, 2021 12:48 pm1 Comment

A U.S. judge has certified a class action suit against Apple over the company’s butterfly keyboard design. The suit covers anyone who…

TechCrunch reviews Apple’s new 13-inch MacBook Pro: Keyboard improvements are immediate and vast

Thursday, May 7, 2020 1:21 pm6 Comments

The review of Apple’s new 13-inch MacBook Pro (2020) and, as are many of the reviews for the product, it’s mainly about the keyboard. It’s good again…

Apple’s post-Jony Ive hardware designs: Function over form

Monday, April 13, 2020 4:27 pm11 Comments

Less than ten months have passed since the renowned Jony Ive stepped down as Apple’s Chief Design Officer to start a new company – LoveFrom – that will…

2020’s new MacBook Air is Apple’s best laptop for most people

Monday, March 30, 2020 9:26 am3 Comments

Yahoo Finance’s Daniel Howley sings the praises of Apple’s new MacBook Air – now with a keyboard that doesn’t suck! – in his review of Apple’s newest Mac…

Teardown finds new MacBook Air is 0.5mm thicker with Magic Keyboard

Wednesday, March 25, 2020 4:12 pm1 Comment

iFixit today shared the results of one of their teardowns of the new 2020 MacBook Air, which includes the new scissor-switch Magic keyboard…

Apple said to unveil new MacBook Air with scissor keyboard as early as next week

Friday, March 13, 2020 2:02 pmFriday, March 13, 20203 Comments

Apple is rumored to announce new MacBook Air models next week. Earlier, Ming-Chi Kuo said Apple planned new MacBook Air models with scissor keyboards…

Buh-bye butterfly: New MacBook Pro and MacBook Air with new scissor switch keyboards are on the way

Thursday, March 12, 2020 8:37 amThursday, March 12, 20204 Comments

Apple analyst Ming-Chi Kuo now expects Apple to deliver new MacBook Air and new MacBook Pro models in the second quarter, perhaps to be introduced at…

Taika Waititi blasts Apple’s butterfly keyboard after winning first Oscar

Monday, February 10, 2020 1:17 pm21 Comments

After winning his first Oscar for Best Adapted Screenplay, Taika Waititi had met with reporters where he blasted Apple’s butterfly keyboard …

Apple fails to quash MacBook ‘butterfly’ keyboard class action

Monday, December 2, 2019 4:30 pmMonday, December 2, 20197 Comments

A U.S. federal judge on Monday rejected Apple Inc’s bid to dismiss a proposed class action lawsuit by customers who said it knew and concealed…

Apple’s 13- or 14-inch MacBook Pro to kill butterfly for scissor mechanism keyboard in 2020

Monday, November 18, 2019 4:02 pm5 Comments

Apple plans to release a new 13- or possibly 14-inch MacBook Pro with a scissor switch keyboard in the first half of 2020…

Apple dumps problematic butterfly keyboard on all-new 16-inch MacBook Pro

Thursday, November 14, 2019 10:42 amThursday, November 14, 20197 Comments

Apple introduced a 16-inch MacBook Pro on Wednesday, marking a new screen size as well as a departure from the problematic “butterfly” keyboard…

Butterfly vs. Scissor: Apple’s Phil Schiller on reinventing the new MacBook Pro keyboard

Wednesday, November 13, 2019 10:00 am4 Comments

Apple’s marketing chief Phil Schiller discussed the butterfly vs. scissor mechanism keyboards and whether the 16-inch MacBook Pro’s Magic Keyboard will appear in other Macs…

Ming-Chi Kuo: New MacBook with scissor keyboard coming mid 2020; unclear if 16-inch MacBook Pro is delayed

Wednesday, October 30, 2019 10:57 amWednesday, October 30, 20192 Comments

Apple plans to introduce a new MacBook model with a scissor switch keyboard in the late second quarter or early third quarter of 2020…

MacBooks featuring scissor mechanism keyboards and iPad Pro with Rear 3D ToF camera system coming in first half of 2020

Wednesday, October 9, 2019 9:32 amWednesday, October 9, 20196 Comments

Apple will launch a new iPad Pro with a rear-facing 3D Time of Flight camera in the first quarter of 2020….

Future MacBooks could ditch the much-maligned butterfly keyboard for optical switches

Wednesday, August 28, 2019 1:44 pm2 Comments

It is believed that Apple would fall back to using traditional scissor switches on the next MacBook Air and MacBook Pro, but…

Apple set to release new 16-inch MacBook Pro with narrow bezel in September

Monday, July 29, 2019 11:01 amMonday, July 29, 20195 Comments

Apple is set to release in September 2019 new MacBook Pro featuring ultra-narrow bezel to accommodate a 16-inch screen…

Ming-Chi Kuo: Apple to kill the butterfly, adopt keyboard with scissor mechanism for 16-inch MacBook Pro

Thursday, July 25, 2019 3:02 pmThursday, July 25, 201916 Comments

Apple is planning to use a scissor mechanism rather than a butterfly mechanism for its upcoming 16-inch MacBook Pro…

Kuo claims Apple kills Mac butterfly keyboard

Friday, July 5, 2019 8:00 amSaturday, July 6, 20194 Comments

Apple analyst Ming-Chi Kuo believes Apple will do away with its butterfly keyboard in future Macs, beginning later this year…

I bought a four-year-old MacBook Pro instead of a new one. Here’s why

Monday, June 17, 2019 3:33 pmWednesday, June 19, 201912 Comments

There’s enough innovation in the MacBook Pro, both in software and hardware, to impress even the most curmudgeonly of cynics….

Dear Apple, here’s how I solved my MacBook keyboard problem

Sunday, June 16, 2019 11:58 am15 Comments

The legend of the latest MacBooks and their unworthiness has continually grown like a creepy cactus on your front porch….

Does the 2019 MacBook Pro 15-inch 8-core exhibit thermal throttling?

Wednesday, May 29, 2019 3:33 pmWednesday, May 29, 20193 Comments

It could be argued that as long as you remain above the base frequency…

Mobility, Macs and remote working will drive future employment

Wednesday, May 29, 2019 2:33 pmWednesday, May 29, 20191 Comment

“Seven out of every ten students in higher education use or would like to use a Mac…

Thermal throttling and performance testing the eight-core 2019 MacBook Pro

Monday, May 27, 2019 8:54 amWednesday, May 29, 20191 Comment

Given the drama surrounding the thermal condition in the six-core MacBook Pro when it launched in 2018…

Teardown: Apple’s new 15-inch MacBook Pro and its revised butterfly keyboard

Friday, May 24, 2019 4:15 pmFriday, May 24, 20197 Comments

Apple’s newest MacBook Pro is its fastest yet, featuring an optional eight-core processor…

GeekBench results begin to appear for Apple’s new 8-Core MacBook Pro

Thursday, May 23, 2019 3:55 pm4 Comments

The new high-end 8-core 15-inch MacBook Pro that was announced on Tuesday offers significant performance improvements…

Apple again changes MacBook butterfly keyboard after user complaints continue

Tuesday, May 21, 2019 7:15 pmTuesday, May 21, 20198 Comments

Stop me if you’ve heard this before: Apple Inc. is promising to fix the MacBook keyboard issues…

Apple extends Keyboard Service Program to all MacBook, MacBook Air, and MacBook Pro models with butterfly keyboard

Tuesday, May 21, 2019 3:06 pmTuesday, May 21, 20195 Comments

Apple today extended its Keyboard Service Program to all MacBook, MacBook Air, and MacBook Pro models…

Apple refreshes MacBook Pro with updated butterfly keyboard (using Liquidmetal?)

Tuesday, May 21, 2019 2:46 pmTuesday, May 21, 201924 Comments

In the second update to the current crop of MacBook Pros since they were released in July 2018…

Apple introduces first 8-core MacBook Pro, the fastest Mac notebook ever

Tuesday, May 21, 2019 1:11 pmTuesday, May 21, 201925 Comments

Apple updated MacBook Pro with faster 8th- and 9th-generation Intel Core processors, bringing eight cores to MacBook Pro for the first time….

Apple lied to me about the MacBook Air’s defective butterfly keyboard and now we have a problem

Sunday, May 19, 2019 1:40 pmSunday, May 19, 201927 Comments

One of Apple’s most lauded, stable products has been reduced to a pathetic mess by a combination of arrogance and inattention…

MacBook Pro keyboard failures: Apple blames dust to excuse poor engineering design

Thursday, May 2, 2019 1:33 pmThursday, May 2, 20199 Comments

Today we will be tearing down a MacBook Pro keyboard to try and figure out some possible causes for all the failures that afflict these keyboards…

Apple will now fix broken MacBook keyboards within a day as problems persist

Thursday, April 25, 2019 11:50 am22 Comments

Apple has indicated that most MacBook and MacBook Pro keyboard repairs will be required to be completed…

Apple’s AirPower is dead. What’s next?

Friday, April 5, 2019 1:45 pmFriday, April 5, 201934 Comments

It’s only early April and it’s already been a tough year for Apple….

Apple apologizes for ongoing reliability problems with its MacBook ‘butterfly’ keyboards

Wednesday, March 27, 2019 1:01 pmThursday, March 28, 201924 Comments

Nop, I havn’t fogottn how to wit. No did my dito go on vacation…

WSJ: Apple has fixed their butterfly keyboard, but it’s only for pros – for now

Monday, July 23, 2018 10:25 amMonday, July 23, 20183 Comments

A fast computer with a crummy keyboard is like a Ferrari with a broken gearshift…

Teardown of MacBook Pro’s new butterfly keyboard reveals improved protection against dust and debris

Thursday, July 19, 2018 8:58 pm9 Comments

In a world where Apple once quietly introduced iPhone waterproofing without bragging about it…

Conflicting information distributed inside Apple about reason for silicone MacBook Pro keyboard membrane

Thursday, July 19, 2018 10:00 amThursday, July 19, 20187 Comments

A pair of documents covering Apple’s service policies and procedures conflict on the reasoning for the silicone gasket…

Keyboard shootout: 2018 vs. 2017 MacBook Pro butterfly keyboards compared

Tuesday, July 17, 2018 3:15 pmTuesday, July 17, 20185 Comments

Yes, the new MacBook Pro 2018 is a lot faster than previous MacBooks, but many people are wondering…

So, about Apple’s new MacBook Pro butterfly keyboard

Tuesday, July 17, 2018 1:30 pm8 Comments

Last week, Apple announced an updated MacBook Pro, packing in fresh processors that were announced…

How Apple is fixing faulty keyboards in their new MacBook Pro models

Monday, July 16, 2018 12:02 pmMonday, July 16, 20189 Comments

Apple has faced a consistent stream of criticism for the keyboards…

Apple’s surprise MacBook Pro update further strains its relationship with professional Mac users

Friday, July 13, 2018 3:03 pmFriday, July 13, 201879 Comments

Apple dropped their new MacBook Pro models in a tone-deaf, we-don’t-really-care-about-pro-users-needs kind of way…

Craig A. Hunter reviews Apple’s 2018 MacBook Pro: Improvements emphasize the ‘Pro’ in MacBook Pro

Friday, July 13, 2018 2:31 pmFriday, July 13, 20187 Comments

I’ve been using Mac laptops for a long time, going back to the very first portable Apple ever made…

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