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.

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