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They have a similar design flaw in the 2015 macbook pros.

The keyboard and trackpad will stop working after about a year. It happens because the trackpad ribbon cable sits on the battery, and as the battery heats and expands it destroys the ribbon cable. This design flaw was introduced in the 2015 line.

When you take it to Apple, they say you can either pay $500 to get the keyboard and trackpad replaced, or pay $100 for them to swap out the ribbon cable. Mind you, that ribbon cable only costs $10 if you order it online and swap it out yourself.

Here’s a youtube video that shows how to fix it. It has tens of thousands of views:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=0AVoXTd-N0Q

And there are tons of these fix-it videos on youtube for this specific issue. Lots of people are having this same exact problem. Apple does not acknowledge that this is a problem.