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by 706f6f70 2786 days ago
It's funny how "the keyboard" actually identifies a number of issues, of which only one has been fixed:

1. The Memebar ("TouchBar") is thankfully gone.

2. If a single molecule of dust gets under a key, the key has a non-zero chance of no longer working.

3. The travel distance is basically non-existent, like typing on a squishier iPad.

Seeing them deal with 1 in at least some capacity gives me hope that they will deal with issue 2 by the third or fourth iteration of the keyboard. Unfortunately there is no chance of issue 3 being addressed.

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4. If you're working in an office and someone has headphones on the lack of travel causes them to type angrily and loudly as if they were pretending to work in a sarcastic manner.

Can always tell when users of this laptop have headphones on just from the typing noise.

2 has been addressed by adding membrane under key caps and texturing bottom of key caps to push dust out.