


NEW MACBOOK PRO KEYBOARD FONT UPGRADE
During a demo, Shruti Haldea, Apple’s MacBook Pro product manager, called it “the best typing experience on a Mac notebook.”ĭo you own a MacBook with a butterfly keyboard? What has your experience been? Would you upgrade your laptop just for the keyboard? Join the conversation below. The new 16-inch MacBook Pro has a new scissor-mechanism keyboard that Apple says is based on designs found on older MacBook keyboards and the Magic Keyboard bundled with current iMacs. Multiple lawsuits were filed against Apple over keyboard defects, which were among several recent hardware missteps that tarnished Apple’s reputation. (See illustration.) This enabled a thinner laptop design, though reliability problems-including duplicate or missed key presses-continued for years, as Joanna explained. In 2015, Apple began using a butterfly mechanism to replace the previous “scissor” mechanism, which is an industry standard. The issue at the center of the keyboard debacle was the mechanism under the keys. (Dow Jones & Co., publisher of The Wall Street Journal, has a commercial agreement to supply news through Apple services.)
NEW MACBOOK PRO KEYBOARD FONT FULL
Joanna is traveling on assignment, and will be back for a full review of the new 16-inch MacBook Pro. The piece included Apple’s apology on the subject, to the “small number of users” that were having issues. Regular Wall Street Journal readers might wonder why they are hearing about this from me, rather than Personal Tech columnist Joanna Stern, who put a spotlight on the keyboard issue back in March.
