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Am I the only person who likes the butterfly keyboard? I like the feel of the low travel and the clickiness, whenever I use an old style MacBook the keys feel mushy.

I have had reliability problems though. Mostly I’ve had keys that don’t respond, but have always been able to fix those with compressed air. But once I had a sticky key that popped every other time I pressed it, that required a free Apple repair.



The problem is how fast they wear and fail. Especially if you're not dainty on the keyboard.

Also, they lose their clickiness rapidly.

It would be a great keyboard if you got a new one every month. But I expect mine to last the full life of the laptop just like my 2015 Air did.


> Am I the only person who likes the butterfly keyboard?

Yes


>> Am I the only person who likes the butterfly keyboard?

> Yes

No. I like it. To me it feels precise enough for a laptop keyboard, and better than the good but mushy previous version, with which I could have tactile feedback but no key event from time to time.

The only issue I have with it is the Damocles sword of reliability (crossing fingers here, it's been perfectly fine for now) and the up/down arrow keys but I'm a liberal user of vim as an editor and generally emacs shortcuts so it doesn't bother me too much.


You’re not alone. I really love the butterfly keyboards and I really hope we are not forced to regress back to the old keyboards.


You are not alone! I like it too, I’ve never had the reliability issues.


No, but it's kinda normal to hear mostly people who hate it.

Especially on Hacker News where people have such strong opinions about these things.


No. I love it. The only downside is it's hard to take notes in meetings without it sounding like I'm shooting a machine gun


i love it but in the time i owned it, the thing jammed up full of dust/crumbs and failed 3/4 times necessitating trips to the service center coz compressed air just wasn't doing the job




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