I suffered through 3 miserable years with the butterfly keyboard on my 2018 Macbook Pro. I went through one keyboard replacement to address many keys with key repeat and key delay issues, only to have those problems recur on the new keyboard within weeks. I was so excited to finally get back to a rational keyboard design with the new 2021 MBP because I mistakenly thought it would put those problems behind me (I have a 16" model).
What I’m finding is that this keyboard has similar issues. They aren’t quite as bad, although this keyboard only has about a week of use on it so far! The key repeat problems are when you type, say, a phrase like “hello there” but end up with “hello tohere” — the “o” getting repeated by the keyboard/system (not by me). I also see the key repeat happen more immediately sometimes (e.g. getting “immediatelyy” instead of “immediately”). Key delay issues happen when I type a word like “more” but get “mroe”.
Note, I’m a 100+ wpm typer who can type 100% accuracy all day long on my 2015 MBP. IOW, it's the keyboard (and/or its software). As another example, if I type a careful s-SPACE-s-SPACE-etc I'll get something like this some % of the time: "s s s s ss s s s s s s s s"
I presumed this nonsense was resolved with the new keyboard design, but apparently not. Are others seeing this too, or is this only me? Trying to decide if I should send it in or ... not sure what. I'm not near an Apple Store unfortunately, so these issues are more of a challenge.
What I’m finding is that this keyboard has similar issues. They aren’t quite as bad, although this keyboard only has about a week of use on it so far! The key repeat problems are when you type, say, a phrase like “hello there” but end up with “hello tohere” — the “o” getting repeated by the keyboard/system (not by me). I also see the key repeat happen more immediately sometimes (e.g. getting “immediatelyy” instead of “immediately”). Key delay issues happen when I type a word like “more” but get “mroe”.
Note, I’m a 100+ wpm typer who can type 100% accuracy all day long on my 2015 MBP. IOW, it's the keyboard (and/or its software). As another example, if I type a careful s-SPACE-s-SPACE-etc I'll get something like this some % of the time: "s s s s ss s s s s s s s s"
I presumed this nonsense was resolved with the new keyboard design, but apparently not. Are others seeing this too, or is this only me? Trying to decide if I should send it in or ... not sure what. I'm not near an Apple Store unfortunately, so these issues are more of a challenge.
