Minority Report: Don't Buy Macbook Pro's even on sale.

[gunug]

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A few months ago, I wrote about how my one-year-old MacBook Pro's keyboard keys stopped working if a single piece of dust slipped under there, and more importantly, that neither Apple nor its Geniuses would acknowledge that this was actually a problem. Today, Best Buy announced it is having a significant sale on these computers, marking them hundreds of dollars off. Interesting. Still, I’d suggest you do not buy them.

Since I wrote about my experience, many have asked me what happened with the new top half of the computer that the Apple Geniuses installed, with its pristine keyboard and maybe-different key switches. The answer is that after a couple of months, I started to get temporarily dead keys for seemingly no reason. Again.

I still had my 2013 MacBook Pro around, so I sold my 2016 MacBook Pro back to Apple’s refurb program, and now I just use the 2013 as my laptop (I used the recovered money to build a PC, lord help me). This old MacBook Pro is still fine, and most importantly, all the keyboard keys work. The new MacBook Pro is gone. When I started working at The Outline, I was offered a choice of a new MacBook Pro or a MacBook Air for my work computer, and I chose the MacBook Air, with its good keyboard that doesn’t break from dust. I’m fully committed to this bit.

https://theoutline.com/post/4277/dont-buy-t...tm_medium=email

Anyone here having major flake issues with their 2016 Macbook Pros? My sister bought one new for her daughter but I think it must've been a 2017!

[Paddy]

QUOTE(gunug @ Apr 26 2018, 09:05 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

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A few months ago, I wrote about how my one-year-old MacBook Pro's keyboard keys stopped working if a single piece of dust slipped under there, and more importantly, that neither Apple nor its Geniuses would acknowledge that this was actually a problem. Today, Best Buy announced it is having a significant sale on these computers, marking them hundreds of dollars off. Interesting. Still, I’d suggest you do not buy them.

Since I wrote about my experience, many have asked me what happened with the new top half of the computer that the Apple Geniuses installed, with its pristine keyboard and maybe-different key switches. The answer is that after a couple of months, I started to get temporarily dead keys for seemingly no reason. Again.

I still had my 2013 MacBook Pro around, so I sold my 2016 MacBook Pro back to Apple’s refurb program, and now I just use the 2013 as my laptop (I used the recovered money to build a PC, lord help me). This old MacBook Pro is still fine, and most importantly, all the keyboard keys work. The new MacBook Pro is gone. When I started working at The Outline, I was offered a choice of a new MacBook Pro or a MacBook Air for my work computer, and I chose the MacBook Air, with its good keyboard that doesn’t break from dust. I’m fully committed to this bit.

https://theoutline.com/post/4277/dont-buy-t...tm_medium=email

Anyone here having major flake issues with their 2016 Macbook Pros? My sister bought one new for her daughter but I think it must've been a 2017!

Well, there has been lots of squabbling going on over this one at Macrumors - as one poster pointed out via a screenshot of a Google search, you can find complaints about just about any Apple (or other) product if you look. The thing is - people who are unhappy with something are far, far more likely to actually go online and complain about it - while the vast majority of those who are happily using products are just getting on with it. That's why one does have to be careful about negative reviews...it can be hard to gauge just how prevalent the problem is, especially in these days of social media echo chambers, where the same story repeated in dozens of different places can make it seem like the sky is falling.

https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/did-ap...p-2016.2098682/

All that aside, my husband's late 2016 MBP with the touchbar, which he has had for exactly a year now, has performed flawlessly. Purchased through the Apple refurb store.

[gunug]

I thought it more than likely this guy was an outside point of view.  I don't like the newer one's because they're a little more glued together and I think the memory is soldered in.  I'm pretty happy with my 2011 Macbook Pro and I use it every day!