<story><title>Kuo: Apple to include new scissor switch keyboard in MacBook</title><url>https://9to5mac.com/2019/07/04/kuo-new-keyboard-macbook-air-pro/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>iamben</author><text>I&amp;#x27;m still using my MBA from mid 2013. It&amp;#x27;s a wonderful thing. Battery is &amp;quot;replace soon&amp;quot; but it&amp;#x27;s mostly plugged in. It&amp;#x27;s battered and bruised, but still fast enough. I&amp;#x27;ve been debating a change for a while and figured at the start of the year I&amp;#x27;d wait to see if they were going to ditch the bf keyboard if they release a new MBA. Super glad I waited, fingers crossed I get the same life out of the next one!&lt;p&gt;Say what you want about Apple and price, but I&amp;#x27;ve had PCs since 1994 and the two Macs I&amp;#x27;ve had have (usefully) outlasted every other machine by quite some margin - this one in particular. 6 years without formatting a Windows machine (I can&amp;#x27;t talk for now, but especially back then) would be crazy.</text></item><item><author>FabHK</author><text>&amp;gt; I have the first MacBook Pro that came with the Touch Bar, and it&amp;#x27;s the worst computer I&amp;#x27;ve ever owned.&lt;p&gt;Same here (well, I have the &amp;quot;cheap&amp;quot; one without the Touch Bar). Everything has been replaced at least once (on Apple Care, fortunately) except the bottom plate.&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; The only reason I got it is because the MacBook Air it replaced was dying&lt;p&gt;Same here. That MBA was a fine machine.</text></item><item><author>Perceptes</author><text>I desperately hope this is true. I have the first MacBook Pro that came with the Touch Bar, and it&amp;#x27;s the worst computer I&amp;#x27;ve ever owned. The keyboard has failed twice, and the Touch Bar is inferior to the old hardware keys in every way. I hate it. The only reason I got it is because the MacBook Air it replaced was dying and I couldn&amp;#x27;t wait any more. Assuming this report is true, my only remaining worry is that they won&amp;#x27;t offer a version of this new Pro without a Touch Bar, or that only a model with a smaller display will offer hardware function keys, like they&amp;#x27;ve done in the past.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>gambiting</author><text>I have a 2009 MacBook Pro (Core2Duo + 4GB of ram), I&amp;#x27;ve added an SSD years ago, and it runs absolutely fine, I use it almost daily to browse the web. Even the battery still works(only for about an hour, but it does).</text></comment>
<story><title>Kuo: Apple to include new scissor switch keyboard in MacBook</title><url>https://9to5mac.com/2019/07/04/kuo-new-keyboard-macbook-air-pro/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>iamben</author><text>I&amp;#x27;m still using my MBA from mid 2013. It&amp;#x27;s a wonderful thing. Battery is &amp;quot;replace soon&amp;quot; but it&amp;#x27;s mostly plugged in. It&amp;#x27;s battered and bruised, but still fast enough. I&amp;#x27;ve been debating a change for a while and figured at the start of the year I&amp;#x27;d wait to see if they were going to ditch the bf keyboard if they release a new MBA. Super glad I waited, fingers crossed I get the same life out of the next one!&lt;p&gt;Say what you want about Apple and price, but I&amp;#x27;ve had PCs since 1994 and the two Macs I&amp;#x27;ve had have (usefully) outlasted every other machine by quite some margin - this one in particular. 6 years without formatting a Windows machine (I can&amp;#x27;t talk for now, but especially back then) would be crazy.</text></item><item><author>FabHK</author><text>&amp;gt; I have the first MacBook Pro that came with the Touch Bar, and it&amp;#x27;s the worst computer I&amp;#x27;ve ever owned.&lt;p&gt;Same here (well, I have the &amp;quot;cheap&amp;quot; one without the Touch Bar). Everything has been replaced at least once (on Apple Care, fortunately) except the bottom plate.&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; The only reason I got it is because the MacBook Air it replaced was dying&lt;p&gt;Same here. That MBA was a fine machine.</text></item><item><author>Perceptes</author><text>I desperately hope this is true. I have the first MacBook Pro that came with the Touch Bar, and it&amp;#x27;s the worst computer I&amp;#x27;ve ever owned. The keyboard has failed twice, and the Touch Bar is inferior to the old hardware keys in every way. I hate it. The only reason I got it is because the MacBook Air it replaced was dying and I couldn&amp;#x27;t wait any more. Assuming this report is true, my only remaining worry is that they won&amp;#x27;t offer a version of this new Pro without a Touch Bar, or that only a model with a smaller display will offer hardware function keys, like they&amp;#x27;ve done in the past.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>twoheadedboy</author><text>I have a mid 2013 Air as well (and I recently replaced the battery for $100, it’s great and you should too), but I’d attribute the long life to simply the SSD and the software rather than anything else.</text></comment>