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. Apple just held its first product launch event of the year, where it announced a colorful new iMac and an updated iPad Pro with 5G and the M1 chip thats also used in the companys desktop computers. This old MacBook Pro is still fine, and most importantly, all the keyboard keys work. 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). Apple MacBook Air (13-inch, M1 CPU, 8GB RAM, 512GB SSD) 1,149 1,249 It doesnt have the biggest screen, but it more than makes up for it with a spacious SSD storage and solid specs. The answer is that after a couple of months, I started to get temporarily dead keys for seemingly no reason. 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. Today, Best Buy announced it is having a significant sale on these computers, marking them hundreds of dollars off. ![]() 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.
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