
Apple followed up its MacBook Pro with a model that keeps the same thin design, number of port options, and simply upgrades the key areas under the hood that so many people were requesting since Apple introduced this new, more mobile-friendly design. The same publication has a quick write-up of its first impressions of the mid-2018 MacBook Pro with Touch Bar, and its tagline for the article is “It’s a MacBook, alright”, with the rest of the article confirming the basic notion. As was noted by The Verge earlier this week, Apple confirmed that its focus was on making the new 2018 butterfly keyboard quieter.Īnd it appears the company was at least successful in that regard.

Unfortunately, Apple said that its vision for the third-generation butterfly keyboard wasn’t to change the keyboard in any meaningful way to address those concerns from a “very small” number of MacBook owners out there in the wild. The immediate question on a lot of people’s minds was the most obvious: Did Apple reengineer the keyboard to alleviate the issues so many people have had up to this point? Apple recently launched a keyboard repair program for the MacBook and MacBook Pro lineup that offers the butterfly keyboard, which includes laptops launched as far back as 2015 - but doesn’t include the new models launched this year. When Apple introduced its mid-2018 refresh for the MacBook Pro with Touch Bar, it also welcomed a third-generation butterfly keyboard with it.
