If the added seal resolves the majority of the keyboard issues then it indicates a missing element in their testing regimen. The small amount of air transferred with a keystroke would not be relevant to removing heat from the housing. Even if you assume that there is no leakage from below the assembly, and it is just an acoustic treatment, not a seal, then the vent is still there to provide a consistent key response. If you assume that there is a bit of leakage of air into the mechanicals of each key, then the vent is almost certainly there just to give you a consistent key response you wouldn't want the air underneath to compress and add to the force of the key assembly's spring in an unpredictable way.
Go to 11 minutes in to see Jony Ive talking about the new and old ways. I'll see If I can find the video where the statement was made.Įdit: Not it, but it is the video where they first talk about how they did it. You may know that most heat lost in a home is lost out through the ceiling, as oppose to walls or the floor, so can we expect that being a plausible way to reduce heat by making the entire aluminum top casing of the MBP a giant heat sink since it's passive and they wouldn't need to do anything to get air to float up? To me it looks like cool is air pulled in from the sides and then transferred out the back. The heat dissipation mainly goes from the side & the center of your hinge, and the airflow from the gaps of keyboard are insignificant at best. That’s a very good comment since the air flow through the keyboard has previously been mentioned by Apple as a contributing factor to heat dissipation.
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Hopefully there won't be an excess heat issue with potentially less ventilation through the keyboard, plus the larger battery. I'm annoyed that the keyboard I'm typing this on is more susceptible to dust than my 2011 MacBook Air was but I'm not going to trash the entire company because of it. I continue to buy Apple products because they are in general high quality and Apple as a company continues to put a priority on quality. I agree with you that I would sincerely appreciate a bit more openness and honesty from corporations in general when it comes to problems, but as long as there are lawyers suing them for breathing wrong, can you blame them? If this has made you lose faith in Apple, then you'll have a hard time finding another company to put your faith in.
publicly admitting design flaws damages that image, so as a general rule, they never admit problems. The problem is that part of Apple's image is quality and perfection. To be clear, Apple makes very good products, and they are also charge a premium price for the quality, but they're not perfect. Apple is worse than most in this regard, but far from unique. What company would? Companies in general don't like to admit mistakes - both for PR reasons and for liability reasons.
Apple obviously doesn't want the news headline for the new MacBooks to be: "Apple Fixes Broken Keyboard. Read the commenting guidelines regarding the term "fake news." Cast not the first stone.
To Cnet, The Verge, to us, and about four other publications. Yeah, well, they specifically did say that, and continue to say it. And don't spread fake news like mention in article "Apple said the revamped keys are not intended to improve reliability.