Megalith
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The co-founder and CEO of iFixit has published an article describing how the latest MacBook keyboards fail and why they are so “magnificently prone to failure.” According to his testing, a single grain of sand wedged underneath the butterfly lever is all it takes to make a key unusable. With the keyboard being a permanent part of the upper case, repairs are both impractical and costly.
The keyboard itself can’t simply be swapped out. You can’t even swap out the upper case containing the keyboard on its own. You also have to replace the glued-in battery, trackpad, and speakers at the same time. For Apple’s service team, the entire upper half of the laptop is a single component. That’s why Apple has been charging through the nose and taking forever on these repairs.
The keyboard itself can’t simply be swapped out. You can’t even swap out the upper case containing the keyboard on its own. You also have to replace the glued-in battery, trackpad, and speakers at the same time. For Apple’s service team, the entire upper half of the laptop is a single component. That’s why Apple has been charging through the nose and taking forever on these repairs.