Ok, liefhebbers van Apple's nieuwe vlindertoetsenborden, don't shoot me!
Onderstaande is maar een nieuwtje dat ik oppikte uit de dagelijkse nieuwsbrief die de zustersite one more thing gisteren is beginnen rondsturen aan wie lid is van hun community...
'An ode to Apple’s awful MacBook keyboard (TechCrunch)' (link)
'Apple’s nieuwe vlindertoetsenbord blijft maar vijanden maken. Natasha Lomas schrijft het bij TechCrunch van zich af.'
bron: OMT Update: Maandag 3 september.
het artikel begint met...
Yes I am very late to this. But I am also very annoyed so I am adding my voice to the now sustained chorus of complaints about Apple’s redesigned Mac keyboard: How very much it sucks. Truly, madly, deeply.
This is the keyboard that Apple “completely redesigned” in 2015, in its quest for size zero hardware, switching from a scissor mechanism for the keys to what it described then as the “new Apple-designed butterfly mechanism” — touting this as 40% thinner and 4x more stable.
Reader, there is nothing remotely beautiful and butterfly-esque about the experience of depressing these keys. Scattershot staccato clattering, as your fingers are simultaneously sucked in and involuntarily hammer out a grapeshot of key strikes, is what actually happens. It’s brutalist and unforgiving. Most egregiously it’s not reliably functional.
The redesigned mechanism has resulted in keys that not only feel different when pressed vs the prior MacBook keyboard — which was more spongey for sure but that meant keys were at reduced risk of generating accidental strikes vs their barely-there trigger-sensitive replacements (which feel like they have a 40% smaller margin for keystrike error) — but have also turned out to be fail prone, as particles of dust can find their way in between the keys, as dust is wont to do, and mess with the smooth functioning of key presses — requiring an official Apple repair.
Yes, just a bit of dust! Move over ‘the princess and the pea’: Apple and the dust mote is here! ‘Just use it in a vacuum’ shouldn’t be an acceptable usability requirement for a very expensive laptop.
...
De controverse rond Apple's nieuwe vlindertoetsenbord op het internet blijft dus verder gaan. Volgens sommigen op dit forum daardoor (onterecht) uitvergroot.
Laat die controverse Apple koud?
De liefhebbers van dit toetsenbord zullen hopen van wel, de vijanden van het toetsenbord niet...
Gast
