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> On the MacBook Pro [2016] front I've had the sticking keys issue on the left command, C, B, G and 3 keys

I so want to buy the MacBook Air 2018 but am afraid the 3rd generation keys only delay the known problems until I’m out of warranty. I have to wait and see if there is a wave of defects in a year or two to judge its reliability. Why did Apple have to sacrifice reliability for thinness…

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Similar position. May keep using my 2013 and replace the battery when it gets feeble enough.

All I really want the new MBA for is the 16gb ram, but they bundled it with multiple new tradeoffs.

Thinness drives sales. Sacrificing reliability drives sales. It's not only Apple: look at Microsoft, for example.

How do we know thinness drives sales? If thinner devices, which also are faster with more features etc sell more than the previous edition, the cause is quite difficult to pinpoint, surely?

The fact that devices get thinner and devices are sold in ever more numbers/profitably does not mean the device dimensions are the cause.

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