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What is your recommendations for someone seeking to buy a 13" MacBook Pro or Air atm? Is the latest incarnation of the butterfly keyboard still as bad? Are revamped versions of those machines around the corner? Or far away? Actually asking for a friend.

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I bought a 13” mpb this year and the keyboard is fine, though I don’t use it much.

Biggest mistake was buying the “higher end” 2.4ghz model that’s actually performing the same as the much cheaper 1.4ghz model.

I feel I must add: The 1.4 performs the same as the 2.4 ... in the role you employ it :) No contest!

In my workloads there’s been a wayyy big difference from a 4-core 15” to a faster-clocked 4-core to to a 6-core.

But there’s absolutely no contest from me on a modern 1.4GHz processor being a powerhouse, especially paired with SSDs as fast as in these.

I’ve been fine with the butterfly keyboard. If you line the typing action I think you’ll be fine. I personally love the butterfly keyboard ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Friends have had reliability issues - not all of them :) - but afaik those have been, well, solved?

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