MacBook Pro 16" 2019 Teardown
I went with my gf to take a look at these last night at the Apple store. Her command key has completely stopped working on her 2018 MacBook that otherwise works perfectly fine.<p>It feels clumsily large, especially since we’re coming from MacBook 13s. She kept asking me if I’d heard any rumors about when new 13s would come out. She went in pretty determined to get a new machine but decided to wait.<p>The struggle continues for us 13ers I’m afraid. Not really excited to drop $3K+ on an even larger form factor I haven’t been excited about for upwards of 5 years (and being forced to upgrade to Catalina) just to fix what is now universally understood to be a defective keyboard design.<p>I’m fairly convinced that this whole speaker business was to have something, <i>anything</i>, to differentiate it from the current models other than fixing the keyboard, and probably delayed this release. Someone said “we can’t seriously just ship a new laptop, with the <i>same CPU</i> as the current models, and <i>just</i> fix the keyboards!” It wouldn’t surprise me if the 13s haven’t come out yet for a similar reason.