I’m trying to train myself to keep better hand position when typing, which should help. Apple says it worked on palm rejection when expanding the trackpad’s size to avoid this problem, but when it doesn’t work perfectly, it’s quite frustrating. It might be too big-I find that my thumbs accidentally brush it while I type sometimes, if I’m not maintaining good typing posture, and when that happens the cursor will fly up a couple of lines, so suddenly I’m typing in the middle of another word. Apple says it’s 46 percent bigger than the trackpad on last year’s MacBook Pros. For what it’s worth, I don’t have this problem with Apple’s wireless Smart Keyboard.īelow the keyboard, the Force Touch trackpad is just huge. With the MacBook Pro’s new keyboard, I find myself typing extra hard, like my brain isn’t convinced the keys are even going to go down unless I really pound them. I can type on both just fine, but I’m not a fan of this style-every time I had to switch back to my MacBook Air for a few minutes, its old keyboard felt better immediately. In practice, though, I can’t tell the difference between this and the first-gen MacBook keyboard.

Apple says this is the second generation of these switches the company used different materials in an attempt to improve the feel, even though the keys don’t actually travel any farther. The keyboard uses the new butterfly-switch mechanism Apple introduced in theġ2-inch MacBook in 2015, with low-profile, low-travel keys. Personally, I’d trade a little extra thickness for a better keyboard, but that isn’t an option. Apple should optimize the experience of actually using the Mac, not just of carrying it around. While weight savings are always welcome, I would rather have a thicker laptop with a better keyboard than a computer this thin with keys that barely travel. The MacBook Pro is thinner and lighter than previous generations-this one weighs just a hair over 3 pounds. Physically, the MacBook Pro got a pretty dramatic overhaul, even though this model keeps the row of function keys along the top of the computer.

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