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How a MacBook Pro keyboard looks like after years of intensive use (twitter.com/aras_p)
2 points by latexr on Dec 26, 2020 | hide | past | favorite | 3 comments



Premium keycaps are "doubleshot", injection molded in two passes with different-colored plastic to produce the legends on the keycaps. This makes them immune to this kind of wear.

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=doubleshot+keycaps


Anecdotally, the keys on my Macbook Pro from 2013 look fine, but multiple people on the replies exhibit the same problem. It seems this affects post-2015 keyboards.


Or people who don’t clip their nails as short/regularly as some of us do and type straight down, instead of with the pads of the finger (for instance if you say closer to the keyboard than they recommend).

Over the decades I’ve seen a lot of keyboards with this kind of wear (though not as bad perhaps) from people in one or both of those groups, even on old school real switch keyboards where the keys are thick as hell.




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