MacBook keyboard woes keep on coming. This past weekend, casing new issue has hit the internet, and leaving in serious frustration... I've got some bad news, Lewis Hilsenteger of Unbox Therapy explains how his 2018 MacBook Air, third Butterfly-switch keyboard design, keeps spitting out two E's when he taps the E key, an annoyance that's driving him insane. That same keyboard design is also used in MacBook Pros launched last year... macOS's auto correct fails to detect this issue. . The Unbox Therapy video, which collected series of reports about bad double space issue, which affected both 2018 MacBook Air and 2018 MacBook Pro units.. These MacBook Pro and MacBook Air keyboards were supposed to be more impervious to failure than previous generations, as iFixit found layer under the key caps that most expected to protect the switches against debris. The previous failing MacBook keyboards were so rampant that dual class-action lawsuits arose.. In my testing of MacBook Pro and MacBook Air for our reviews, I did not find such issue, but Laptop Mag will stay focused on these issues... Casey, r at Laptop Mag, covering security, Apple and operating systems. Prior to joining Laptop Mag — and interviewed artists for Patek Philippe International Magazine. You can find him at your pro wrestling events, and wondering why Apple decided to ditch its MagSafe power adapters..
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