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in 2016 Apple announced their new MacBook Pros they had a 15 inch version and they had a 13 inch version and these were devices that looked incredibly beautiful these were just such a different look from everything else on the market at the time and they just looked like works of art but right away there were some kind of issues that people had with the new designs for one the touch bar was something that people weren't sure if they're gonna actually make use of like it just felt like potentially a gimmick and three years later maybe it didn't pan out in terms of its usability the way that Apple wanted it to but there were other issues and I would say bigger issues that stem from the fact that these devices were built in such a thin form factor now before I go any further I have to explain that I'm someone that prefers Mac OS I like Mac books I like iPhones but as a reviewer I feel like the responsible thing for me to do is to actually look out for issues like this so the first thing I get into is the keyboard this is a keyboard that was created specifically to fit into a super thin chassis it's called a butterfly keyboard and what makes it unique or special is the fact that the switch is inside this keyboard are very low-profile when you use it for the first time it just feels a little bit different from any other keyboard out there and even for Apple users to use this keyboard it was a little bit like why did I will do this it just feels so different from the original MacBook Pro keyboard but the issue is that the durability and the long-term reliability of this butterfly mechanism is not great there were a lot of people that had issues with these keyboards because dust or other particulate matter would get underneath the key cap and just screw things up in the switch and in 2018 Apple addressed this a little bit like they put a membrane underneath there and people thought maybe this would fix things but you can see right now there's still a lot of issues with those membranes keyboards because dust is still getting underneath them and it's causing problems and the whole reason why this thing exists the whole reason why people are having issues with this keyboard is because they had to fit this keyboard into something so thin and when you compare this device to the older generation like the 2015 MacBook Pro it's not like it's that much smaller right it is noticeably smaller but it's not like people were using that 2015 MacBook and thinking like oh we need a thinner laptop because this won't do it wasn't the case but Apple decided to make something thinner they went for it and these are the issues that we've had so the other thing that comes from having such a thin device is when you make something super thin you can't have removable components inside the RAM being soldered on isn't anything new Apple has been doing it for years and other Windows laptops have been doing it for a while but having soldered on storage it's such an inconvenience you can't ever upgrade your storage and if anything ever goes wrong you have to send the whole device back to get it fixed it's seriously stupid and for what to shave one or two millimeters off the device it doesn't feel like it was worth it and another issue that's popped up more recently is the display cable so the 2016 and 2017 MacBook Pros have a pair of cables that connect the screen to the chassis which are very thin there are quite delicate and over time as people bend the screen back and forth it cause issues it's something called stage lighting where the backlight has some issues and eventually the backlighting can fail completely now Apple supposedly fix this or attempted to fix this on the 2018 models where they extended the cable a little bit as I fix it uncovered but they wouldn't have had to do this in the first place if they had gone with a thicker chassis they made it super thin because they had to run this super thin cable to make this whole thing as thin as possible the fourth problem that came from Apple using such a thin chassis or thermal issues and this is something that only affects people that use their devices really aggressively but on the 15-inch MacBook Pro like I demonstrated earlier this year or in 2018 it just can't cool the really powerful CPUs and this is literally the thinnest laptop in the world that has a core i-9 it's super thin but like again for what right we're saving millimeters here and we have a heavily crippled device so my overall take on their devices it's from 2016 2017 2018 that's like three years now these are made way too thin there's a lot of compromises people have had to make just so they can have such an aesthetically pleasing device and I actually think it's one of the best if not the best looking laptops on the market right now but at what cost right you're having issues with thermals with the keyboard with the screen and potentially the price because it's so thin so I think going forward Apple needs to make these things thicker not to the degree of this videos thumbnail that's obviously a bit of an exaggeration but in its current state these are too thin the issues that we've had with these devices over the past years is clearly an indication that they made something that was a little bit too thin but knowing Apple I don't think that they're gonna kind of retract on this and make them thinner I feel like they really should and I feel like a lot of people that use their devices would want something that's a little more kind of practical but what do you guys think should Apple keep their devices thin for the aesthetic or should they make them thicker to fix the issues that they've had plaguing these devices over the past few years you