I worked for Apple during the time the Butterfly keyboard and the Macbook 12" launched. We had SO MANY PEOPLE coming in with keyboard issues. Troubleshooting the keyboard issues meant we first had to remove the keycap and clean the mechanism underneath to see if it resolved the issue (Which worked about 1 in 50 times). Removing the keycaps was a terrible experience, as we had to take this weird, angled plastic stick, and put a sticky pad on it. Then we had to stick it to the keycap, and lift at an angle to remove the key. Then we had to do the reverse to install a new key. We broke so many keycaps and key mechanisms that we usually had to replace the whole keyboard. And the problem was, keyboard replacements necessitated a new topcase, which was what everything mounted to. Which means if we had to do a repair, we had to take EVERYTHING (motherboard, display, speakers, etc.) out of the old topcase and transplant it into the new topcase. And these things were so small, and so fiddly, they were terrible to work on. The bottom panel was so delicate to remove, and the retaining clips were very easy to break. What's worse, it had a freaking cable connected that only offered about 1.5" worth of travel before it broke, so you had to be veeeeeeeeery careful removing it, or risk breaking the cable! In short, these 12" Macbooks were some of the worst laptops Apple ever made, and we literally cheered in the service department when we heard they were discontinuing them.

Frank climbing the laptop was cute

its insane how the butterfly keyboard was so prone to failure but apple so stubborn to change that they had to do free keyboard assembly replacements after being hit with a class action lawsuit. they took a massive lost on each repair it wasn't just the keys that got replaced the assembly included the trackpad, top frame and battery that's hundreds of dollars of just parts per repair

Oh God I wiped my memory of these from all the keyboard issues that came into my shop. At least you made me laugh while I cried.

Wade yelling at a MacBook is peak Dankpods

THESE ONE USB-C PORT DISASTERS

My biggest issue was that they were USBc, not Thunderbolt 3. The number of adaptors and docks that people expect to work with them, and you just get a pop up saying ‘this accessory is not compatible with this device’

I love how Frank is both a sweetheart and a menace at the same time

As bad as it was, I wish Apple revived the 12 inch with an M series chip and updated keyboard. The portability of this form factor is amazing for working on the go.

Wade typing on the pc complaining about the keyboard is the equivalent of him complaining of a nugget's microphone while using it to tell us about it

If it wasn't for that blasted keyboard I'd love one of those just as a portable typing device. It's HARD to find a small laptop that isn't plastic-y chrome powered e-waste anymore.

why do all your macbooks have the same dent

"And its completely fanless" I think I can begin to see the issue.

"Sir we cant keep the CPU cool with such a small frame and heatsink" SHADDUP, I DIDNT ASK

On a side note, I also wanna mention how macOS does some things amazingly well but also unnecessarily limits its own features: You all know this thing where you press and hold a letter key on your phone and a bar with different accented letters pops up. This is also a feature in macOS, enabled by default. You can also disable it. You *used to* be able to even edit the plist files and customize the letters you can select. I had it customized to support accented characters for most European languages and the IPA, as I conversed a lot in English, German, Dutch, Polish and Latvian and now didn't need to change keyboard settings ever. And then they inadvertently made all this customization step by step frustrating to impossibly difficult by putting those plists in the System files: - Starting with OS X 10.11 or so, System Integrity Protection would make all System files read-only to limit access for all programs including potential malware. You could disable it in Recovery mode, edit your plist, and re-enable it. - Then with macOS 10.15 Catalina they made it so that you cannot change the System folder from read-only to anything else. You could still circumvent this with some terminal commands. - With macOS Big Sur, the System folder is now its own, read-only volume, *and it cannot be anything but read-only* without some advanced terminal shenanigans that, if executed wrongly, may screw up your entire system and/or leave you vulnerable to malware. - Some time later in Big Sur, every single System file gets its own SHA256 hash for a signature check. So, while insanely secure, even if you passed all the shit in place to prevent you from customizing your PressAndHold layout, *if you edit anything, the signature check will fail and your macOS volume will not boot up unless re-installed.* Your data won't be deleted as it's on a separate volume. There are still workarounds but the effort needed is IMO simply not worth it anymore. And, to add insult to injury, *any* system update installed will reset the modified plist. This is very likely unintentional, and not with the goal of preventing customization in mind. There simply are very few people who are even aware that you could edit the plist files in order to customize the press and hold layout, and the settings files have been in System for over a decade, so nobody at Apple checked for this or judged it not worth it to change PressAndHold code. Hopefully they change that in the future.

I thought that was the same Macbook Air my girlfriend stubbornly refuses to let me replace, it astounds me how dual cores can trudge along like that.

She may like phones as she may be able to see whatever wavelength of light is being emitted for autofocus. Spiders will react very obviously to it.

This MacBook introduced me to Louis Rossman. 5 years ago mine suffered the Question Mark of Death after overheating caused the SSD to not be read, found a KZfaq repair guy talking about how it’s a common fate for this MacBook and how difficult it is to repair, that he had to create bespoke equipment to facilitate those repairs, and gave a shoutout to Rossman who had some experience with repairing these macs. Discovering his channel was a real drive into the rabbit hole of the right-to-repair world. I’ve never bought another Mac since.

Frank was trying to close the laptop. She saw those numbers. She understood.

How Apple handled the the butterfly keyboard debacle renewed my determination to never give that company my money, no matter how tempting it may be.

Fun fact: Probably what killed those keyboards wasn't dust but heat. That, combined with Apple completely trusting Intel's TDP low balling plus their fan curves with phobia to fan noise (or lack of fans, like in this case) did the the death trick in all that line of keyboards.

ASUS at the time had a competitor called the Zenbook U360, which was thinner, managed to have USB A ports and a 360° rotatable display.

2:19 don't know why Frank staring at the screen is so cute but it is ❤

4:52 "Chungus McDungus did the bimmy scringus on the tomorry waves."

Can I just say I have been binge watching ALL of your videos in the past 2 weeks….non stop! I've even play your playlists to help me to go to sleep at night. I have been going through severe mental illness in the past few months which has been affecting me to work. Your videos with your talents and humour have been helping me so much for clearing my head! Thank you so much for your help! 😊 Please don’t stop making your videos!

When I was doing my graduate degree, these things were the loaner laptops for the media department at my college. I was in engineering, so didn't have to deal with these things, but my friends in video production had to battle Final Cut and other mac software on these things if they didn't have their own.

When i worked for an Apple Service Provider, these were by far the absolute worst Apple computers to work on. They had a special tool that made sure you didnt pull the enclosure and display clamshell too far apart or else the ribbon cables would rip.

Still have my 2015 one, replaced the battery last summer. Runs slow and steady, mostly as backup/travel laptop as it fits in the large side pocket of my jacket. I'm thinking of putting linux mint to make it more usuable. But Apple, please revive this with the M series processor. 🙏

Am I the only one who thinks it's funny the snake trying to convince him to "use" the apple? 2:00

I had one of these, 4 keyboard replacements, an entire new bottom half and a weird logic board issue where apple fixed it then kept it for a few weeks to investigate why it was throwing them fan errors while NOT HAVING A FAN later... I traded it to cashies and got an ipad.

man im so glad i remembered you again, when you took a break from uploading you fell out of my algorithm entirely, Glad to be back

I had one of these from 2016 until it got stolen last December, got me through university, and used it for basic word and excel at my job, ran stardew valley without a problem and for media consumption it was great. The look and feel was incredible and the track pad is the best I ever used, force touch is great and I actually really liked the keyboard, despite the under powered hardware, the build quality and portability and my low power use case made it worth it. I miss it.

I got one for school in mid-2016, it was the base model with the M3 and 256GB of storage. It completely shat itself during the pandemic because it could barely handle google meets and the camera died which would have required a full monitor replacement which was going to cost more than the used value of the laptop itself. I replaced it with an ROG Zephyrus...

I LOVE pausing to read the first screen cap and seeing the 2012 MBP mentioned. I own TWO OF THEM. The earlier ones from that year. The ones with ports and upgradability. Was a long slide after that. These machines are still great!!

I still have and use a 2018 MBP 15" with the last generation Butterfly keyboard. I loved the feel of the Butterfly keyboard. Kept it clean, and it's (almost) perfect after 6 years; only issue is that the space bar is starting to double-space every now and then... Oh, and it's been kept clean, but it has also survived getting absolutely thrown around, going swimming in a non-waterproof backpack on a motorbike on a rainy day, and a low-speed motorbike crash. Still haven't upgraded to an M-series yet.

watching this on an m3 macbook pro, I ALWAYS wanted a 12" macbook growing up. I thought it was the lightest, smallest PC that you can literally throw into your bag and leave for work/school/travel at an airport.

This really was the most MacBook of all time

using one of these basically as an ssh machine, an emacs machine, and a web browser/PDF reader was pretty nice... if I was using it for *anything* sturdier, though, I would have been miserable. butterfly switches were nice to type on as long as they worked though imo

this is the apple answer to chromebooks taking market share and showing that a shittily made, $100 barebones laptop is a viable product despite it having the computational power of a duel core from 2006 but it's apple so it cost $1300 in it's base config and is a hell of alot harder to warranty anyway...

This is one of my favorite Macbooks ever. It had several issues, but the size and portability was unbeatable.

i didnt kno u had a snake, he got immaculate vibes, high quality snake right there

As a drone enthusiast I needed a thin-and-light laptop to do setup and analysis in the field, and I'd really love to get one of those macbooks except that all of the maths blackbox analysis stuff is windows-only, so I ended up grabbing a Surface Pro 8 and then just never looked back. Such a neat and versatile machine, does everything I ask of it and more.

I had one of these back in 19' absolutely loved the thin form factor but boy was it hard living with a single USB c port. One big thing with these machines are the SSDs die so much quicker due to the poor thermal management which is what killed mine after 2 hard years of use.

They really need to reintroduce a 13" MacBook in this 12" form factor (by reducing the bezel size, like how the 14" macbook is the same frame size as the old 13") and using M series chips without butterfly keys. I always wanted one of these 12" models, I would happily buy a new one.

I named my AirPods Pro Nugget Pro because of you. Yeah be proud of yourself buddy.

I had one of these for the exact same reasons that you did. It wasn’t the actual mechanics and the hardware, it was the motherboard, and the particular year of 2016 and the 500 gig hard drives that were the problems.

Oh man great video!! I like the bit the end😂😂

I've had my MBP M1 since 2020 and I still daily drive it. It is honestly such a fantastic device! I have had macs (imac, macbook air) before but none were performant enough coming from a full-time custom-built desktop guy. When the M1 came out, it was the first device that allowed me to take the work I would normally do on a desktop with me wherever I went - I could now work and do my hobby stuff (photography/videos) on a battery for the first time with good performance. As long as I don't break it, I see myself using it for a few more years.

Maybe a controversial opinion, but I really wish they brought back this computer with a revised keyboard and Apple Silicon and maybe an extra USB-C port

imagine a concept car but instead of a car it’s a computer and it’s sold at full price to customers love this nugget

Still using mine! Bought it fully spec’d out in 2017, totally functional no issues

LOL never noticed how bad that thing really was until 2:39 I saw my garage computer, a late 2012 mac mini (which is a decent garage computer when maxed out to 16 gigs and a SSD is installed)

5:30 laughs in thinkpad

I still have this one and use it frequently. Only issue that it doesn't "snap" in like it used to but mercifully decides that it will grant me power to charge the battery.

Man I remember working with the 2016 models when I worked as IT for a school. And the keyboard experience on the 2016 Macbook was just awful when it doesn't work right (which usually happened most of the time). It felt like the buttons were stuck even when they were not.

I'm still using a MacBook Pro mid-2015 in 2024, and it's an amazing machine, not gonna lie to you. I really love it.

3:00 Snapdragon 8 Gen 3, Dimensity 9300 and A17 Pro mobile CPUs go brrr at 7,000 + Geekbench 6 multicore score. How far we've came it's impressive.

you can even have headphone jacks in devices thinner than the 3.5mm connector by cutting out the edges where it would overlap. you end up seeing the edges of the headphone jack connector on one or both sides, but it works fine. a laptop i have does that.

Great little machine, I used to work for a web hosting company and sometimes had to be on call over evenings and weekends, so this used to go everywhere with me, to parties, out on bike rides, you name it. Still use it as a second machine even nowadays.

9:19 "HDMEE" 🤣🤣🤣🤣

Danka danka danka pods And fronk the snoke

I actually loved this, it was so small and thin and battery lasted all day. I could take it everywhere in any bag really. Probably helped I bought it cheap second hand and had no issues with keyboard. I used it up to last year where I broke the screen.

I have and regularly use it. Its perfect for traveling. As long as all you're using it for light work, personally I just watch my ripped blu-rays off it. Its bigger than an iPad screen, has adjustable tilt and really good resolution

The worst part is they have the chipset to make this one of the most incredible machines on the market today... but they wont do it :(

That's one of the best Macs Apple made during the butterfly keyboard era. It actually knows what it is. It doesn't have the Pro moniker but can't do pro tasks because of overheating issues. It didn't cost an arm and a leg. It's a small, thin and incredibly light computer made for web based tasks. And that's it. That's what it is and it doesn't claim to be able to to do much more. As a piece of engineering it is very impressive and still thinner and lighter than most computers made today. I use my 2017 model daily.

If your teaching was like your YT content, you would have been the awesomest teacher. Man I wish I was Australian and picked music as my major

I LOVED my 12inch macbook for the on the go stuff, light photo editing, photoshop, some javascript. I eventually traded it for the first iPad pro that came out, which I think is good option with the apple keyboard. I would love an M model 12macbook. It would have no shortage of power

7:52 that's called a laptop mate

0:12 I'm confused, that reddit post is talking about the 2019 MacBook Pro, not the 12 inch Macbook that is in the video?

On my 2018 MacBook Pro I personally loved the butterfly keyboard. I honestly liked the feeling of it, and I didn't run into any issues except towards the end of me using it I started to notice the space bar would double press some.

Back in late 2015, I bought this, and I got an XPS 13 (the 3200/1800 touch one, duh). I couldn't decide which to keep, so my mom got the Mac and I kept the Dell. The Dell was just so much faster and easier to get work done with. The laptop was only a little larger but had way more screen, and the screen was SO MUCH BETTER from the higher pixel density (which matters when it's itty bitty, you end up using it closer). I miss both these machines. The Mac felt like it was from the future. It still feels that way when you use one now, until you try to type and it starts spamming keypresses or none at all.

3:50 "HDMEE" "OOSB" 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

Reminder that ppl (including children) in the Democratic Republic of Congo are enslaved and forced to work the dangerous cobalt mines to make these tech products. Buy secondhand if possible and use your device for as long as you can before throwing it out (responsibly), refurbing or retiring it.

i remember in my old school's computer lab they bought these in 2016. after like 3 months, at least 4 or something broke because kids just didn't understand how fragile they were, literally snapping them or somehow killing the keyboards.

petition give frank the macbook sign here 📋:

I worked on MBP mid 2015. It's only problem were that it was overheating, most likely from dust inside. I worked from home with it but had no stupid screwdriver to open and clean it. It worked with Samsung display perfectly, it always remembers when windows were when i plug in display (Looking at you you, Windows 10, who shuffle them all over when i connect). And magsafe 1 were funny thing to fidget. My friends who have M1 MacBook doesn't want to upgrade, because honestly it's still great, and battery life is awesome and frankly i would recommend it over new Windows laptops for most people.

The smartest decision they have ever made was firing John Ive. They brought back the proper keyboard and brought IO back.

Use it as a cymble

I actually liked the 12, I still have it alongside my 16". Mine is the top-tier m7. I really love it for emails, typing and surfing

I will say I owned the 2015 fully specked MacBook and it was amazing and it was able to handle whatever I through at it without any hiccups. I recently gave it away to my brother 2 years ago and it's still going strong! Arguably one of my favorite laptops of all time!!

Yoooooo

Still using my old Macbook Pro 2012 model to this very day. Updated with OCLP running Somona. Still a good bit of kid. Did have to change the battery on though. But, it's still works like new.

I got the pro model in 2017, mostly cause I got free beats, for uni. Two days later my G key gave up and had to take it to Apple for repair. Two days later my E key died. They just gave me a new one after that. Thankfully I got a proper ROG zephyrus 14 a year later. I wanted to like it but too many issues.

I got this second hand and honestly love it so much, I hope they re release this form factor.

I'm so glad I went with the older 2015 pro model in 2016. It was the last upgradeable/self serviceable model and believe it or not I still use it along side a 2020 model. So glad I skipped the butterfly keyboard phase.

I have the 2017 model, top spec and I really like the compact form factor. I can fit it into the pocket of my jacket and carry it around. Performance is not the greatest, but it's still usable today. Except for the dead battery, but I actually ordered a replacement battery for mine a few days ago. And the passive cooling is cool because it's absolutely quiet. It doesn't annoy you with typical high pitch laptop fan noise. The keyboard on mine hasn't failed yet, all keys are still working. Idk, maybe they fixed something for the 2017 model. The typing feel is indeed very weird when you first type on it, but I got used to it very quickly. I used it in school and then in university and did a lot of typing on it

It's also worth noting, the abysmal performance and power consumption of the m series chips drove Apple to fully crank up RnD for Apple Silicon

I have a 12-inch mid 2012 Macbook pro and I've been using that thing since like 2018

I still have my 12 inch Macbook and I used to travel with it ALOT because of how incredibly portable it was. What’s even funnier is that 9 times out of 10 I would pick this up over the OG iPad Pro at home because it actually has a smaller footprint than the iPad Pro which is pretty insane. Loved this little thing.

Still using the 2015 launch version, love it. Was awesome through uni because of the weight and battery life.

I had one in my last year of university, I bought it over a good spec IPad, I loved this little machine. For docuent typing and internet browsing it was amazing. Had probably the best battery life of its time, I could charge it overnight and leave for uni on that one charge and use it for 6-7 hours easy.

1:18 the refresh rate is the same: 60Hz. The term you're looking for is response time.

Wade typing that Chungus McDungus sentence is peak "Eat up Martha" energy. 🤣

Keep it up Dank. Your Vids make me happy in a cruel world

I actually love the way the butterfly keyboard feels

Something about little computers like this is fun lol. That smallest MacBook Air they used to make that was like 11” was so interesting to me.

I worked at an apple repair centre around the time of the butterfly keyboards, they were awful to repair and I still get stressed out whenever I see them.

While the issues mentioned do annoy me, the biggest thing which has me using this laptop to this day is the size factor. I use this laptop for travel, and a Mac Mini for more serious computing

I got a m2 air as my first Mac. I love it, its amazing for collage, streaming and light gaming on the go.

This is still my favorite Mac of all time. It was slow, but it was still powerful enough to run FCP and edit my vlogs on back in the day. I actually really liked the keyboard, but not the reliability issues. If they brought this back with the M chip tomorrow I'd be preordering it as soon as it was available. Felt ridiculous to carry a full computer in my iPad bag. But it was awesome. Sure it could have used a second USB-C port, but I hate that Apple took away a Thunderbolt port on the new MBPs to put HDMI and an SD slot in, two things I never use. Cfast cards and HDMI over Thunderbolt is the way to go.