Dan Ackerman leads CNET's coverage of computers and gaming hardware. A New York native and former radio DJ, he's also a regular TV talking head and the author of "The Tetris Effect" ...

Were you involved in a typing accident that left you with double keypresses or no keypress at all? Were your laptop keys sticky and/or unresponsive, in a way that left you with lasting trauma? If you ...

In March 2015, Apple unveiled the MacBook, a new 12-inch notebook that joined the MacBook Air and MacBook Pro lineups. Apple marketed the MacBook as its "thinnest and lightest Mac ever," armed with ...

If you're a jilted current (or former) owner of a MacBook, MacBook Air, or MacBook Pro with the oft-maligned butterfly keyboard mechanism, there's some breaking news today. A class-action lawsuit ...

Apple is proceeding with compensating the owners of MacBook laptops sold between 2015 and 2019 that featured the infamously faulty butterfly keyboards. After settling a class-action lawsuit in July, ...

Apple's "bold" butterfly keyboard will not be missed, but it's a bit unfair to scorch the earth behind it — and there's a strong case for buying a 2019 model MacBook Air, or MacBook Pro. Apple has had ...

Since 2012, Apple has developed two kinds of keyboards for its MacBook Pro and MacBook Air machines - one that uses butterfly switches and one that uses scissor switches. With a scissor switch ...

A court has given its preliminary approval to a $50 million settlement ending the Butterfly keyboard class-action lawsuit against Apple. Originally agreed by Apple in July, the U.S. District Court for ...

The keyboards, introduced with the 2015 MacBook, were notoriously unreliable; basically any sort of grime, crumb, or dust could make it so that a key stopped responding altogether or got stuck, ...

Apple has updated its 13-inch MacBook Pro workhorse with all the iterative tweaks and polishes you would expect from a surprise Monday morning laptop reveal. But the announcement's ultimate ...

You might be in for some money if you had problems with a MacBook butterfly keyboard. Apple agreed to a preliminary settlement Monday for a class-action lawsuit that claimed the company knew the ...

I have one good thing to say about the butterfly keyboard on my 2018 rMBP, which negates all the previous gripes I could have had about it: Thank you, butterfly keyboard, thanks to you I got a ...