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Have three of these Macs, apart from the occasional stuck key which releases when you tap the back of the Mac they've been solid.

I couldn't go back to a normal keyboard on a laptop now, the reduced range of travel on the butterfly keyboards takes a while to get used to but it's amazing once you're used to it you just don't want to mash keys through more than 1 mm of travel to type a letter anymore


And lack of H.264 encoding in Firefox / YouTube means no smooth HD YouTube playback


Decoding? Firefox supports h.264, and YouTube is mostly VP8/9, which Many Lake has accelerated decode for.


> which Many Lake has accelerated decode for

Only Kaby Lake has VP8/9 hardware acceleration. Skylake doesn't.


autocorrect, meant Kaby Lake


If only Firefox / Intel would sort themselves out and get H.264 encoding working on the NUC so you can watch YouTube above 720p on Linux. Sigh.


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