This seems like a non-issue. There are very simple ways to avoid getting keyboard paw oils on your screen without spending millions of dollars in R&D for a complicated "solution".
When taking my MacBook Pro out of the house, I ALWAYS cover the keyboard with a microfibre cloth that covers the entire keyboard before closing the lid, being sure the cloth faces the same way UP every time I use it. Then I put it in a neoprene sleeve.
Guess what? NO oily keyboard prints on the screen!
The term “Keycap particle evacuation structure” sounds like something designed for the international space station. Drop the keycap part and you get “particle evacuation structure” which sounds a lot like a space toilet. So it’s actually a keyboard toilet.
I’m thinking the grooves are going to retain more grunge than a grooveless keycap would. I suppose Apple knows best?
I use a soft natural bristle paintbrush to keep my keyboards free of particulate matter. If I need to degrease or get stains off of keycaps or the keyboard structure I’ll usually use small alcohol wipes because they’re small, cheap, and not overly saturated.
They should just make the darned things the 0.1mm thicker and increase the clearance between the closed screen and top case.
My wife’s 13” M2 MacBook Air got a nick in the screen coating the first week from some minute piece of dust trapped between the top case and screen right dead center. She has AppleCare, but living with it as long as it doesn’t bother her to save the deductible (I’m super anal, I’d have sent it in already lol).
My own M2 MacBook Pro has its screen cleaned on the regular as I cannot stand any smudges or dust on it when I’m looking at it all day. I keep getting oil smudges across the top 3” middle of my panel - that’s not even from the keyboard, but the trackpad? I do occasionally get the keyboard-shaped smudges at the bottom though, and I keep my machine very clean.
To protect the keyboard from oil a simple cheap solution is to use a silicone cover that can be removed and washed periodically, or in the worst case replaced:
To protect the keyboard from oil a simple cheap solution is to use a silicone cover that can be removed and washed periodically, or in the worst case replaced:
I had one. It protects the keyboard from debris but makes the oil problem worse. You inevitably get oil on the protector every time you use it and the added thickness of the protector means it touches even more of the screen. Not to mention a worse typing experience.
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I use a soft natural bristle paintbrush to keep my keyboards free of particulate matter. If I need to degrease or get stains off of keycaps or the keyboard structure I’ll usually use small alcohol wipes because they’re small, cheap, and not overly saturated.
My wife’s 13” M2 MacBook Air got a nick in the screen coating the first week from some minute piece of dust trapped between the top case and screen right dead center. She has AppleCare, but living with it as long as it doesn’t bother her to save the deductible (I’m super anal, I’d have sent it in already lol).
My own M2 MacBook Pro has its screen cleaned on the regular as I cannot stand any smudges or dust on it when I’m looking at it all day. I keep getting oil smudges across the top 3” middle of my panel - that’s not even from the keyboard, but the trackpad? I do occasionally get the keyboard-shaped smudges at the bottom though, and I keep my machine very clean.