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since there are so many devs here...how do you feel about them removing the function keys?

• sblom 10y ago
  I'd be sad to see physical function keys go. Maybe there'll be a gizmo that I can put over the TouchBar that gives me physical keys that can simulate touches for me. :)
• throwanem 10y ago
  Eh. They're far enough from home row that I rarely use them in any case, and there are some intriguing possibilities in the touch bar that make it potentially a worthwhile change. On the other hand, I'm a very late adopter, and will probably be using my current (late 2013) MBP for another three to five years, so it's not as though I'm going to have to worry about being the infantry here. By the time I get around to even considering the possibility of a purchase, it'll long since have been known whether or not the touch bar is a gimmick.
• davesque 10y ago
  Don't really care. I'm a vim user, but I use Ctrl-C instead of escape to get out of insert mode, etc. What I find obnoxious is that the hardware is already a bit outdated. Also, they act as though this touch bar is such a huge innovation when it really isn't. It's minor. Give me a laptop I can use for coding and also has an Apple Pencil compatible touch screen I can use for note taking. I'd call that innovation. But Apple has decided, for all of us, that no one really wants this. I will say, however, that the 4 thunderbolt 3 ports seem pretty useful. I also like how they're going with port-types that are standard instead of their usual proprietary nonsense.