I'm fully with you. Programmers NEED physical function keys, and at the very least the escape key. Anything that requires you to look down is just a joke. Leno

I'm fully with you. Programmers NEED physical function keys, and at the very least the escape key. Anything that requires you to look down is just a joke. Lenovo quickly learned their lesson with their (imho, as a touch typer, brilliant) X1 Carbon, when they went fancy with the function row in Gen2. Suffice to say, the near perfect keyboard layout of Gen1 was back in Gen3.