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So glad they finally got rid of the butterfly keyboard! That said, I cannot wait until they retire the Touch Bar.
by shawndellysse 6y ago
So glad they finally got rid of the butterfly keyboard! That said, I cannot wait until they retire the Touch Bar.
- aldanor 6y agoAnd add the Esc to iPad keyboards while they're at it
- ascagnel_ 6y ago13.4 added key remapping for hardware keyboards. I have caps lock mapped to control and the globe/international keyboard key mapped to escape.
- bluedino 6y agoThe Air has a perfectly sane keyboard.
- shawndellysse 6y agoYeah, if only I could get the 16" Pro with the keyboard of the Air. I need a bit more cpu power and ram than the Air can offer sadly. Eh, my mid-2015 MBP with an i7-4780HQ and 16gb of memory will do for now. I occasionally bump into the memory limit but hopefully I can hold out until a fully sane keyboard is an option. Either that or hacklapintosh it
- dividedbyzero 6y agoDoesn't the 16" Pro have the new keyboard? Or are there multiple new keyboards around?
- jamesrcole 6y agoI assume you're talking about the latest Air? I have the 2018 model and the keyboard is awful. Awkward to type on and it frequently registers single key presses as double-presses (or, sometimes, no press at all).
- asdff 6y agoThe air didn't get the good keyboard until this year.
- dubcanada 6y agoWhat's your problem with the touch bar? My biggest was the lack of esc key, but they adjusted that. I actually really like the touch bar. I don't use it very often, but I never used function keys.
- petercooper 6y agoI use function keys all the time and am indifferent to the Touch Bar. It's fine. I just set it to show the function keys all the time and off we go. I don't need tactile feedback for keys for non-typing keys.
- Someone1234 6y agoI look at the screen when using a computer, not the top of my hands. Therefore a set of dynamic "keys" aren't adding value to my computer experience, and frankly I'd prefer the physical feedback of a key with actual travel (e.g. standard F# row). The Touch Bar is, at its core, an anti-pattern for people who cannot touch type and frankly a cop-out because Apple didn't want to add a touch screen (due to the high cost of updating MacOS).
- DagAgren 6y agoPersonally, I brush my fingers across it all the time and trigger random functions. A touch bar that was pressure sensitive with haptic feedback would fix it for me, but mixing keys that you need to press down with a screen you just have to touch in the same area just creates a mess.
- SnowflakeOnIce 6y agoI’m a touch typist, and don’t look at the keyboard much. The Touch Bar, being a large smooth piece of plastic, breaks this flow. Additionally, the Touch Bar has awful latency... hundreds of milliseconds to reconfigure itself when switching between apps??
- carlisle_ 6y agoI use function keys extensively by touch. It's the most infuriating thing too when my hands drift while feeling for keys and I accidentally press a bunch of keys on the touchbar without realizing it. I used a macbook with a touchbar for about 6 months. Never again.