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Work issued me a Macbook Pro.

The lack of buttons below the trackpad makes right clicking in a controlled manner impossible - I cannot feel nor hover my thumb over the button I want. Accidentally touching the "right" part of the trackpad jumps the mouse cursor over there, or activates some multi-touch gimmick.

The power button looks like a regular keyboard ke.

The edges of the case are actually too sharp to rest your wrists on. Rounded edges would solve this problem. So does filing down the case as some have done Youtube.

The keyboard keys lack any concavity. This is on all keyboards made since type-writers because it helps center your finger when you side-strike a key. This stops it slipping to the neighboring key. In the case of the Apple keyboard, it slips towards the gap between keys.

The keyboard has no Home, End, Page Up/Page Down or Delete keys. It is also lacking an Insert (overwrite) key. These aren't unused keys, they're pretty ordinary text editing functions.

Functional? No Apple absolutely made a whole bunch of stylistic choices. Apple wants a very specific line and minimalism to their products. Accomodations for practicality complicate that - otherwise why are we losing 3.5mm jacks on iPhones in the interest of thinness when most everyone agrees they want more battery life?



Except for the sharp edges, I really like all of those features.

I rarely click buttons with trackpads, only when I drag things. I almost always tap.

The power button is both a keyboard button and a pure hardware button if you keep it pressed for longer. Don't let the look of it scare you off.

The keyboard keys are quite clearly separated for me. I can't really use mechanical keyboards very well.

The home/end/page keys are replaced by cmd+directions. Delete is Fn+Backspace. If you're using emacs or vi, it won't matter either way.


For right click, configure it as 2-finger click, it's easier (at least for me)

Concavity helps but chiclet keyboards are usually better than regular ones for notebooks

> The keyboard has no Home, End, Page Up/Page Down or Delete keys. It is also lacking an Insert (overwrite) key

True, that sucks. But there are combinations of keys to do that. PgUp = Fn+Up direction key. Home/End for single line entries is Up/Down, etc (google it)

You kind of get used to it until you plug a PC keyboard then hate yourself for a couple of days (but it gets back eventually)




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