Apple now repairing MacBook keyboards in store, promising next day turnaround

Re:Apple now repairing MacBook keyboards in store, promising... by bdamm on Wednesday April 24, 2019 @01:57PM (#19741087)

It's impossible to touch it and know that I actually landed on the key. Since most of my typing is by feel, I need to know that I landed on the key. Often my typing is seconds ahead of the display, and always behind of the decision making logic in my brain.

I'm a vi user. I thought that maybe with a few months of just trusting the location on the touch bar that I'd get used to it. After all that 'training' I can land on the key about 90% of the time, which is about 9.9999% not close enough. And certainly I cannot consistently land on it with any other finger than the left ring finger when coming directly from the home row. My hands aren't always consistently on the home row, so that's also a problem.

I have come to like the touchbar. But the Esc key needs to be promoted to a real key. Tactile response matters.

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Re:Apple now repairing MacBook keyboards in store, promising... by eridius on Wednesday April 24, 2019 @07:24PM (#19743506)

I admit I still sometimes have a momentary question when I go to hit Esc of "did I really hit it?" and yet I have unfailingly hit Esc 100% of the time I try. It helps that the TouchBar feels different than the computer body around it, so I can reliably tell that I hit the TouchBar, and the Esc hit area is so large that I'm simply not going to miss it.

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Re:Apple now repairing MacBook keyboards in store, promising... by GeneHackerman on Wednesday April 24, 2019 @02:17PM (#19741290)

I use vim daily and this isn't an issue. People have issues that if it's not physical it's not real, but the "Button" is there and functions as an escape key nonetheless.

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