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Re:New MacBook Pro models to feature magsafe, no touch bar a... by oblio on Friday January 15, 2021 @06:21AM (#25789545)
A lot of power users look at their keyboards. Touch typists are a very small minority, even among power users. At least pure touch typists (people who only touch type).

And these computers are not purely for power users.

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Re:New MacBook Pro models to feature magsafe, no touch bar a... by kumarsw on Friday January 15, 2021 @08:44AM (#25790852)
I wonder how many folks touch-type with the function keys. I touch-type, but I still need to look down to use the function keys.
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Re:New MacBook Pro models to feature magsafe, no touch bar a... by geerlingguy on Friday January 15, 2021 @09:14AM (#25791136)
I used to be able to touch type the speaker volume and mute F keys. With the slider or volume mute buttons, I often have a hard time hitting them correctly on the Touch Bar. This is after having it for years.
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Re:New MacBook Pro models to feature magsafe, no touch bar a... by oblio on Friday January 15, 2021 @08:57AM (#25790960)
If they're grouped in blocks of 4 it's reasonably doable, especially for the ones at the edges of the blocks (for example F4 and F5 are popular buttons for IDEs and even browsers or other common applications).
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