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Re:Dell XPS 13 Plus developer edition: Now available with Ub... by BigMajestic on Tuesday August 23, 2022 @03:10AM (#32561474)
That got my interest. Why companies are trying to do this? Isn't the ESC key one of the commonly used keys on the keyboard? What's a net gain by replacing it?
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Re:Dell XPS 13 Plus developer edition: Now available with Ub... by innocenat on Tuesday August 23, 2022 @03:24AM (#32561568)
Dell claimed that physical keyboard is too thick to put in enough cooling for 28W Alder Lake-P chip in thin-and-light form factor. The touchbar is much thinner allowing more room for the heat spreader.

Having seen benchmark number from XPS 13 Plus compared with other notebook equipped with Alder Lake-P, it looks like it's working.

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Re:Dell XPS 13 Plus developer edition: Now available with Ub... by pjmlp on Tuesday August 23, 2022 @06:51AM (#32562923)
Maybe for vi users, on GUI based OSes it mostly boils down to dismissing dialog windows.
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