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Multiple puzzling decisions -

1) The Esc and the Space keys are the two I most often use without looking - now I have to f*ing look down to hit esc?

2)What about a hard boot? Is the power key now a soft key as well? Non-removable battery and a soft reboot key do not make a good mix

3) Key press and travel distance look to be shallow - not a very satisfying experience

4) Please don't make it any thinner at the expense of ports or battery life

5) The charging port is no longer Magsafe

All in all seems a bit more gimmicky and "change for change's sake" rather than a solid upgrade




> 2)What about a hard boot? Is the power key now a soft key as well? Non-removable battery and a soft reboot key do not make a good mix

Are you seriously implying that you think that Apple would make a laptop whereby if it kernel panics and you need to hard reboot, now there is no way to do that because they accidentally made the power key a soft key?

(And I'll add the power key has been a soft key for some years now already)


> Are you seriously implying that you think that Apple would...

I love your tone here. To troll you a bit, nothing lasts forever and sooner or later the time will come that Apple will go downhill and start making obvious UI goofs. Will be fun to watch for sure.


You could map Esc to Caps lock, like most Vim users do.


"Most" vim users do not do this. Control, perhaps.


`inore kj <ESC>` or similar


But it's thinner and lighter.

Jony Ive says thinner and lighter will make it better.




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