This is the way every keyboard I’ve ever used is configured. When my right hand travels to the arrow cluster, my index finger feels for the top of the left arrow key, and my middle finger assumes that the down arrow is to the right of it, and the up arrow is above it.
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The seemingly small change in the size of the left and right arrow keys to full height has made it nearly impossible for me to use. I’ll be able to get used to the key profile, eventually, but there’s one thing that’s absolutely killing me: the configuration of the arrow key cluster. In his recent A Magic Mistake, he writes (emphasis his):
I was glad to read that Brett Terpstra feels the same as I do. Meanwhile, Apple introduces the Magic Keyboard, which, although it doesn’t feature the same butterfly mechanism of the 12-inch retina MacBook’s keyboard, it has a similar key travel and, most importantly, the same ridiculous design for the arrow keys. I found their new design in the retina MacBook’s keyboard to be too ‘crowded’ and my fingers didn’t move as easily when tapping on them.
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There are some who don’t love the small size of the arrow keys in the usual ‘Inverted T’ design, at least on laptops, but the space above the left and right arrow keys really helps to ‘find’ them without looking, and also helps when you’re quickly moving around a software program’s interface using the arrow keys (positioning an object in a graphics application, moving your character in a game, etc.). I constantly thought I was hitting the Command or the Option key, and I found myself looking at the keyboard more often than I liked. The enlarged left and right arrow keys really screwed up my muscle memory while using the MacBook. In my ‘First impressions’ article about the MacBook, I wrote:įinally, another new design choice that I really found off-putting in the new MacBook’s keyboard is the shape of the new arrow keys: My experience with the MacBook’s keyboard has led me to abandon the idea of considering this machine as a possible candidate for upgrade. As a writer and someone who types a lot and all the time, the keyboard for me is even more important than CPU speed or GPU capabilities or storage capacity. I was looking forward to this MacBook as my next Mac, but the experience was disappointing, and the single point of disappointment was the MacBook’s keyboard. Sometime ago, not long after the 12-inch retina MacBook was released, I had the chance to carry out a thorough test of the machine by using it as intensely as I could over three full days (thanks to a kind soul who graciously lent me the MacBook).
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