Just bought a MBP 17" last week and the FN key is still there. The problem I had was the elimination of the "clear" key which I used QuicKeys to fix. I talked with Apple about this issue and the engineers replied that they know when the change happened but cannot find documentation as to why. Also, they have moved the "enter" key which now requires two keys instead of one to operate. I remapped it to the Option key on the right using "DoubleCommand." Who really needs 2 option keys? Hitting the enter key from my old PowerBook is so engrained in me it's hard to switch to the two key solution.
Steve 11/18/09 2:09 AM, "Johannes Gebauer" <[email protected]> wrote: > On 18.11.2009 Darcy James Argue wrote: >> Does it have the "embedded" numeric keypad? fn-J for "1", fn-K for "2", etc? >> The new models don't have that. I don't know exactly when the switch happened >> but it happened fairly recently. > > My MacBook (white, Geforce, Firewire) bought earlier this year, does not > have an embedded numeric keypad, yet it does have the function key (fn) > in the lower left. Do newer ones really not have that any more? How do > you access the double-function F-keys otherwise? Seems strange that > Apple would eliminate this function. > > I do understand why they dropped the embedded numeric keypad, although I > still don't like that change. However, on my iBook I got very confused > several times when I had switched on numlock by accident and couldn't > work out why the keyboard didn't work properly. > > Johannes > _______________________________________________ > Finale mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale > ts.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
