For all those using Finale / Sibelius on a MacBook or Pro, there is
another solution that might be worth looking into. One caveat, you
need an iPhone. Someone posted a message on either the Finale or
Sibelius list about an app called NumberKey Free. You install it on
your iPhone and the small companion app on your MB, and now you have a
full functioning numeric keypad. It's wireless, and it WORKS. Did I
also mention it's free??? It's in the App Store.
Like I said, for those who don't have an iPhone, it's useless. But
it's a great workaround for a small group of users.
J D Thomas
ThomaStudios
On Nov 18, 2009, at 6:43 AM, Fiskum, Steve wrote:
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
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