Keyboard

I like keyboard a lot. Keys are easy to press, well defined threshold for the amount of pressure that has to be applies. Keys depress naturally, do not hesitate or resist. One problem I have is with Control key that is right of the Fn key. I would prefer if it was switched. I barely use Fn while I use Ctrl a lot and it is difficult to use. But that’s very subjective.

Overall Experience

I have to be honest here. It is very productive and cool laptop. I could be as productive in development with my old Dell as I am now. Saying that I am still getting used to shortcuts (especially Aptana, Eclipse and Intellij IDEA have a lot of conflicts with pre-defined system shortcuts). I don’t like running GIMP (I used it quite often before on Ubuntu). It’s running in X11 and it is just not a very pleasant experience. For some reason there is a lot of double-clicking and just somehow I could not get used to it.

It is different story when it comes to overall experience. I just love to sync my iPhone, iCal, Address Book and it all works! Very, very, very smooth. Sometimes I miss extra heat coming from Fujitsu N6010 and Dell XPS, I could use some of that now that it is a little bit colder. MacBook Pro just would warm up, it is cold-blooded machine. Can barely feel any heat coming out.

Another Problem

I installed additional international keyboards to write some Christmas emails with in Slovak. When I walked away screensaver kicked. I have password protected screen saver and I wasn’t able to type in correct password. There was $ sign in the password and with keyboard set to Slovak, I just didn’t know what to do. I ended up turning off laptop sing off switch. I am not sure what else could be done.