It’s not so much the half keys that makes it obnoxious, but having the left and right keys be full height, and not having a gap to orient my fingers in the keys means I’m often pressing “shift” with my middle finger thinking it’s “up”.
My God, this, 1000x times this. I've owned a Macbook Pro 2017 for 6 months now and still manage to get a miss 40% of the time. It's maddening.
I've been using mine daily (more than 6h per day), for 10 months, and I still miss most of the times!
I would be fine withh the half height up and down keys if they were between half height left and right keys. For me it’s the lack of tactile feedback telling me where he arrow group is that sucks big-time.
Put back? They've never had full sized up and down arrow keys on the MacBooks. What I miss are the half-sized left and right keys - the empty space above them made it easy to position my hand over the arrow keys without looking.
I'm with you here — no generation of MB/MBP has ever had full-sized up/down arrow keys [1][2]. I guess perhaps people are meaning how the left/right arrow keys went from being half-sized to full-sized? I'd like to half my half-sized left/right back...
Good point, just took a look at the picture of a 2014 mbp which I had previously. Something about the older up/down arrows was much better, and I can’t put my finger on it (literally, since I do not have the 2014 anymore).
My god, yes. My hit rate on the half height up/down keys can’t be better than 30%
Interesting, I actually like the half arrow key thing, I often use the arrow key with my pinkie, makes it easy to switch between up and down. To each their own I guess.
Oh yes, I'm happy to see others mentioning the half size up and down. Even after a year with this keyboard this still trips me up.
I want an easy way to remap the shift to up and both up/down arrows to down without using some bloated remapping software that doesn't get upgrade.
Hey, look at all the extra spaces from this fantastic MBP keyboard. Grr
I'm curious what you use them for? I've always prefered WASD for directions (too many games in my youth!), and always saw the arrow keys as a waste of space, too far away to use regularly.
I never use the right shift anyway. (It's farther away than the left shift.)