So far, I've been pleased with the new Apple keyboard...except for VI. I'm a heavy VI user, and if you're familiar with the text editor, you know that you use the Escape key, a ton. That's bad news for the new Apple keyboard. The esc key is now a half-height key, up with the F keys. 
This is terrible for my VI usage. I miss the key all the time. Sometimes when I miss, I hit F1 and dim my monitor because that's the brightness down key! Grrrrrr. The esc key on the old Apple keyboard was not only full size, but double wide. I had no problems hitting that one. I'm going to give it a little longer, but I can't suffer when using VI.
2007-09-05
The New Apple Keyboard and VI Pain
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Feel free to throw that new keyboard over this way for some more testing... I have almost the opposite complaints about the old Apple keyboard - too big and bulky, and the keys feed back in a strange way.
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