The Fn Lock key's exact placement may vary depending on your laptop model, but it's typically found at the bottom left of the keyboard or in the function keys row. Once you've located it, simply ...

Out with 2015’s “butterfly” keyboard, out with 2016’s Touch Bar, in with the Magic Keyboard and a row of full-height function keys.

There's no numpad or function row among the 72 keys, but you can access media keys or the function row by hitting FN1 for the media keys or FN2 for the function row and one of the keys in the top row.

Function keys, or F-keys, are special-purpose keys on a keyboard that allow you to perform certain actions on your computer quickly. These keys comprise the top row of keyboards and are labeled F1 ...

Apple's (in)famous Touch Bar was controversial, to say the least. Put to bed with the launch of the 2022 MacBook Pro models, many were happy to see the return of function keys. Clearly not ...

The third version of Lenovo's ultralight 14-inch laptop, the X1 Carbon, gets nearly all the basics right while adding a few new twists, including a function key row that changes app by app.

Within days, however, the honeymoon was over, and I was ready to run back into the arms of a row of function keys. But because I'm loyal (and cheap), I stayed with my Touch Bar MacBook for four years.

The Magic Keyboard is Appleu2019s best effort at making a keyboard case for the iPad Pro so far, but we really wish it had a row of function keys, A lower price would be nice, too.

And rather than topping the keyboard with a row of function keys, the XPS 13 Plus has an Apple Touch Bar-like capacitive touch strip that you can toggle to show function-row inputs or media functions.