apple’s antiCAPSLOCK (Via John Rentzsch.):

Unique among the rest of the keys, Caps Lock doesn’t activate immediately upon strike. There’s a very small time window — perhaps a quarter of a second — where if you release the key inside the window, the keystroke is ignored.

But that’s only part of the conspiracy. The Caps Lock key isn’t just universally slow to react. If Caps Lock was already engaged, the keystroke is registered immediately, even before the upstroke.

I bought one of the new keyboards about a week ago. So far I really like it. The feel is just like my MacBook. I’ve always preferred the feel of a scissor key, so for me the new keyboard blows away the old apple keyboard which I hated. It was always the first thing I replaced.

I hadn’t realized about the caps lock change until the Wolf posted about it today. Thinking back on the last week, I don’t remember accidently turning it on. I used to accidently do it all of the time. Nice little feature by Apple. They get bonus points if it helps keep people from typing in all caps.