I disagree. "Techies" is a huge group and it's ridiculous to think you can speak for all of them, especially when your argument comes down to function keys. As I said, I'm a member of that group and I don't use them. This person is saying that the new MacBook Pro is not for me. What makes it OK for them to speak for me?

See it this way. On one side you have a group this person cares about. On the other side there is this person, you, he doesn't care about. Maybe he just doesn't count you as part of the group as he says "we techies"? Then he's not speaking for you, right?

It's not so political correct, but that is how we techies are. Get used to it if you want to deal with us.