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		ramanujan on Aug 26, 2011 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: New gaming laptop with innovative UI by Razer But those need to be clicked with the mouse. Having a top 10 list of extremely common hotkeys in an app is just a lot more discoverable (for the non-expert or first-time user) and much faster (for all users) than finding the right icon to click.

glhaynes on Aug 26, 2011 | [–]

But also comes with a cost and complexity including users having to sometimes look onscreen for functions and sometimes on the keyboard.

DanBealeC on Aug 26, 2011 | [–]

You don't remember all the cardboard keyboard overlays that used to ship with software?

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