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Karabiner VS Surface Pro

Compare Karabiner VS Surface Pro and see what are their differences

Karabiner logo Karabiner

Karabiner, previously called KeyRemap4MacBook, is a very powerful keyboard remapper for Mac OS X.

Surface Pro logo Surface Pro

A new, more powerful Surface Pro
  • Karabiner Landing page
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    2023-10-06
  • Surface Pro Landing page
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    2022-06-22

Karabiner videos

REVIEW: Should you play the Vetterli 71 Karabiner? [Hunt Gun Review #1]

More videos:

  • Review - Vim screencast #59: Karabiner Elements
  • Review - Evolution of the Karabiner 98k, From Prewar to Kriegsmodell

Surface Pro videos

Surface Pro 7 Review - Is This Perfect?

More videos:

  • Review - Surface Pro X review: heartbreaker
  • Review - Microsoft Surface Pro X Full Review - Should You Buy It? | The Tech Chap
  • Review - Microsoft Surface Pro X Review - 6 Months Later

Category Popularity

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Automation
100 100%
0% 0
Hardware
0 0%
100% 100
Note Taking
100 100%
0% 0
Digital Whiteboard
0 0%
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Social recommendations and mentions

Based on our record, Karabiner seems to be more popular. It has been mentiond 271 times since March 2021. We are tracking product recommendations and mentions on various public social media platforms and blogs. They can help you identify which product is more popular and what people think of it.

Karabiner mentions (271)

  • Ask HN: What macOS apps/programs do you use daily and recommend?
    Besides the usual Firefox/Chrome, Spotify, etc I use the following: - Karabiner-Elements for key remapping, specifically, for making caps lock into ctrl/esc. I don't know of anything else that does this job. Everyone who remaps keys seems to use this. - Kitty as my terminal of choice. I spend most of my time logged in remotely to a server via ssh where I attach to a tmux session. Kitty was easy enough to... - Source: Hacker News / 28 days ago
  • Ask HN: What macOS apps/programs do you use daily and recommend?
    If I had to recommend 1 app/script that I use daily: https://github.com/banga/git-split-diffs) to disable things like "Apple + Q" -> nothing worse than going to close a single tab and then your whole app quits. Also able to re-map caps-lock into escape, ect `iterm2` for terminal (colored tabs are great; albeit I disable the hell out of many of the options like "clickable urls" ect) for cli, I try to gnu... - Source: Hacker News / 28 days ago
  • Ask HN: What if we wrote HTML with [brackets][/brackets]?
    I have been using Karabiner elements (https://karabiner-elements.pqrs.org), they allow keyboard customization, I have switched the colon and semicolon key, by default without pressing shift, the key will output colon (:) , I find this useful as I type lot of colon daily. Maybe you can use this software to set "<" and ">" to be the default text output without using Shift. - Source: Hacker News / 6 months ago
  • Remote desktop from Windows to Mac, native keys and function
    In the settings of chrome remote desktop there is an option to not send modifier keys etc to the host system. I've also heard of https://karabiner-elements.pqrs.org/. Source: 8 months ago
  • DOS_deck: Play DOS games in the browser with full controller support
    Possible karbiner but I've never looked into doing specifically that, so I may be wrong https://karabiner-elements.pqrs.org/. - Source: Hacker News / 8 months ago
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Surface Pro mentions (0)

We have not tracked any mentions of Surface Pro yet. Tracking of Surface Pro recommendations started around Mar 2021.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing Karabiner and Surface Pro, you can also consider the following products

BTT Remote - A remote control for you Mac, using your iPhone or iPad

Microsoft Surface Laptop - Microsoft's answer to the MacBook Air

SharpKeys - SharpKeys is a utility that manages a Registry key that allows Windows to remap one key to any...

MacBook Pro - The new MacBook Pro with TouchBar and more

Rectangle - Window management app based on Spectacle, written in Swift.

iPad Pro - The new iPad. 12.9", keyboard, pencil. A sight to be held.