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[Dany]

You know. Why doesn't apple have their displays touch screen???

 

[xxracerxx]

You better give me full customization over this touch bar.

 

[VeryGooster]

Apple Invents Touching

I kinda want a space gray Macbook

 

[radios shipping overview]

So long, tactility!

 

[Stinkles]

Touch Bar is where you girls get drinks at Mar A Lago.

 

[Jayayess1190]

RIP SD card slots.

 

[Owari]

Touch bar looks pretty nifty.

gimmmick


I honestly don't see what use anyone would have for this. Oh, you can scroll through photos on it? Couldn't you just do that with the trackpad?

 

[DXB-KNIGHT]

I don't see GAF on the favorite

 

[zephervack]

Will it display normal F keys and ESC if you install Windows on it???

 

[StudioTan]

Why not just touch the screen?

 

[Vanillalite]

2nd gen breh

More travel for the keys

Must have heard all of the rMB complaints about the keyboard.

Hope it's true and the Pro is way better.

 

[Zombie James]

Eh, these are pretty useless touch bar feature so far.

 

[cbox]

Most professionals I know use the macbook pro on a stand with a keyboard/mouse and second monitor. So uhhh, good try apple I guess?

 

[The Real Abed]

You know. Why doesn't apple have their displays touch screen???

They've already told us that. 9 years ago. That view aint changing anytime soon.

 

[dc89]

You won't be typing faster using a touch bar. I guarantee it.

 

[radios shipping overview]

This is starting to smell like a half measure to try to bring in some of the touchscreen functionality present in Windows notebooks.

 

[BeforeU]

again why can't we just use mouse to do all those things that Touch Bar does? lol

Touch ID seems cool. but other than that, that bar seems pointless to me.

 

[oti]

Not going to lie, this new touch thing is going to be ten times as functional as any function row of keys.

Yeah, it looks super cool.

 

[victreeb3l]

Touch Bar is awesome. Well done. Much more useful than function keys.

HAIR FORCE ONE!!!

 

[molnizzle]

It's still USB. You get that, right? If you can afford a $2000 MBP, you can afford a $5 cable.

Have to use an adapter just to plug a thumb drive or wireless mouse into my "Pro" laptop?

 

[clav]

Wonder how much power that touch bar consumes.

Worse battery life?

 

[br3wnor]

Did not expect them to get the keyboard space ratio into such a fugly territory.

 

[xxracerxx]

Most professionals I know use the macbook pro on a stand with a keyboard/mouse and second monitor. So uhhh, good try apple I guess?

Sure, but I will also use it away from that setup.

 

[Hoo-doo]

Hair Force One!

 

[Enco]

lmao at quick type on a computer.

 

[Sony]

Quick-type on a physical keyboard? All the other features shown were pretty good, but quick-type? ON A KEYBOARD? That's so useless lol.

 

[Fuchsdh]

Will it display normal F keys and ESC if you install Windows on it???

I'm assuming if there's nothing application-specific it functions like the normal F keys, so as long as they include a driver for BootCamp it should be fine.

 

[Frustrated_me]

Apple has lost it's touch (get it?).

 

[ReAxion]

There we go! CREG

 

[CrunchyFrog]

Not going to lie, this new touch thing is going to be ten times as functional as any function row of keys.

This is the only genuinely interesting part of this thing, and even then only because Apple's ecosystem is monitored as such they can guarantee utilization across a large variety of their apps.

 

[HarryDemeanor]

Touch Bar looks pretty slick.

 

[Secret_asian_man]

Hair force one!

 

[Interfectum]

Quick type on a keyboard sounds awful. I can type a word faster than looking down and pressing a virtual button.

 

[DataStream]

so next gen MBP is just a giant Force Reactive OLED screen with no actual keyboard or touchpad or touchstrip, right?

 

[The Real Abed]

There you go! Hair Force One has entered the building.

 

[Dany]

No one is going to press on predictive word bubbles instead of typing. In what world is it faster? It also implies that I'm looking at the keyboard as I type. lmao

 

[Owari]

Eh, these are pretty useless touch bar feature so far.

Why would you need F-keys when you can have an EMOJI BAR?

MacBook "Pro" aka MacBook "College students first laptop"

 

[Eaten By A Grue]

Look at that magnificent mane of hair.

 

[Sony]

Wonder how much power that touch bar consumes.

Worse battery life?

It's OLED and the touch bar is mostly black, so it consumes less energy.

 

[thenexus6]

Using the touch bar to click typing suggestions? Editing photos or video?

You have a massive trackpad and keyboard right in front of you..

Its cool for touch ID, quick settings etc...

 

[radios shipping overview]

I'm not a doctor, but I play one on TV.

 

[The Albatross]

I'm not against the touchbar entirely, but it's is not going to improve most of the things they're showing. It's not going to be faster to take your hands off the keyboard, and reach up to hit a word suggestion, than to finish typing that word.

New Trackpad looks good.

The application specific features are a great idea, but ... I'm not sure how widely used they will be outside of Apple's specific apps. It's kind of like Siri built into the Mac. Having had Siri on both my Mac's since Mac OS update, I've never intentionally used it.

 

[clav]

It's OLED and the touch bar is mostly black, so it consumes less energy.

So it can burn in? That's odd.

It still consumes energy. Having one vs. not having one would show an obvious difference.

 

[dc89]

Craig's jokes are the worst. THE WORST.

 

[Vulcano's assistant]

could be cool for hotkey shortcuts

 

[Mindwipe]

They've already told us that. 9 years ago. That view aint changing anytime soon.

Unless you're using an iPad Pro with a keyboard, where that view is perfect 'cos cognitive dissonance.

 

[VanquishUK]

Looked a bit laggy there.

 

[kaskade]

Those animations are slick.

 

[SynthFetish]

Later today there are going to be tons of articles proclaiming that the function keys are the most important thing on a computer, and their removal signals the downfall of Apple.

 

[D4Danger]

who the fuck looks at the keyboard when typing?