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[BeforeU]

oh god his jokes.

 

[The One Who Knocks]

The touch bar seems more useful than I expected. Worried about the keyboard but since they said there's more travel I'm slightly more optimistic.

 

[LumpOfCole]

I'd rather the Touch Bar be used for notifications like new emails or FaceBook messages, then pressing on that notification to go straight to it. I'd rather have them be there then on a usually-hidden dock or already-cluttered Menu Bar.

 

[Ikuu]

Why would I use TouchBar to search for things when I can yell at Siri?

 

[molnizzle]

apple, professionals use keyboard shortcuts. This is dumb.

You can still use them. This just gives more utility to the function keys if you want it.

 

[Toki767]

I feel like what Apple really want to do is just make the track pad double as a touch screen.

 

[jelly]

Honestly this doesnt make any sense to me.

I have to stare at the screen, then stare at the touch bar, then stare back on the screen

Meanwhile my hands are already on the trackpad and i could select stuff without interrupting what im looking at...

Bingo.

 

[thenexus6]

I just don't get the point of the touch bar. You have a huge trackpad already. What's the point?

"Innovation"

 

[Sesuadra]

Doesn't seem like it, but there was a great keynote yesterday by a similar company that might have what you want.



You can scrub through videos from your SD card

Spoiler

dongle

on a very small OLED instead of just with the trackpad.

That company does not have MacOS.

 

[Cider X]

Gonna use the touch bar for my mana pool and cool macros in WoW.

It looks cool but I fail to see the use for it in everyday use so far.

 

[Warnen]

Need that emoji bar on my MacBook PRO

 

[gutterboy44]

As someone who always made custom docks and what not in Rainmeter, I think it is aesthetically pretty neat, but functionally, I fail to see how a narrow touch bar on your keyboard is a better long term solution than making the entire screen a multi touch screen?

 

[zephervack]

This is flashy and im sure it will sell some units in store, but who are we kidding, if you are semi competent at using your computer, you already know most of the most used shortcuts with your keyboard.

No need to glance at it.

 

[HarryDemeanor]

I just don't understand the need for this thing :/

To me it feels like they wanted to put Touch ID on the Macbook and a tiny fingerprint reader just looked weird. So they said fuck it and made it a giant strip to add this to it.

 

[The Albatross]

• It's easy to search in maps
• It's easy to answer a call in Facetime
• It's easy to zoom through meetings in Calendar

... Where those not easy before?

 

[GuyKazama]

Why dont apple just make a touch screen macbook already instead of this mess?

macOS is built around a trackpad and keyboard. iOS is built for touch. To mix the two would go against their philosophy.

 

[victreeb3l]

Does touch bar have a shortcut to escape VIM!?

 

[VeryGooster]

Agree w/ Mike Williams (if he's seeing this). Devs will find decent uses of the Touch bar API down the line.

 

[Darryl M R]

Can this be used for gaming?

 

[The Real Abed]

Why are the controls still on the screen if you are using the bar? it's a waste of space.

Yeah. The Location Bar in Safari being in both places is redundant. Though if it meant I could remove it completely from my screen and just have a full screen page then I'd understand. But right now the toolbar and tabs remain visible in fullscreen. (Which is how I want it anyway in a non-touchbar setting.)

Ugh..... I applaud them for thinking outside side the box, but I won't be looking at my keyboard when I am normally glued to my screen. Touchscreen work so well with phones because you are seeing the actual screen.

That's why its at the top of the keyboard. It should be close enough to your line of sight I guess.

 

[bionic77]

This reminds me of MS' presentation.

The Touchbar looks really slick (not as slick as MS' dial), but I wonder how useful it will actually be and if it adds anything. As others have said this seems to be their answer to touchscreens (something I don't really want anyways), but I am not sure how useful it will be.

The one part that does make sense and is going to work right away is the touch ID. If that works as well as it does on the iPhone then that is a huge upgrade.

 

[giga]

I just don't understand the need for this thing :/

Contextual shortcuts are useful and far more discoverable than options hidden in menus.

 

[VanquishUK]

• It's easy to search in maps
• It's easy to answer a call in Facetime
• It's easy to zoom through meetings in Calendar

... Where those not easy before?

It just wasn't possible before today.

 

[Verder]

I hope we get a new MacBook 13 cause this "pro" makes my heart hurt

 

[Miyahon]

It seems nifty but all of the features they've shown is just moving or copying the buttons that are already on your screen. Instead of clicking what you see on the biggest screen you're looking down at your keyboard instead. If you memorized basic keyboard shortcuts, you wouldn't need those buttons. It seems this is made for novices and people who don't want to use keyboard shortcuts.

 

[br3wnor]

This is like half neat and half forced and awkward.

Yeah, the way it mixes with macOS is kind of half baked. It's trying to be a bridge between macOS and iOS but doesn't seem like it works incredibly well. The focus on emoji's was perplexing, and the actual utilitarian uses don't seem bad, but the touchpad itself allows me to do most of those functions w/out having to take my eyes off of the screen.

 

[faisal233]

Skylake

 

[Jenotron]

should I get one of these for 4k video editing and running Da Vinci Resolve?

 

[VanquishUK]

AMD in 2016...

 

[gimmmick]

Good specs so far.

 

[BruceCLea]

What dGPU is that?

 

[The Real Abed]

Can this be used for gaming?

Anything I'd assume. If devs take advantage of it. I hope Mojang is able to take advantage of it personally. I want some controls in Minecraft instead of just unlabeled F keys I can never remember what they do.

 

[fwpx]

Apple is so boring as a company these days.

 

[formasymphonic]

Polaris GPU for those who wanted to know

 

[molnizzle]

Need that emoji bar on my MacBook PRO

MBP is still the most common laptop I see at my college. I'm like the one weird guy with an Air. lol

 

[goodcow]

• It's easy to search in maps
• It's easy to answer a call in Facetime
• It's easy to zoom through meetings in Calendar

... Where those not easy before?

Notice which apps aren't being mentioned got this "Pro" laptop - Final Cut X, Motion, etc.

 

[Xyphie]

What dGPU is that?

Polaris 11

 

[xxracerxx]

Apple is so boring as a company these days.

When were they exciting? iPhone?


Also, people in here are really confused by the word Pro.

 

[Pineapple]

Wait, we can get quad-core i7s and Polaris dGPUs in the 13" version?

Or is this just the 15" version?

Edit - Nevermind, Phil just clarified.

 

[awilliams213]

We all sighed in the office the moment he dropped the Intel line Oh well

 

[The Albatross]

BUt how much faster is it for me to use PAGES and NUMBERS

Notice which apps aren't being mentioned got this "Pro" laptop - Final Cut X, Motion, etc.

But PAGES and NUMBERS

 

[BruceCLea]

Polaris 11

So 480M?

 

[Owari]

Why dont apple just make a touch screen macbook already instead of this mess?



This seems like a idea you would only come up with because you dont want to have a touch screen for whatever reason

At this point I'm convinced it's a patent issue. They must not be able to create a touchscreen Mac cause Microsoft has that shit on lock. It's really hurting Mac sales and I don't see this Mac doing any better than the previous one after the initial emojibar hype dies down.

 

[VanquishUK]

So the 13 inch Pro is replacing the Air by the looks of it.

 

[Frustrated_me]

When were they exciting? iPhone?

iPhone 4.

 

[ReAxion]

if you want to conspicuously omit things, Apple, Gaming on macOS is one of thing you can safely do.

 

[Rocky Raccoon]

Only if Kaby Lake CPUs weren't delayed :/

 

[D4Danger]

benchmarks presented without data. that's always useful.

 

[Darryl M R]

Anything I'd assume. If devs take advantage of it. I hope Mojang is able to take advantage of it personally. I want some controls in Minecraft instead of just unlabeled F keys I can never remember what they do.

Hmm Interesting. I might consider having my future Macbook be dedicated to RTS games.

 

[mollipen]

Anyone who is smarter about this stuff, what does the GPU and other stuff mean if I wanted to, say, play something like Overwatch on it, or other newer-but-not-monster games?