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I'd consider the touchbar more useful for UI interaction if it were instead in either: - The trackpad - The bottom 1" of the laptop screen
by gedy 10y ago
I'd consider the touchbar more useful for UI interaction if it were instead in either:
- The trackpad
- The bottom 1" of the laptop screen
- nom 10y agoOr the spacebar!
- nathancahill 10y agoHmm.. I might use that. For typing, I wouldn't miss the physical space bar key like I'll miss the physical escape key. It would be closer to where my hand is naturally on the trackpad too.
- nom 10y agoit could still work as a key :>
- tdy721 10y agoBut will it work like a key?
- nom 10y agoIt should be possible with enough care. A touch sensitive space bar would really enhance a keyboard (I'm mostly using a desktop though, doesn't make sense on a laptop)
- addicted 10y agoThat actually sounds like a pretty brilliant idea to me. If the space bar area was converted to the track pad. Tapping it would be a space, while dragging it would give you the touch bar like features. So for example, when using Word, you have formatting options on the space touch bar like they demonstrated on the touch bar. If you tap it, it's a space, but start sliding from the left, and the formatting options appear on the screen itself, and you stop sliding when you reach the option you want to select it. Basically, tap to touch, and slide to scrub between options (or between a timeline). This way you also wouldn't have to take your eyes off the screen to know what options are available.
- scotchio 10y agoLove this. Please go work at Apple
- benologist 10y agoThey could also have built the fingerprint reader into a key, judging by how Sony puts them inside power buttons. That would have been classy!
- saghm 10y agoThis gives me an idea. The keyboard on my phone recently added the feature to drag along the spacebar to move the cursor in the text, but it's far too small to be that useful. I think being able to swipe on the spacebar to move the cursor or horizontally scroll would be fairly useful (especially given how often I actually scroll slightly horizontally on trackpads when I try to scroll vertically)
- 1qaz2wsx3edc 10y agoMy bet is after this okay-to-failure of a product iteration Apple will pivot to a detachable dual screen model... Fear not though, they'll still happily lag behind current hardware for better margins. /s ;)
- coldtea 10y ago>Fear not though, they'll still happily lag behind current hardware for better margins. They don't "lag behind current hardware for better margins". The CPU class they use in the MBPr line is still unavailable from Intel. Early "Kaby Lake" PC laptops use other, more power hungry, Kaby Lake models, and even those in limited runs. If they wanted to achieve better margins in any way, they could use way worse construction and materials, not insist on high quality trackpads, not add the touch strip, add cheapo USB 2.1 and even Ethernet ports to keep everybody happy, and just put some early, 6-hour battery life Kaby Lake machine out there.
- ovao 10y agoHow would using USB 2.1 be cheaper than the standard Intel and Apple co-developed?
- coldtea 10y agoBy having been a commodity hardware item for ages, produced in bulk for next to nothing at all. It's not about licensing fees.
- peschkaj 10y agoAre you referring to the i7-6700HQ that was released in 2015? The CPU that's present in the 15" Retina MacBook Pro? Or is there a different CPU that nobody else is privy to?
- jsjohnst 10y agoThere isn't a mobile class edition of the Kalby Lake processor with four cores available. The 15" Pro has been quad core as long as I can remember. It was also only announced a few months ago. Skylake processors were announced last year and the new laptop uses them. In fact, I believe the 15" BTO edition uses the fastest Skylake processor Intel makes.