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So, unless I'm missing something, the primary complaint is "I don't like the position of esc on the touch bar". That's not a lot to hang a rant on, but clearly

So, unless I'm missing something, the primary complaint is "I don't like the position of esc on the touch bar". That's not a lot to hang a rant on, but clearly that's all it takes to get to the top of Hacker News these days.

Piskvorrr 10y ago
Spoiler: there's no way to find the keys on a touch display, unless you are looking at them. That is the main issue: not that the key is in a weird position, but that the key's position is a mystery unless you take your eyes off the screen. Hello hunt-and-peck.
mikeash 10y ago
That's rather odd, since the touch area for the escape key extends all the way to the left edge of the bar, even though that's not visually covered. I wonder if maybe the author just never realized that.
- kalleboo 10y ago
  From Gruber's account (Apple sycophant #1), no it doesn't extend all the way to the left edge.
  - mikeash 10y ago
    I don't own one, but it was one of the first things I tried when I was able to test a friend's, and it worked exactly as I described.
    - kalleboo 10y ago
      Hopefully they fixed it in a software update
kalleboo 10y ago
Did you miss the whole section on "the battery is crap"?
- mbrookes 10y ago
  Did you miss the fact that his test wasn't valid? :-) As pointed out by someone else here, by running the tests with the screen at full brightness, the considerably brighter display of the Touch Bar model will have consumed a meaningful amount of battery.
  - FireBeyond 10y ago
    If you like the screen at full brightness (and/or the previous model wasn't as bright as you like), the test is in no way "invalid". Perhaps not _comparable_, but this is down to design decisions by Apple. Just like the "sacrifice battery life for form factor" decision.