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This is so funny. I just boxed mine up and shipped it via UPS back to apple not 5 minutes ago and was thinking to post something here on hacker news! I did not

This is so funny. I just boxed mine up and shipped it via UPS back to apple not 5 minutes ago and was thinking to post something here on hacker news! I did not like the touch bar for programming. Maybe when my ide supports the touch bar it will be better. But the clincher was the poor battery life. I've been a mac user since the mac plus days. First time I retuned one.

lobster_johnson 10y ago
Same here. Wrote about the experience here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13098257 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13098257. tl;dr: Touch bar is in the way, and provides near-zero utility; at best, it's a distracting visual element for touch-typists. Other than that, the new features are not worth the hassle/price. The only feature I really do like is the fingerprint reader.