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from the article : > the Touch Bar still remains the useless shit and there is no hope Apple will fix it. > As a machine, MacBook Pro is great. But not becaus
by on_and_off 9y ago
from the article :
> the Touch Bar still remains the useless shit and there is no hope Apple will fix it.
> As a machine, MacBook Pro is great. But not because of the Touch Bar. Touch Bar is an inflamed appendix, the same dumb shit as Siri. If Apple had implemented it as an additional row and not the F-keys replacement, everyone would forget about it in a couple of days.
> The reason is simple — that's how you see your laptop 99% of the time:
This is exactly how I feel about the Touch Bar.
If it had been an additional row I would not have minded. I don't dislike sliders to change the volume and I would prefer to see track title there than as notification (notifications create a pavlovian response where I think they are alert for something important, so it is very unpleasant for me to see one popping up for play music).
However, since it is taking away the functions key that I use all the time and replace them with a screen, I strongly prefer using my 2015 MBP over the more recent one.
- SomeHacker44 9y ago"If it had been an additional row I would not have minded." Exactly. I would have configured it to be blank, stay off, and remain off. Give me my physical ESC and F-keys.
- stiGGG 9y agoI only want my ESC back, F-keys are not needed on macOS. They should have made the TouchBar smaller and kept ESC
- on_and_off 9y agoTo use the OS; indeed For some software like Intellij IDEs, function keys are used very often. Since that where I spend 90% of my time on my work MBP; it makes the Touch Bar very painful. ESC is still my top button there; but just getting it back would not be enough for me.