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Agreed that I wish they had embraced, extended, or extinguished the Touch Bar. A larger offset from the top row of physical keys, a physical escape key, some fo
by dwaite 7y ago
Agreed that I wish they had embraced, extended, or extinguished the Touch Bar. A larger offset from the top row of physical keys, a physical escape key, some form of accidental touch elimination, and/or a taller display surface would all be useful changes.
WRT to an external keyboard with it - in addition to making keyboards more expensive and proprietary, the Touch Bar is powered by the T2 chip, which is not just used to power the Touch Bar and TouchID, but for system functions like boot-up.
Even with these features removed, dynamically paired TouchID sensors would be a change to Apple's security model (which requires a hardware/data reset to pair a new TouchID sensor for security reasons).
- m463 7y agoI suspect it's probably hard to get the keyboard to straddle the touch bar, but I couldn't help think: Why not physical escape and power keys at the ends?
- Yhippa 7y agoThe lack of a physical escape key galls me the most.
- adrianhel 7y agoI remapped caps lock to esc.
- tdfx 7y agoI remapped esc to caps lock (physically) on day one. 6 months later, I'm still mentally re-mapping it occasionally.
- DonHopkins 7y agoEmacs users remap caps lock to escape lock!
- kevin_thibedeau 7y agoThey should have just kept the F-keys and provide a system level option to neuter the touchbar as just a modern day reference card for the keys. It's not like the wrist rest isn't big enough to sacrifice for more room up top.
- spronkey 7y agoAgreed. F Keys + additional touchbar would have actually been useful.
- kalefranz 7y ago> Why not physical escape and power keys at the ends? Courage.
- saagarjha 7y agoIsn't the Touch ID sensor a "physical power key"?
- Phlarp 7y agoHaptic feedback. I don't understand how they can understand how essential this is and implement it with increasing sophistication in both phones and trackpads but abdicate it entirely with the Touch Bar. To the point that third party software to use the trackpad haptics on touchbar clicks is a thing now: https://www.haptictouchbar.com/ https://www.haptictouchbar.com/