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That's good news—for the people who are buying laptops next year. Hopefully the return to scissor switches is combined with some improvements to the touch bar.
by sjwright 7y ago
That's good news—for the people who are buying laptops next year.
Hopefully the return to scissor switches is combined with some improvements to the touch bar. My suggestion to Apple would be: put a small physical ESC key on the far left of the touch bar on 13 inch models, and include both physical F-keys AND a touch bar on the larger models.
Bonus points: allow people to choose classic F-keys on the 13 inch models as a BTO option.
- szggzs27 7y agoI suggest ditching that piece of shit of an invention. 4 years on, the TouchBar: - Adds zero value in terms of functionality nor user experience for 95%+ of the user base - Fails to better the classic buttons to change volume - Fails to better the classic buttons to change screen brightness - Leaves users deadlocked when they change screen displays - Is incompatible with bootcamp, oftentimes blanking out - Needs the user to be very cautious to not rest their hand anywhere near the touchbar, or ESC/F1/F2 will be pressed accidentally - Needs the user to make sure that ESC was pressed when they wanted it pressed. No haptic feedback is terrible. - Consumes more battery - Adds a few hundred bucks to the price of the laptop, and there's lack of choice for 2018 MBP which forces the TouchBar on the user If still alive, Jobs would have ripped someone's head off for letting the marketing idiots drive product development. Fuck you Apple.
- ashildr 7y agoI avoided the Touchbar MBP for having no physical feedback and no escape key. Yet I know multiple developers who consider it „quite nice, actually“. So I’m wondering: do you really own a Touchbar MbP or do you just have an opinion.
- mamcx 7y agoThe touchbar must be instead the trackpad! The trackpad with some screen abilities... that could be really usefull.