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Can she disable the touchbar?
by StavrosK 6y ago
Can she disable the touchbar?
- fluffything 6y agoI've offered to help, but she doesn't want to mess with configuration. I've posted in other threads how she "fixed" it. She actually bought one of those keyboard covers, cut off the touchbar part, and fixed it with tape. She literally has a crappy piece of plastic on top of her keyboard that physically prevents here from accidentally touching the touchbar. A 10 dollar hack on a 2k$ machine. I don't think she will buy an expensive Apple product, ever.
- StavrosK 6y agoAgreed, it's terrible that that's required. At least it works for now, hopefully she can sell it and buy something much cheaper.
- fluffything 6y agoI have a Thinkpad Yoga 3rd gen with Linux that she loves, so she'll probably migrate to that. I use my old macbook air 90% of the time, and the yoga so 10% of the time. So at least she gets to use it every now and then.
- stevehawk 6y agodoes it close properly and not damage the screen?
- fluffything 6y agoyes it does, she never removes it
- bound008 6y agoThe problem with disabling the Touch Bar is that it becomes difficult to adjust volume, brightness, and other things that were once easily accessible and addressable by muscle memory. Personally, I have encouraged those affected to return these machines and email Tim Cook (Apple) to let them know they refuse to pay extra money for something that makes the computer harder to use.