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This is the laptop I want to buy, but I find it really hard to believe. They just released a new ARM Macbook Pro with a touch bar at the bottom end of the Pro l
by mcintyre1994 6y ago
This is the laptop I want to buy, but I find it really hard to believe. They just released a new ARM Macbook Pro with a touch bar at the bottom end of the Pro lineup, which didn't used to come with a touch bar (I have ~2017 pro without). If they wanted to drop the touch bar they could have done it without much fanfare on that model and I'm not sure why they wouldn't do so.
- oneeyedpigeon 6y agoMaybe they've concluded the touch bar is more of a consumer feature than a pro one.
- yoz-y 6y agoIt was probably easier for them to keep the touch bar there as the enclosure is pretty much identical to the previous model. Maybe they had a stock of them to finish while retooling?
- yedpodtrzitko 6y agoFeels like they're doing only one change at a time - they keep the same chassis which is already proven, and they change the internals only. The next iteration can update the design of chassis while the internals remains the same.