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Touch Bar is interesting - it's really nifty, but I feel like touch typists hate it, and non touch typists love it. My personal totally long shot wish is that

• Aperocky 6y ago
  They should really just sell both version, I bought the new mac air precisely because it doesn't have a touch bar.
• theonemind 6y ago
  If you never have to look at the keyboard for anything ever, the touchbar takes away an useful row of keys and forces you to start looking down at the keyboard. I can't overstate how annoying someone who never has to look at the keyboard might find this. https://robservatory.com/the-fundamental-problem-with-the-touch-bar/ https://robservatory.com/the-fundamental-problem-with-the-to... "The Touch Bar, despite its name, is actually an Eye Bar: It forces your eyes off the screen, down to the Touch Bar, back up to the screen, repeat ad infinitum. There's nothing physical about interacting with the Touch Bar, aside from using your finger: There are no defined button areas, and there's no haptic feedback when you tap something. So you absolutely must look at the Touch Bar to interact with it. When the new MacBooks were released, I spent about 30 minutes testing a Touch Bar-equipped version in an Apple Store, and this constant moving of my eyes' focus from keyboard to screen to keyboard to screen to…well, you get the idea…was incredibly disruptive. To use the Touch Bar, I'd have to change my focus to the keyboard, then refocus on the screen, taking time to find my active window and locate the mouse cursor. This did not make for a pleasant user experience."