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I wouldn't take that as a clear sign. They still made an M1 touch bar 13" MBP, they bothered to refresh it and keep it when swapping from butterfly back to scis
by salamandersauce 5y ago
I wouldn't take that as a clear sign. They still made an M1 touch bar 13" MBP, they bothered to refresh it and keep it when swapping from butterfly back to scissor and the MBA only has touchID too.
The touch bar is handled by the T1/T2/M1 chips in the laptops. It could be that just cramming a T2+OLED into a keyboard may have made it way too expensive for a keyboard. Plus does Bluetooth even have enough bandwidth to handle sending screen data that size reliably?
It is a niche item and it does suck but for some reason they keep tacking it on...
- cercatrova 5y ago> They still made an M1 touch bar 13" MBP, they bothered to refresh it and keep it when swapping from butterfly back to scissor and the MBA only has touchID too. That's because changing the chassis is too expensive, but when they redesign it, you'll see it most likely without a touchbar.
- salamandersauce 5y agoThey already had a touch bar free 13" MBP in that chassis. In fact they put in extra effort to add the touch bar to the 2 port 13" MBP.
- cercatrova 5y agoAh you're right, I forgot about the 13" without touch bar.
- matwood 5y agoYou made 2 great points. There's also a rumor Apple had to do things to hide the M1 from Intel. Could the added TB been a part of that? Hard to know. I'm not a TB hater (more indifference), and I still think it's going away :)