Buy a MacBook w/Touchbar (trust me)

[jerryk]

Dunno about you but if I'm dropping $15k on a new iMac then I'm not so sure I'm going to complain too much about a $350 keyboard...

That said, economies of scale and all that jazz.

My point was essentially though that Apple have kind of backed themselves into a bit of a corner with the Touchbar. It's too niche for many people to wait on a MacBook Pro, and to unavailable for everyone else who might want it elsewhere. It even manages to make itself somewhat redundant to anyone who wishes to use their MBP work an external keyboard...

Is touch ID going to survive? Someday soon I expect to see a MacBook and iMac with a notch and Truedepth camera.

 

[lec0rsaire]

Dunno about you but if I'm dropping $15k on a new iMac then I'm not so sure I'm going to complain too much about a $350 keyboard...

That said, economies of scale and all that jazz.

My point was essentially though that Apple have kind of backed themselves into a bit of a corner with the Touchbar. It's too niche for many people to wait on a MacBook Pro, and to unavailable for everyone else who might want it elsewhere. It even manages to make itself somewhat redundant to anyone who wishes to use their MBP work an external keyboard...

I was mainly talking about mainstream iMac customers. For sure iMac Pro and Mac Pro customers are a different story lol. I'm sure they'll eventually figure something out. They may eventually say the hell with it and just make touch displays. In that case I would be the owner of a collectible machine along the lines of the TAM or Lisa if they decide to ditch it later on.
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Is touch ID going to survive? Someday soon I expect to see a MacBook and iMac with a notch and Truedepth camera.

It might. FaceID would make sense for logging in but not so much for password prompts. You need to know what you're excepting or approving in that case. It would be a recipe for disaster if something was done by mistake.

 

[jerryk]

According to Cultofmac.com, original Mac computers sell at auction at a price of “$750 to 1,000.” Vintagemacmuseum.com writes that, “If you have an working Mac 128k you can probably get $1,000 on eBay.” Plus, the value grows if you’ve still got the original packaging in good condition. Wired.com reported in 2002that a well-maintained Mac 128k box—and only the box—was sold at auction for $500. Not bad, considering new iMac computers start at $1,299.

Really.

We are talking about a computer that was $2,499 in 1984 money. Inflation alone would make that $6,000+ in 2018.

Wow $1000 now. I will just leave it on my old tech display case for that.

 

[afir93]

How many new "features" introduced during the keynote even mentioned, let alone used, the touchbar? Right - zero. It's a frippery.

That‘s not correct as it stands. They did mention Touch Bar support for Automator shortcuts coming in Mojave during the WWDC this week.

 

[futurejetblackowner]

It continues to gain more support. Nearly every major program supports it already. They already spent a lot of time showing off what it can do back in the October 2016 event. Nothing much has changed and it would be a waste of time to talk about it. Apple has both user manuals and developer tutorials online. It's really up to developers to make it as useful as possible.

Of course it could be used to display information like a stock ticker, news, sports scores or whatever anyone can think of but Apple is strictly against using it as a display instead of an input device. That can't stop people from making 3rd party apps for it but it will never be something that Apple will embrace. In the beginning some guys ported PacMan, Pong and even made a piano app for it. They're all just novelties of course.

It does remain the best and most comfortable way of using emojis on the Mac and that will never really change unless they implement some pop up virtual iOS style keyboard.

the emoji integration is a huge feature imo, i struggled to pull up emojis on my standard mac. Sure, they are not necessary to write and text on but they are nice to have and essentially replace the need for an iphone at home.