By the way, I don’t get the hate for the Touch Bar. Sure it’s a little gimmicky, but the fn key turns them into function keys if you miss them.
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Entry-Level 13-Inch MacBook Pro Updated With 8th-Gen Processors, Touch Bar, Touch ID, and T2 Security Chip
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Hmm... the entry level processor in the MBP is oddly clocked: 1.4GHz Quad-Core Processor with Turbo Boost up to 3.9GHz. Anyone have any experience with these super-throttling chips? What's the performance hit?
Also...does anyone like the Touch Bar? Still haven't seen a killer-app for it.
Also...does anyone like the Touch Bar? Still haven't seen a killer-app for it.
Glad they did this, will be great for me going back to uni with
At a high additional cost. 16GB should be standard.
Does it also transform into always on, tactile keys that aren't considered pressed just because you rest your finger on it or mistakenly brush the surface of it, because you are feeling for the one you're looking for?
I suspect this has everything to do with the keyboard. Need to put the Gen 4 in everything. TouchBar is still a giant helping of stupid.
“People”... When are MacRumors users going to realize that the echo chamber on this forum isn’t necessarily what mainstream Apple customers think?
The TouchBar is a great idea whose potential hasn’t been entirely realized. Now that every MacBookPro has it and it’s been added to every other Mac through Sidecar on Catalina, I can see developers taking deeper advantage of the TouchBar.
Tempted by that entry level pro now it has touch bar. The most stupid thing Apple did was to not put on everything, a bit like 3D Touch, either go all in or do not bother, when you go half way developers do not take it on fully.
Wrong move from Apple! As an owner of a 15" MBP with Touchbar I would pay for an option to get rid of it and back to a normal keyboard.
How can you say a new product has a “faulty” keyboard? You can’t know this yet.
Pretty sure it’s a fair statement given that these laptops still use butterfly keyboards. Unless you’d like to ignore the trend for the past 3.5 years
Pock might not be THE killer app for TouchBar, but it's the best use case for it that I know of.
Bought a 2018 MBA last year. It was a tough choice between it and the 2017 13” MBP nTB.
Now, the 2019 entry level MBP seems a better choice for people who can spend a little more and like or at least can tolerate the TB.
Now, the 2019 entry level MBP seems a better choice for people who can spend a little more and like or at least can tolerate the TB.
Good update overall, though I'll miss the nTB MBP and the MacBook. The 2015 MacBook basically started the current design language, including the introduction of the butterfly keyboard. I guess in the history of Apple's notebooks the 2016/2017 nTB MBP will perhaps be considered to be the odd machine out, with only one revision after its original introduction.
I know the 128/8 combination is a bit cheap, but at least the price of entry for the MBP and Air were lowered.
While the upgrade is tempting, I'll likely continue to use my nTB 2016 MBP and my spouse her 2016 MacBook for at least a few more years.
I know the 128/8 combination is a bit cheap, but at least the price of entry for the MBP and Air were lowered.
While the upgrade is tempting, I'll likely continue to use my nTB 2016 MBP and my spouse her 2016 MacBook for at least a few more years.
The Touch Bar came out three years ago. How much longer do we have to wait for its potential to be realized?
Is it just me or did they also lower the prices for the higher end models? When I checked last week the fully maxed out 13" MBP (2.8GHz, 16GB RAM, 2TB SSD) costed 4099 Euro, now it's just 3599 Euro! Maybe a price drop on the upgrades?
Well, hopefully this is just a temporary simplification of the assembly line going from 4 laptops to essentially 2 (MBA and MBPwTB) before the keyboard revamp and revised MBA's with TouchID, MBP with TouchID, and MBP with TouchBar.
Ah who the hell am I kidding, the MBP will never be Touchbar less again. Idiots over there. They have to be looking at the metrics and seeing no one uses it for anything other than the standard fn keys.
Ah who the hell am I kidding, the MBP will never be Touchbar less again. Idiots over there. They have to be looking at the metrics and seeing no one uses it for anything other than the standard fn keys.
Do you think Apple will release someday a keyboard with Touch Bar?
I'd wager this has less to do with doubling down on the touch bar as it does with reducing cost by simplifying the manufacturing differences between models, as well as targeting students with some needed freshness in the base model of a laptop design that is on its last leg.