You can't make the buttons stop going to sleep, but you can customize and rearrange the bar so that if you accidentally touch it nothing annoying happens. Better Touch Tool gives more options that way.
Thank you for your reply. Would very much like to know how to do this . . . Genius Bar was unable to assist. For example, I take it to mean you can reduce the sensitivity of the TB so that it does not react with even very close proximity to fingers or if the fingers indeed lightly brush the TB. That would be of great assistance. Also, unable to, or at least with Genius, to combine extended TB with the FK's.
Much appreciated.
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Yup, sounds like we feel similarly. I have it set to do the Fn keys as the alternate layout when you hit Fn. But it still isn't ideal for me. And like you, I seem to accidentally hit touchbar keys way too often too. I had to take the sleep one off my bar for exactly that reason.
I have 8 days left in my return window and still haven't decided. If I don't find a buyer for my old one on Craiglist at a price I'm satisfied with by then, it's most likely going back. Sadly, this is the first time in almost 30 years of using Apple products that I can say that.
Corporately, given the less than enthusiastic response to the new iteration of the MBP, now running some limited testing of XP15 inch. However, there is a cost to switching from one ecosystem to another. And perhaps this is why Apple is really a consumer company as opposed to a corporate company. Meaning that MS has always better understood lifecycle, stability, ability to upgrade, extend, etc. Granted, there are also negatives.
The consideration of Wintel is a first in almost two decades. To be clear there are are many good things about the MBP. However, the niggling small things that reduce function are a constant reminder, an irritant similar to a sliver in your finger. Or a thorn in your foot.
It almost seems as if Apple wants to make the MBP an iPhone. And to be fair that might be what the vast majority of their customers want. However, for me, and my team, rather than have Smileys appear, I would like a menu of formulae symbols, or the computer, like my BB, so realise I am writing a technical word, I have typed 100's of times, for a suggestion. Or have the suggestions appear quickly enough so I am not waiting. It would have been better if Apple worked with software partners to introduce programs that take advantage of the TB at the time of launch.
The issues just continue to remind, to niggle and frustrate. I am back to typing class, as it were, so that I type with my wrists lifted and thumbs not touching the computer so that I do not activate the massive touch pad.
Deep breath....Will continue to look for solutions and give the machine a fair shake for six or eight months.
