Just think how mush they would like this laptop with an ENTIRE ROW of physical buttons? Lightbar ruins everything. Two choices would sure be sweet. Why Apple, why?
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If people like the physical ESC key so much...
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I think that the biggest complaint is the Escape key. I rarely use the other buttons and I'd guess that most others are the same way. The only other time I use the other buttons is volume control but that's so rare because I'm in a cubicle now and have to use headphones and the headphones have volume controls on them.
I do not "claim" to have an issue with it, I DO have an issue with it. Light bar, Touch Bar, you knew what I meant.
At this rate, Apple is going to add back in physical keys one by one, and claim it as "innovation"
Next year, an F1 key!I like the touchbar for many things better than the old dedicated buttons. It was silly to have predefined stops for brightness and sounds with the dedicated buttons. Just hold the touchbar screen or sound button and you get a nice slider you slide you finger left to decrease or right to increase. Also, some apps, use the touchbar well. PowerPoint shows tiny previews of the slides around where you are currently presenting, so you can see what is coming next or touch one to jump around. Other apps have functionality on the touchbar also, but I use PowerPoint most of all. So, all and all, having a dedicated Escape was my only real complaint about Touchbar.
I solely missed the escape key, but I have grown to appreciate Touch Bar for context sensitive controls (e.g., volume and brightness sliders). I just wish there was a way to suppress HUD when all the pertinent information is on the Touch Bar.
And I like that it's customizable. I have controls like take screenshot and lock screen on it.
I find the Touchbar much more productive than function keys. I programmed many macros across almost all my apps. Functions keys were more limiting.
hmm.. That's a bold statement. I've only used the Touch Bar a handful of times with a production laptop and there were several instances when it came in handy. Previewing an audio file in finder and having the waveforms pop up automatically on the touchbar so I could skip around and see the different talking sections of the clip without bringing it into an editor was really useful. Times that with the hours of audio content I had to organized and that feature alone saved me time... for you could say... was productive.