Images of New MacBook Pro With Magic Toolbar Leaked in macOS Sierra 10.12.1

[D2J]

The entire Apple line of products are just cr*p with good polishing and paints. There isn't much intelligence involved but a lot of greed and hype to feed the public. Apple is running out of ideas: now shrink a little this and remove a little that ... stupidity at best.

 

[Made In Machines]

Here's my card, Apple.

I didn't mean take all of it, including my life savings and repossess my house for mediocre specs. Gouging scumbags.

 

[BitsnPieces]

It's probably a meaning for people who use a lot of memory and storage for things like video editing, especially on programs like Final Cut Pro X and Adobe Photoshop After Effects and so on.
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I'm sorry but you don't know if it's going to be "that gimmick" of a magic tool bar, Apple haven't announced the new laptops yet.

Ok, I've seen this now and it's utterly disappointing. 98% of the time I have my laptop hooked to an external screen and proper full sized keyboard using the laptops screen for a secondary monitor. There is no way the laptop will be positioned in front of me asking me to raise my main monitor above it so I can use two screens AND have the "benefit" of the touch bar ... guess what, while I'm typing I'm looking at the screen, not at the keyboard. The touch bar is a mere gimmick for professionals who have their keyboard short cuts down. I can see benefits for beginners that are learning content creation for the first time. It's an appealing input mode for anyone who is not a professional yet. But thats not what a Pro product should be targeted at. Another thing ... Wacom tablets have been a stake in the content creation world. A mouse cannot replace a pen when it comes to concept and ideation development. Now we got a huge track pad sitting there and instead of giving it the iPad Pro treatment and providing me with another reason to dish out of the Apple Pen, it just continues to be a bloody track pad for finger gestures?!?! Oh and while we talk about content creators or more specifically Photographers ... you are asking me to now carry around another dongle or use my camera as an overpriced SD card holder? You have removed the only option to expand my storage needs? Wow, just wow....

 

[Dave245]

Ok, I've seen this now and it's utterly disappointing. 98% of the time I have my laptop hooked to an external screen and proper full sized keyboard using the laptops screen for a secondary monitor. There is no way the laptop will be positioned in front of me asking me to raise my main monitor above it so I can use two screens AND have the "benefit" of the touch bar ... guess what, while I'm typing I'm looking at the screen, not at the keyboard. The touch bar is a mere gimmick for professionals who have their keyboard short cuts down. I can see benefits for beginners that are learning content creation for the first time. It's an appealing input mode for anyone who is not a professional yet. But thats not what a Pro product should be targeted at. Another thing ... Wacom tablets have been a stake in the content creation world. A mouse cannot replace a pen when it comes to concept and ideation development. Now we got a huge track pad sitting there and instead of giving it the iPad Pro treatment and providing me with another reason to dish out of the Apple Pen, it just continues to be a bloody track pad for finger gestures?!?! Oh and while we talk about content creators or more specifically Photographers ... you are asking me to now carry around another dongle or use my camera as an overpriced SD card holder? You have removed the only option to expand my storage needs? Wow, just wow....

I have to respectfully disagree, i know a few people from university who are editors and they will be jumping all over this. Do you know how much time can be saved using the Touch Bar in Final Cut Pro X for example. I'm a writer so i don't edit that much, however when i was at university i did editing as part of my course, it's also something i do to help friends out every now and then. Editing is a fine tuning process, getting something exactly right, using the mouse can be a pain for this, the Touch Bar will help so much.
I agree that it's not going to be for everyone, but i do see a reason for it, also Touch ID on the Mac is a great idea.

 

[laz232]

I have to respectfully disagree, i know a few people from university who are editors and they will be jumping all over this. Do you know how much time can be saved using the Touch Bar in Final Cut Pro X for example. I'm a writer so i don't edit that much, however when i was at university i did editing as part of my course, it's also something i do to help friends out every now and then. Editing is a fine tuning process, getting something exactly right, using the mouse can be a pain for this, the Touch Bar will help so much.
I agree that it's not going to be for everyone, but i do see a reason for it, also Touch ID on the Mac is a great idea.

The CAD people in various offices I visit use special controllers like instead:

More versatile and you can also use an external keyboard to prevent RSI.

I think the touch pad is sort of gimmicky - like 3D touch, sure it's a small improvement, but no where near as transforming as Apple is making it out to be.

 

[Dave245]

The CAD people in various offices I visit use special controllers like instead:

More versatile and you can also use an external keyboard to prevent RSI.

I think the touch pad is sort of gimmicky - like 3D touch, sure it's a small improvement, but no where near as transforming as Apple is making it out to be.

Yea definitely you can use thos and a lot of people in editing offices (such as CAD) do. But those who edit on the go or on set it's not as easy. I do think the Touch Bar for at least Final Cut Pro is going to be good and make editing at least a little easier, especially when you can see your timeline on the Touch bar scrub across and edit.

 

[robeddie]

The entire Apple line of products are just cr*p with good polishing and paints. There isn't much intelligence involved but a lot of greed and hype to feed the public. Apple is running out of ideas: now shrink a little this and remove a little that ... stupidity at best.

Ditto. Maybe some of the numbnuts in power at the new 'microsoft' (read: Apple) will rebel against this crap.