Like I said, I'm not sure. The vast majority of people I know who have an Air or MBP have an older model without Touch ID. They might appreciate it if it is there, but they won't miss it in its absence. The only two people I know who've ever owned one that had it both returned it because they otherwise hated the device.

For me personally, Touch ID makes sense on a phone, because I can do it with a single hand. For a laptop, I'm going to have my fingers on the home row anyway, and typing in even a complicated password is fast.

I'm on a 2018 MacBook Air, the only model has F-keys and Touch ID, and I love it. Once you get used to sudo using your fingerprint, it's hard to go back. :)

I had sudo setup to use fingerprint, but at some point it quit working... config files are still correct. Not sure what happened :(

ITerm2 support broke, you need to turn off "Allow sessions to survive"...

https://gitlab.com/gnachman/iterm2/issues/7618

OMG thank you!

Are you using iTerm2? There's a new feature that interferes with the Touch ID PAM module working for sudo.

I think Touch ID on a laptop / desktop would make a lot of sense. I don't actually know any of my passwords.

I could see that, and I think using it for sudo (as in many sibling comments) makes a lot of sense even if that's not a common use case.

Perhaps ironically, I know my laptop/desktop passwords by touch. :)