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Re:16-inch MacBook Pro by efaref on Wednesday November 13, 2019 @10:14AM (#21525008)
The touchbar is basically the 2010s equivalent of old-school function key overlays: http://www.hamstuff.com/Overlays/overlay.htm

It does also provide some useful feedback as it can display things, too.

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Re:16-inch MacBook Pro by mlyle on Wednesday November 13, 2019 @11:14AM (#21525761)
It's also continuous.

I buy what people say that it's way better for scrubbing video/audio if you do that a lot (lots of people previously bought special-purpose accessories for the same)... and mostly worse otherwise.

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Re:16-inch MacBook Pro by kkarakk on Wednesday November 13, 2019 @02:11PM (#21528163)
Maybe not true for 2019 version but previous versions have had a serious issue with the touchbar just hanging/becoming unresponsive - requiring a reboot to fix the issue.
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