Apple's MacBook revival plan: Bring back old features

Re:Apple's MacBook revival plan: Bring back old features by Jonovono on Sunday January 17, 2021 @03:07PM (#25814420)

Interesting, I would think most programmers touch type which at least for me make the touch bar useless. Since it's always changing I have to look down to see what button I am about to press. For me, if it's something common enough that the touchbars ability to change makes that functionality useful I would have found or made a keyboard shortcut for it.

I just upgraded from a MacBook pro to a MacBook air for the main reason it not having a touchbar, and it's much better (for me)!

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Re:Apple's MacBook revival plan: Bring back old features by Imagenuity on Sunday January 17, 2021 @11:51PM (#25818287)

I'm accidentally hitting something on the touch bar all the time, which for me far outweighs anything useful it might do (which is never).

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Re:Apple's MacBook revival plan: Bring back old features by hugey010 on Sunday January 17, 2021 @04:00PM (#25814904)

In many situations, you don't have to look at the touchbar to know what the keys are. For example, when using terminal, vim / ide emulation, I know left is Esc key. It does make spamming Esc feel less weird to me.

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Re:Apple's MacBook revival plan: Bring back old features by Jonovono on Monday January 18, 2021 @10:37AM (#25822737)

I find it harder to touch type on the non physical keys. BTW, you can remap ESC to caps lock. Look into hyperkey ;p

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