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Apple Unveils New MacBook Pro Featuring OLED Touch Bar, Touch ID - Powered By Intel Skylake Processor (arstechnica.com)
At an event on Thursday, Apple unveiled the new 2016 MacBook Pro. The redesigned MacBook Pro comes with "incredible extreme" all-metal body. The main attraction of the new MacBook Pro is an OLED touch strip at the top that Apple is calling the Touch Bar. The Touch Bar comes with a fingerprint scanner Touch ID that users can tap to log-in quickly to their computer as well as make online payments. The touch strip offers on-screen button that changes according to the application you're running. Schiller, Apple SVP, said it was time Apple gotten rid of the dedicated function keys. The new MacBook Pro is thinner and lighter than the existing model, and it is powerful too. It comes in two screen sizes: 13-inch, which weighs 3 pounds and measures 14.9mm -- down from 18mm from older MacBook Pro. The trackpad is larger too, Apple says, twice as larger than the older one. Also, it's Force Touch trackpad. ArsTechnica adds: Both laptops are still recognizably MacBook Pros, but in keeping with Apple's design priorities they've got slimmer profiles and smaller footprints. This is made possible in part by the move to USB Type-C ports like the one in the MacBook, all four of which support Thunderbolt 3. All four ports can be used to charge the system, too. Compared to the measly one port in the MacBook, the MacBook Pros are much more appealing to people who plug lots of stuff into their computers at once. Apple has also made the cowardly decision to retain the headset jack. Both systems include new Intel Skylake processors -- dual-core chips in the 13-inch Pro and quad-core chips in the 15-inch model, just like before. The 13-inch Pros ship exclusively with Intel Iris 540 GPUs, while the 15-inch models ship with Polaris-based AMD Radeon graphics at the high-end.The 13-inch model MacBook Pro starts at $1,799, whereas the 15-inch model starts at $2,399.
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And I don't see an escape key. :(
3 years we waited for a touch bar ...
Is this where the fabled escape key has been banished to? It's going to be awkward using vim, but I won't have to worry about that for a while, hopefully. My 2011 MacBook Pro is still fulfilling my needs.
Now, if you'll excuse me, I have backups to corrupt.
You've introduced the capacitive touch bar my wife's 10 year old HP Pavilion Media laptop has been rockin' forever!
(I really do to this day think that part of the laptop is really cool, except when I swipe to change the volume and it doesn't work the first time)
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I can see some interesting use cases for that TouchBar, but dear God, when that Photoshop lady was demonstrating using the mousepad & TouchBar at the same time, I cringed. I mimicked it on my keyboard in front of me and my wrists cried out in pain -- I can't imagine how it'd be if the keyboard was in my lap (i.e. on a laptop).
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Thank goodness it is way overpriced like all other Apple products so I can continue to enjoy my non-Apple laptop with escape and function keys.
>twice as larger than the older one
for fucks sake
...that took to say that. When the walls fell...
Is this 10 year old touch bar apple's way of admitting that maybe a touch screen isn't a bad idea? Just give us a damn touch screen already. Christ.
With the Surface Studio announced, it kinda makes these laptops look "meh"
Once again, the 13" MBP doesn't offer quad-core options or discrete graphics, perpetuating the idea that "bigger is better." Some of us don't care for the extra screen space and care more about weight and portability while not sacrificing capability.
The Touch Bar, while a nice little addition, was not worth an entire product announcement. They barely talked about anything else.
Skylake chips are already a generation behind, though Kaby Lake isn't that much of an improvement, it's still silly at this point to be using a chip a generation behind.
They need to be rid of Susan Prescott as a presenter. She has the charisma of a cardboard box. By contrast as the other female presenter, the Adobe presenter (missed her name) was significantly better and didn't look like she was reading cue cards held up by her assistant in the back.
Like, ohmigawd its soooooo awesome!!!!!
Ugh.
That hackintosh is looking better and better every day...
You are doing it wrong. "Siri, press the escape key" :-)
Sheesh, I guess I already have the last MacBookPro I will own, for a while. The MagSafe has saved my laptop numerous times - NOT giving up on it. I use my SD Card slot, I use my HDMI plug, I use my USB connections. The new Book might be thinner, but add the collection of dongles needed to get the same functionality, and the gain is lost. And, sheesh, in this day and age, only 8G on the 13" model? Mmph.
Yah, I'll keep the one I have for now and the foreseeable future.
Waited years for an update and this is it? Seriously? A touch bar? That's what they added? It took years to add something that other manufacturers added and abandoned?
What I'm most pissed about is that they are offering a "pro" system with a max of 16GB of RAM.
I'll be looking elsewhere and seeing what better, truly "pro" laptops can be hacked to run MacOS.
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>twice as larger than the older one
They are learning to speak Trumpish so they can communicate with the new administration using the most elegant the best words ever in the history of the world, trust me its true.
I suppose neither RAM nor SSD can be upgraded or replaced.
I know I am miserable, but it gets expensive to buy maximum RAM from the beginning. And it sucks to have too little RAM down the road.
But with a non repairable/replacable SSD, who wants to spend too much money on a laptop?
Or am I wrong?
The market for 17" MacBooks only gets stronger.
Also, all 17" laptops use Optimus video which isn't compatible with Mac OS X.
Apple has completely abandoned pro users and depends on i-crap zealots to attack us and keep up quiet.
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Being that Apple has more cash in the bank that many Western countries currently do, it's obviously understandable that supporting a 17" model just isn't something they could afford to do; a no-holds-barred, high-performance machine with mondo ports that would serve the needs of the very same faithful but demanding professional users who have been supporting them all these years through thick and thin and historically were spending mucho dineros buying quantities of these beasts. (a.k.a. the small vocal minority)
And since we all know that Apple's hardware line is mostly composed of "magical devices", their users never squint, and don't need to have a big screen to display massive amounts of information that includes stuff like palettes, sub-menus and options pop-up windows.
It's probably going to be a fantastic choice for those hipster middle-managers on-the-go, or people with busy lives who don't need a lot of screen real-estate or have to ever manipulate and store large media files.
Guess it's time to see what running Hackintosh on a PC laptop really feels like, or just using any other third-party OS.
"...comes with 'incredible extreme' all-metal body..."
"The touch strip offers on-screen button..."
"Schiller, Apple SVP, said it was time Apple gotten rid of the dedicated function keys"
"Apple says, twice as larger than the older one"
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I've been an Apple user since 06 when they went Intel (strictly *nix for 22 years before that other than a brief, self abusive period using Windows in the late 90s) and I don't understand why the retina, multi-touch tech of the TouchBar isn't implement in the screen as well. Touch may not have seemed important 8 or 9 years ago but between tablets and smartphones touch has become a much more common part of the computing experience.
As long as I'm complaining, I also don't understand why the 13" MBP is limited to 8 Gig of Ram. Memory is cheap and Apps use ridiculous amounts of it now.
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The Touch Bar comes with a fingerprint scanner Touch ID that users can tap to log-in quickly to their computer
The courts have said a few times that compelling someone to unlock their phone with their fingerprint is not a 5th amendment violation (forcing them to tell a password would be).
So don't plan on using this laptop for anything you're not willing to show to the authorities....or anyone else who can mock up a dummy fingerprint, which is surprisingly easy to do. They can probably just lift a print from the case...
For people who type too fast. Now instead of typing away while watching the screen you now have to keep switching your focus between the screen and keyboard/touchbar.
How many TB3 bus's? video card at pci-e 3.0 X8? as well?
2016 marks the end of Apple brand loyalty. We have quite clearly reached the point where the roadmap Steve Jobs laid out has ended, and now Cook and Ives are on their own, screwing things up as they go.
The outrage about today's keynote at AppleInsider is palpable. Among the common complaints are:
- These computers are overpriced and underwhelming. The price of the entry-level MacBook Pro was bumped up hundreds of dollars, and all they did was increase the price and remove ports from it. (The entry-level model only has two Thunderbolt ports (USB, etc. have been removed), and one of the ports has to be used for charging! What kind of "Pro" computer is that???)
- The mind boggles that they removed the "esc" key from a supposedly "Pro" computer.
- They removed the MagSafe connector, which is arguably one of the greatest features of Apple's laptops.
- The only connections are Thunderbolt 3, meaning that you will need a dongle for ~anything~ you want to connect. Do you own an iOS device? Better hope you have a USB-C adapter for it.
- Removal of the SD drive.
Apparently Apple has also been sending out emails to some of its customers asking if they use features such as the headphone jack on their laptop. (Because of course, they're going to remove it from there as well.)
This company has lost its mind.
I'm not buying it
Given that it does have a headphone jack (look under "Charging and Expansion"), will you be buying it?
I know this has been a popular comment, but Apple offers a premium product and usually when compared with premium products from other brands the price wasn't so bad. However $1800 for the base model 13" that is clearly the one that people want just makes me shake my head. And now $2400 base for a 15" laptop. Apple has so much money in the bank and building this wondrous campus. Seems like they could have sold the new models for the same price as the old and still been highly profitable. Seems like they want exclusivity of clientele. Seems greedy. With a hack I'm running 10.12 on my 2009 MBP. I'll just wait for a good price on a newer used model when 10.13 comes out.
Did you catch in one of the videos where the Touch Bar changed to show the Accept/Decline buttons of an incoming Facetime call? Imagine being in the middle of an important workflow, and as you move your finger to touch a virtual key, it suddenly changes its meaning, and because you shouldn't have to keep moving your eyes from the display to the keyboard, you end up affecting that call by mistake? The user should *never* have to look at the keyboard to confirm they are typing what they think they're typing. Hell, the way that Touch Bar works, even looking at it isn't good enough if the keys can change meaning right out from under your fingers.
Like there was no room to add a touchbar on top of the existing keyboard and they had to replace the F keys with it.
This is only the beginning, eventually all keys will be replaced. Have you noticed how every mac generation gets thinner and thinner keys? this is just for training people not to miss real keys when they will disappear and get virtualized under glass.
Today's announcements confirmed to me that I made the right choice getting a refurbished 2015 MacBook Pro this past spring. Not only do I have all the ports Apple chose to remove from this new laptop*, I don't have to put up with the inevitable problems that occur with the first generation of any Apple product where they've made some major hardware changes.
As far as the processor generation goes... it's probably been six or seven years since the CPU has been even a marginally limiting factor with anything I do.
* Seriously, Apple - you couldn't fit an SD card slot in there? And why not keep at least one full-size USB 3.0 port? Plus I actually like MagSafe.
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Sure. I use USB headphones. I'm able to have the system sounds continue to go out the built-in audio while my headphones only contains audio of my telecom.
I've been happy with my logitech headset but, if I weren't, I can get a USB-C to 3.5mm adapter like for the Moto Z. (I have a USB to audio out/in adapter already, but might as well get one that doesn't require a USB to USB-C adapter)
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Yes, thumbs down for me on this new MacBook Pro. Connectivity to the outside world is limited to 4 USB-C ports and the (thankfully!) still present headphone adapter. If you have any USB 2 or USB 3 devices forget it--don't seem to be any adapters available. Expect to pony up even more money for a USB-C to Ethernet Adapter, SD Card Reader, HDMI adapter, and Thunderbolt 2 to Thunderbolt 3 adapter. Not sure that fancy new touchbar is worth the sacrifice in connectivity, what with the grab bag of adapters needed.
Actually there is a new model with escape and function keys. A model without the Touch Bar.
http://www.apple.com/macbook-p...
No updates or price cut's to other apple hardware!
Did the new microsoft surface all in one make them scrap / rework the new imac?
apple planing to kill all desktops? if they do at least let us run mac os server in a VM on any base hardware!
I don't find anything about it compelling to convince me to shell out around two grand for a laptop. At least not anymore, since my time is now spread around multiple devices much of which are not equal to one MacBook Pro in price. I think that is the general consensus in buying tech these days. Spread your dollar around in less expensive per device levels. Yeah, some may need a expensive desktop or laptop to do what they need. But Apple to me has become a boutique of sorts Mac lineup. No real work level basics, just flashy expensive shiny stuff.
What, only one button?
Oh, wait... you're AMERICAN. And therefore too fucking stupid to write properly.
I think you meant to say "offers on-screen BUTTONS that CHANGE".
Fucking American idiot.
No new desktops at all. A laptop that has no video ports, no magsafe power, no SD card slot... just 4 stupid thunderbolt ports that will require a rats nest of dongles to make usable.
And Apple wonders why their revenues are nosediving?
The good: Amazing screen, speakers, compact build, good battery life, nice sound, comfortable input devices. ;-)
The bad: No 32GB? AYFKM?! Holy crap! JI can go EABOD. Perhaps they'll release an upgrade in the form a Tbolt dongle
I'm not buying it
Given that it does have a headphone jack (look under "Charging and Expansion"), will you be buying it?
Cowards.
Holy hell, my 2004 Thinkpad takes SD cards. No thanks.
Interesting. But only for the 13 inch model. Grrr.
The 15 inch model doesn't start at $2399 - it actually starts at $1999. You need to SCROLL DOWN to see the CHEAPER models of both the 13 and 15 inch laptops. Just another stupid-tax : Those who don't scroll down will never believe that they could get one for less.
This machine, and any other machine you can buy today, presumably supports low-power Bluetooth. Someone needs to make and market a single key with a Bluetooth connection, and a sticky silicone back for staying put on your desktop or laptop. Pair it and map it to whatever you like; get a bunch if you're so inclined.
Sort of like the giant Staples "Easy" button, only functional and practical. I'd be inclined to call it the "dammit" button, because that's what I always seem to call for when I want a key that isn't there...
Double the pixels, screen size, and desktop processor with gtx 980 for 900 more.
Not only that, but you'd have to start, inasmuch as there is zero tactile feedback, and you don't know what's up there until you look.
Funny thing... if they'd have gone with a touchscreen on the main laptop monitor, they wouldn't have needed to do this and it would have been a metric fuckton more capable and it would be where you're already, you know, actually looking (but then again, since there's nothing really good about this thing, and there are a lot of things that aren't, I guess they really needed something to confuse the potential buyers.)
But hey. No touchscreen for you.
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Yes, that's marvelous for Apple, but it isn't marvelous for me and so guess what? Lost sale. Just the measly one lost sale (well, two, actually, because I'm not buying that stupid trash can thing either.)
Believe it or not, I don't sit around here pining for things to go better for Apple.
I do, however, think about what might improve my circumstances. Unfortunately, Apple thinks just like you do: About them. Not about the end user.
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Apple, get in the fucking sea.
You are welcome on my lawn.
Not only that, their entry level model has TWO, count em, TWO total USB-C ports! One of these ports will be probably utilized by the charger, so that leaves ONE ONE ONE open port.
This replaces a Magsafe charger port, two thunderbolt ports, HDMI port, and a SD card slot!
Even their so called wide gamut display uses the P3 color space, and is usually used for projectors. If you want to create content, the display should be a Adobe RGB based gamut. This laptop must be designed for consume only purposes, not to create content.
Really Apple? You must either be attempting to drive your fan base away from laptops or turning your laptops into consume-only devices like your iPhones. Which begs the question why is this laptop labelled "Pro"? Pro what?
Oh, and two USB 3 ports!!!
When are we gonna get an actual PRO machine? Poser toys are nice but some people do actual work with their machines. Where the F do I put my DSP cards? I know I was an idiot sinking hundreds of thousands of dollars in an Apple product... They are meant for tweens to post pictures of their butts on the internet and not much more but it used to be different. You audio pros know what I'm talking about, right?
Finally, something that Apple has removed that I can get excited about. (Bothers me much more than removal of analog audio jack...)
WTF, do they think that almost no apps use the escape key? What moves to the touchbar in the next generation? The letter Q and the numeral 4?
And it's enough that you have to type on those smooshy keys with almost no travel. Hell, they might as well just make the whole keyboard one big touchpad/OLED panel, and be done with it. Clicky keys forever!
part of a deliberate attempt to make Linux difficult to use with the new keyboard?
Schiller, Apple SVP, said it was time Apple gotten rid of the dedicated function keys
So they're just making an X1 Carbon with a white frame and fancier button strip.
Both that and the touchpad failed so badly that Lenovo reversed course on both (amongst other things). With respect to the function keys, the Carbon now has them while all models can force a startup default of function keys. The touchpad has been replaced with a model having actual mouse buttons, and can be retrofitted to older Thinkpads. Unlike Apple, Lenovo (for once) listened to their customers and gave them what they wanted.
Oh, and they have the Escape key. No need to chord Ctrl-C at a terminal or to enter a complex OSX preference to get vi commands!
Both systems include new Intel Skylake processors... ....with Intel Iris 540 GPUs, while the 15-inch models ship with Polaris-based AMD Radeon graphics at the high-end.
While more fully-featured competitors such as Lenovo are already past Broadwell and ship with much better GPUs at their high end (Quadro M5000M anyone?). Nice to see them at least try to make Skylake work though.
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current home setup: macbookPro(2009) — three plugs: power; usb to hub; thunderbolt to display. all my devices plug into usb hub(scarlett audio interface, backup drive, midi interface, usb keys).
what this does is supplies the power to the left or right handed user, and drives total# plugs to 1 things to fiddle: power coming in from display; and simultaneously supplying data to the display — that's radical — and the display contains the usb hub — its consolidated 3 wires to one for at home use.
on the road, work on a retina display and a great keyboard.
omg — they just did to FN keys what GUI did to DOS.
Check again. There are ZERO USB 3 ports. At best, you get 4 USB-C ports.
You can also use xcape to map it to both: Esc when pressed and released alone (for vim) and ctrl when pressed with other keys (for shortcuts).
Blackberry Passport has a nice dynamic function row above the physical keyboard, just like this. That combined with the keyboard being also a touchpad meant that I never had to touch viewport area very often. I really enjoyed that. This allows apple to push back against the touchscreen demand, and I like the design. It isn't exactly innovative, but that doesn't mean it isn't good product design. I wished for Blackberry to make a laptop. I guess I got it now?
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This replaces a Magsafe charger port, two thunderbolt ports, HDMI port, and a SD card slot!
Oh, and two USB 3 ports!!!
Makes more sense now?
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Hardly any improvements, hugely increased prices. Remember all the big names who recently pulled out of a PC market of vanishing profits. Apple is right now probing the brand loyalty of MacBook customers. Or perhaps, they've already made their decision, and this is just their signal to every Mac owner who still has some brains left: Today, the end of Apple the PC manufacturer has turned from a crazy idea into a definite possibility.
Wow, when did Apple decide to become the 'mostly underwhelming' company?
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This is an english language site, with a primarily american audience. If you cannot write summaries in english, following basic rules of grammar, quit so someone qualified can take your job.
16 GB and a touch-me bar , oh, and thinner. Who cares. These are perfect for 1st and 2nd graders.
Give me back a 17 inch screen, enough thickness to add some real cooling fans, get the stupid touch me bar off of it, and insert 64 GB of RAM.
Lenovo has you covered with the P70, and Dell has their equivalent too. Then again, they're beyond Skylake and offer better GPUs.
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I went from being a researcher and developer to being in technical management. I also spend much of my time on the road and on the go. I switched to Mac from dual-boot PC's shortly after OSX. It had everything I needed. It just worked. I closed the lid when the plane was about to land, and an hour later, voila. I could be in a terminal running screen on multiple servers, and 'alt-tab' to MS-Outlook to accept a meeting invite. I could go from coding in vim and compiling in a Unix environment to, *gasp*, editing a power point. I even run multiple VM's, and with a simple USB hub could have a complete office on the go. Even iTunes didn't use to be all that terrible. I'd laugh at all those PC people enslaved to the one bank of power outlets at the airport, while I was smugly charging both phones from my computer, confident I'd still have juice for the next flight. And it didn't hurt that the thing looked like a luxury car, and didn't feel like something that looked like it was trying to be a luxury car. Oh and lasted more than a year under substantial use. And lastly that my whole setup weighed less than the power brick for many other machines (I'm looking at you, HP).
Sadly, I feel those days coming to an end, and I'm honestly not sure what will be next.
It's hard to tell the cool to chill, my favorite hotel room has a view to an ill.
Like the HP thunderbolt 3 dock? http://store.hp.com/us/en/pdp/...
Is this going to overheat and die just like the 2011 MacBook Pros?
I rarely use any of my ports. Getting 4 USB-C ports is super flexible and future-proof. Kudos to Apple for going with a standard!
And no, if you author content for P3, you need to look at it in P3. "Adobe RGB" is a subset of P3 so you are fine. I'm sure you can calibrate the display to Adobe RGB.
What if I want to boot to Windows or Linux? I assume the missing keys will be a PITA, unless an external "standard" keyboard is used.
Maybe macOS doesn't need all those keys... But they sure made the one laptop that could run all mainstream OSes a lot less useful to me.
Quote from Wired:
“The idea of having that line of function keys goes back to research done back when we didn’t have graphical user interfaces,” says Alan Hedge, director of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Laboratory at Cornell University. “When you wanted to change between different kinds of functions there was nothing to click on, so you had to press a key.”
Yes, of course clicking and searching through menus is way more efficient ("ergonomics", right?). To me, function keys are shortcuts that some of us use every day. I only have Windows shortcuts in mind but: build/run in Visual Studio, Inspector in Chrome, F2 to rename a file (instead of that 1-second slow-double-click that doesn't work half the time).
If they weren't so limited on space, an additional input surface is a really nice idea, but I don't like the idea of removing an entire row of keyboard. Next they'll require modifier keys for numbers so they can replace that row too, with great courage...
Good point another poster made:
The keyboard might change right before you press a function key. Pressing a function key using muscle memory might cause unexpected actions to be done. It's bad enough when the GUI changes unpredictably right before you click on something or while you're typing*, now even the keyboard might screw you if you're not looking.
* e.g., a window stealing the focus: "why yes, of course I'd love finishing the installation by adding the adware-ridden toolbar, and here's part of my password I was typing elsewhere too".
I think one day a touch screen will replace the keyboard, I am sure it will be cheaper then and better. May be Pixel will introduce it.
I think, Apple has lost their focus. Who are they gearing their MBP lineup for? I use them for work (coding) & I have absolutely no use of a side grill speakers. If anything, they reduce the life of laptop by allowing more dust in, into heavily engineered tight space.
I think replacing all the adapters with USB-3 is a bold move. I'd love for every damn device to have the same port for everything. The transition would be tough on both, the consumers & the product manufactures, though.
The top touch pad is a nice gimmick, but is useless if you use an external keyboard, and I can't find any use of it other than as a seek bar for media. I can't use it for work where I NEED the function keys.
The courage it took to remove the Esc key is extraordinary.
Apple should be so proud of itself.
And I own a lot of Apple stuff. Even been accused of being a fanboy.
Not impressed. Maybe we're coming to the end of innovation with computers.
I'll keep my macbook and mac air.
With this laptop, Apple has ensured that if I bought one (no chance, but...) I would have to have an external keyboard. If the awful chicklet keys weren't enough to drive me there (they are), the have-to-look-at-it nature of the touch bar would do it in a heartbeat.
I type most of every day. I can't have my work disrupted by this kind of nonsense. And I won't.
In re the Optimus, actually, the keys are programmable, and they most certainly aren't display-only, so no, you're quite wrong.
The right answer, if you want to touch something, is the main monitor being a touchscreen -- because you're already looking there, and because the real estate is more abundant, and because it's more flexible in the first place, and because it doesn't screw up decades of touch-typing reflexes, and because it doesn't add extra complexity to the computer and so impact the reliability in a negative way, and because it wouldn't be an extra-power draw that this extra display is.
But hey, other than that, why, it's grand!
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This alone will mean Apple hardware is no longer a real option for software developers.
They needed to include ONE regular USB 3.0 port. There are a zillion devices that fit *inside* a USB port, such as a YubiKey, and nobody wants to carry those $50 security items around on a dongle so that they have to "dongle in" whenever they login. Apple blew it bigtime on the MacBook Pro redesign. They had it made in the shade until Tim Cook got this idea : https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Next year they will replace the top row (0-9) with another touchbar and so forth until 2020 when Tim Cook will reveal that the MacBook Pro is just a tablet!
Look carefully and you will see tremendous UI improvements; They screen is WAY better, brightest in its class; The sound is WAY better, best of any laptop. The disk is WAY faster, really astonishingly fast; The touchbar is WAY better only because it includes TouchID which means instant logins (no more fumbling with CAPS LOCK key!) The keyboard absolutely sucks, but it sucks no worse than any other stupid-thin keyboard on a device in this class. So overall, this machine is an amazing improvement, completely ruined by a brain-dead mania for USB 3.1c ports ...