In the meantime, before I get my hands on one, here are the things I do like about the Touch Bar …įirst, user-customizable function keys. Perhaps, like the Apple Watch, it will demonstrate its value when I actually use it. Again, the screen and trackpad seem a more natural way to do things than to be moving my hand back-and-forth between two different touch surfaces and my eyes up-and-down between the Touch Bar and the screen.īut I’ve been wrong before, and I’m quite prepared to be proven wrong again. I’m also not terribly convinced about the idea of using them for toolbars.
Why on earth would I want to swipe through microscopic photo thumbnails on a tiny strip that I’m covering with my fingers when I could be doing the same thing in a decent size on that lovely display without obscuring anything? The video timeline example struck me as even more ridiculous. However, some of the demos Apple gave seemed to be rather silly. From a gadget perspective, it’s impressive. Things like swiping through content and – especially – multi-touch in conjunction with the trackpad went above and beyond what I was expecting. Which brings us to the Touch Bar. We already knew this would replace the function keys, and we were fairly sure it would be customizable by apps, but what Apple showed off did go a little further than I expected. But by this stage, I would have been utterly astonished had Apple not added it to the latest Macs, so it was more of a tickbox item than a wow. Especially if you need to login multiple times a day, it really is a relief to just touch your finger to the pad rather than having to enter a passcode. It’s one of those small things that actually makes quite a big difference, as anyone who has switched to an iPhone or iPad with Touch ID will fully appreciate. In this case, I don’t think my reaction would have been too different. Then there are the two new headline features: Touch ID and the Touch Bar. Whenever Apple announces features we already knew were coming, I try to imagine how impressed I would have been if they had been a surprise. At best, it’s marginally more convenient to use on the seat-back table on a plane. It’s nothing that I expect to have any great impact either while carrying it or using it. I get Apple’s excitement at the technical achievement these things represent, but I don’t think it’s a big deal from a user perspective. It’s a little lighter, but – in the case of the 15-inch – only down from 4.5 pounds to 4 pounds. It doesn’t excite me the way I feel that a new generation ought to after four years of more-or-less stagnation. I’m fully expecting to enjoy the smaller form factor and the new features – even if I will really miss the larger screen – but I’m not expecting to love it. Nothing major, and if I didn’t write about Apple stuff for a living I might have held out another year, but I decided I really ought to have the latest and greatest machine even if if didn’t wow me.Īnd, to be honest, the new MacBook Pro doesn’t …ĭon’t misunderstand me: it looks like a very nice machine.
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The lack of Bluetooth LE, for example, meant no AirDrop and no Apple Watch unlock. However, my late-2011 17-inch MacBook Pro was looking a little long in the tooth despite all its upgrades. I also held out just a tiny hope that perhaps the leaked image was a placeholder, and the bezels would be thinner in the real thing. I said yesterday that what we knew then didn’t seem quite enough to justify the ‘hello again’ hype, and I hoped there might be a ‘one more thing’ feature we hadn’t heard about.
So, the wait is over and the new MacBook Pro is official.
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