The New M1X MacBook Pros - Here's the deal

The Touch Bar: A Feature that Never Quite Lived Up to Expectations

One of the key features of Apple's latest MacBooks, the touch bar, has left many users underwhelmed. For those who don't know, the touch bar is a small display above the keyboard on newer MacBook models, designed to provide quick access to frequently used functions and shortcuts. However, for this writer, the touch bar has been more of a hindrance than a help, particularly when it comes to typing.

The main problem with the touch bar is that it's just not as fast or convenient as using traditional keyboard shortcuts. When you're in a flow state, typing away on your keyboard without having to look at the screen can be incredibly liberating. But when you have to switch between apps or perform complex tasks, the touch bar often feels like a distraction. Plus, there's no tactile feedback or haptics, which makes it feel more like a shallow, high-tech gimmick than an actual useful feature.

In fact, for this writer, one of the biggest benefits of the touch bar is its inability to slow you down. When you're in the zone, typing on your keyboard can be incredibly fast and efficient, especially with the ability to use proper touch typing techniques. In contrast, trying to use the touch bar while still looking at the screen can feel clunky and awkward. And when you have to resort to using it, you'll often find yourself pausing to look at what's on the screen, which is exactly what most people are trying to avoid.

Another issue with the touch bar is that it's just not a very useful feature outside of a few specialized applications, such as Final Cut Pro. Even in those cases, it's not like the touch bar adds anything fundamentally new or useful – it's still just a shortcut to a different menu option. And even then, there are often other ways to achieve the same result without having to rely on the touch bar.

Despite these criticisms, it's worth acknowledging that the touch bar does have some redeeming qualities. For example, having sliders and controls right at your fingertips can be incredibly convenient in certain situations. The brightness slider, for instance, is a great example of this – being able to adjust the screen's brightness with just a few swipes on the touch bar feels much more intuitive than trying to find a separate control somewhere else.

However, even these advantages are somewhat tempered by the fact that there are often better ways to achieve the same result without relying on the touch bar. For example, using keyboard shortcuts is not only faster and more convenient but also allows you to focus more directly on the content on screen rather than constantly switching between apps or menus.

In the end, while the touch bar has some interesting ideas behind it, it's clear that it never quite lived up to Apple's hype. By and large, this writer prefers the traditional keyboard experience – there's just something about typing without looking at the screen that feels more natural and efficient. And as for Apple's decision to eliminate the touch bar from future MacBooks, this writer can only hope that it's a signal of a return to form for Apple's design philosophy.

The Future of Touch Bar-Free MacBooks

So, what does the future hold for Apple's Mac lineup? One thing is certain: with the introduction of new M1X MacBook models, we're likely to see a significant shift away from traditional keyboard designs in favor of more streamlined and user-friendly interfaces. And while it's impossible to know for sure just yet, this writer has a feeling that touch bar-free laptops are going to be the way forward.

One of the most interesting aspects of the new MacBook lineup is just how much Apple seems to be embracing change. With the introduction of the M1X chip and the subsequent release of the latest MacBooks, it's clear that Apple is committed to making its computers more user-friendly and intuitive – even if that means abandoning some of the more traditional design elements that have come to define the brand.

For this writer, one of the most exciting aspects of these new MacBooks is just how much they're going to disrupt our expectations when it comes to what a laptop should look like. With the phasing out of the touch bar and the introduction of more streamlined keyboard designs, we can expect Apple to push the boundaries of what's possible in terms of user experience.

As for whether or not this change will be met with widespread acclaim is impossible to say just yet. But one thing is certain: by embracing a more minimalist design aesthetic and focusing on creating laptops that are truly intuitive and user-friendly, Apple stands a good chance of redefining the laptop market all over again. And if there's one thing this writer can agree on, it's that Apple has always had a knack for making bold predictions about the future – so we'll just have to wait and see what they have in store for us.

The Role of Touch Bar Support in Apple's Ecosystem

Another aspect of the touch bar debate is how much it contributed (or detracted from) Apple's ecosystem as a whole. On the one hand, having standardized controls across all Apple devices can be incredibly convenient – especially when it comes to things like switching between apps or performing common tasks. However, on the other hand, this convenience often comes at a cost in terms of usability and flexibility.

In the case of Final Cut Pro, for instance, the touch bar is certainly a useful feature – but it's not like it added anything fundamentally new or innovative to the app itself. And even then, there are often better ways to achieve the same result without relying on the touch bar. As this writer has seen firsthand, many creative professionals have found that using traditional keyboard shortcuts and mouse controls can be far more efficient and intuitive than trying to rely on a gimmicky control like the touch bar.

It's also worth noting that having standardized controls across all Apple devices is not always a good thing – especially when it comes to things like customization options. By relying too heavily on standardization, Apple risks sacrificing some of the unique qualities and personalities that make each device special. And in an era where users are increasingly looking for ways to personalize their devices and express themselves more fully, this approach can feel stifling and limiting.

Ultimately, as with most things in life, it's all about balance. By embracing the touch bar – or its absence, depending on how you look at it – Apple is trying to create a more streamlined and user-friendly experience that's tailored to the needs of its customers. But by doing so, it may also be sacrificing some of the flexibility and customization options that have come to define the brand.

The Touch Bar: A Look Back

In conclusion, while the touch bar has been a polarizing feature in Apple's latest MacBooks, it's clear that it never quite lived up to expectations. Whether you're a die-hard Apple fan or just someone who's looking for ways to improve their laptop experience, there are plenty of reasons to be skeptical about this particular design choice.

However, as we look back on the touch bar era and consider what might come next in terms of laptop design, it's hard not to feel a sense of excitement. With Apple pushing the boundaries of user experience and embracing new technologies, it's clear that there are plenty of possibilities for innovation – even if they're not always immediately apparent.

As this writer looks to the future and wonders what Apple has in store for us, one thing is certain: with the touch bar gone from the scene, we can expect a whole new wave of design choices and innovations that will change the game forever.

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: entoday is july 23rd 2021 and i'm alive sitting here with no m1x macbook pro mark german said it was coming this summer a few people said wwdc and were uh obviously wrong and now the timeline for release is allegedly between september and november usually there's like a natural progression of leaks as far as like what we know about the product and when we find out about stuff but it seems as though you know it was in within our grasp for just a short while we've kind of lost grips on these macbooks and although we're consistently getting leaks here and there they're mostly coming from sources that don't have the greatest track record right now at least outside of mark german so what's happening with these macbook pros what do you think we're actually going to end up getting in and when i i think they're coming later this this fall uh quarter three maybe quarter four and i think they're going to be everything that we've seen as far as new ports more memory but the big thing obviously is the new design and the legacy ports returning so that's that's what i'm most excited for by far they've been gone for four years these you know what we call legacy ports now even though they're on you know most standard uh laptops and desktops so what do you think is going to be different that would make apple want to bring it back other than the fact that they're now running on their own silicon are we going to expect can we expect like hdmi 2.1 or something along those lines because otherwise why bring it back you know i mean it's sort of the same thing with the keyboards like it makes an inferior product right like not having for instance an sd card slot that's what matters most to me personally i don't really care about hdmi but i know a lot of people do because they want to just they just want to hook up their their mac to an external display make it quick and easy so i understand why people want that but for me it's all about sd cards because that's still such a prevalent thing in um you know the creative space granted less so than it was a few years ago right because now my camera uses um cf express type type a so yep same here yeah exactly so there's all these different standards uh for for external media for cameras and things like that so i think i mean my first opinion was that apple was on the right track by removing sd because really the onus was up to the camera manufacturers to make it easy to interface with their cameras right and i think a lot of them have done that like sony has made it so you can they have usbc on their cameras now uh can this canon the r5 yep yep so so i don't think it's as big of a deal as it used to be because it's so much easier like before you could not you couldn't hook a camera up to a usb cable and have any sort of decent transfer speeds but now that's sort of prevalent on most modern cameras yeah i think it's it's really interesting them choosing to do it now as opposed to maybe like was there a macbook pro in 2018 or did they skip that and go to 2019. there was in 2018. yeah there was a macbook pro in 2018 so i think 2018 like two years after the initial refresh that probably would have been the perfect time uh because like i said yeah there's so many unlike you know a keyboard that just doesn't work well there's no real work around for that outside of just not using using an external keyboard but you know like you said there are so many different work arounds for you know not having hdmi or not having sd card slot and you know so many cameras like you said are moving away from the traditional sd card slot hdmi for example there's so many usbc to hdmi cables you could just buy granted that's not going to be at the top of like an average consumer's mind but they're out there you can go to best buy and buy one so to me i think for it to make an impact i think they're definitely going to need to come with uhs2 like some of these rumors have been saying for the sd card slot and i think hdmi definitely needs to be 2.1 because otherwise in my eyes there isn't a real big usability benefit for someone like me at least but another thing we have to remember is that we are we're techie we're tech oriented customers and i think like a lot often times my my uh like older relatives like they i can't tell you how many times they've asked me about dongles and how to connect to their you know external monitor or tv or things like that the average person that's buying a macbook pro um they do care about that sort of thing they want easy connectivity they don't want to have all the dongles and stuff they'll they'll buy them of course but i think it's more of a pain point for them um because they just want it they just want to plug it in and work they don't really care about all the technical reasons behind the decision making uh it's just a frustrating thing for them yeah that's definitely true um which begs more reason why they didn't do this sooner and obviously having their own silicon makes it easier but it was never impossible to have legacy ports on on the previous intel model yeah yeah of course not i mean they had them before so it's like yeah it's just it was one of those things where they wanted to make everything thinner that's and that's those had to go there wasn't enough space um or at least that was their their excuse yeah fitness never really was a priority to me as a laptop user i'm more of concerned about weight if i'm going to be you know throwing in my backpack and bringing it around with me everywhere i mean i get it thin this is a part of aesthetics and that's a huge part of apple's you know marketing tactic you know thin light all that good stuff i think for the majority of users they're gonna be they're gonna be pretty happy to see these ports back me personally as a techie though and given that this is the you know these are the top dogs we're not talking about like a base level macbook we're talking about the pros which you know they say are for pros and obviously for apple products i can mean different things um i just hope they don't drop the ball on making sure that stuff is up to date as far as the ports they do bring back because if you're just br if you bring back the sd card slot and it's just uh s1 that's that's fine and for regular customers that would be cool but for the enthusiasts who want to buy a macbook pro specifically for that enthusiast experience i think that would be pretty disappointing yeah for sure i think it's a given that it's going to be uh s2 what i'm most um looking forward to though honestly the the display i mean after using the the ipad pro the 12.1 inch model with the mini leds i can't wait for that to be it's always a little bit disappointing going back to my macbook pro after using that for a long period of time yeah i think the retina display is great but mini led is kind of just a whole new ball game at least to me especially the way apple does it but i'm just so conflicted as to whether we're going to actually see this or not i've heard so much back and forth and i'm constantly hearing oh apple's having trouble you know getting these displays produced so what do you think do you think it's actually possible that these macbooks are getting many led and do you think that's the reason we haven't got them yet it's hard to tell i mean with covet and all the supply restraints like i mean it's just hard to really i mean this is of all years there's definitely an excuse for delays given all the supply constraints would you rather get a macbook pro now with m1x and all that fun stuff pretty much everything except for the mini led display this year or wait till perhaps maybe if not the very end of this year next year to get everything the mini led display all of it give me the m1x i mean this i'm as good as the m1 is as someone who is like really pushing these these machines i've come up against bottlenecks especially when it comes to memory and things like that yeah give me the m1x the mini led i mean that's a nice luxury and i'm looking forward to it but um we need something more right now especially for creatives because you run against bottlenecks especially with memory uh it's just something i face all the time editing videos i agree with that i think m1x is m1 the platform is so interesting it's it's not 100 perfect yet but i still would not want to go back to intel oh absolutely not absolutely not i mean i recently um got an intel mac mini because i was doing some testing with some gpus and stuff like that um of course boot camp stuff i'm working on and man it is just it is so so slow i mean it's just like i couldn't believe we've been using these granted it's the mac mini without a gpu attached to it so that's horrible period right but still there's a marked difference between the m1 mac mini and the intel mac mini i mean it's night and day and that was just that just kind of like punched me in the face about how big of a difference it was so no i would never want to go back to intel except except if it was going to something like a mac pro yeah i would say either the mac pro or the the latest 27 inch imac that still is at least in my opinion even the base model is still a really good machine load it up with like 32 gigs of ram and you're gonna be smooth sailing but even still you know i think we could definitely use with some more performance 32 gigs or 64 gigs something other than what we've got now is kind of what we're looking for me personally and that brings us to like the 32 gig versus 64 gig debate with the macbook pro there's been a bunch of rumors going back and forth saying oh you know in the past some people said these processors would support or come with up to 64 gigs of ram and now we're hearing it might just be 32. do you think we need 64 gigs of ram on m1x i think it would be nice i mean yeah i would um yeah i would personally want 64 gigabytes granite 32 is still a huge jump over 16 so i'd be happy with that but yeah i would definitely i mean you can get the 16 inch intel macbook pro with 64 now right so it seems like they definitely would want to go 64. just at least have parity with that 16 inch well seemingly the the 14 and 16s are going to be pretty close to the same as far as performance you would kind of expect it on both but 32 is probably going to be the sweet spot for the majority of people who aren't doing crazy stuff for sure for sure for sure yeah i mean 32 is enough i mean realistically but i still want 64 just because the amount of apps that i have running at the same time is just crazy something that's going to be going away though at least as far as what we're hearing the touch bar now i mean i never actually owned a thunderbolt 3 macbook pro for an extended period of time so i never really got to use the touch bar on a daily basis but i know initially it was it was real bad especially as far as like software reliability wise i know some people reported just the touch bars just going out and i think they've improved a lot of those kinks thus far but even still it never really did a whole lot i think it was a solution looking for a problem that didn't really exist like the whole thing about touch typing is you're you're typing you're not looking down at your screen at your fingers right like that slows you down and then when you have to do that the touch bar is inferior to keyboard shortcuts right because it's granted there are some things that touch part can do that can't really be done with a shortcut like having sliders and stuff like that on the touch bar that's cool i do appreciate that especially like the brightness slider and stuff like that having that visual connection with the actual brightness level i do appreciate that a lot so there are some things that i like about the touch bar but by and large it's something that i just avoid using just because keyboard shortcuts are so much faster and it takes it takes you away from looking at the content on screen when you have to because the touch bar there's no there's no haptics right so yeah there's no touch typing with the touch bar which is kind of ironic given the name i um i never really saw the touch bar as like a functional feature i really just thought was more of just a probably very expensive to make aesthetic piece because outside of you know some of the short cuts you would get with certain apple apps like you know i know when using final cut pro you have certain shortcuts laid out that sort of stuff was was pretty cool although i i never really knew anyone to my knowledge that took advantage of that stuff to the point where they felt like they needed to have the touch bar and so i mean i think eliminating it probably does more good than it does harm maybe i'll feel different once it's gone but and i do think there are some redeeming qualities especially like having like just mentioning that brightness slider like to me that's a better that's a better ux experience um user experience over like like pressing a key or hold pressing and holding a key like having that slider and actually oh like okay i see here's my brightness right it's like right there on your finger um but besides that there's not i mean there really isn't that much um for me redeeming factors for the touch bar to to make it essential um so yeah i'm actually kind of happy it's going to be going away uh i i think i prefer having those those hard keys the function keys yeah i'm really interested to see what apple's stance is on that is going to be when you know they reveal these new macbooks with no touch bar are they going to address it are they just going to be like here's a few back books and not really mention the fact that the touch bar is gone are they going to try to justify it that's going to be interesting well i mean i just and another thing is i don't think there was really like yeah apple apps had touch bar support but outside the initial final cut pro touch bar like integration they really didn't build on that at all like it was all right here it is and that's it like and developers while some did support it um you just really didn't see a lot of support thrown behind the touch bar even from apple's direction outside of the initial like push um so yeah i think part of it's just and another thing is user sentiment like there is a loud vocal granted it's from the techie side right the the hate the touch part i'm guilty of that too i've made several videos just lambasting uh the touch bar but i don't know i think now from the perspective of a new user i can see why it would be so valuable and that i think that was the direction that apple was really trying to go to make their computers more user-friendly um having a visual on screen is so much more easier to a person than pressing yeah yeah what's an f5 what what what is that like what is f3 this this is meaningless to me so actually having like a visual representation of what what's going on on the screen i can see that being like extremely helpful in that regard i kind of understand why it's there even though a person like me wouldn't necessarily take advantage of it i understand the uh the point and i think apple did that primarily to cater to those new users it's going to be crazy to see how much more these new m1x macbooks are going to be like the pre thunderbolt 3 macbooks more than they are like the macbooks that came right before them just because of how much stuff is being switched around how much stuff is being changed these are going to be pretty exciting machines and hopefully hopefully my if i were to guess i would say like my guess is october i just have a i mean because you know german said between september and november september is mostly going to be about the iphone at least you know towards the beginning of the month they could do it later in the month but i think you know october probably makes the most sensetoday is july 23rd 2021 and i'm alive sitting here with no m1x macbook pro mark german said it was coming this summer a few people said wwdc and were uh obviously wrong and now the timeline for release is allegedly between september and november usually there's like a natural progression of leaks as far as like what we know about the product and when we find out about stuff but it seems as though you know it was in within our grasp for just a short while we've kind of lost grips on these macbooks and although we're consistently getting leaks here and there they're mostly coming from sources that don't have the greatest track record right now at least outside of mark german so what's happening with these macbook pros what do you think we're actually going to end up getting in and when i i think they're coming later this this fall uh quarter three maybe quarter four and i think they're going to be everything that we've seen as far as new ports more memory but the big thing obviously is the new design and the legacy ports returning so that's that's what i'm most excited for by far they've been gone for four years these you know what we call legacy ports now even though they're on you know most standard uh laptops and desktops so what do you think is going to be different that would make apple want to bring it back other than the fact that they're now running on their own silicon are we going to expect can we expect like hdmi 2.1 or something along those lines because otherwise why bring it back you know i mean it's sort of the same thing with the keyboards like it makes an inferior product right like not having for instance an sd card slot that's what matters most to me personally i don't really care about hdmi but i know a lot of people do because they want to just they just want to hook up their their mac to an external display make it quick and easy so i understand why people want that but for me it's all about sd cards because that's still such a prevalent thing in um you know the creative space granted less so than it was a few years ago right because now my camera uses um cf express type type a so yep same here yeah exactly so there's all these different standards uh for for external media for cameras and things like that so i think i mean my first opinion was that apple was on the right track by removing sd because really the onus was up to the camera manufacturers to make it easy to interface with their cameras right and i think a lot of them have done that like sony has made it so you can they have usbc on their cameras now uh can this canon the r5 yep yep so so i don't think it's as big of a deal as it used to be because it's so much easier like before you could not you couldn't hook a camera up to a usb cable and have any sort of decent transfer speeds but now that's sort of prevalent on most modern cameras yeah i think it's it's really interesting them choosing to do it now as opposed to maybe like was there a macbook pro in 2018 or did they skip that and go to 2019. there was in 2018. yeah there was a macbook pro in 2018 so i think 2018 like two years after the initial refresh that probably would have been the perfect time uh because like i said yeah there's so many unlike you know a keyboard that just doesn't work well there's no real work around for that outside of just not using using an external keyboard but you know like you said there are so many different work arounds for you know not having hdmi or not having sd card slot and you know so many cameras like you said are moving away from the traditional sd card slot hdmi for example there's so many usbc to hdmi cables you could just buy granted that's not going to be at the top of like an average consumer's mind but they're out there you can go to best buy and buy one so to me i think for it to make an impact i think they're definitely going to need to come with uhs2 like some of these rumors have been saying for the sd card slot and i think hdmi definitely needs to be 2.1 because otherwise in my eyes there isn't a real big usability benefit for someone like me at least but another thing we have to remember is that we are we're techie we're tech oriented customers and i think like a lot often times my my uh like older relatives like they i can't tell you how many times they've asked me about dongles and how to connect to their you know external monitor or tv or things like that the average person that's buying a macbook pro um they do care about that sort of thing they want easy connectivity they don't want to have all the dongles and stuff they'll they'll buy them of course but i think it's more of a pain point for them um because they just want it they just want to plug it in and work they don't really care about all the technical reasons behind the decision making uh it's just a frustrating thing for them yeah that's definitely true um which begs more reason why they didn't do this sooner and obviously having their own silicon makes it easier but it was never impossible to have legacy ports on on the previous intel model yeah yeah of course not i mean they had them before so it's like yeah it's just it was one of those things where they wanted to make everything thinner that's and that's those had to go there wasn't enough space um or at least that was their their excuse yeah fitness never really was a priority to me as a laptop user i'm more of concerned about weight if i'm going to be you know throwing in my backpack and bringing it around with me everywhere i mean i get it thin this is a part of aesthetics and that's a huge part of apple's you know marketing tactic you know thin light all that good stuff i think for the majority of users they're gonna be they're gonna be pretty happy to see these ports back me personally as a techie though and given that this is the you know these are the top dogs we're not talking about like a base level macbook we're talking about the pros which you know they say are for pros and obviously for apple products i can mean different things um i just hope they don't drop the ball on making sure that stuff is up to date as far as the ports they do bring back because if you're just br if you bring back the sd card slot and it's just uh s1 that's that's fine and for regular customers that would be cool but for the enthusiasts who want to buy a macbook pro specifically for that enthusiast experience i think that would be pretty disappointing yeah for sure i think it's a given that it's going to be uh s2 what i'm most um looking forward to though honestly the the display i mean after using the the ipad pro the 12.1 inch model with the mini leds i can't wait for that to be it's always a little bit disappointing going back to my macbook pro after using that for a long period of time yeah i think the retina display is great but mini led is kind of just a whole new ball game at least to me especially the way apple does it but i'm just so conflicted as to whether we're going to actually see this or not i've heard so much back and forth and i'm constantly hearing oh apple's having trouble you know getting these displays produced so what do you think do you think it's actually possible that these macbooks are getting many led and do you think that's the reason we haven't got them yet it's hard to tell i mean with covet and all the supply restraints like i mean it's just hard to really i mean this is of all years there's definitely an excuse for delays given all the supply constraints would you rather get a macbook pro now with m1x and all that fun stuff pretty much everything except for the mini led display this year or wait till perhaps maybe if not the very end of this year next year to get everything the mini led display all of it give me the m1x i mean this i'm as good as the m1 is as someone who is like really pushing these these machines i've come up against bottlenecks especially when it comes to memory and things like that yeah give me the m1x the mini led i mean that's a nice luxury and i'm looking forward to it but um we need something more right now especially for creatives because you run against bottlenecks especially with memory uh it's just something i face all the time editing videos i agree with that i think m1x is m1 the platform is so interesting it's it's not 100 perfect yet but i still would not want to go back to intel oh absolutely not absolutely not i mean i recently um got an intel mac mini because i was doing some testing with some gpus and stuff like that um of course boot camp stuff i'm working on and man it is just it is so so slow i mean it's just like i couldn't believe we've been using these granted it's the mac mini without a gpu attached to it so that's horrible period right but still there's a marked difference between the m1 mac mini and the intel mac mini i mean it's night and day and that was just that just kind of like punched me in the face about how big of a difference it was so no i would never want to go back to intel except except if it was going to something like a mac pro yeah i would say either the mac pro or the the latest 27 inch imac that still is at least in my opinion even the base model is still a really good machine load it up with like 32 gigs of ram and you're gonna be smooth sailing but even still you know i think we could definitely use with some more performance 32 gigs or 64 gigs something other than what we've got now is kind of what we're looking for me personally and that brings us to like the 32 gig versus 64 gig debate with the macbook pro there's been a bunch of rumors going back and forth saying oh you know in the past some people said these processors would support or come with up to 64 gigs of ram and now we're hearing it might just be 32. do you think we need 64 gigs of ram on m1x i think it would be nice i mean yeah i would um yeah i would personally want 64 gigabytes granite 32 is still a huge jump over 16 so i'd be happy with that but yeah i would definitely i mean you can get the 16 inch intel macbook pro with 64 now right so it seems like they definitely would want to go 64. just at least have parity with that 16 inch well seemingly the the 14 and 16s are going to be pretty close to the same as far as performance you would kind of expect it on both but 32 is probably going to be the sweet spot for the majority of people who aren't doing crazy stuff for sure for sure for sure yeah i mean 32 is enough i mean realistically but i still want 64 just because the amount of apps that i have running at the same time is just crazy something that's going to be going away though at least as far as what we're hearing the touch bar now i mean i never actually owned a thunderbolt 3 macbook pro for an extended period of time so i never really got to use the touch bar on a daily basis but i know initially it was it was real bad especially as far as like software reliability wise i know some people reported just the touch bars just going out and i think they've improved a lot of those kinks thus far but even still it never really did a whole lot i think it was a solution looking for a problem that didn't really exist like the whole thing about touch typing is you're you're typing you're not looking down at your screen at your fingers right like that slows you down and then when you have to do that the touch bar is inferior to keyboard shortcuts right because it's granted there are some things that touch part can do that can't really be done with a shortcut like having sliders and stuff like that on the touch bar that's cool i do appreciate that especially like the brightness slider and stuff like that having that visual connection with the actual brightness level i do appreciate that a lot so there are some things that i like about the touch bar but by and large it's something that i just avoid using just because keyboard shortcuts are so much faster and it takes it takes you away from looking at the content on screen when you have to because the touch bar there's no there's no haptics right so yeah there's no touch typing with the touch bar which is kind of ironic given the name i um i never really saw the touch bar as like a functional feature i really just thought was more of just a probably very expensive to make aesthetic piece because outside of you know some of the short cuts you would get with certain apple apps like you know i know when using final cut pro you have certain shortcuts laid out that sort of stuff was was pretty cool although i i never really knew anyone to my knowledge that took advantage of that stuff to the point where they felt like they needed to have the touch bar and so i mean i think eliminating it probably does more good than it does harm maybe i'll feel different once it's gone but and i do think there are some redeeming qualities especially like having like just mentioning that brightness slider like to me that's a better that's a better ux experience um user experience over like like pressing a key or hold pressing and holding a key like having that slider and actually oh like okay i see here's my brightness right it's like right there on your finger um but besides that there's not i mean there really isn't that much um for me redeeming factors for the touch bar to to make it essential um so yeah i'm actually kind of happy it's going to be going away uh i i think i prefer having those those hard keys the function keys yeah i'm really interested to see what apple's stance is on that is going to be when you know they reveal these new macbooks with no touch bar are they going to address it are they just going to be like here's a few back books and not really mention the fact that the touch bar is gone are they going to try to justify it that's going to be interesting well i mean i just and another thing is i don't think there was really like yeah apple apps had touch bar support but outside the initial final cut pro touch bar like integration they really didn't build on that at all like it was all right here it is and that's it like and developers while some did support it um you just really didn't see a lot of support thrown behind the touch bar even from apple's direction outside of the initial like push um so yeah i think part of it's just and another thing is user sentiment like there is a loud vocal granted it's from the techie side right the the hate the touch part i'm guilty of that too i've made several videos just lambasting uh the touch bar but i don't know i think now from the perspective of a new user i can see why it would be so valuable and that i think that was the direction that apple was really trying to go to make their computers more user-friendly um having a visual on screen is so much more easier to a person than pressing yeah yeah what's an f5 what what what is that like what is f3 this this is meaningless to me so actually having like a visual representation of what what's going on on the screen i can see that being like extremely helpful in that regard i kind of understand why it's there even though a person like me wouldn't necessarily take advantage of it i understand the uh the point and i think apple did that primarily to cater to those new users it's going to be crazy to see how much more these new m1x macbooks are going to be like the pre thunderbolt 3 macbooks more than they are like the macbooks that came right before them just because of how much stuff is being switched around how much stuff is being changed these are going to be pretty exciting machines and hopefully hopefully my if i were to guess i would say like my guess is october i just have a i mean because you know german said between september and november september is mostly going to be about the iphone at least you know towards the beginning of the month they could do it later in the month but i think you know october probably makes the most sense\n"