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When implemented well, it can put precisely the editing tool you need right under your fingertips, saving you from that modern day hell of having to browse every menu and sub-menu 14 times before you finally lay eyes on the obscurely named function you’re after.
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There’s a far more compelling argument that the Touch Bar is actually for the non-pros for those who don’t know a piece of software inside out. The Touch Bar is not going to speed things up for those folks. Professional designers, photo editors and video producers already have every keyboard shortcut nailed to the extent that their fingers work in a blur of muscle memory. There’s (perhaps predictably) no word on Google support, though, which is a real blow to those of us who use Chrome and Drive every day.Įven once apps do start to offer Touch Bar shortcuts, there’s a question mark over who they’re for. Photoshop and Microsoft Office should support it soon, and that will undoubtedly be a big deal to a bunch of MacBook buyers. Naturally, all of Apple’s own apps have been updated with Touch Bar functionality, but third-party support isn’t very extensive yet. This is partly because app support is pretty limited right now. The problem is that, at the moment, the Touch Bar just isn’t actually all that useful. It’s quick to use and relatively tactile, too, despite the surprising omission of haptic feedback. You’ll honestly be amazed at how colourful and sharp it is. It’s a supremely cool thing, especially when it’s displaying a gallery of photos or some bright website icons. When you’re on the desktop you’ll see the media controls, volume, brightness and all of that usual stuff represented as shining little icons, and when you open an app that has its own functionality, that “Control Strip” shrinks to four icons and an arrow for accessing the rest.īest of all, you can customise the Touch Bar by choosing which functions it displays. Of course, the function buttons the Touch Bar replaces are all still there, too.
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It’s got iMessage and email smarts as well, bringing up a predictive text panel as you type and giving you quick access to a full catalogue of emoji that you can swipe through at your leisure. Want to get editing? The Touch Bar has shortcuts for that, too. In Photos, every snap is shown in miniscule form, so you can run your finger along the OLED strip to quickly flick through your entire gallery. Surfing Safari? The Touch Bar displays tiny versions of your stored favourites, or every tab you have open, letting you tap from page to page instantly. Instead, you get context-sensitive controls that change depending on what you’re currently doing onscreen. If you’ve somehow missed all the excitement/dismay the Touch Bar is a long, thin OLED panel that replaces the row of function buttons that you’d find on any other MacBook. Still, I’ve adjusted so it now feels pretty natural, and it makes the trackpad on older Macs feel old-fashioned and imprecise by comparison.Ī little more refinement and I think it could be as satisfying as the keyboard.
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I felt the trackpad haptics in the entry-level MacBook Pro could do a better job of simulating clicks when you push on it, and I don’t think this version hits the physical feedback sweet spot either. As ever with a new input method, you need to spend a little bit of time teaching yourself the new shortcuts, but put that effort in and you’ll find yourself spreading and pinching like a pro (no sniggering back there). Its huge surface area allows for a great many multi-touch gesture controls. It made me a quicker, happier writer, and the hour I spent with an old MacBook Air while this review sample was being photographed was an unpleasant journey back to a time of tiny, weirdly spaced and spongy keys.īeneath that fabulous keyboard is a trackpad so big it can probably be seen from the International Space Station. The larger keys also help cut down on typos and assists in touch-typing. There’s a clackiness to the keys that might wind up the person sitting next to you if they’re easily distracted, but to me the sound adds an extra degree of feedback.
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