Comment by vel0city
7 hours ago
I think the touch bar was a neat idea with a lot of potential but IMO they should have kept the row of physical function keys as well.
7 hours ago
I think the touch bar was a neat idea with a lot of potential but IMO they should have kept the row of physical function keys as well.
Another thing was that not all Mac notebooks had a touch bar, so developers couldn't put any vital features onto it.
And there was no Touch Bar-equipped external keyboard either, so users with a desktop system were shut out entirely.
The thing is I have never used the function keys on my laptop so that was not a problem form me, but also some of the custom functions I hard can just be mapped to fn keys so it is bit like it it us a huge loss
Fn keys usually double as media keys so I use them a lot, as do most laptop users I know.
I don't necessarily use the numbered function keys all the time (as in F1-F12), but I use those physical buttons constantly. Brightness, volume, play/pause, mic mute, are all buttons I press a good bit. Many of those I'd rather just have be a single quick button, especially things like speaker or mic mute.
Volume and brightness are exactly the place the touchbar shines: tap and start dragging and you're adjusting a slider, which is much better than mashing a button.
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