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by gregkerzhner
2288 days ago
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Recently upgraded from my 2015 15 inch MBP to the new 16 inch MBP (32 gigs of ram). Overall it big upgrade - the higher resolution and bigger screen are awesome, and my XCode builds are compiling faster. That being said, I hate the touchbar for a few reasons
- Having to look at the keyboard to change volume is not an upgrade in user experience
- The touchbar freezes for me once a week or so and I have to go to the command line to kill the process
- The icons don't make any sense - (xcode dustcan anyone)? Also, maybe its because I am a rock climber and my skin gets roughed up, but the finger print sensor has never worked for me on any apple products and its a waste of space. All and all though, the faster computer and bigger screen is worth it for me. |
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Hah, that's exactly the upgrade I made except from a 2013
> Having to look at the keyboard to change volume is not an upgrade in user experience
Agreed; I wouldn't call the touch bar an upgrade, just a very tiny downgrade that doesn't matter much with the Escape key now separated back out
> The touchbar freezes for me once a week or so and I have to go to the command line to kill the process
Yikes, can't say I've had that happen :/
> The icons don't make any sense - (xcode dustcan anyone)?
You can turn off the application-specific touch bar buttons in your preferences and also customize what buttons appear. I have mine configured almost exactly like the old button top-row, except with an optional volume slider and a dedicated sleep button (which is nifty). But yes, just having the physical buttons instead would still be slightly preferable.
> the finger print sensor has never worked for me on any apple products and its a waste of space
It's just part of the normal power button, though? It doesn't take up any extra space