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Not sure if I am that excited with this overhaul. I guess Touch ID is a nice addition.

After ~2 years with no update, the mere addition of a newer Intel CPU will be a nice addition (even if the speed bump is marginal, even across 2 or 3 previous generations).

It's great on smartphone, but useless on laptop. PC laptops have had fingerprint scanners since forever.

That's ridiculous, it's not useless anywhere. What's useless is how shitty fingerprint readers were before TouchID.

TouchID isn't just a reimplementation, it's a massive technological improvement that elevates consumer fingerprint readers from gimmicky afterthoughts to a core part of UX.

"PC laptops had it and it never took off" is a horrible metric to judge anything. If the technology and implementation is trash, then of course it's not going to take off. That's why being first to do anything is a meaningless milestone. Be first to do it well, and you might as well have invented it.

Laptops have always had the shitty kind of "slide" fingerprint sensors. Hopefully apple will do it right and include the kind found in smartphones.

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