My big issue with the touch bar is it will be a far awkward reach for me when I use my desk with external monitor with a external keyboard. It's really only useful when I work outside my office. :(
This. I think from now on, If I get a Macbook Pro, I will just buy 2 monitors, and get them upper so the monitors with the laptop screen would make like a "V". With a mouse and no more... Because a keyboard with touchbar I think will be pretty expensive... But It will be at least a year until I change my actual macbook so a lot of can happen in one year, like Microsoft updating the Surface book...
Same for me, but - anecdotally - I've noticed a ton of people working with their laptops and external monitors in a stacked arrangement lately. They don't use a secondary mouse or keyboard, and instead keep their laptop in front of them with the external monitor above and behind it.
Ahh interesting. I will give this stacked approach a shot then! Thanks
Hopefully the function keys on your external keyboard will still act like they used to!