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I’ve been living with a touchbar machine for about two months now, and the only useful thing about it for me is the touchid spot.

Escape, slow as hell. Brushing the touchbar and bringing up the man app on some random argument, useless and annoying.

It’s gotten a lot better now that I’ve switched it from context to function keys, and am using an external keyboard 95% of the time.

It’s really my third favorite laptop to use in the house, behind a 2012 MBA and a Thinkpad t410.

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I can live with all of the half-baked features of the latest MBPs (I have one for work, my home one is much older) but the false recognition of the overly large touchpad drives me crazy.

It's bad enough that I have to disable tap-to-click (which I greatly preferred - much more elegant) and it still mis-clicks if I rest my hands on it.

I used to think the MBP trackpads were a cut above everything else - now they're too big and the palm rejection is not good enough.

> It's bad enough that I have to disable tap-to-click

The crazy thing is that the "full" click is entirely simulated. I don't use MBPs anymore but the only place I had to turn off that feature was there as well.

I'm glad to hear other people have issues with the enormous trackpad. The number of times I incorrectly type my password in has increased like 10x on the new MBP. Unfortunately I can't use Touch ID to login due to an employer policy.

I <3 this trackpad. But ya no tap to click.

It really is a useless gimmick. Even when limiting it to the standard brightness, volume, etc. controls, I find myself accidentally touching it and triggering some unwanted function. I really hope Apple abandons it or at the very least, offers a MBP with top of the line specs and standard function keys.

And even touch ID would have been a lot better to use if it was on one of the bottom-row buttons (e.g. cmd or option) instead.

Have you considered making your caps lock key an escape key? That’s been my game plan when I’m obligated to upgrade. Honestly, though I’ve held off for two years because I don’t know that I’ll be able to live with this.

No, because it’s already mapped to control. And that is Important, as its primary muscle memory. Escape shortcuts are less important. They still trip me up, but less often.

Ya the touchbar stupid, that track pad tho.. only laptop i've ever been totally fine using without a mouse. Hard to go back to other laptops after using that.

Plus the touchbar, though stupid and useless, does at least succeed in making all the other laptops look old and crappy now.

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