> devote time to learning Touch Bar
How complicated do you think it is that you need to spend time learning it?
How complicated do you think it is that you need to spend time learning it?
Some tips:
Customise it to your liking in the keyboard pref pane.
You can press-and-drag on volume and brightness buttons of the collapsed control strip. No need to tap then slide.
You can create services (now Quick Action) in Automator and they show up with the Show Quick Actions setting set. Since services can be contextual (input+app) you can get creative and do some whacky stuff in there. I have contextless Safari and Terminal there to pop up new windows whatever the focused app is.
Personally, if I make the purchase, I will probably just remap the Caps Lock key to ESC - assuming I can remove ESC from the Touch Bar.
The one thing I didn't care for is that the Touch Bar display can time out. I would personally prefer that it stay on - or at least have the option of it staying on.
The timeout implementation could definitely be improved. In 6 months I've hat that computer I've never had it be a problem or even found it annoying in any way though.