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It’s rare but I’ve definitely seen my touchbar lock up or go dark and require a restart.

It also could get mad hot on my 2016 MBpro when video editing. Still love(d) that computer though…

Yeah, it locked up on me every couple months or so. Very glad to see it gone (as the primary ESC + F-row input).

I also would not mind it in addition to regular keys, there are some great interactions in there. But it's an extremely poor keyboard-emulator. Splitting off the escape key made a huge improvement, but it's nowhere near enough.

Yeah Apple has had a few missteps like this over the last 5 to 10 years. They assert themselves with that Steve Jobs mentality of “we know what’s best for you,” but he got it right more often than the current iteration. The touch bar was definitely not properly assessed by users before shipping.

I still own a 13-inch MacBook Pro 2019 with the Touch Bar, and I believe it’s the last Intel-based model.

What a nightmare. ‘Mad hot’ even on… just being alive.

Those 2019-2020 models are absolute trash. I don’t know what happened. My 2016 MBPro smokes the few we have bouncing around at work. They started falling apart like year 3, and my MBPro was the first iteration of their newer builds with the butterfly keyboard/non-optional Touch Bar!

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