Touch Bar is awesome - useful tricks

[enzo thecat]

What I absolutely love is having my favricons on e touch away on the touch-bar. TB is much more useful than I was expecting it to be. Also love the autocorrect feature when I type...like this! I almost didn't even want the TB. Now I see that it is the single largest advancement in laptops probably since the trackpad. Except this has much more potential. I just have to laugh at all the idiots bitching and moaning here on MR that either have zero experience or can't afford the new technology.

 

[Tensakun]

GOOD to hear about input language. Switch between US Eng and Japanese (hiragana input) every day; in Sierra Siri has screwed around with cmd+space (yeah, I know I can remap keys, haven't got around to it).

 

[SoyCapitanSoyCapitan]

That's exactly what will happen. Muscle memory will kick in for the most used apps, from that point shortcuts don't cut it anymore, they would be more complex for these operations/tasks to execute.

That's probably why Japanese users compares the new stuff to martial arts concepts

 

[motime]

I'm happy for you and any one who finds use of the touch bar. Thank you for making this thread and trying to help people with it. I prefer a touch screen but others will use the touch bar, and that's why capitalism and competition is great, choices.

Superficial choices. Ideally you could get a much nicer harmony between hardware/OS and price but it wouldn't be cost effective for the firm so we will never see such a product in the so called free market.

 

[Apple_Robert]

I agree with you.

Touchbar is pretty useless. A polished turd is still a turd.
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Apple employee or apologist ? both ? is that you Phil Shiller?

Just because you deem it useless, that doesn't mean everyone else does. If others like the OP find it useful, good for them.

If all you have to offer are insults, how about go start your own thread and be insulting to yourself.

 

[enzo thecat]

Just because you deem it useless, that doesn't mean everyone else does. If others like the OP find it useful, good for them.

If all you have to offer are insults, how about go start your own thread and be insulting to yourself.

Go to his profile page and look at all of his posts regarding the new MBPro

https://forums.macrumors.com/search/3430566/

Seems like he is ******** envy instead of polished turds. Probably upset his mommy told him she won't upgrade him for the 3rd MBp refresh in a row. Wait until she surprises him with one Christmas morning. You'll then see his posts about how this is the greatest thing since the first iPhone. 13yo.

 

[MartyCan]

I'm eagerly awaiting my 15" TB MBP and really looking forward to trying it out.

Is anyone aware if Parallels is going to extend support for the TB in a Windows OS? I have to use Windows for work so I do spend a lot of the day on my Windows apps.

Also wondering if Apple is going to make an external keyboard with a TB? My current set up I have an older 15" rMBP on a stand and run the Apple apps on the laptop screen while the Windows stuff occupies my 27" external display. I'd rather keep it up on the stand but typing would be awkward at best and I wouldn't be able to reach the TB. I am also a heavy Excel user (Win and Mac versions) so I need a numeric keypad. I have an external that I'll use for the time being but would really like a full external keyboard with TB and numeric all in one for when I am in the office.

 

[Macalway]

Yes.

This thread is for positive experience, as the OP requested. There are many reasons why someone may not like the new tech, but I think cost is on the top of the list, and therefore can be discounted as relevant here. Some of us are settled into this crap, so we want to discuss it without fighting off haters

Point is: Positive experience thread.

 

[monkeydax]

Yeah better than those complaining about people actually finding useful uses for the touch bar. don't get what they gain from it

 

[MarcBou]

Great post!

I'm having trouble with the screenshot shortcut on the touchbar. First time I used it alowed me to chose wich kind of screenshot wanted to take (full screen, selection, etc) I chose full screen, but now every time I do it, it makes me select the part of the screen I want to do the screenshot. Why it does this? if I selected full screen? And also I don't know how to change it, it doesn't allow me to choose anymore and I can't find the options anywhere.

HELP!