Were Touch Bar's problems software rather than hardware?

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undefined@lemmy.hogru.ch · 8 pts · 30d (5 replies)

I actually really loved the Touch Bar and am sad that newer Macs don’t have them.

cubism_pitta@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 30d (2 replies)

I think that touchbar was introduced on an unfortunate line of Mac’s.

The Intel Macs with Touch Bar sucked pretty hard.

M1 with Touch Bar is a nice machine that would’ve been better to introduce the feature on

eurodyne@piefed.world · 3 pts · 30d (1 reply)

Hmmm… possibly. My 2016 MacBook Pro was a real piece of shit. the only Apple product I ever owned that was just made badly. I mean— I had it for 10 years, but that fucker was broken 15 ways from Sunday. Keyboard, trackpad, battery, all non-functional within a year or two. The rest worked fine for a decade tho, until one day - poof! It just died. (technically, last October.)

I replaced it with a 16” MacBook Pro M4 Pro. I’m very happy with that.

Thank goodness for cloud backups

cubism_pitta@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 30d

That era was awful. I did like my fanless 2016 MacBook. However, I am a sucker for ambitious things. (Butterfly keyboard required keeping a can of air around)

my 2018 MBP was a pile of crap though

eurodyne@piefed.world · 4 pts · 30d (1 reply)

I absolutely adored mine. I had no idea why everyone had such a fucking problem with it.

undefined@lemmy.hogru.ch · 2 pts · 30d

I think people just need a reason to be upset sometimes.