I hate to say this about apple but I’m not going to give someone a pass where
it’s not deserved either. I’ve been using a 2016 latest model laptop with the
touch bar and finger print censor now for several weeks and I need to say, I
hate it. That’s something I thought I wouldn’t say but the fact is I do.
Reasons are as follows.
The touch bar triggers when your fingers are on the row of physical
keys below. The finger print censor also triggers Siri and also fires when you
touch the keys below. You also end up starting Siri when you want to start or
stop voice over.
The light bar doesn’t work the same in virtual machines as it does on
the Mac proper.
The ports are a joke. Everything is USB-C which renders all my
previous adapters and connectors useless. The power cable now uses USB-C
instead of mag safe (which I like better). The lightning ports on all the
phones and other devices feel just like USB-C with a slight size difference so
I’m for ever using the wrong cable on the wrong port. All your included cables
with your devices are USB 3.0 the older standard and don’t fit in the USB-C
port, you can get adapters but they aren’t included.
While I like the lightning port for headphones now instead of 3.5 MM
jack, the new laptop doesn’t include a lightning port so you have to use
different headphones.
The things I do like are the battery life is very good, it’s very fast
and the new processors do very well running virtual images. But it’s just not
fun to use. My mid 2015 model is so much more enjoyable to type on and all my
cables work. Apple your laptops this year are a miss in my opinion. I won’t
go back to windows but I bet I could be convinced to try chrome books or
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