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Post by MiddleEndian » Sat, Aug 05, 2017, 1:07 AM UTC

nikanj wrote: post #137

I'm on the market for a new laptop. Not a fan of the touchbar, and Surface only goes to 512gb. And turns out those two are the only professional-ish laptops you can actually see in stores. At least here in Vancouver, the only things stocked at Best Buy etc are Mega Gigatron Gaming Ultra XXXL-sized laptops, underpowered $299 laptops for your mom, and super svelte Macbook Air copies. I know for a fact there's product l…

Post by rahkiin » Tue, Aug 08, 2017, 9:39 AM UTC

mmjaa wrote: post #136

oulu2006 wrote: post #120

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Wow! I've had this laptop also for about 6 months and never knew you could do that!

To me, this is a GUI anti-pattern. Why do we have to go to Finder to customise the Touchbar? I looked for this option in System Preferences for days before I stumbled across this .. and then to have to hold down the magic Option key. Honestly, these sorts of anti-patterns are what makes me think Apple has seriously lost the plot.