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Re: Hacker News News Feed for the Mac Touch Bar

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3d touchpads have revolutionized the way I curse audibly a few times over the same period

3D? Like the space mouse, or like Kinect? Or are you referring to some other dimension? I think you can disable the touch pad on most laptops and just use an external if you're just getting spurious inputs from your wrists. The Thinkpad Trackpoint is still one of the best mobile pointing devices available.

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Re: Hacker News News Feed for the Mac Touch Bar

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The best I can say about the Touch Bar is that I'm able to customize what the function keys can do in whatever placement I want. Overall its OK, but I don't use it the way Apple intended. I do wish the ESC was a hardware key. http://imgur.com/a/no8MQ

I remapped my Caps to Esc, and recommend doing the same; as a vim user it's great.

Re: Hacker News News Feed for the Mac Touch Bar

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The best I can say about the Touch Bar is that I'm able to customize what the function keys can do in whatever placement I want. Overall its OK, but I don't use it the way Apple intended. I do wish the ESC was a hardware key. http://imgur.com/a/no8MQ

Map your Caps Lock button to ESC

Re: Hacker News News Feed for the Mac Touch Bar

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The keyboard is... different. I would recommend anyone try it out at an Apple store before buying, absolutely. I actually love it.

Same. I've been loving it as well. I've had the 15" MBP since December, and it took a week or two to get used to the keyboard, but once it happened, I haven't looked back. It was weird at first, but now I rarely even think about it anymore.

I've grown to prefer it as well. Except the noise.

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I'm using a machine with a touch bar right now and I have an escape key in the upper-left corner of the touch bar where it always was. I don't understand this complaint.

Unfortunately it's not quite where it was though. It's about one key's width in from the left. Presumably for the sheer sake of symmetry with the touch sensor the other end.

The touchable area is actually bigger than it appears. It does in fact extend much farther left. Try it.

This is probably for aesthetics as you mention.

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Anyone who has the new model w/ Touch Bar can comment on the usefulness of it, now that it's been out for a while? Do you ever used it / still use it daily?

Not really the touch bar, but Touch ID + 1Password is really nice!

Since they added the unlock with Watch feature, 1Password is the only thing I use Touch ID for (other than the occasional install prompt that requires admin access). (https://github.com/mattrajca/sudo-touchid looks interesting however)

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3d touchpads have revolutionized the way I curse audibly a few times over the same period

3D? Like the space mouse, or like Kinect? Or are you referring to some other dimension? I think you can disable the touch pad on most laptops and just use an external if you're just getting spurious inputs from your wrists. The Thinkpad Trackpoint is still one of the best mobile pointing devices available.

The Mac trackpads are indeed 3d. They can sense two dimensions of touch like normal, plus how hard you're pushing them. It's really great - it lets you set how firm you like your click in software, and gives you an additional type of click.
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