MacBook Touch Bar

Users debate the merits and drawbacks of Apple's MacBook Touch Bar, particularly its replacement of physical function and escape keys, lack of tactile feedback, and overall usefulness.

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THIS IMHO ON MacBook NO ESC OS TouchBar ADD UI touchbar bar touch keys key function keyboard escape esc tactile

Sample Comments

fanf2 Mar 27, 2019 View on HN

The touch bar is not a selling point. I like my escape key!

nt2h9uh238h Jan 17, 2021 View on HN

Touch bar is great, but should be an ADD-ON above the function keys, not replacing them.

JakeWesorick Aug 3, 2017 View on HN

Mac Touch Bar is useless. Does anyone actually use it? Would you rather have the touch bar or your escape key back?

runjake Jun 7, 2022 View on HN

You're not missing anything and you don't have this crappy Touch Bar instead of useful function keys. Count yourself lucky.

mpg33 Oct 28, 2016 View on HN

Touch Bar is cool but it seems like a solution in search of a problem..

sroussey Mar 21, 2025 View on HN

I love the Touch Bar. Should have been above the function keys

hardmaru Apr 5, 2018 View on HN

I want something like this on my MacBook and not the stupid touch bar.

zenir_ Jul 22, 2018 View on HN

Sounds like finally a good usage for the mac touchbar

endless90 Jan 2, 2020 View on HN

How can people work without function keys? I use them all the time for debugging. I would hate it to have a touch bar.

exabrial Jul 15, 2019 View on HN

The author implies that missing a touch bar was _a bad thing_... What?