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Lenovo tried the Touch Bar approach on the 2nd gen Thinkpad X1, and ended up getting rid of it in the 3rd gen (2015) version. Maybe Apple will follow suit?


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QgkB6T6LrhQ

Wow so this isn't even 'new' on the Macbook... I had no idea the gen 2 carbon did this...


And Art Lebedev also introduced an Optimus Maximus keyboard, where each individual key has a tiny display -- yet every key is still a physical key -- back in like 2008 at CES -- 12 years ago -- with smaller prototypes and announcements for several years prior to that (they've even got vapourware awards because production has initially been delayed after a lot of initial attention -- it's finally hit the shelves in 2008).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IJ5rX6WpxTk

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Optimus_Maximus_keyboard

https://www.artlebedev.com/optimus/maximus/

They were pretty expensive, and looks like they've all been sold-out and are no longer manufactured.


Touchbar is the most stupid and user hostile feature on MBP (getting rid of replaceable battery being the most hostile).


What about foregoing all the useful ports on the MacBooks, because USB-C is the future, and yet then 5 years later still not being able to use the same headset on both the MacBook and the iPhone?

(Because your USB-C headset can't be used on an iPhone, and iPhone doesn't have a headphone jack that MacBook still has, either -- so much for sacrificing the regular USB ports so that we can all quickly switch to USB-C!)

P.S. Yes, I can use the same headset on MacBook and Android -- either the headphone jack or USB-C work great on both.




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