Apple doesn’t have a very long list of unpopular products or features, but whatever list of shame it may keep probably includes MacBook Pro’s Touch Bar. But not everyone hates the feature. The Python ...

Your MacBook Pro’s pricey Touch Bar is no longer useless when you’re running Windows 10. A third-party developer has gotten the tiny second screen to work under Microsoft’s operating system. You can ...

One of the Touch Bar's biggest draws was its scrollable emoji picker. I watched the event with the expectation Apple would upgrade the 13-inch Pro to the M3; they did not. It’s dead. The jubilation ...

Apple has killed the 13-inch M1 MacBook Pro that came with a Touch Bar. It was the last Apple laptop to sport the interactive OLED strip. With the discontinuation of the old MacBook Pro, it’s also the ...

The new 2021 Macbook Pros don’t have a Touch Bar. Amid news of the M1 Pro, M1 Max, and the return of glorious ports (HDMI! MagSafe! SD card!) Apple killed its last new (if misguided) vision for the ...

Naturally, Apple isn’t going to come forth to reveal all of its secrets. However, Irish programmer and developer Steven Troughton-Smith took a close look at the hardware and software to determine it’s ...

Every time a Windows update rolls around, it doesn’t take long for Reddit posts and articles to start popping up about the update breaking yet another feature. What we don’t see as often, however, is ...

When Apple released its first MacBook Pro with a Touch Bar back in 2016, many saw it as a window into the future. Never before had a touch display been integrated into a laptop keyboard, and there ...

The Apple Touch Bar was an oddity on a fairly small number of Apple laptops which replaced the function key row with a touch display. Yet what is special about this display other than its odd form ...

Today’s Apple Unleashed event brought with it several interesting announcements, including the release of the two new MacBook Pros. These notebooks are an upgrade over the existing versions of the ...

Commentary: Apple's Touch Bar was an expensive gimmick, and I hated it as much as the disastrous butterfly keyboard. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 and wrote about processors, ...