About macbook pro with touch bar

[Juan Pablo Culasso Alonso]

Hello all, my macbook pro died and I am thinking replacing the machine with a new one. Anyone uses the macbook pro with the touch bar? How you manage this. Is usable or for faster tasks you plug an external keyboard?
Thanks,
JP

[John Covici]

I use an external keyboard, and I think they have abolished the
touchbar in the latest Macbooks. Mine is several years old and has
it, but its not of that much use.

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[Ignasi Cambra]

I personally don’t like the touch bar. Don’t take me wrong, it’s perfectly usable and it works well with VoiceOver, but in my case I found that I never used it, and when I did it was mostly as function keys. If I were you I would probably wait for a few months and get the next Macbook Pro model, which is likely to bring the standard keyboard back, without the touch bar. Physical function keys are important for me when using PT, and as much as I do like using an external extended keyboard when working at home, I also want to be able to work comfortably on the laptop itself.

Hope that helps,

Ignasi

[Ignasi Cambra]

No, the latest M1 Macbook Pro still comes with a touch bar, but it seems like it will be the last one.

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[Steve Martin]

For Voiceover and things like Volume control you don’t have to use the Touch Bar. You can do VO+FN and the number 2 for example instead of VO F2. Also VO plus and minus will turn the volume up and down. For non VO things you will have to use the Touch Bar Function keys though, Also to turn VO on/Off you can do Command and triple press the power button.