![]() And I definitely don’t need to spend another $300 on a laptop where my most commonly used program is TextEdit. ![]() I also don’t need the extra processor horsepower on the MacBook Pro Touch Bar version or its two bonus Thunderbolt/USB-C ports. For everything I do, I don’t need the Touch Bar. The Touch Bar is exactly one such offering, and it’s held at a carrot stick’s distance away from a justifiable purchase. Apple - an arbiter of plush pragmatism, in most cases - doesn’t always tap into the lusty side of our tech-souls, but more recently they’ve dabbled (hello, Hermés Watch). Lust, we call it, and it’s our most bedeviling vice. There are times you know you don’t need something but you want it anyway. ![]() Three staffers at Gear Patrol - an editor, photographer and tech writer - tested the new 15-inch MacBook Pro, for a week each, to see if they Touch Bar was a good fit for them. Plus the Touch Bar is only compatible with a select number apps - and Chrome isn’t one of them. The 10 hours of web browsing and movie playback isn’t great (and, in some cases, not true). It adds an extra $300 to an already expensive machine. Apple’s new MacBook Pro line - announced in October 2016 - introduced the world to the Touch Bar, and despite the initial ooh‘s and aah‘s, the tech world seems polarized on whether such a thing is actually worth it. A new, glimmering multi-touch OLED display is in.
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