For the vast majority of users, a proper function row is far more useful than a software-based Touch Bar that failed to catch on with developers a bevy of easily accessible ports make life easier for Pros and average Joes alike, and MagSafe is faster to connect than a USB-C cable and can prevent your laptop from being damaged when someone trips on the power cord.Īll three features feel like the right callīut it’s hard to ignore the broader context of these improvements, which is that they effectively bring the company’s 2021 MacBook Pros back in line with the features they were already offering from 2012 to early 2016. MagSafe, the convenient magnetic charging connector, is also returning to laptops after Apple stopped including it in 2016.Īlthough it’s obviously backtracking, I think Apple is absolutely making the right call with all three of these changes. Apple Mac product line manager Shruti Haldea introduces the new MacBook Pro - including a physical function row! Screenshot: Apple “ Having a wide range of ports can make life a lot easier for pros,” Haldea continued, concisely summarizing what professional users have been saying for roughly half a decade.
“Users value the full-height function row on the standalone Magic Keyboard, and we’ve brought it to the MacBook Pro,” Apple’s Shruti Haldea said as she explained the decision to ditch the Touch Bar, the touchscreen OLED strip Apple so enthusiastically introduced five years ago.
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