I have a touchpad on my Macbook Air, and I hate it. It causes me to hold my hands in an awkward elevated position when typing just to make sure I don't brush across it.
On Windows 10 the touchpad can be turned off, but not on Mac. Very, very annoying. Best, Janina Brandon Olivares writes: > Honestly I enjoy the TouchBar. I don’t use it a lot but I do find it helpful > occasionally. > > Just a tip, if it stops responding, restarting VoiceOver can sometimes help, > or switching out of and back into the application you’re in. > > Also, I thought I heard Touch Bar is being discontinued, so you may not have > to deal with it for long. > > Brandon > > “Better to reign in Hell, than serve in Heaven” – Satan, from Milton’s > Paradise Lost > > > > > On Feb 3, 2021, at 8:04 PM, Yuma Decaux <jamy...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > Hi everyone, > > > > After a few months of my macbook 16 inch in heavy rotation, I have to be > > frank with the touch bar. It's an utterly useless, cluttery, annoying piece > > of tech which has no place where it sits. Everything else is world class, > > as expected from Apple. I just don't know why they tried squeezing this > > useless touchscreen, with my 2 cents on why below: > > > > 1-It's not reactive at all. Sometimes, it does not react or speak anything > > nno matter what I do. To solve this, sometimes I just keep moving my finger > > across left to right until hopefully something occurs. By that time, it > > really doesn't matter whether a touchbar is there or not. > > 2-It always gets in the way when I type. Keeps announcing f12 as my finger > > barely even brushes (or does my finger brush that area?). Just like cabs, > > the touch screen is never there when needed, always there when not. > > 3-The haptic part, obviously, is pretty much a foregone design flaw for > > blind users like myself. > > > > The reason I did not upgrade from an older macbook was because of the > > keyboards they had for a while, and the touchbar. Once my macbook was > > pretty much beyond retirement, my only choice was to have the greatest of > > the portable. I feel a bit cheated here, particularly knowing that the > > intel chip inside might actually not have the capacity to wake the touchbar > > up in a reactive way. > > > > That's it, now I'm happy to get back to work. > > > > Yuma > > > > > > -- > > The following information is important for all members of the Mac > > Visionaries list. > > > > If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if > > you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners > > or moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. > > > > Your Mac Visionaries list moderator is Mark Taylor. 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