At some point soon, Apple will ditch the MacBook Pro’s Touch Bar. But I have a simple request: rather than dispensing of it entirely, Apple should instead replace it with something I’ve brilliantly ...

Apple revealed a lot of new products and features at the ‘It’s Glowtime’ event earlier this week, but the best moment of all? For me, it was when Apple showed off the Camera Control, a new ...

The Touch Bar was a MacBook Pro feature that added touch-based controls to Mac apps and system controls. It relied on an OLED panel covered by a thin glass digitizer that enabled users to tap and ...

Apple could add Force Touch sensors to the OLED Touch Bar on a future MacBook Pro if a new patent application by the company ever comes to fruition. The original Apple Watch was the first device to ...

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 ...

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, ...

When I decided to buy a four-year-old MacBook Pro rather than a new one, one of the things I deliberately gave up on was the Touch Bar. Apple’s OLED control strip has been divisive to say the least, ...

First introduced in 2016, the controversial Touch Bar may be on its way out this year, with reputable Apple sources Ming-Chi Kuo and Mark Gurman indicating that Apple plans to remove the feature on ...

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 ...

While we’re waiting for new redesigned MacBooks next year, a new patent application was published by the US Patent & Trademark Office today revealing a new version of the Touch Bar that looks exactly ...

The Touch Bar returns to the 13-inch Apple MacBook Pro...if it ever went away. Why, when the 14- and 16-inch models have ditched it? From the laptops on your desk to satellites in space and AI that ...

The arrival of Macs running Apple silicon isn’t just about faster, more power efficient processors. It’s also an opportunity for Apple to reinvent Mac hardware using lessons learned from the iPhone ...