So yes, I'm delighted that Apple ditched the Touch Bar in the new MacBook Pro 16-inch and 14-inch laptops with upgraded Apple silicon, which it announced at an October product event where it also unveiled the AirPods 3 and new HomePod Mini colors. When Apple announced it, then-design leader Jony Ive told CNET the Touch Bar is 'the beginning of a very interesting direction.' Now it's the merciful end. It's an overengineered doodad that caused problems I never had with keyboards, and it offered features I never used. It was a chance to try something new.Īlas, after months of daily use, I concluded that for me, the Touch Bar is far worse than the function keys it replaced. The narrow touch-sensitive display along the top of the keyboard certainly offered a surprising new user interface option. Each system does some things better it’s really a matter of what features are important to you and what you’re going to use the computer for.When Apple debuted the Touch Bar on its new MacBook Pro laptops five years ago, I was willing to give the technology giant the benefit of the doubt. The Mac vs PC debate will continue as long as they are the two major choices for hardware and operating systems. Read more about Mac computers and gaming. It’s certainly possible to run games on a Mac, but PCs are generally considered better for hard-core gaming. With the number of different systems and the number of users, PCs have better backwards compatibility, that is, you can run older versions of software or operating systems on new hardware. If a particular kind of port is important to you, you can find just the right system with that port. In the hardware area, PCs also have an advantage of offering more connection ports and types of ports on any one system and the ability to select a system based on the number and type connections. Find out more about upgrading memory and storage drives.

This enables PC users to build a custom machine, or upgrade an existing machine quickly and easily.

A PC user can select from many motherboards, processors, storage drives, video cards, graphics cards, audio cards, and memory.

PCs are more easily upgraded and have more options for different components. A Mac, if it’s upgradeable, can upgrade only memory and the storage drive.

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