Apple's MacBook Pro with Touch Bar is simply superb

In the long history of Apple MacBooks, there is finally a touchscreen. That fact may or may not sit well with the ghost of Steve Jobs, Apple's founder and late CEO who once said it’s “ergonomically terrible” to touch a laptop screen.

The redesigned 13-inch MacBook Pro is, of course, not a traditional touchscreen device. The big, brilliant 2,560 x 1,600 Retina display is not gesture or touch-ready. Instead, there’s a strip of touchscreen technology below it, on the keyboard.

The OLED-based Touch Bar replaces the traditional row of function keys, a fact that may disturb some users, but only if they're somehow trying to convince themselves that they still use function keys. To be fair, there are other important features in that row that now share real estate with a smorgasbord of ever-changing Touch Bar options. Read more...