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Given that the MacBook Pro 15 Retina I use is an early 2013 model, making it four years old, I'll need to upgrade soon. The differences between the old 15 and the new one are measurable, but they don't change the overall usage pattern. The heft and size changes Apple made to the 13 put it into a lighter weight class. If you're not sure what I'm driving at, maybe boxing is a good analogy. The 13 has something the 15 (and the previous generation 13) doesn't have: total portability. I'm not talking about the specifications I'm talking about what it feels like to use these laptops in the real world. (And you thought I was a hater.) The form factor changes have a greater effect in the 13 than they do in the 15. There's more to the new MacBook Pro than the Touch Bar. I bought my daughter a space gray MacBook Pro 13 for Christmas. And Microsoft's support? Has anyone heard a timeline on that? By the time the Touch Bar gets real, Apple might be on to a full-size touchscreen. The list of supporting apps consists mostly of niche players with the exception of Microsoft Office. #NEW MACBOOK PRO TOUCH BAR DEMO SOFTWARE#What's more, even if Touch Bar might someday be useful, that won't be for another couple of years when mainstream software supports it. Touch Bar is a red herring, a pink unicorn, eye candy designed to cast a "these aren't the droids you're looking for" spell on anyone who looks too closely at the new line up of MacBook Pros. Apple needed something new and different and - poof! - the Touch Bar was born. Before you knew it, the company was releasing sixth-generation Skylake laptops into the rollout of Intel's seventh-generation Kaby Lake processors. Touch Bar Demo App is published under the MIT License.So Apple let the new MacBook Pro release slip and then it let it slip some more. Thanks to Bas van der Ploeg for testing and shooting a sample video. Thanks to Rasmus Andersson for peertalk, which is used to communicate between the macOS and iOS apps through USB connection. Thanks to Aleksei Mazelyuk for his Touch bar for VK Messenger, which was an inspiration for the app icon. #NEW MACBOOK PRO TOUCH BAR DEMO CODE#Andreas Verhoeven, Robbert Klarenbeek, to Alex Zielenski for StartAtLoginController, which ties together the ServiceManagement stuff without even a single line of code (gotta love KVO).See these sideloading instructions to set this up. To get the app installed on your iOS device, it needs to be properly signed. To build the iOS app, open TouchBar.xcodeproj, connect your iOS device and select the TouchBarClient target and your device, like show here: Press the Fn-key to toggle the Touch Bar on and off. To run the Touch Bar on your Mac, put the app into your Applications folder and open it. TouchBarServer.zip to run the Touch Bar on your Mac.You can check which build you have by clicking the version number in About This Mac: ![]() 10.12.1 build 16B2555 does not have Touch Bar support, so it WILL NOT WORK! ⚠️ Just having 10.12.1 is not enough, you need the right build number. ![]() Make sure you have macOS Sierra 10.12.1 build 16B2657 installed, which adds support for the Touch Bar to macOS.With this demo app, you can try out the Touch Bar on any Mac that does not have a physical Touch Bar.Ĭheck out this video to see it in action. ![]() It shows the original Apple Touch Bar, which changes dynamically based on the app you're currently using. Touch Bar Demo App allows you to use your macOS Touch Bar from an iPad (through USB connection) or on-screen by pressing the Fn-key. ![]()
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