The Touch Bar arrives on the MacBook Pro with two objectives in mind: the not-very-lofty immediate goal of improving upon the function keys (how hard can that be?), and the more interesting goal of introducing a brand-new way of interacting with the Mac. This is Apple’s vision of a touchscreen Mac It’s an addition that very much can improve every MacBook - but it’s going to take some time to get there, if it ever does. But in many others, it’s overly complicated or just plain unnecessary. In some cases, the Touch Bar’s usefulness is obvious and immediate. I've been using the new MacBook Pro with Touch Bar for more than a week now, and I have mixed feelings about what it brings to the MacBook experience. It adds touchscreen buttons and ever-changing digital controls to the familiar set of physical keys, and it has the potential to remake the keyboard in a way we've never seen before. The MacBook Pro with Touch Bar is the first major laptop that tries to replicate that dream - not with individually reprogrammable keys, but with a thin touchscreen strip that can do even more. Still, the idea was promising, and it seemed destined to make it into our keyboards eventually. The keyboard eventually shipped, and some other incarnations followed, but they never did make a dent in the real world - they were too expensive, too niche. It was called the Optimus, and it was the most interesting keyboard you'd ever seen: a standard QWERTY design, but with a screen on every key that could change in an instant, giving each app its own perfect layout. A little over a decade ago, a Russian design studio unveiled a concept keyboard that, as much as any gadget ever can, rocked the tech blogging world.
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