Apple’s new Touch Bar looks like the most exciting new feature we’ve seen on the MacBook Pro in years. Instead of fumbling to remember shortcuts, Touch Bar puts a handful of commands at your ...

Does your MacBook Pro have an OLED Touch Bar along the top of the keyboard? Keep reading to learn how to customize it to your advantage. This article assumes your Mac is running macOS Ventura or later ...

Your MacBook Pro’s pricey Touch Bar is no longer useless when you’re running Windows 10. A third-party developer has gotten the tiny second screen to work under Microsoft’s operating system. You can ...

It was such a bold change to a keyboard that Apple championed the Touch Bar — for a while. Then it quickly started to fade away before vanishing completely. Here's what happened, and why. Stop us if ...

If you use a Mac equipped with Touch Bar, Touch ID or a T2 chip, you are already using an Apple-made co-processor. The Touch Bar (at least in its first incarnation) uses the same S2 processor tucked ...

When Apple released its first MacBook Pro with a Touch Bar back in 2016, many saw it as a window into the future. Never before had a touch display been integrated into a laptop keyboard, and there ...

I know what you’re thinking. For the past five years, we’ve questioned, lambasted, and otherwise reviled the MacBook Pro’s Touch Bar. And now that it’s gone for—checks notes—a little over a week, we ...

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, ...