And having ready access to Touch ID on your keyboard is a genuine boon. In practice, it’s at least unlikely to make your daily MacBook Pro experience worse. But it might come as a disappointment, especially for those who have dismissed the Touch Bar as a gimmick. Apple MacBook Pro with Touch Bar - 16' - Core i9 8 Core - 2.4GHz - 32 GB RAM - 5152GB SSD - 2019 - Space Grey - Silver Grade Refurbished - 12 Months Warranty Apple MacBook Pro with Touch Bar - Core i9 8 Core 2. This shouldn’t come as much of a surprise it didn’t make sense for Apple to have such a glaring feature imbalance in its MBP line. That or get shopping in the refurb aisle. No longer! Apple has now outfitted its least expensive MacBook Pro with a Touch Bar and Touch ID, meaning MBP buyers henceforth must resign themselves to a thin OLED strip at the top row of their keyboards.

Its status as a holdout earned it an unofficial nickname: MacBook Escape, after the key that the Touch Bar had banished.

But until now, the entry-level, 13-inch MBP retained physical function keys. The Touch Bar, first introduced in 2016, had already subsumed most of the MacBook Pro line. It involves shuffles and spec bumps big and small, but mostly: If you need a MacBook Pro, hope you like the Touch Bar. That applies also to Apple’s laptop line, which on Tuesday got a midsummer refresh.

The summer is a time for rejuvenation, don’t you think? A time to reflect on what’s important and what can be let go.

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