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Since I rarely look down at the keyboard, I would have those visual notifications up on the screen anyway.

And as TouchBar is a per app custom display, you'd have to look down at your keyboard to see the current status... of anything.



The Touch Bar is only on their notebooks, "looking down" is like a half inch away from the screen you're already looking at.


...which is looking down at the keyboard.

It’s half an inch away from the bottom edge of the screen, but a considerably longer distance away from the things a person usually looks at when working.




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