5/30/2023 0 Comments Review pcalc osx![]() In the meantime, there’s TouchSwitcher and BetterTouchTool. Now that Touch Bar is on every single MacBook model, perhaps Apple will open the Touch Bar up a bit more, encourage more creative experimentation by developers by relaxing limitations on what is allowed on that bit of real estate. Not terrible, but there’s just so much potential here. Tapping a difficult to spell word or emoji as I’m typing.There are a few use cases where I’m glad to have it: I don’t see the MacBook Touch Bar as terrible, but I do see it as unfulfilled promise. Someone complained that the only time they used the Touch Bar was when they activated the Siri touch button by accident several times a day. Apple, in their eyes, was going all in on the little touch-sensitive OLED strip above the number pad, and it was a travesty. Old school music video with the Mac as the star Posted on Wednesday, July 24th, 2019 at 7:23 am.Īround the Gizmodo office, my colleagues groaned when news broke that following a refresh of its laptop line, there would no longer be a standard MacBook Pro without a Touch Bar. If you have a MacBook Air or MacBook Pro with a T2 chip and you close the lid, the T2 chip switches off the microphone. There’s one more security feature the T2 chip brings that doesn’t get appreciated because it doesn’t tend to get noticed. This makes sure the data on your storage drives is encrypted and because it’s done in hardware, there’s no hit to the speed of your Mac as macOS reads and writes data. The T2 chip provides a secure boot, which means that the only things that can run at start up is trusted, approved macOS software.īuilt into it is a dedicated Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) hardware engine. It sits there to ensure, first of all, that nothing can ever get loaded onto your machine without you explicitly wanting it to. ![]() Only, it’s more than nice, it’s more than a way to invisibly secure your Mac, it is a process that has a dramatic and visible effect on just about everything you do. If you spent any time looking into which Mac desktop or notebook to buy before you paid out for a shiny new machine, you’ll have seen Apple’s website extolling the fact that many of them have T2 security chips.
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |