Touch bar
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A touch strip or touch bar is a touch-sensitive row of soft keys, media keys and/or other controls above, below or in-place-of a row of physical function keys.
The role of the keys and controls are often indicated through lights, with different colours and/or under different symbols or a full-fledged touch screen.
Examples
- HP QuickPlay
- One of the earliest touch strips were touch controls above the function key row on mid/late-00's HP laptops, backlit by blue LEDs.
- They included e.g. media keys, a volume bar and sometimes bass/treble bars, sometimes branded with HP's QuickPlay brand and tied to software with that name.
- ThinkPad X1 Carbon 2nd-gen
- The 2014 ThinkPad X1 Carbon keyboard used an "adaptive" touch-strip with a black-and-white LCD screen instead of the function key row. The Fn key was on the touch-strip and could be used to cycle between different sets of keys.
- Rapoo KX
- The Rapoo KX has a fixed set of symbols for function keys and media keys that are always lit by a set of bi-colour LEDs. The LEDs change colour when the Fn key is pressed, indicating the different set of functions.
- Apple 2016 MacBook Pro
- Some MacBook Pro models, released in fall of 2016 contains a Touch Bar instead of a function key row. It has a touch-sensitive OLED colour screen under application control. The Esc key is moved into this bar and it also has the power button with integrated fingerprint reader.[1]
See also
- Optimus Maximus and Optimus Popularis are keyboards with physical keys where every key has a colour screen. Optimus Popularis also has a display bar in-between the function key row and numeric row.
References
- ↑ Ars Technica - Apple introduces brand-new 13- and 15-inch MacBook Pros for $1,799 and $2,399. Dated 2016-10-27. Retrieved 2016-10-27