John Siracusa

If you want touch ID, you have to check the only option you have aside from color, which we'll get to in a little bit, which is 512 gig SSD.

So if you get the base model 256 gig SSD, no touch ID.

And as Apple says, lock and wake your screen and power your laptop on and off with the lock key.

You know where the Touch ID key is on the keyboard?

Now there's just a regular key there with a lock on it.

And as many people pointed out, if you're buying these for schools, for example, Touch ID is pointless in schools for the most part, unless it's a one-to-one program.

And even then, I don't think the kids are going to register their fingerprints or whatever.

So it is not unreasonable to lock Touch ID.

As someone who's sitting in front of a computer right now that does not have Touch ID, I tell you it is possible to use a Mac without Touch ID.

It does work.

Well, you know, anyway, for, if you want the basis of base models, the two 56 gig version, uh, of, of this MacBook Neo, you do not get touch ID.

Why?

Cause it saves money.

Uh, the track pad, it is not a haptic track pad.

The track pad actually moves.

So we're going back in time.

Uh,

you can still supposedly, according to Apple, click anywhere on its surface.

I'm not sure how that works.

I've seen video of people pressing it.