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MacBook Pros with touch bars are not welcome on the bar exam in a couple of states the new macbook pro with touch bar was supposed to be apples vision of the future why do you need dedicated function keys if you can replace it with a touch panel that can show you anything well that's causing some issues for test takers the New York State Board of law examiner's has banned the macbook pro with touch bar for the februari 2017 uniform bar examination the bar exam is the exam that determines whether or not a person can practice law in a particular sticked the New York Board of law examiner says if a test taker installed the exam software on a macbook pro with touch bar that it must be reinstalled on a different computer should a person bring that kind of macbook pro to the exam the computer will be removed then the test taker will have to do the exam the old-fashioned way writing answers by hand like I did North Carolina's board of law examiner's is a little less strict than New York North Carolina says touch bars must be disabled before entering the bar exam in the state exam Proctor's will make the announcement asking who's using a macbook pro a touch bar then that computer will be checked to make sure the touch panel is disabled so why is this happening exam soft the makers of the exam software used for these bar exams says the issue is with predictive text the touch bar operates like a keyboard on your phone as you type it will suggest words on the touch bar that seems like a problem for such an exam so in short several Board of Examiners bar touch bars on bar exams you got that for more information check out cnet com amaya's actor I'll see you online