Retrofit Your MacBook Air 13.3 For Touchscreen Support With AirBar

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Apple famously refuses to make touchscreen support available in its MacBook family of clamshell notebooks. There is no indication that Apple is going to relent anytime soon, but you can now still have touchscreen support on your Mac notebook, provided it’s a 13-inch MacBook Air. If you prefer the macOS to Windows but wish Apple supported touch, the AirBar engineered and manufactured in Sweden by Neonode Inc., is an elegant workaround to Apple’s stubbornness for $99.00.

The AirBar is an add-on touchscreen sensor housed in a sleek bar that magnetically attaches to the bottom of the MacBook Air’s display and plugs in via USB to instantly activate single finger touch capabilities. A one time software installation brings multi-finger touch gestures such as sweep, zoom and rotate.

AirBar enables touch using any object — your finger, or with gloves or even a paintbrush. Note that this touchscreen sensor is only compatible with the 13.3″ MacBook Air and will not work on MacBook, MacBook Pro or 11-inch MacBook Air because none of those models has sufficient bezel depth to physically accommodate the AirBar, which requires 17 mm of space below the display.

For more information, visit:
https://www.air.bar/mac

Demo video:
https://youtu.be/d-4fFaWLnlQ

AirBar is available at Amazon.com
https://www.amazon.com/AirBar-NNABC2950XU51-Touchscreen-MacBook-Notebook/dp/B072PCZZJZ

Sources: Neonode Inc., Amazon.com

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