Compare These. The Good The inventive Touch Bar streamlines work and saves clicks, and Apple has improved almost every part of the thinner, lighter MacBook Pro, including a larger touchpad, faster components and a flatter keyboard. iPhone's Touch ID is handy on the Mac, too.
Part of the Personal computing glossary: In the Apple OS X operating system , the dock is a user-modifiable row of function or application icon s that appear on the computer desktop so that the user can find and select any of them quickly.
dock1. 1  a landing pier. 2  the space or waterway between two piers or wharves, as for receiving a ship while in port. 3  such a waterway, enclosed or open, together with the surrounding piers, wharves, etc. 4  dry dock. 5  a platform for loading and unloading trucks, railway freight cars, etc. 6  an airplane hangar or repair shed.