“Hate to say I told you so...”
Whatever you or the author have to say has little to do with whether or not Apple laptops do well. They remain extremely popular with developers and creative types for a variety of reasons. Many folk also think that Thinkpad quality is nowhere near what it used to be these days.
The nitpicking around only having USB-C ports is silly. Apple is leading the way as usual, and there are compact all-in-one solutions that provide all the legacy ports you could want with very little hassle. Docks as well.
Editing 4K video on a 15” or less screen is also a straw man argument. Any serious work will be done on a much larger display...which is easily done with a MacBook Pro and an external monitor.
I personally think Apple took a wrong turn with the Touchbar, which it’ll likely address soon enough. Apple could also use a higher end “Pro” laptop with 32 GB of ECC RAM and a Xeon processor. All that said, though, Apple gets an awful lot of things right...
By the way, I’ve come to prefer the short-throw keyboards, they definitely reduce typing fatigue - and they’re quiet.
Hillary got a lot of Vote’s too. Doesn’t mean her time wasn’t past.
The fact they came in 7th was the interesting part.
The problem is, unless you went out and bought a USBc Monitory you can’t even connect an external monitor to a new Macbook pro without a dongle...... STUPID.
Calling the new macbook pros “PRO” is a joke.
As a professional developer, I can tell you, until Apple undoes some of its stupid decisions with its newer Macbooks, I won’t be upgrading from my 2014 model.
Tried them and find them a complete joke. Faster processors obviously, but the other things they did to them make them far more net negative for me personally.