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The 2015 Mabook
Do you remember when Apple made awesome laptops? If you do that stopped in 2015 with the last great Macbook Pro.
Now I’ve owned a few Mac laptops. Starting with the white plastic Macbook Pro, the was a beautiful thing. I then moved up in 2011 to my first Macbook Air. That was far and away the best laptop I have ever owned. It was the 11-inch model which was perfect for me, someone who was always on the go. I still have it actually, my wife is using it as her transition from Windows to Mac OS and as a light user it serves her well and still holds its own.
The Mac I’m writing this on is pretty new but it’s not the new generation of Macbook Pro’s with Touch Bar. It’s the 2015 Macbook Pro. I had the chance of owning the newest and fastest for work but I refused. I reject the Touch Bar, it’s a gimmick. This Mac has ports, and yes as a progressive nerd I still need these and I refuse to live the dongle life. Give me proper USB ports, dual Thunderbolt ports, an HDMI slot and for good measure an goddamn SD card reader, I hardly ever use it but it’s bloody handy when I do.
So what was Apple thinking? I thought I was alone in this way of thinking but I visited our technicians basement the other day at work and the consensus even though budgets are basically unlimited people are still opting for a nearly three old laptop. And why not? This model of mine has a 2.9 GHz Intel Core i5, 16GB of RAM, Intel Iris Graphics 6100 1536 MB and an 500GB SSD. It’s plenty good.
We don’t need gimmicks. Plus it has the proper Macbook keyboard. The world has not moved on enough that we need anything more than what I’m running right now. Why f*** with that. Why take away the ports that a pro needs? And don’t even get me started about the removal of the function key row.
I hope that with my history with Mac laptops that this is not the last great laptop computer that Apple make but I fear it may well be.
What do you think? What is your fave Mac laptop? If you say the 12-inch Powerbook then we can be friends. I look forward to hearing from you.
Author
Paul Wright