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I use a MacBook Pro Retina 13" Early 2015, and it's amazing. I hope it lasts forever.

I've tried a friends new MBP and I can't stand the keyboard, or the dongles. When I sit at my work desk, I have 2x DisplayPorts to my monitors, a USB 3.0 hub, and often a USB thumb drive. Swapping to USB-C would be a pain.

My biggest gripe with Apple's current MBP line up is the insulting specs you get for the price. I can buy a 128GB SSD delivered for £24, I imagine at bulk wholesale Apple is barely paying £10 - yet that's what they put in their 'entry level' £1,250 13" MBP. Absolute madness.

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> When I sit at my work desk, I have 2x DisplayPorts to my monitors, a USB 3.0 hub, and often a USB thumb drive. Swapping to USB-C would be a pain.

So with your setup that’s four cables to reconnect each time I need to get up for a meeting, where as I have a single cable (that single cable provides power, USB, a 5K and a 4K display, and Ethernet in my setup). Yep, sounds less painful to me too!

I don't want the answer to everything to be "Buy a dongle". I have a similar setup at home to my work setup, almost identical - do I need another dongle/hub for home?

I also work from my parents house if I'm visiting, they have a monitor I use, and my girlfriends parents (again if we're visiting) has a dual screen setup in their office I can use.

Do I buy a Hub/dongle for each location? Do I carry one with me at all times? (Good job they made the laptop light as I'll now need 38kg of adapters).

Oh wait, I don't have any of these problems, I just take my 2015 MBP and it plugs in to whatever is there. Nice.

Also, let's not get started on the travesty that is the loss of MagSafe...

Because yeah, there ~aren’t any~ actually is tons of comparable USB-C cables with the same breakaway mechanism as MagSafe.

I’ve got the same machine and will be looking to upgrade the SSD shortly with a lovely nvme m.2 ssd thanks to an adapter. The thought of going from 128GB to 1TB for ~£280, plus the performance upgrade, almost certainly means I’ll be holding onto this one for a while. (Shame it’s only got 8gb of RAM...)

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