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I'd be interested in MBP sales figures from the batch of MacBooks with the new keyboard/touch bar.

From my perspective, despite a whole host of issues, very few people seem to have actually moved away from Mac's. I hear a lot of grumbling, but you only need to look at this thread to see people claim that the MBP is the best professional-grade laptop available today, when the issues with the OS, the keyboard, and the touch bar indicate that this hasn't been the case for years.

I assumed that for this reason Apple would have stuck with their design choice, and would iterate over time - unless there has been a significant enough drop in sales.

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There's been room in the budget for me to upgrade my work MBP for about 6 months. I haven't considered it. I've got the old keyboard and I've seen what my coworkers have to deal with.

I've also convinced my wife to wait on replacing her decade-old MacBook.

Hmm, that's probably also a big part of it. A good professional-grade laptop can last for years. I've had my 1st gen Surface Book for about three years now and it's as fast as the day I bought it. Unless something breaks, I have zero reason to upgrade to anything different.

I'm in the same boat as you at work. I've got an older MBP, and despite a dent in the screen and some trackpad issues I would rather stay with this model than upgrade to a newer, inferior one.

I've moved from a MacBook Pro to a Lenovo IdeaPad running Linux Mint and have not looked back. While it was more for cost reasons than any dissatisfaction with Mac features, I haven't really missed anything from the Mac at all.

I stick with it because, in only my very subjective and personal view, there's no other OS available that is as streamlined as Mac OS. I try all modern offerings just about once a year, and have yet to find anything better for myself. It's their one saving grace in my view.

Would you say that this is because the alternatives aren't as good, or because your workflow is tied towards using Mac?

In my case, I think it's definitely the latter. For Ruby dev I could switch to Debian tomorrow and probably be fine, especially since most of the stuff I work on from day to day uses Docker. That won't stop my workplace from buying MBP's, though..

For me personally, the alternatives aren't as good. I came from a long history of Windows use (back to 1.0, up to Windows 7) and have kept a watchful eye on Linux and newer Windows versions.

Or a significant increase in repair work. It'd be hard for them to know that I'm waiting to upgrade my 2013 MBP until they switch, but easy to count the number of service appointments for keys blocked or sticking due to tiny amounts of dust.

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