Some people point to the limited improvements in Skylake and Broadwell as an argument why it doesn't matter that Mac updates have faltered. I respectfully disag

Some people point to the limited improvements in Skylake and Broadwell as an argument why it doesn't matter that Mac updates have faltered. I respectfully disagree. Look at the 12" Macbook. This, to me, is just too much compromise. Only one port and it's USB-C and it's the power?? Compare this to the healthy amount of ports on the HP Spectre in what is still a small form factor. Add in the terrible (IMHO) keyboard, pointless Force Touch and lack of tactile feedback on the trackpad. Yet the Macbook Air remains with a relatively crappy display. For year it was suggested it wasn't economical/possible to add a retina display to this form factor. The Macbook is proof to the contrary. Plus with the 12" Macbook, 13" Retina MBP and 11" and 13" Macbook Airs, it seems clear that not all these SKUs are going to survive. I have a 2011 13" Macbook Air as my personal laptop. At the time I considered it to be about perfect in terms of portability and power. But the design is getting pretty long in the tooth now. Crappy (relatively) display. Look at the Dell XPS 13 and 15s as inspiration. For one, they have really thin bezels. The Mac Pro? Introduced with much fanfare 3 years ago and hasn't been updated since. Mac mini? Coming up on 2 years without an update. And we lost the quad core options. This all comes as Apple has pushed the iPad Pro as a laptop replacement. My point is that with the Apple ecosystem (and many others) there's a halo effect. People buy into part of it based on the complete range, regardless of whether or ot they'll buy into the rest. They have the option. The sense I get from Apple is they're no longer interested in the PC/laptop segments. They seem to no longer care about power users even though power users are influencers. Also, it seems like the days of only horrible trackpads on PCs might finally be over. At least it seems like some models might have decent trackpads. Can Apple really think tablets are the future? Maybe they aren't but we're a long way from that. The UX on an iPad Pro with a keyboard is as terrible as Steve Jobs used to say it was (Jobs famously called touchscreens with keyboards terrible). So even if Apple does update their lineup later this year I'm not sure I'm going to buy in because the writing seems to be on the wall. At this point a Dell XPS 13 or 15 seems like the way to go.