Apple catered to power users for years with the MBP. That was the entire point of the device and why many programmers said it was the best laptop on the market.

Apple catered to power users for years with the MBP. That was the entire point of the device and why many programmers said it was the best laptop on the market. I'm not saying it was necessarily a good market decision (though you'll see no shortage of MBPs in the bay area) but that was the strategy. Now that's clearly changing.