The soldered-in stuff is not new to this model and is unlikely to be reversed. Your average user does not need more than 16GB of ram, and as said before, is not

The soldered-in stuff is not new to this model and is unlikely to be reversed. Your average user does not need more than 16GB of ram, and as said before, is not a new thing with Macbooks. (it's like expecting smartphone makers to suddenly include SD cards, sorry but the ship has long sailed) As for ports, they have USB C which can do everything the old ports did; that's where the industry is headed anyway, Apple is only jumpstarting it. Lastly, yeah the Touch Bar is not for touch typists, so what? No one is going to force you to use it. Price is price, that's just the Apple Premium (TM). It's naive of the commenters to think that Apple is suddenly going to appeal to them, sorry, but you're not the target demographic. Go buy some decades-old Thinkpads and install Linux on them since that's what you were going to do anyway.