I almost bought a MBP a couple of months ago, but stayed with Linux at the last minute. I ended up getting a ThinkPad T460 too. It was USD $1,900 including tax

I almost bought a MBP a couple of months ago, but stayed with Linux at the last minute. I ended up getting a ThinkPad T460 too. It was USD $1,900 including tax and a four-year, next-day, at-home support plan where they will drive to your house and do things like replace the motherboard with no questions asked. It runs Ubuntu 16.04 without problems. 24 Gb of RAM. 500 Gb SSD. Matte screen (less glare). Three touchpad buttons, which are good for copy/paste in Linux. I can set it up with 10 virtual desktops and minimal animation. Great keyboard. 10+ hours of actual battery life (18 hours advertised). It was about $1,000 cheaper than a MBP that had less RAM and lower specs, except for the screen resolution. For programming, the 1920x1080 screen on the ThinkPad is enough. It's the same operating system as my servers, so I can SSH into the servers and be in essentially the same environment that I use on the laptop. I'm very happy with it.