The macbook pro was a workhorse. Well built, lots of connectivity and useful for whatever life threw at it. A little bulky, Not sleek and elegant. Macbook ai

The macbook pro was a workhorse. Well built, lots of connectivity and useful for whatever life threw at it. A little bulky, Not sleek and elegant. Macbook air (and new macbook) are the sleek light and beautiful models. They're making the macbook pro more like the "air" and "macbook", pretty to look at but much less functional. People who like the OS are left with no where to get the machine they need and aren't happy. While usb c is the future, its going to be a long time before the usb a port goes away. The lack of ports usable without dongles significantly hurt functionality. sometimes its just the number of ports, for example: College intern with air bemoans the lack of ability to connect our fast wired internet and monitor at same time as one thunderbolt port. This kind of thing can't help but hurt your reputation. I use every port on my macbook rmbp except the sd card for bioinformatics job, (2 monitors [2 dongles], gig -ethernet[dongle], external drive, external keyboard and mouse). I could in theory get a dock, but its an unnecessary pain.