> It's too bad you can't get a non touchbar model with the faster CPU's as well. You can actually get the top-tier CPU in mid-2015 MacBook Pro 15" (i7-4980HQ @

> It's too bad you can't get a non touchbar model with the faster CPU's as well. You can actually get the top-tier CPU in mid-2015 MacBook Pro 15" (i7-4980HQ @ 2.8 GHz) for less than the current base model 15" (i7-6700HQ @ 2.6 GHz). And have it be ~16% faster for multi-core tasks, and some 9% for single-core. 2015 multi-core: 13945, 2016 multi-core: 12006 2015 single-core: 4292, 2016 single-core: 3926 http://browser.primatelabs.com/mac-benchmarks/ http://browser.primatelabs.com/mac-benchmarks/ Admittedly, those are synthetic benchmarks, but my performance concerns are primarily related to CPU-bound tasks that should be well-captured in these benchmarks. That plus the freedom from a dedicated GPU – I am strongly against having one in my laptop –, and I would very strongly consider the mid-2015 one.