Indeed. I'm not sure why my comment is getting so heavily downvoted to be honest. The fact is that a new hire has specifically asked me to buy him an older Mac

Indeed. I'm not sure why my comment is getting so heavily downvoted to be honest. The fact is that a new hire has specifically asked me to buy him an older Macbook Pro in preference to the new touch-bar variant primarily because of the lack of decent ports on the new model and the hassle this causes with dongles (especially when they go missing, which they invariably do).