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I use a MacBook Pro Retina 13" Early 2015, and it's amazing. I hope it lasts forever. I've tried a friends new MBP and I can't stand the keyboard, or the dongl

I use a MacBook Pro Retina 13" Early 2015, and it's amazing. I hope it lasts forever. I've tried a friends new MBP and I can't stand the keyboard, or the dongles. When I sit at my work desk, I have 2x DisplayPorts to my monitors, a USB 3.0 hub, and often a USB thumb drive. Swapping to USB-C would be a pain. My biggest gripe with Apple's current MBP line up is the insulting specs you get for the price. I can buy a 128GB SSD delivered for £24, I imagine at bulk wholesale Apple is barely paying £10 - yet that's what they put in their 'entry level' £1,250 13" MBP. Absolute madness.

jsjohnst 8y ago
> When I sit at my work desk, I have 2x DisplayPorts to my monitors, a USB 3.0 hub, and often a USB thumb drive. Swapping to USB-C would be a pain. So with your setup that’s four cables to reconnect each time I need to get up for a meeting, where as I have a single cable (that single cable provides power, USB, a 5K and a 4K display, and Ethernet in my setup). Yep, sounds less painful to me too!
- iDemonix 8y ago
  I don't want the answer to everything to be "Buy a dongle". I have a similar setup at home to my work setup, almost identical - do I need another dongle/hub for home? I also work from my parents house if I'm visiting, they have a monitor I use, and my girlfriends parents (again if we're visiting) has a dual screen setup in their office I can use. Do I buy a Hub/dongle for each location? Do I carry one with me at all times? (Good job they made the laptop light as I'll now need 38kg of adapters). Oh wait, I don't have any of these problems, I just take my 2015 MBP and it plugs in to whatever is there. Nice.
  - iDemonix 8y ago
    Also, let's not get started on the travesty that is the loss of MagSafe...
    - jsjohnst 8y ago
      Because yeah, there ~aren’t any~ actually is tons of comparable USB-C cables with the same breakaway mechanism as MagSafe.
graystevens 8y ago
I’ve got the same machine and will be looking to upgrade the SSD shortly with a lovely nvme m.2 ssd thanks to an adapter. The thought of going from 128GB to 1TB for ~£280, plus the performance upgrade, almost certainly means I’ll be holding onto this one for a while. (Shame it’s only got 8gb of RAM...)

jsjohnst 8y ago

> When I sit at my work desk, I have 2x DisplayPorts to my monitors, a USB 3.0 hub, and often a USB thumb drive. Swapping to USB-C would be a pain. So with your setup that’s four cables to reconnect each time I need to get up for a meeting, where as I have a single cable (that single cable provides power, USB, a 5K and a 4K display, and Ethernet in my setup). Yep, sounds less painful to me too!

iDemonix 8y ago
I don't want the answer to everything to be "Buy a dongle". I have a similar setup at home to my work setup, almost identical - do I need another dongle/hub for home? I also work from my parents house if I'm visiting, they have a monitor I use, and my girlfriends parents (again if we're visiting) has a dual screen setup in their office I can use. Do I buy a Hub/dongle for each location? Do I carry one with me at all times? (Good job they made the laptop light as I'll now need 38kg of adapters). Oh wait, I don't have any of these problems, I just take my 2015 MBP and it plugs in to whatever is there. Nice.
- iDemonix 8y ago
  Also, let's not get started on the travesty that is the loss of MagSafe...
  - jsjohnst 8y ago
    Because yeah, there ~aren’t any~ actually is tons of comparable USB-C cables with the same breakaway mechanism as MagSafe.

graystevens 8y ago

I’ve got the same machine and will be looking to upgrade the SSD shortly with a lovely nvme m.2 ssd thanks to an adapter. The thought of going from 128GB to 1TB for ~£280, plus the performance upgrade, almost certainly means I’ll be holding onto this one for a while. (Shame it’s only got 8gb of RAM...)