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I have a 2016 MBP 15 that is struggling with anything other than browsing. It cost $2800 new (luckily bought by my employer). I also bought an Asus ultrabook in

I have a 2016 MBP 15 that is struggling with anything other than browsing. It cost $2800 new (luckily bought by my employer). I also bought an Asus ultrabook in the same year (2016) for under $700 for my wife and it's still going strong (neither it nor the mac's batteries last as much as they used to, but otherwise no issues). In my experience, I pay less upfront for a Windows machine and get to enjoy it just as much (if not longer).

windowsrookie 4y ago
Unfortunately 2016 was the worst year to buy a MacBook Pro in the last 10 years. 2016 models still only had a 4-core CPU and DDR3 RAM. 2018 models saw a big improvement in performance (6 cores, DDR4), 2019 models fixed the keyboard, and then 2021 the M1 chips arrived.