What a crazy generalisation.
There are 'sorts' of MacBook Pro users who don't need 512GB. Millions of them in fact.
I think you misunderstood me. All I was saying was those people don't actually 'need' a MacBook Pro to do their work. They just buy them because they are the best laptops available.
To push a Macbook Pro to its full potential you would have to be doing something like 3D rendering and animation, video editing, music production etc. All those kind of jobs will fill up a 256GB SSD in no time. Even the iMac I use for photoshop, print-work and web design has well over 300GB used already and that only contains relatively small files that I access on a regular basis.
MacBook Pros are aimed at professionals, but only the top-spec model is really viable for professionals, that's all I'm saying. If you just look at them as a standard consumer laptop, then all the models are fine for anyone. They are just a very expensive solution for checking Facebook or working in Word or Excel.
My real point was that if the MacBooks need anything upgrading it's the SSD capacity, and that's something they haven't upgraded. Everything else is already very good, even for high-end work.
Apple should really make any size of SSD an option in any model, but they are just trying to push you to more expensive systems, by limiting upgrade choices. Even if you aren't a pro, you may still have a big music, movie or photo library and not want to faff around with slow external storage.
my real complaint is still -- no matte display.
As someone who does graphics work all day long, I don't understand this argument. The diffuse glow you get on matte screens is much worse than the crystal clear image and gorgeous blacks you get from a screen behind glass. I've used both, for a long time, and I would never go back to matte screens. If reflection is an issue, just don't sit with bright lights behind you, or tilt your screen slightly.
