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Apple Stops Selling 2015 MacBook Pro, Lineup Now Limited to Thunderbolt 3 Models [Updated]

oldmacs said:
No when they started keeping older versions of the iPhone around (The 3G alongside the 3GS, the 3GS alongside the 4 and the 3GS and 4 alongside the 4S).
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Apple are too scared that people will choose the older design if they were to update it, as it would go against their 'vision', and their vision is more important than customer experience.
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Apple are too scared people will choose the older design even if they weren’t to update it

FTFY ;)
 
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green86 said:
No serious corp is buying a laptop released in 2015.

Nice (dramatic) Try.
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No serious corp is going to buy mac, period. Insanely high prices and terrible connectivity. No one is buying a boatload of expensive and easy to lose dongles for their employees to use the conference rooms and USB.

We abandoned macs a long time ago when it became clear they didn't give a crap about pro workflows. TRUTH.
 
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super tomtendo said:
How so? The ports? You gotta let go of the past sometimes man... USB, HDMI, etc.... all in the past.
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I hope my Early 2015 MacBook Pro keeps on running as well as it is at the moment, with Magsafe connected, HDMI driving a larger screen, two USB slots occupied by peripherals (printer and a back-up hard drive) and an SD card from my camera in the slot. Don't want to trust all my data to the cloud (and some clients will not allow me to anyway) nor do I want the gimmicky Touchbar, multiple dongles, or the crap keyboards they are forcing on us for the sake of thinness. Might have to learn Windows 10 if it this beautiful piece of engineering starts to go wrong.

MacBook Pro Retina 13", MacBook 15", MacBook Air 11", iMac Blueberry, Quadra 630, Performa 6400, LCII, Colour Classic.
 
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oldmacs said:
I know plenty who were buying non retina MacBook pros well into 2016.

I also know of those who were buying these, as they better met user requirements.
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Really? A full scale IT department or are you talking a company with one or two IT guys doing procurement?

I ask because I’m the only IT here at work? I’d never buy a 2015 config in 2018.
 
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ateslik said:
No serious corp is going to buy mac, period. Insanely high prices and terrible connectivity. No one is buying a boatload of expensive and easy to lose dongles for their employees to use the conference rooms and USB.

We abandoned macs a long time ago when it became clear they didn't give a crap about pro workflows. TRUTH.
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Uh, Macs are growing spectacularly in business. Are you unfamiliar with the unserious IBM?

Friggin tech snobs...
 
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NT1440 said:
Really? A full scale IT department or are you talking a company with one or two IT guys doing procurement?

I ask because I’m the only IT here at work? I’d never buy a 2015 config in 2018.
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Full IT companies, and smaller ones. Not to mention education. The post 2016 models just don't meet the needs of a lot of people and are too expensive.
 
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Falhófnir said:
No serious IT department should warrant the purchase of a machine with officially confirmed keyboard problems either though, should they?
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They affect a small, messy percentage (Stop eating two inches from your MacBook People).

I work for a major university, and only a small amount of our new MacBooks have seen issues. Most people love the Touch Bar too. Macrumors' audience is resistant to change, and not representative of the general Mac population.
 
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Those machines were hideously over priced, and the CPU / GPUs were getting ancient - I'd be surprised if both were sold anymore.

Shame apple didn't replace them with something else in that price point.
 
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Okay, I'm going out on a limb, but is it possible our prayers are about to be answered? Could they be preparing to release a version of this machine with upgraded internals, and perhaps some sort of re-branding? (Wishful thinking, I suppose...)
 
ateslik said:
No serious corp is going to buy mac, period. Insanely high prices and terrible connectivity. No one is buying a boatload of expensive and easy to lose dongles for their employees to use the conference rooms and USB.

We abandoned macs a long time ago when it became clear they didn't give a crap about pro workflows. TRUTH.
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No, this is majorly false. Maybe it was done to cut costs... but you get what you pay for. Our pros and creatives just love them, and so do a few of our IT guys.
 
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buckwheet said:
Okay, I'm going out on a limb, but is it possible our prayers are about to be answered? Could they be preparing to release a version of this machine with upgraded internals, and perhaps some sort of re-branding? (Wishful thinking, I suppose...)
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That would be amazing, but I'm not seeing it!! :'(
 
green86 said:
They affect a small, messy percentage (Stop eating two inches from your MacBook People).

I work for a major university, and only a small amount of our new MacBooks have seen issues. Most people love the Touch Bar too. Macrumors' audience is resistant to change, and not representative of the general Mac population.
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No IT manager worth their salt would even take the risk of having the disruption happen. Time is money, if you buy 100 machines and even a couple of them are out for a week-long repair per year that’s a headache you could do without.
 
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green86 said:
No serious corp is buying a laptop released in 2015.

Nice (dramatic) Try.
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Whatever you say, but my CDW rep sold 175,000 of them last month to some very large customers. Never underestimate the fact that Corp IT managers aren't Apple fanboys, they buy it because it's compatible with all the conference rooms and docks everywhere, and it was several hundred dollars cheaper than the touchbar models, which is a useless component they're paying for.
 
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buckwheet said:
Okay, I'm going out on a limb, but is it possible our prayers are about to be answered? Could they be preparing to release a version of this machine with upgraded internals, and perhaps some sort of re-branding? (Wishful thinking, I suppose...)
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I wouldn't hold my breath. Geez... good thing Apple is here to save you guys from yourselves!

If it was up to you people we'd still be using floppies, 56k modems and CRTs.
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Blackstick said:
Whatever you say, but my CDW rep sold 175,000 of them last month to some very large customers.
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Gee.. What a grandiose, unverifiable claim...
 
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green86 said:
They affect a small, messy percentage (Stop eating two inches from your MacBook People).

I work for a major university, and only a small amount of our new MacBooks have seen issues. Most people love the Touch Bar too. Macrumors' audience is resistant to change, and not representative of the general Mac population.
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one of truest comments I have ever read here
 
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