The 2015 Macbook Pro was an awesome buy. If they do a price drop, it will be an amazing buy.
I prefer the buttons OVER the touchbar. The touchbar creates extra distracting flash. Part of why I like Macbooks is because they manage full-screen well (it's easy to multitask but primarily operate in full-screen mode with no taskbars in the way). A bar at the edge of the screen is just annoying. By adding a bar at the edge of the keyboard, near the screen, they're just making the screen bigger, detaching part of it, and throwing it on the keyboard. That's not what I want. Did I mention the touchbar is distracting? I think I did already!
The only thing out of the 2016 Macbook Pro I am interested in is the brighter screen (the 2015 MBP screen is a tad bit dim at full brightness, almost as if maxed out brightness is a notch or two from what max should be). But what do you trade off for a brighter screen? Oh... I don't know... how about:
- a huge price hike
- smaller battery (if you ever charge your phone or do other things with your macbook, the smaller battery will show)
- adapters galore required & ONLY 2 non-USB ports... if you're charging, only 1 port available?
- no magsafe? and no light-up Apple logo?
The Apple laptop line is starting to look a lot like what Dell offered back in 2006, with their XPS line. Apple has too many models (Air, regular Macbook which is thinner than the Air, and Pro), and then too many options from there: 11" Air, 13" Air, variations of both sizes, regular Macbook and variations of that, 2015 13" Macbook Pro and entry-level 2016 13" Macbook Pro, then the full-featured Macbook Pro 2016 and the upgraded version of that, and also the 15" entry-level Macbook Pro, and 2015 Macbook Pro 15", and the full-featured 2016 Macbook Pro 15", and then the upgraded version of the 2016 Macbook Pro. I probably missed something.
This isn't Apple. This is a too-big-to-fail company following the footsteps of Dell.