I agree 100%. I traded in my 2018 base model 15″ MBP for the 1 TB stock 16″ and it is just an excellent laptop in every way. Apple really outdid themselves with this thing.
• Its trackpad and speakers are the best in the industry and it’s not even a debate.
• The screen is excellent. The added real estate and shrunk bezels are a welcome improvement.
• The unibody aluminum chassis makes it rigid as a tank.
• The keyboard, my goodness! The keyboard was not only fixed from the awful low-travel defective Butterfly design, it was turned into something that is an absolute joy to type on.
• I wasn’t expecting a physical escape key but they even gave us the physical escape key!
• The Touch Bar gets a lot of hate, and I was skeptical of it at first too, but I’ve learned to make good use of it and wouldn’t want a machine without one now. It’s particularly useful for writing Chinese. When typing Chinese, the input method is usually phonetic and you are presented with a numbered selection of suggested characters that all sound like what you typed, and you have to keep looking at the screen and pressing the numbers that correspond to the characters you want. But with the Touch Bar, the suggested characters appear on the Touch Bar and you just tap the characters you want to type as they come up, and it has predictive text which can often anticipate the next character without you having to type anything at all. Super handy in my use case.
• The four USB-C/Thunderbolt-3 ports get hate too, but I love the flexibility they offer plus the ability to charge the device from both sides.
• I already mentioned the speakers, but I’m going to mention them again because holy moly they are fantastic. The sound is crisp and full and just amazing.
