Disappointing, very disappointing. My mid 2015 15 inch MB Pro is out, then. Don't tell me an i7 and a dedicated Radeon graphics card can't handle Sidecar...
Yep, and no way in hell am I upgrading my mid 2015 retina MBP. The current MBP's are complete junk (I'm very curious to see if the second hand price of them becomes near worthless once the warrantees expire and the realisation of the repair cost kicks in).
On a positive note, the new Mac Pro's seem to be top notch at first glance (let's see how they hold up in real life though, as Apple's hardware testing team are clearly incompetent, going by the MBP's keyboards and screens, etc.), so that gives me some hope that the next iteration of MBP might actually be a good machine.
Maybe, just maybe, they will make a MBP that is actually PRO, and make it:
- a mm or two (or whatever it takes) thicker
- bring back a working keyboard
- strengthen the screen connector
- bring back ports
- reduce the track pad size a little
- bring back function keys (or at least make the touchbar an option, instead of mandatory)
- bring back separate, interchangeable, repairable, recyclable, and upgradeable components
- increase the battery size to the maximum allowable on commercial aircraft (an extra 33% IIRC)
- and remove the screen bezels and thus change the size from 13/15" to 14/16".
Did I forget anything?
And yeah sure, for those who don't want that, there's the MB/MBA (what a confused mess that is) for the non-PROs who want thinner and lighter in exchange for less functionality (and, of course, make them 12/14" with the 12 smaller than the current 12, and the 14 the same size as the current 13).
