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I wish they would stop with this obsessive, compulsive need to make everything thinner.

I don't. One of my coworkers has a Lenovo X1 and that thing makes my mid-2015 Retina MacBook Pro look chunky by comparison. Thinner, lighter, faster, stronger are all what I want in my next laptop.

How does the battery life between the two machines compare?

I'll take "faster and stronger" over "thinner and lighter".

I already carry it in a backpack with other things; I'm not interested in shaving ounces at the expense of power.

A while ago while dropping my MBP onto a hard floor I realized that one benefit of lighter gear is potentially less damage on impact in a fall. Of course, this assumes equal hardness, toughness, plasticity, etc. but the same fall that happened with a 2010 MBP I had in the same spot was significantly worse damage.

It depends on what you want to do with the machine.

A friend of mine has a Yoga 900 and that thing is just perfect for a light workload at home or on the road.

But for a more intense workload I'd personally rather have a beefy and bulletproof IBM-style laptop which I can rebuild on my own with a screwdriver and cheap parts from ebay.

MacBook Pro has always been marketed as a "Pro" machine (obviously) for content creation and programming. It's the last product they should be making thinner for no reason.

People like your friend have the Air and the new MacBook. Let us workers have a powerful machine!

Lighter yes. Thinner why? Your thinnest carry bag already is more than double the thickness of most laptops with the padding and all. The only advantage! I see of even thinner laptop is that they are easier to drop on the floor.

This!!! I simply can't understand why the folks at Apple don't get this. But then again it seems to be all about the looks now. When I first heard a recent rMBP under load, I was shocked and embarrased how loud it is. I mean, I would actually feel embarrassed when using this in a library.

And yes, it's a matter of what you're using it for, but to me this noise was similar to an ugly sticker saying "Not for regular and prolonged use under high load"

Completely agree. I don't care about it being thin. I care about it being suitable for work. The current generation is more than thin enough.

They make more money selling razor blades.

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