Where to Go from Here

This article is very interesting, but it's unfortunate that its title says little about its content. I had no idea it was about Apple when I opened it, expecting it to be about the Go programming language instead.

> Why the 7th generation Intel chips?

I suspect the author meant "6th generation", or "why not the 7th generation Intel chips", because the new MBPs have 6th-gen (i.e. Skylake) CPUs.

Change the title to something like "Picking an Apple laptop for development use".

I would totally buy a laptop with the weight and a bit thicker than my 2012 13" MacBook Pro, if I could get:

nvidia 1060/1070 GPU able to run VR headsets, without sounding like a hairdryer

Commensurate or better battery life

More than 16GB RAM

Easily upgradeable SSD.

More durability

Apple is not making this laptop! In fact, I have no inkling if they're going to make that if I wait another year, or ever. So why should I remain an Apple customer? I don't think Apple is interested in me as a customer. What kind of customer am I? Basically, a dev.

I wonder if Mac-users realise that  isn't actually an Apple logo, but is just a private-use character which Apple display as their logo (while every other system can do whatever it wants).

> And then the �WATCH came out.

Aaah, standards.

> I still have hope that Apple can start to tighten the reigns in

It was just a couple of months ago that I noticed somebody misusing "reign" for "rein", and now it's everywhere.