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If the price were the same as the function key model... I think the Touch Bar would've been a lot more palatable.

It's a variety of issues that caused me to end up disliking the entire machine. I could live with the Touch Bar if battery were better, pricing were similar, etc.

Price in the UK is pretty painful now, but the machine is great. Its not a revolutionary change, but a very welcome improvement.

Programmers are the only professionals in the world who complain about having to pay for quality tools. Can you imagine a dentist, truck driver, or doctor complaining about having to pay $2500 for a machine that would bring her hundreds of thousands of dollars over the next 5 years? Of course not.

I've heard doctors, truck drivers, construction workers and any number of other people complain about the cost of quality tools. For the same reason that people complain about the cost of Apple machines, they don't perceive enough quality difference to justify the price difference.

Are you kidding me? Professionals of any careers always complain about non-optimal tools.

If improvements make them more money/time than they cost, people will buy them without a second thought. As they should ;)