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Touchbars are optional.

Escape key is there it is just a software key. I use vi every day and am fine with it.

Moronophic peripheral ports. Strongly disagree with this one. Moving to Thunderbolt/USB-C is the best thing Apple ever did. I have one dongle for older ports but everything else I can use the same cables. I don't want another generation of 10 different peripheral ports.

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Wrong, touchbars are not optional when you want to buy the 15" variant.

I'm using the a new macbook (15", touchbar) since half a year now and have to say that it's the worst apple experience so far.

My biggest complain is with the keyboard. Who thought of these arrow up/down keys? Also the esc key is annoying, although I got a little bit used to it.

> Touchbars are optional.

Not if you want a post-2015 15" MacBook Pro or a performant post-2015 13" MacBook Pro.

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