Slightly OT however for what it’s worth the new 16inch MBP with a redesigned non-butterfly keyboard is supposed to be available soon.
I would suggest you hold off any laptop decision until then.
I would suggest you hold off any laptop decision until then.
I'd rather not volunteer $3000 to be a guinea pig for Apple's keyboard design gremlins. If they went back to the 2016 model and just slapped a new motherboard inside and made the battery larger, then yeah, it'd be a no brainer. But I can't imagine them being that smart about it given the past few years of evidence to the contrary.
I have 1st gen iMac retina, I have had zero issues and have been using it daily since I bought it new in 2014. I did get SSD and upgraded cpu and graphics card; I believe the base models under performed so I can imagine people were not so happy with those models?
Only regret, it cannot be used as an external monitor.
> I'd rather not volunteer $3000 to be a guinea pig for Apple's keyboard design gremlins.
yeah, I would probably wait as well; unless work was paying for it
You should check out Luna Display. In the wake of being "Sherlocked" by Apple's new iPad Sidecar feature, they've added support for using Macs as external displays.
Are you really confident this first new batch will be ok?