Yeah I agree. The 2016 MBP officially started the Mac Dark Ages which lasted until the M1 was released.
The 2015 and 2014 models weren't that great either since they were using old 4th gen Haswell Intel CPUs which ran super hot.
The 2015 and 2014 models weren't that great either since they were using old 4th gen Haswell Intel CPUs which ran super hot.
I didn’t find it to run that hot and generally found it to be the best windows laptop (via vm) money could buy at the time.
The rest of the computer was great though (display, keyboard, trackpad, ssd).
My only complaint is that Apple’s keyboards have become significantly less resistant to finger oils and staying on top of cleaning them is much more demanding than it used to be.
...and I excitedly bought one. And then a year later the M1 came out, and I was kicking myself