Yeah, don’t forget the 10 dark years between the Butterfly Keyboard Macbook Pro 2016, the Emoji Macbook Air, until the restoration of the USB ports… around 2022.

That was truely the dark age of Apple.

Those were the Ive Unleashed years.

Unbridled control over all design in one hyper opinionated guy was an error well resolved.

The first guy did alright.

I had the 2015 MBP and I held onto it until the M1 came out…I still have it and tbh it’s still kind of a great laptop. The two best laptops of the past decade for sure.

2008 mbp was my last apple laptop. Still feel quite slighted by Apple's treatment on that one.

That's the common hipster take on it...but I kinda liked the way the butterfly keys felt and my impression of the touchbar was chaotic neutral. By the time they let up a little on the ports, I'd lived with 4 USB-C ports so long that it really wasn't that big a deal.

What got me, however, was that was the time where their trade-in program was really kicking in. I think I got $800 for my touchbar mac which made the jump to an M1 Pro 14 a little less painful. Now you don't seem to so much pay for hardware as lease the Apple experience, so long as the hardware is still good.

What do you like about the Pro Display XDR?

With 6k I can have both vscode and the website I'm working on in one display, while still having lots of vertical space and no noticeable pixels. I tried using 2 4k screen next to each other among other things, but nothing works ergonomically as good as this.