This sounds EXACTLY how my impression is after about 2 weeks of non-primary machine use.
!00% agree with the keyboard, I even made a joke about it to my visiting parents yesterday (received no laughs). After working for a few hours on my new machine, jumping back to my old machine definitely feels greasy.
98% agree with touchbar, I wish there was a way to edit the default touchbar view (escape and mini functions). I'd love to have the mini functions maximized so I can have the old hot keys one less click away, but its a minor gripe.
100% agree with speed -- it's been awesome. No worries at all. I don't have as much on my new machine yet but it seems to not get bogged down at all where my last-gen rMPB gets all hot and bothered rather quickly. It also doesn't seem to run as hot, I don't think I've heard a fan kick in yet (it is the winter ;D). I used to run my neural-styles on my last-gen rMBP as it would max at like 60GB (thanks swap!) where my 32GB linux box would tap out at... ~31.5GB. I am dying to run an apple to apple to penquin RNN death match here soon, but... yanno... people need gifts.
RAM -- 16GB is fine, it runs swap off an SSD, life could be A LOT worse. I am not sure how big swap can get but my last machine was touching 60GB under max loads of the RNN.
Touchpad -- it's HUGE and it's AWESOME! I don't have to do that lil finger-shifty maneuver to drag all the way across the screen now. I don't have any palming issues either. It's AMAZING!
Battery -- I saw some weirdness when I first got it, like being stuck at 80% for 3 hours. But it seems to have gotten enough data now to make better calcs on the power remaining. It feels like it lasts a lot longer than my old machine while doing generally the same work (usually local GAE instances, pycharm, chrome, webstorm, bundler watchers, the usual).
Ports -- I got one dongle and have only needed to use it once to test mousewheel events on a standard mouse. It worked great and everything else I plan to upgrade to USB-C and reading the instructions (it's really not THAT confusing guys...)
I am super pumped about my new upgrade and I definitely DID buy this myself (though it's a business write-off I suppose). I was waiting for the next MBP for a new lappy and had plenty of time to make a choice and every other laptop I got my hands on simply didn't have the same build quality or level of standard that this does. I also am not a fan for ultra-do-anything coffee-breath Windows and Linux support is always more trouble than it's worth at times (personally, macOS is my favorite unix-like os flavor by far).
Not sure what this is "lil finger-shifty maneuver", but you can drag with two fingers. Click down on something you want to drag with one hand, and then start dragging with another hand (finger). While holding first finger down you can continue dragging.
!00% agree with the keyboard, I even made a joke about it to my visiting parents yesterday (received no laughs). After working for a few hours on my new machine, jumping back to my old machine definitely feels greasy.
98% agree with touchbar, I wish there was a way to edit the default touchbar view (escape and mini functions). I'd love to have the mini functions maximized so I can have the old hot keys one less click away, but its a minor gripe.
100% agree with speed -- it's been awesome. No worries at all. I don't have as much on my new machine yet but it seems to not get bogged down at all where my last-gen rMPB gets all hot and bothered rather quickly. It also doesn't seem to run as hot, I don't think I've heard a fan kick in yet (it is the winter ;D). I used to run my neural-styles on my last-gen rMBP as it would max at like 60GB (thanks swap!) where my 32GB linux box would tap out at... ~31.5GB. I am dying to run an apple to apple to penquin RNN death match here soon, but... yanno... people need gifts.
RAM -- 16GB is fine, it runs swap off an SSD, life could be A LOT worse. I am not sure how big swap can get but my last machine was touching 60GB under max loads of the RNN.
Touchpad -- it's HUGE and it's AWESOME! I don't have to do that lil finger-shifty maneuver to drag all the way across the screen now. I don't have any palming issues either. It's AMAZING!
Battery -- I saw some weirdness when I first got it, like being stuck at 80% for 3 hours. But it seems to have gotten enough data now to make better calcs on the power remaining. It feels like it lasts a lot longer than my old machine while doing generally the same work (usually local GAE instances, pycharm, chrome, webstorm, bundler watchers, the usual).
Ports -- I got one dongle and have only needed to use it once to test mousewheel events on a standard mouse. It worked great and everything else I plan to upgrade to USB-C and reading the instructions (it's really not THAT confusing guys...)
I am super pumped about my new upgrade and I definitely DID buy this myself (though it's a business write-off I suppose). I was waiting for the next MBP for a new lappy and had plenty of time to make a choice and every other laptop I got my hands on simply didn't have the same build quality or level of standard that this does. I also am not a fan for ultra-do-anything coffee-breath Windows and Linux support is always more trouble than it's worth at times (personally, macOS is my favorite unix-like os flavor by far).