I think this is exactly the wrong direction. First no more geforce for you. Then the ram is not upgradeable anymore. Oh here goes all ports except a usb3 and you need to carry a full case of dongles. Then the escape key.(It must have escaped the non sense!!!) Then the SSD is soldered. Then this fancy useless color bar and T2. Now you can't run linux with VB or parallels or dual boot to Windoze. They are trying their earnest to drive away the ppl that build their brand by innovating. Where have the days when apple's hardware edge was used to do great features such as target display mode gone? The smartest move apple did was to move to Intel. A MBP was the best windows experience ever, circa 2008. Why can't a 5000$ device have the best processor available that can be used for other oses, plus some ARM silicone? I don't get the part about removing x64; we certainly havent run out of address space.
Hello, thanks for the comment, I might. Do you have any suggestion HW wise? If I switch again, it will be for linux as my daily driver thought. I've been happy with the MBP line, and my 2015 MBPs are still the best hardware I've owned. I like Apple's services, I use iCloud, and the calendar and contact sync with my iphones and ipads just works. I like macosx because it's real unix, integrates well with the rest just mentionned. I run ubuntu for GPUs for DL on a dedicated ws; I wish I could do some small models on the go better than CPU speed, instead of remoting. I have several VMs in VirtualBox (that can just now as of VB6 do nesting!! that's great! (real containers AND kvm on macosx thru proxmox) but that wont work with ARM... ). I still need some win7 or win10 for legacy stuff or for clients, Vbox does the trick for most of it, and if I need the metal performance of the gfx in windows I have a small bootcamp partition.
I use extensively Targed Display Mode with old imac27s, and I LOVE that feature; a 27 inch monitor with a server to do backend tasks on my desk, hard to beat.
All this to say, to repro my setup with Linux and another brand of intel powered machine, I'll waste an amazing amount of time. Intel is not going anywhere. They might have missed a beat or two, but they will pump out the best CPUs again in a short time. AMD got the upper hand for while back when the transition to x64 happened with the first real dual cores. Intel is not looking great right now I'll give you that, but chances are they will come back. Maybe. But in any case, this is a "if it works dont fix it". This CPU change will force a bunch of ppl to fix something that worked.
