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There are no traditional USB ports. The keyboard is lame. The Touch Bar is a gimmick. There's not enough memory. And worst of all, you have to buy a bunch of expensive dongles to match what your old laptop could do easily.

Those are some of the complaints dogging Apple's new highend laptop, the MacBook Pro. The detractors have fair points and yet I just bought one without even physically handling it first.

Why? Not because I'm a fanboy. I considered my choices carefully. Your needs and preferences likely will differ but if you're in the market for a new laptop, perhaps my reasoning will help you make your own decision. Keep in mind, this is a personal take here's CNET's official MacBook Pro review.

Here's my background so you can understand where I'm coming from. I stress out browsers with dozens of open tabs and edit hundreds of photos sometimes on a tight deadline. Given that I expect to spend at least 0 hours a week for three years behind its screen, I'm willing to pay for an eyewateringly expensive highend inch model with the fastest Intel processor and AMD graphics chip Apple offers.

Sticking with a Mac

I'm open to other operating systems I also use a Google Chromebook Pixel and Dell XPS laptop daily but my main machine is a MacBook Pro. It's the only one I bring on vacations, business trips and daily train commutes between my home and office.

That's because despite Windows' considerable progress, I still find MacOS better at staying up and running, especially with countless wakesleep cycles as I open and close the laptop lid. Also, I have yet to find a Windows machine that can match Apple's trackpads especially threefinger drag, an option I adore.

Last, the Apple unibody chassis is unbeatably sturdy when it comes to enduring the abuse of travel. My fouryearold inch MacBook Pro, the model that brought highresolution Retina screens to personal computing, has been a tank despite my dropping it several times, cleaning its screen with a wet paper towel in the airport and scattering tradeshow sandwich crumbs on its keyboard.

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