The Best Laptop Ever Made
It stopped being made in 2015
I have a Mid-2014 MacBook Pro. The speakers crackle and the screen is permanently grotty, but besides that it’s rock solid. This thing is like the AK-47 of laptops. An elegantly simple 4.5 pound amalgamation of forged aluminum and silicon, it doesn’t break, jam, or overheat¹.
By many accounts, the 2012–2015 MacBook Pro is best laptop ever made². This was peak laptop. Since then, if anything, laptops have gotten worse.
In terms of raw specs, well, have a look.
| MBP | 2014 | 2019 |
+-------+--------+--------+
| Speed | 2.2GHz | 2.6GHz |
| Boost | Wut? | 4.8GHz |
| RAM | 16 GB | 16 GB |
| Space | 250 GB | 512 GB |In terms of performance you could say that the new MacBooks are 2x faster, but 2x fine is still… fine.
The performance is good enough, but what makes the difference is the connections. The Obama-era MacBook is the last MacBook with ports. The new MacBooks only have port. Singular.
Behold the old:
And in with the new:
