i was in ur shoes.. Touchbar or non touchbar... took me 2 weeks decide..

touchbar is an awesome thing..but if u are used to muscle memory of just pressing the button without looking.. then touchbar is not for you.. you have to see the touchbar to see what and where to press.. to me.. that is sometime distracting

so i end up buying the non touch bar.. been using it for my office work..quite fast .... excel,word and some small programming.. fit with what i need..

with the extra cash i budget because initially wanted the touch bar ... i am now aiming to buy a thunderbolt 3 dock.. 1 cable solution for charging, ports and dual display(my office i have 2 monitors, so total 3 screens inclusive mac screen)... aiming to get either startech dock or belkin express tb3 dock.. but need to run some script to enable the dock on macos as apple block old tb3 controller..


currently i have my old usb c to hdmi/usb/charger from my old macbook 12 , and usb c to hdmi. still can get 2 working display/charging and usb ports.. but abit cluttered

This post has been edited by edthrax: Mar 7 2017, 10:35 AM

was not really looking for usb-c dock.. so not really sure.

i'm leaning more towards thunderbolt 3 dock which is different from a usb c dock which only can have 10gbps throughput, while tb3 would have 40gbps, nice for dual display ,storage and other things using 1 single cable

yes bro..most usb-c docks are compatible with MacBook pro ..but they're not thunderbolt 3 docks..

they use the same connection..but the cables are different in nature.. example of thunderbolt 3 docks..

Belkin Thunderbolt 3 express dock
OWB Thunderbolt 3 Docks
Startech Thunderbolt 3 Dock
HP Zbook TB3 dock

most tb3 docks can daisy chain.. so u can connect 1 tb3 dock to another tb3 dock directly.. so u have 2 tb3 dock but still using 1 cable to the MacBook pro..

they use the same type connector with usb-C..but the cable itself is different..u can't plug a usb-c cable to the dock..the MacBook wont recognize the dock..

Thunderbolt can deliver USB-C.. but USB-C cant deliver thunderbolt...

This post has been edited by edthrax: Mar 8 2017, 03:32 PM

i bought base model without any upgrade.. so far so good.. i use alot of cloud storage and apple music streaming..so not much storage issue for me..

as for ram and cpu..so far havent face any slowdowns or issue.. even tried gaming CS:GO and left 4 dead..suprisingly smooth gameplay..lol..

yeap..cloud is the way.. save everything on the cloud..access anywhere .. so thats why for me 256 is enuff.. i'm not in the content creation industry so dont really have big files to store.. all of my pictures also are saved in my unlimited google drive..