Title: Hello,<p>I&#x27;m looking around for a new work setup for a software development environment. I can choose freely both for software and for hardware and since I like macOS and use it myself for quite some time the choice seemed obvious.<p>My problem is, for a decent upgrade both in RAM and disk space I have to go for a $2199 model (the new MacBook Pro touch bar with 16GB RAM and 512GB disk) which seems to leave almost no budget left for anything besides the monitor.<p>So, having said this, I do have a question: do you believe that this year&#x27;s MacBook Pro is worth this value? I&#x27;m willing to give up some things from my setup (likely a usb-c dock that I&#x27;ll buy on my own later for example) if it really means I&#x27;m getting a laptop that&#x27;s worth it.<p>The primary reason I&#x27;m inclined to go with this year&#x27;s model is the T2 chip that I believe to be of significant value for its added security during boot, Touch ID, disk encryption and camera and microphone processing. This is something I personally value but I wasn&#x27;t able to find much technical reviews about this chip that would prove its worth to me.<p>I don&#x27;t particularly care for the touch bar (I admit it may be useful, but in my opinion they should&#x27;ve only added it above the function keys and only if it didn&#x27;t mean a great bump in price) so, apart from the reason above I&#x27;d be open to choose another model.<p>What&#x27;s your opinion on the current MacBook Pro offering?<p>PS: I do have to say though that all their pro hardware seems to be very overpriced for their current offerings and even though I love their products I have to admit that if I really were in the market for a personal laptop, I&#x27;d have a very difficult time choosing myself between a Mac or a PC.
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