| Why? What advances in computation over the last two years would really benefit the Macbook Pro line? SSDs are the same size 16GB RAM is still a luxury Not many Apple applications perform better with more RAM or faster CPUs, looking at Xcode Some Adobe products can be marginally sped up with more RAM, if you like compositing CPUs aren't much better, skylake wasn't so phenomenal after all GPUs on the mobile variant haven't gotten much better, and integrated graphics are still good enough. What is your perspective? Especially on the 'desperate' part |
Maybe current SSDs are a little faster and maybe current CPUs are a bit better, but logically speaking, you're technically right that there's an argument to be made that most people won't notice a significant difference (if any at all) in performance today with an update if they already have a reasonably new machine.
The counterpoint to that logical point is that this won't necessarily be the case a year or three from now. Requirements eventually go up, things such as VR emerge that require a big performance increase. New OS-level technologies are released that take better advantage of things like more RAM, CPU cores, graphics cards, etc.
But really, you're ignoring the human and emotional aspect to this. People feel like crap when they buy something and the new model is released a couple weeks later. When people are paying that much money for a machine, they're expecting to get the latest and greatest that will last them as long as possible. I don't think it's hard to understand.