[cobralibre]

Many people were clinging on to their aging MacBook Pros in the vain hope of seeing a major spec and performance upgrade that simply didn’t materialize, and that's been frustrating.

This statement is worth pausing on. Many users with "pro" needs (developers, video editors, photographers, etc.) replace their computers on a 3-4 year cycle. It's reasonable to expect significant enhancements related to those pro needs at the end of that cycle.

Furthermore — and this is crucial — any new computer has to serve those pro needs for the next 3-4 years.

[mercer]

I'm one of those people. Thankfully I can still do my work on my MacBook Air for a while yet, but my original plan was to buy a MacBook Pro last year. Now I'm just hoping I can comfortably continue using my MBA and pray that next year they either lower the prices, do something fancy to the specs, or, ideally, release a proper MacBook Pro (fat chance...).

Worst case scenario I'll just buy the Pro they release next year, though. They probably know that there are many like me who would still go for the Pro even in its current incarnation, so I'm not keeping my hopes up that next year will be anything but an incremental update to the current, shitty Pros.