The end of an era. My first return of an Apple product.

Apple fanboy here. Besides owning multiple iPads, I owned almost every iPhone. Love macOS. Currently own my fourth laptop - a 15inch Retina.

It is the perfect workhorse for FCPX, Logic X Pro, the whole Set of Creative Cloud Apps and of course code-related stuff.

Like so many others, I was eagerly awaiting the new tMBP. After hesitating nearly 1 month, I finally ordered it, waiting another month for it to arrive.

And now, after more countless years of buying and using more and more Apple products without any problems - I am returning the first fully spec'd out 15 inch Macbook Pro.

I really tried to fall in love with the features, excessively testing the huge trackpad, the new keyboard and of course the oh-so-much-wow touchbar.

But I never really enjoyed using the new tMBP. Usually Apple products become part of your daily routine - you use them without experiencing any barriers.

Apple's ecosystem seamless integrates and quickly becomes part of your workflow.

But this tMBP never really became part of it. The main reason for my return is the the keyboard. It is a total disaster - many keys, especially the arrow keys do only react when hammered on - and please do not come with excuses of a 'break-in' period or some other rubbish, I tried it out on various models. Gentle typers will never accomodate with this keybord. Besides the keyboard, the oversized trackpad did not improve any of my workflows at all. At least I didn't experience any palm rejection issues. Last but not least, the uselessness of the touchbar can merely be topped. Also, I thought it would definitely not bother me that there was no Escape key. Well it did bother me, especially since the Escape on the touchbar (obviously no haptic feedback) is slightly moved to the right when compared to actual Escape character on the previous model.

Long story short, I will return it and keep my rMBP until it crashes and burns.

Apple, I'm sorry. It really makes me fucking sad - this keyboard is useless.

What also made me sad: I wanted to get 5K iMac so I could use it as external display when attaching the tMBP. Guess what? You can't. Apple, I guess you do not want my funds.

TL;DR OP is butthurt apple fanboy who bought fully spec'd 15' tMBP and returned it after 1 week, mainly because keyboard is useless

Sayonara Sammy