Hey Apple, the MacBook Pro needs to go on a diet!

Apple’s shift to its own silicon is proving to be a smart move. No longer having to rely on other companies for CPU chips that power its laptop, desktop and mobile devices including the iPad and iPhone means the company can beat to its own drum when it comes to release cycles. No doubt this makes internal planner more accurate, drives down costs, and improves margins.

As a longtime MacBook user I’m mighty tempted to upgrade my 2016 laptop for one of the shiny new M2-based variants revealed last week.

But, aside from the lofty price, there’s a few things possibly causing me to hesitate.

For one, despite my MacBook Pro being over six years old it still runs great. Sure, my screen has a bit of minor water damage due to an incident involving the Baja and a Tecate. Doesn’t matter. I can still read and work just fine. Meantime, the keyboard and battery were replaced as part of a recall by Apple just a few years ago so that sub-assembly/module is quite new and there’s no problems there. WiFi is reliable and fast enough. As is the processor — I’m mainly using Google Chrome anyways to mostly research and write in WordPress or other web-based apps, with an occasional photo edit in Lightroom as needed for Loni Stark’s paintings.

So given that I’m not a power monger (I use a Ryzen-based Windows desktop for the all the heavy lifting) there’s far less of a reason to upgrade. In fact, if you’re like me and and mostly a Web user maybe even a basic…