We’ve been conditioned: Every new Apple Product is the best Apple Product ever… until, of course, the next best Apple Product ever.

The exception? The new MacBook Pro laptops. Even if you have enough spare cash to buy a Tesla for your kitten, it isn’t abundantly clear that you should choose one of the new $1,500-and-up models over their predecessors.

Last year, the MacBook Pro (herein referred to as the “old MacBook Pro”) took the place of the MacBook Air as my favorite laptop. I can work on its crisp, beautiful Retina display for 8 to 9 hours before hunting for an outlet.

With Apple’s new Pro models, I can do the same in a more beautiful, svelte package and with a snazzy touch screen above the keyboard. But I also have to live with tradeoffs.

One of them: buying $150 worth of adapters because Apple killed all the traditional ports for USB-C.