At yesterday's Mac User group meeting a person approached me about MacBook Pro purchasing advice. I'd had a similar conversation with her several months ago but life has been chucking lemons at her lately and she just plain didn't have the time. My advice was to go for a refurbished 2015 13" with 256 GB SSD, 8 GB of RAM & a 2.7 GHz Core i5 processor. She'd been considering an entry-level 2016 non-touchbar 13" MBP but she said she preferred to have a the old-style ports, esp Magsafe. She sent me an email a few hours later saying she'd taken my advice & would pick it up a her local Apple Store next week.