Are you saying it's better for me not to answer between the lines? OK, I won't. I looked at the Apple Store refurbished models per your link and I found one right below the $1099 one for $1189 and it has twice the SSD space! They come with Sierra. I told the guy at the other store I was looking at what you said about the dates of the touch bar, etc. I let him know I would probably buy one from the apple store. I am thrilled about the more SSD even though I haven't even hit 50 gb on my old MBP. I am also looking forward to bossing Siri around. I am thinking you probably tried this to make the track pad more to your liking but I will quote it anyway from what I found online:
Use your Force Touch trackpad more like a traditional trackpad, you can easily do that too. And if you later change your mind, you can turn it right back on.
1 Launch System Preferences. Click on Trackpad. Uncheck Force Click and haptic feedback to disable.
I'm still fearful of doing what you said with my SuperDuper because I'm not completely sure what to do. I usually plug it in and then the three partitions show up and I click Erase and then it erases the one partition I choose and then puts back all the info from the hard drive. I really don't know how to go backwards from that to go the other way.
Reformatting your posts is insanely difficult, so I'll respond thusly this time...
1. artie: Had the original purchaser bought the 2016 model I could see the mind change and upgrade, but since se went for the $200 cheaper 2015 model in the first place, I'll scratch my head.
Rita: Is that because the Touch Bar wasn't available back then anyway?
Yep! The Touch Bar was first introduced in October 2016, so an upgrade from the 2016 non-TB to the TB would make some sense, while an upgrade from the 2015 non-TB to the 2016 TB doesn't...in my eyes anyhow.
2. artie: At any rate, the same MBP is available from the Apple Refurbished Store for $1,099 as I type.
Rita: Yeah, but the refurbished one is not eligible for AppleCare which I like.
That's incorrect! All Apple refurbs come with their standard one year warrantee and are eligible for AppleCare...same as their new machines.
3. Rita: I've got SuperDuper if that's what you mean but I don't know how to get it back onto my MBP just back onto the external drive. I'm willing to try since I can't get to my internal drive anyway.
I've never seen the SuperDuper! GUI, but I imagine it's similar to that of Carbon Copy Cloner, which I'm running.
Presumably, you created a SD! task that clones from your internal HDD to your external, so look at what you did, and create a new, reversed task, i.e. treat your external as your source and your internal as your destination.
