So I just picked up my 2018 15" MBP on Friday. I am expecting to use it for quite some time, so I went for the 2.6/32GB/512GB/560X combination in Silver.
I was finally moved to pick up this laptop after my trusty early-2011 15" MBP succumbed to GPU failure for the second time last week. Sadly, this time there was no Apple repair program to save it.
A bit about my usage: I study Architecture and thus make extensive use of the Adobe suite, as well as 3D programs like Rhino (now on Mac, yay!) and Sketchup. I dual-boot Windows 10 to run AutoCAD and Revit when necessary too. I've always gamed on my MBP. I know they aren't gaming beasts, but I was playing recent games like Rocket League and Civ VI on my 2011 right up until it died!
What are my thoughts? I love it. The screen is amazing and it runs much faster and more smoothly than my 2011, even though that one did have an SSD. It's quieter too, and though it is a touch warmer, it's nothing concerning in the slightest. I can't believe how thin it is, and I am even getting used to the keyboard too. I just hope that it lasts!
I’m also into Architecture, but as professor at the University. Just ordered mine, as almost top of the line, to make it last (i9/32GB/1TB/560X), in silver (Apple shops have this configuration in stock, but for space gray only, if you want silver, it’s ordered to the factory).
Thanks for the comment about Rhino, didn’t know that. I’ll also be using AutoCAD, ArchiCAD, Mathematica, Gimp, Office, Xcode (for our research software), LaTeX (for research papers), and Revit+Robot (these two are Windows-only, so I have them in a VirtualBox virtual machine, with Mesa3D emulated drivers because I only use them for small exercises in class, and I don’t need maximum performance for them).
The reason I ordered 32GB is precisely for VirtualBox, and the reason for ordering the i9 is because LaTeX is single-core (as well as some Mathematica tasks, and some of our research software), and the i9 gets better single-core marks than the i7.
I’ll see if there are good educational licenses for Rhino, because it can be very useful in the Mac (all the software I listed we have it either as educational, or it is open source).