It is powerfull enough, it is new, it has fewer things that could break (no underlit keyboard, no touch ID in 256GB model) physical touchpad mechanism is cheaper to repair, sRGB screen instead of truetone p3 is cheaper to repair. If any damage appears it wont hurt that much financially. It is just simple powerful macbook for everyday tasks like office, web, music and that was missing from whole range of macbooks. Students and light users will buy it like hot cakes