When your MacBook Pro is due for an upgrade, but you don't want to buy a model right before a new release a couple months from now...

You could even get a great laptop with Ubuntu on ;D docker natively etc

The problem with most laptops I find is the design. I like the features in hardware with Apples laptops. I wouldn't mind buying a Pixel and installing Ubuntu maybe. Hehe

USB-C...?

32GB OF RAM FFS!

Due to my funding I had to do that when I was buying my last MacBook. Buy it in January when the new one got presented in early February. Apple just never dispatch my order and then on the day of the presentation they sent me an email saying "since your order has not yet been dispatched we are upgrading you to the new model free of charge" and my new MacBook got dispatched the next day.