I sure hope most of these rumors are true, although just slightly too late for us as we were finally forced to purchase a number of more recent MacBook Airs and most recently M1 MacBook Airs for our school, which are tremendously fast but which still lack any normal ports or magsafe. A return to some semblance of real-world compatibility with even one dang normal USB port would be such great news. We put off new purchases as long as we possibly could, hoping to see a turn around in Apple's designs, but too many of our iPads aged-out of usability and we decided to put our $$$ into laptops instead of more iPads. If these rumors pan out I might try to talk management into allowing me to refurb every 'butterfly keyboard' and 'usb-c only' model we have and resell them, and then re-invest. It's really that big a PITA to us, as we can buy any number of USB adaptors and they always get quickly lost and staff and students are always scrambling to find them. We are also afraid to let any student use a USB-C charger since they don't unplug if a cord is tripped over, so I've redesigned our charging carts so the USB-C adaptors can't be removed (I'm handy like that, a man of many talents... In my own mind anyway 😂). That's something we never worried about with the MagSafe chargers and would let students take them to their work-areas if necessary. Apple equipment resale values are so good we could probably do that and only reduce our entire fleet by (relative) handful of units.
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