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Apple Announces 12-Inch Retina MacBook With Revamped Trackpad, Starting at $1,299

fotografom said:
People need to stop crying. This laptop is not for everyone. I need much more resources then it provides but I am not going to hate on it. For users who have basic needs this is amazing.

Also on the expandability piece, Apple already has this up on the site.
http://store.apple.com/us/product/MJ1K2AM/A/usb-c-digital-av-multiport-adapter
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This looks OK - it is not much larger than the VGA adapter that I carry around with my MBP. It has 3 ports
HDMI (replacing VGA in many meeting rooms)
USB 3.1 Gen 1 (can be used to charge an iPhone)
USB-C (daisychaining - power supply?)

Add my Satechi ethernet/wifi adapter and I probably have all the connections that I need for travel.
( http://www.satechi.net/index.php/ne...and-more-in-us-ca-mx-uk-eu-au-nz-hk-and-china )

Update: Now an Apple VGA adapter has appeared:
http://store.apple.com/us/product/MJ1L2AM/A/usb-c-vga-multiport-adapter
( https://www.macrumors.com/2015/03/09/usb-c-digital-av-multiport/ )
 
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bluush said:
Wow. My head hurts. After reading all the comments in this thread here's what all the gripes boil down to:

"GUYS WHY DOESNT THIS PORTABLE EMAIL/YOUTUBE NOTEBOOK HAVE ALL THE POWER AND SPECS OF A 2017 MAC PRO???? APPLE IS DONE, WORST PRODUCT EVER. TIM COOK WILL RESIGN BY THE END OF THE WEEK I PROMISE"
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:D Indeed. If you look back, the exact same things were said about pretty much every product released by Apple in the last decade.
 
cult hero said:
I didn't understand the hate on this with Thunderbolt and I don't get it now. While I am not a fan of a single port, I'm definitely a fan of "One Port Fits All".

Does everyone need multiple displays?

Does everyone need ethernet?

Does everyone need 3 USB?

Does everyone need Firewire?

I need all of this sometimes. I even need a serial adapter when I'm messing with Cisco routers. You know what's awesome? I have a couple of adapters that let me—get this—adapt to the current situation.

I'll be thrilled when there is, more or less, one master port type. It'll be even better when modern peripherals auto-negotiate with it so I don't need adapters except for legacy devices.

2 - 4 USB-C ports would have been nicer, although carrying a hub really doesn't bug me too much. When I'm genuinely on the road, I carry almost nothing. If I'm in a situation where I need to hook up to a bunch of stuff... it's in my bag anyway. What's a hub?
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Well I could live with one port but I don't understand that same port doubling as a charging port. What about when you need to transfer stuff from the iPhone to the Macbook.....or Macbook to iMac and so on. Or when you want to backup stuff to an external drive. All of that really needs power as it takes time and can drain the battery.
 
merlingfx said:
Don't know if anyone covered this yet or not, but I did see several posts wondering if the charging solution will include a pass-through slot so that something else could be plugged in while the power adapter is plugged in.

This is unfortunately not the case. Going through the apple store you can see the new MacBook charging solution, which is simply a 29w power brick with a USB-C plug, and a USB-C (male) to USB-C (male) cable.

So with no hubs being made or even announced/in-the-works yet, there will not only be no way out-of-the-box to do something as simple as plug in a thumb drive and external display together, but it won't even be possible to use a thumb drive OR display while the computer is plugged in the AC adapter.

APPLE FAIL.
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Yeah, also, do i have to add a splitter also?
 
What is the purpose of new MacBook 12”?

What is the purpose of new MacBook 12”? I think this is a machine for road warrior. Super light, with a screen size that allow a great productivity and a good battery life. However, there is one problem. Road warriors hate adapters/cables and the new mac does not have any ports. The only one is a not know port (USB-C).

If you are a road warrior you would like a USB port to charge your phone, make presentations (VGA/HDMI) and read your SD camera card. A Kensington lock and a finger print read would be a must.

For these reasons I think that the Mac Air 11” is better than MacBook 12”. You lose a little of screen, but won two USB ports, a display port, a faster processor and save a lot of money (you can save US$ 400, 30% of the value).

The problem about ports is so obvious that the Apple already sell adapters that multiply the only one port to 3 ports (USB-C, USB and HDMI or USB-C, USB and VGA).

So, if you are a road warrior buy the Mac Air 11”, if you need to read SD cards buy the Mac Air 13” (is better that the Mac Air 11” and cheaper than the Macbook 12”) and if you want a HDMI I suggest a Mac Book Pro 13”. My conclusion is that there is no reason to buy the new Macbook 12”. Sorry Apple!
 
venom600 said:
It's not the specs. It's the price. $1299 for these specs is patently absurd. $899, even $999. Fine.
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You're only focusing on specs....which I'm sure is the bottom line for some....but Apple showed all the engineering put into this new Macbook and that's why it's not a bargain basement lappy.
 
chabig said:
You mean like this one?
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So you just daisy chain an RJ-45 to USB connector to your USB to USB-C connector? Revolutionary!

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HenryDJP said:
You're only focusing on specs....which I'm sure is the bottom line for some....but Apple showed all the engineering put into this new Macbook and that's why it's not a bargain basement lappy.
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Pity they didn't engineer a retina display in to the existing, legitimately revolutionary Macbook Airs purely because they want to drive anyone looking for a beautiful screen to the Apple version of the Chromebook. It's not so revolutionary for this thing to have no fans when it's that underpowered.

Come on. I admit the new Macbooks are beautiful but to anyone who actually understands the technology the current lineup is absurd.
 
gavroche said:
Yea... Apple has been making a lot of odd decisions for a number of years now. This is evidenced by the extremely poor performance of their stock market valuation. Oh, wait... :D
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I couldn't care less about the stock price and the investors dont give two ***** about the devices Apple makes. They only care they Apple is making obscene amounts of profit.

Macs are slowly becoming irrelevant for ME. Mac Pro is too extensive given the complete lack of upgradeability, Mac Mini has been killed and turned into a Apple TV running OS X, the new Macbook is not useful to me at all because of the lack of connectivity. The only Macs I would currently consider are Macbook Air (which probably does not have more than a few years to live now) and the Macbook Pro. When SSDs and retina displays are standard on all iMacs I might look at them too.
 
No Thunderbolt?!?!?!

Lack of a Thunderbolt port or adapter is a killer as I have a Thunderbolt display and Thunderbolt hard drive. What are they thinking?
 
I'd be interested to see if USB C becomes the new mobile connector that governments are pushing for as a universal standard to reduce charger cable wastage. I feel like USB C is a happy medium that Apple and their competitors could agree on. But also because it's not an Apple technology, they can't stop anybody else from using it. I think this means good things for the industry.
 
How do you charge the battery and use USB at the same time? Apple is losing it. Where is the SD card slot? I use it all the time to transfer pictures to computer. Does the new Air come with the adapter at least?
 
SlCKB0Y said:
I'm pretty sure design dictates engineering at Apple.



I don't buy this for one second and i'm pretty sure you have nothing to back this claim up. Ports will be one of those things users never really appreciated until they were taken away from them.

Off the top of my head, the following extremely common tasks will not be possible without an adapter (assuming Macbook is plugged in):

1. Use of an external display.
2. Use of external hard drive or USB flash drive for data or time machine backups.
3. No wired printer or scanner connectivity
4. No wired keyboard or mouse connectivity
5. Cannot charge iPhone, iPad or other USB device.
6. Cannot import photos from camera using SD card.
7. Cannot get wired networking.
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And the iPhone sucks too because it won't connect to a landline. ;)
 
Hopefully there is an usb to macsafe adapter or the power adapter is designed so that there is still a magnetic break point for "the clumsy ones".

It's been a comforting asset.
 
lowercaseperson said:
First I have a hard time believing this is going to happen with any kind of regularity.

More importantly, there are almost innumerable FREE applications that take the place of USB drives. I have more than 100 GB of free cloud storage. I keep all of my data there. I can access it from my phone, my computer, your computer, your phone, literally anywhere I want to. So if I had this computer I wouldn't have a USB drive...and I wouldn't have this problem.

The people who will buy this computer have either figured out how to move their data to the cloud or just don't us nUSB ports in general. How is that so unbelievable?
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Nobody uses cloud storage in 2015. Heard of the NSA?

Seen Kate Uptons iCloud pics? (Hehe very nice)

Only people who don't care for their privacy would do such a thing.

It's local all the way since 2014. Cloud is a thing of the past.
 
astrocramp said:
Apple is basically announcing that Thunderbolt is dead by including only USB-C. I guess it wasn't really a solid standard anyway, but couldn't succeed even with Apple pushing it hard.
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Maybe you missed that the rest of the new laptops were upgraded to Thunderbolt 2?
 
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