They always go in cable/plug join area for me. Plastic peels to reveals individual covered-wires. Genuine Apple cables that is. Fakes lose their pins for me. Finally found good cables on indiegogo project
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Apple May Include USB 3.0 Ports on Upcoming 12.9-Inch 'iPad Pro'
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They always go in cable/plug join area for me. Plastic peels to reveals individual covered-wires. Genuine Apple cables that is. Fakes lose their pins for me. Finally found good cables on indiegogo project
- They make most of their sales and profit by making well built easy to use devices for the mass market. I absolutely love the new MacBook - contrary to all the despair on these forums (although wish it had MagSafe). For my personal laptop I never use any ports. Even when I had an iMac I rarely used the ports - and I bought that back in 2008. As I mentioned above I use server/cloud storage for my simple personal storage needs. And the great thing is they still sell laptops that have ports - i.e. if you need video out by something else. 2nd Gen of this new MacBook will likely be my last desktop class personal use computer. iPad/Surface type devices solely in the future.
- I'm sure people run out of space. But again - Apple won't be offering this IMO. Closed unit is the way they're going, less moving parts, less things to go wrong. Sucks for a portion of users, definitely. But I'd rather a smart off -device solution rather than worry about carrying around 200GB in my pocket. I just carry important things on device and the rest I can access via WiFi/mobile data.
- Charging mats might be good enough for you - but I want better and I hope Apple will deliver. If you have a mat why not just get a dock. Place device on a mat versus putting it in a dock. Meh. I hope Apple come up with something more innovative. Not to mention you can already get mat based wireless by using a case if you really wanted it.
- Matte screen is your preference. I don't share it. Sucks for your use. But I'm glad Apple is going the way they are regarding glossy.
- No, I've never checked my MacBooks battery (or any Windows laptop I've ever owned/own). Currently own a Late 2011 MBP. I think this sums up the whole point I'm making - Apple don't target people who want to know all these things. I really don't care, as long as it works well for a few years I'm happy. I don't want to micro manage.
- 12 months ago you could've said the same thing about iPhone- losing share etc. etc. iPad is still young and I think it is fine hardware wise. Software will evolve (I hope anyway - so I can get rid of my OS X machines which see less and less use).
I just can't get why Apple can't use the option key any more. The only reason is money, I think. This way they make more profits.
I'd very much like to have lightweight laptop with ports and retina. But no.
There are people who like/need ports and those who don't. Why Apple is serving only those who doesn't?
These ports costs only few dollars when embedded and the chipsets already support them. There's no harm if you have ports that you don't use. But there's a lot of harm if you need ports that you don't have.
Other than profis, I can only find a reason, that Apple's chiefs are so insanely obsessed with this perfectionistic need for thinnes, that all reason and logistics are lost. Nobody would care if new MB would be few millimeters thicker to have all three sides full of ports. It would still be the thinnest laptop ever.
Again there's no harm for people, who will never upgrade anything, if the ssd or ram is upgradeable.
These "mats" or whatever seems to be good for everybody else than Apple.
http://www.ikea.com/ms/en_US/coming-soon/wireless-charging/index.html
And the only reason is that Apple has made so good OS's, that you want to use them, but there's no competition in hardware then. Only reason why they could postpone larger screens so long and still can postpone wireless charging. Monopoly-within-operating-system makes of course bigger profits since you can postpone new features until they are cheap and if there's good demand (iphones), you can still raise the price.
Docks don't work with the cases I use. There are no cases with wireless charging that meet my other standards. This is pretty amazing about iOS device ecosystem; all 3rd party products work with Apple's products, but almost none works with each other.
Again, you wouldn't miss a thing if they offered an option that suits me. They used to do that (matte screens). Now you can choose golden casing, phew...
Good for you. But there has to be reason why Apple put that info in AbaoutThisMac->SystemReport->Power. And those who like to monitor those things can. Again, nothing away from you. This is how Apple used to be. You can be a "nerdy", but you don't have to be. Taking this option away, mainly because of short term profits (I think), is making me sad. Even more when you think that Apple is sucking most of the IT industrys profits on the planet, so they could do anything they like. And this is what they like.
They made something to iphone: bigger screen. They can't do the same to ipad, so they have to do something else. And this "else" seems to be one of the last things that interest me about Apple. Even that I'm going to buy iP6 64/128 after Nüüds are getting to this side of the pond. That's kind of sad, I don't like so much about Apple's products anymore, but they are still in many cases the best option to me...
Now, I'll have to get back to work to install 10.10 to early2008 MP with fusion drive and when first dp1.3/hdmi2.0 graphics card appears there will be new, maybe curved 4/5k monitor... It will be nice to do things with 7 year old mac that current lineup can't do...
You want retina, thin, light and you want ports. Apple have given 3 options which you don't like:
- Reitna MacBook Pro - ports, Retina and higher spec a bit bulkier.
- Air: Cheap, light, lower power and great battery.
- MacBook: Cutting edge (for Apple), expensive, low power (but fine for most average users).
The new MacBook is very intriguing as lots of people are complaining about power and ports - what they should realise is that the same was said about the original Air. And it evolved into a fantastic laptop. As I mentioned earlier I can't wait for the 2nd Gen new MacBook - it will be my next computer (and likely last desktop OS machine).
How about other than just focussing on profits they're releasing a range of products that doesn't meet your need. Of course they need to make some profit. I like their direction -it fits my personal computing needs well (except for the lack of MagSafe!).
Why shouldn't they release a laptop with very few ports for people like me who don't need them? Like I already mentioned less ports, less dust, less things to go wrong and better design.
Yes there is - upgradeable means IMO worse design. My favourite thing about the original iPhone compared to my Nokias, Sony Ericssons, Palms etc.. was that it was completely closed. It felt better built for that reason - no creaky back case, no unnecessary openings.
Again, not interested. Everybody used to had crappy swipe fingerprint readers on their laptops. Waste of time as they were rubbish. I'm glad Apple waited for a better solution - Touch ID. I hope they do the same for wireless charging.
Shame it doesn't fit your needs, but if people thought wireless charging was good -they'd buy it - there would be a good case with it built in, there would be a usable standard.
The reality is it's not that useful in it's current form, and from a standards perspective it's an absolute mess.
I hope Apple does something like Apple Pay - create their own standard and ignore the poor products available.
Mattes screen option - nope I wouldn't lose anything.
But maybe... the majority of users would prefer glossy and accurate over matte and less accurate. Or maybe Apple don't want to fatten their available SKUs (which are already starting to balloon with multiple screen sizes etc).
Gold casing is easy - it doesn't effect the way a product works. Whereas adding a matte screen changes a huge part of the device and would take way more work. Apple decided they don't want to put resources into offering it.
I don't think Apple are going to make more sales because that information isn't available on an iPhone. Maybe they used to add it as older batteries were more susceptible to degradation. Maybe you're right and there is big conspiracy at Apple on hiding battery cycle numbers so they can sell more devices.
What you're saying...
- Apple is making bad decision which users don't like.
- But Apple are sucking up most of the industries products.
Wow. Apple must be freaking amazing! If you are right then long term Apple will fail as you can't keep making bad decisions and continue to be successful. If you are wrong, then maybe the decisions aren't that bad - maybe these things don't matter to the majority? And maybe Apple will continue to be successful - although they will be doing things that don't fit your needs.
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"Adding ports to connect to a keyboard and mouse?" What is this, 1995?
I agree with JoEw. More believable would be a pair of reversible Type-C USB 3.1 ports. If somebody wants to hook a keyboard or mouse to one or both of those ports, fine, but they'd be at least somewhat more generalized than that.
Yeah. Type-C for sure. But, will they really let you hook up a mouse and keyboard anyways? The stalemate design against anything beyond a keyboard is beyond me. While not necessary, support for Apple's Bluetooth super mouse and touch pad would we awesome.