Apple would want $999 for an Apple display. The LG ones weren't that expensive and I'd guess they only had limited sales. A good 4K monitor isn't very expensive now, there's no 30% profit margin for Apple in making monitors.
I hear you but when using my MBP on the coach or somewhere like that it has plenty of battery life to not need a cable. Unless you are telling me you work like that for 10-12 hours, and that is without the M1/2 CPU. I hear you but MagSafe seems like a tech from yesterday not a forward motion.
This goes against what Apple design is known for.
Yeah, I would rather have 4 of the same ports I KNOW I'll use than only two, plus HDMI and SD that I already know I won't use. I'll buy the dongle if I need it.
I don't understand people's hatred for the adapters/dongles. You attach them to the end of the peripheral device once and never touch them again. They effectively become a small extension cord. Are they ugly? Sure. But I really don't care - I didn't buy my Mac to enter beauty contests, I bought it to get work done and watch horribly overrated television shows!
Intel, what are yo doing here.... come back yo work hard... maybe you recover some performance....
There’s one function about MagSafe that seems to be chronically overlooked. I love being able to connect it to my laptop via one hand. No holding down the MacBook and then pushing in the cable. It comes on so handy when (often) balancing something else in your other arm/hand and is a subtle functionality I’d miss terribly but think few even recognize because it’s one of those surprise and delight things “that just works.” Plugging virtually anything into the back of my Mac mini is usually a five to ten second exercise in frustration, having to resort to pulling out my mini to see the back half the time.
Which are quickly replaced by another standards compliant cable. And, really, it’s not like MagSafe cables were known for their stellar durability anyway, so that’s a wash at best and still better off for USB-C as a standard non-Apple cable will almost always be cheaper than anything Apple proprietary.
Could not think of a worse camera to argue that an SD Card slot is a good thing.
Naw. I spent $1,000 on an Apple Display a few years ago. Worst investment of my life. Worked good for like 10 months and then screen would randomly stay in sleep mode. Never fixed. Google searches revealed it to be a known problem.
I need proprietary MagSafe, like I need a USB 1.1 port on my MBP. You can still pull a MBP off a desk if the yank happens fast enough and at an oblique angle, ask me how I know. All these people pining for yesteryear…gahhh! Bulging batteries, firmware issues, GT650M issues, delaminated screens, random shutdowns…the 2012-2015 MBPs were not some mythical age, they crapped out and sometimes with alarming frequency.
Is USB-A hardware very pervasive? I mean, there’s USB-A sticks, but what other hardware requires USB-A? Printers can be wireless now, but, for those that aren’t, you just get a USB-C to whatever cable (folks refer to cables as dongles these days for some reason).
Care to explain why? It’s a pretty recent camera and has an sd slot, the poster I was answering stated all modern cameras have ditched sd. They didn’t.
You get “the whole power of the machine” when on battery with Apple Silicon.
Yes, but there’s a huge difference between the Apple Silicon Macs and the Intel ones when it comes to battery life.
