All you need is Anker adapting one of their hubs. For serious work, there are not enough ports anyway. Anker has a nice hub with 3x charging port and 7x USB ports.
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Apple Unveils New 13-Inch and 15-Inch MacBook Pros With Retina 'Touch Bar'
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No. You're SUPPOSED to buy wireless headphones and use them for both.Audio Ports!?! F'n Hell Apple. Now I have to carry one set of lightning headphones for my iPhone7 and a separate pair of analog or usbC headphones just for my mac?! Such a fail!
I'm pretty thrilled with the announcement. Not announced, was this:
http://www.apple.com/shop/product/MMEL2AM/A/thunderbolt-3-usb-c-to-thunderbolt-2-adapter
That was a major worry for me because I have A LOT of Thunderbolt 2 stuff (2 docks, ethernet, firewire). I'll get native stuff at some point but since these new machines aren't cheap.
And I know there is a general want for SUPREME ULTIMATE POWER here, but my favorite laptop thus far has been my older Air. It was a great size/weight. Seeing the 13" Pro come in at a smaller size is nice. (And I'm not gonna lie, I was hoping for Space Gray and got it.) I would have preferred a dedicated GPU on the 13" model, but I was never holding out hope. Seeing that it can drive a 5K screen was good enough.
My gaming is gonna get gimped a bit but... http://www.razerzone.com/store/razer-core
That's my preference anyway, then I can upgrade video independent of my laptop. The price is a bit high but I'm paying for a Mac anyway so, that's the nature of the beast.
Last point: MagSafe.
I'm not really going to miss it. When I'm working on my laptop where tripping would traditionally occur, I'm on battery. This was not the case five years ago but even in 2013, I was never sitting while plugged in on my Air. The battery life was just too good. Now? I plug in when I'm at my desk. There's nothing to trip over.
Also a bonus: USB charging means being able to swap power adapters between devices and get quality, non-Apple charging devices too. That's a big win. (Now if Apple would just kill off Lightning, that would rule.)
http://www.apple.com/shop/product/MMEL2AM/A/thunderbolt-3-usb-c-to-thunderbolt-2-adapter
That was a major worry for me because I have A LOT of Thunderbolt 2 stuff (2 docks, ethernet, firewire). I'll get native stuff at some point but since these new machines aren't cheap.
And I know there is a general want for SUPREME ULTIMATE POWER here, but my favorite laptop thus far has been my older Air. It was a great size/weight. Seeing the 13" Pro come in at a smaller size is nice. (And I'm not gonna lie, I was hoping for Space Gray and got it.) I would have preferred a dedicated GPU on the 13" model, but I was never holding out hope. Seeing that it can drive a 5K screen was good enough.
My gaming is gonna get gimped a bit but... http://www.razerzone.com/store/razer-core
That's my preference anyway, then I can upgrade video independent of my laptop. The price is a bit high but I'm paying for a Mac anyway so, that's the nature of the beast.
Last point: MagSafe.
I'm not really going to miss it. When I'm working on my laptop where tripping would traditionally occur, I'm on battery. This was not the case five years ago but even in 2013, I was never sitting while plugged in on my Air. The battery life was just too good. Now? I plug in when I'm at my desk. There's nothing to trip over.
Also a bonus: USB charging means being able to swap power adapters between devices and get quality, non-Apple charging devices too. That's a big win. (Now if Apple would just kill off Lightning, that would rule.)
Biggest let down I've seen from my beloved Apple. Really makes Microsoft look very attractive right now, even with Windows.
It's an ever decreasing circle. Slow sales > raise prices = slower sales. The way to boost sales is to drop prices.
This was underwhelming. Nothing about the touch bar is necessary. I will be checking out surface books.
LOL! I also read it twice to make sure I was seeing it right.
First time that I'm more excited about Microsoft new stuff over Apple's
If they add a 32 GB Ram Option, I would buy it with my eyes closed... 16 Gb Ram.... I have to think about it... I don't think this machine can edit 4K Video with 16GB of ram in Premiere Pro. o all those that use virtual machines. or those that make 3d animation
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Amazed the Apple engineering team didn't find a solution to keep MagSafe.
MagSafe saved my laptop more times than I can count. I even think the original (straight) version did a better job and recently damaged by laptop because the newer one didn't quite catch.
This recent change brought to us by the people who want to repair or sell us a new one when it falls off the table? Maybe they (or 3rd party) could add a magsafe adapter?
Never thought I'd see the day where Microsoft was releasing better, more innovative hardware yet here we are.
That's how it should be. Ok, I'm willing to give Apple a pass (not really) on adding the Touch Bar, it costs money but how can you charge more for the base 13" with no Touch Bar with just updated specs?
The LG displays featured in the keynote:
LG UltraFine 5K Display
http://www.apple.com/shop/product/HKN62LL/A/lg-ultrafine-5k-display?fnode=8a
LG UltraFine 5K Display
http://www.apple.com/shop/product/HKN62LL/A/lg-ultrafine-5k-display?fnode=8a
As a long time Mac user I can no longer defend Apple as the better deal (even given higher prices) when others are out innovating them.
It's like Apple holds an annual task force meeting to decide what works, what is best about something just so they can remove it and replace it with something stupid.
No USB, No SD Card Slot, 16GB of RAM ceiling (really Apple?), No headphone/speaker socket, No MagSafe. That's all I know about, what other things have they killed?
What a PITA for a professional. All these friggen adapters for everything, to get lost along with the stupid wireless headphones. MagSafe has saved me countless times. When you plug your camera in and it's plugged into an adapter it's another way to break connection and happens too easily and it's not only annoying but it ruins your shoot.
And then the price? REALLY APPLE? Your junk is over priced already!
That stupid OLED bar is ridiculous. It's just unnecessary and putting something pretty on it for the sake of it. Apple has totally lost it. As a twenty year customer of Apple and one time fan boy I have had it with this nonsensical company which has been clearly overrun with well funded monkeys.
No USB, No SD Card Slot, 16GB of RAM ceiling (really Apple?), No headphone/speaker socket, No MagSafe. That's all I know about, what other things have they killed?
What a PITA for a professional. All these friggen adapters for everything, to get lost along with the stupid wireless headphones. MagSafe has saved me countless times. When you plug your camera in and it's plugged into an adapter it's another way to break connection and happens too easily and it's not only annoying but it ruins your shoot.
And then the price? REALLY APPLE? Your junk is over priced already!
That stupid OLED bar is ridiculous. It's just unnecessary and putting something pretty on it for the sake of it. Apple has totally lost it. As a twenty year customer of Apple and one time fan boy I have had it with this nonsensical company which has been clearly overrun with well funded monkeys.
Quick background... I'm a Microsoft Surface Pro 2 user. My daughter has a mid-2012 MBP that I admin and upgrade for her, so I keep my eye on the Mac world. With that, a few comments...
1) It seems like they may be pricing themselves out of the education market.
2) USB-C has a great feature I don't think anyone on the thread has mentioned. It allows a single point of contact for power and video. Not sure if you can simultaneously provide network and other USB connections via a hub or dock. One thing I really like about Surface (and other enterprise class machines) is the ability to dock into multiple connections (video, audio, USB, power and network).
3) Touchbar seems like a gimmick. I agree with other critics on the thread. Why bother with touch BAR when I have a touch SCREEN.
4) Need to investigate if they've pushed the envelope on battery life...
1) It seems like they may be pricing themselves out of the education market.
2) USB-C has a great feature I don't think anyone on the thread has mentioned. It allows a single point of contact for power and video. Not sure if you can simultaneously provide network and other USB connections via a hub or dock. One thing I really like about Surface (and other enterprise class machines) is the ability to dock into multiple connections (video, audio, USB, power and network).
3) Touchbar seems like a gimmick. I agree with other critics on the thread. Why bother with touch BAR when I have a touch SCREEN.
4) Need to investigate if they've pushed the envelope on battery life...
Help me remind about that, has Apple ever did a notebook lineup with same-screen models differentiated by NUMBER OF PORTS ?!!??!?! OR SPEED OF RAM? OR - lol - graphics 540 vs 550?
This is just marketing, it has nothing to do with doing great computers. Hardware choices at Apple have always been driven by the logic behind making great PCs, not trying to sell the upper model with the ****ing touch bar. If i'm never adjusting color levels on photoshop or never work as a amateur dj - only amateurs would be interested in scratching on the touch bar - why should I buy the touch bar version? To make Tim Cook richer?
Apple is going away with Steve Jobs.
Why are they so expensive? They are a good $400-500 more than any previous MacBook pro generation. With nothing but disappointment in the specs. No 32GB, no MagSafe, irritating ports that require adaptors, not great graphics card, pretty old processor. Even being a fan of MacOS, for the first time in 30 years I'm feeling I don't want to buy a Mac. (Does anyone care about the Touchbar?)
You can get a Dell Precision with a xeon cpu (up to 4ghz), up to 64gb ram and 2 internal drives. It only comes with a 4gb nVdia quadro, but I'd take that over an ATI.
Sure, it gets expensive, but you said any price.
The touch bar is silly. Most of what they showed can be done with key strokes that don't require looking down at the keyboard.