I’m sure Apple has data from diagnostic logs about what people are actually plugging into their USB-C ports. I’d wager the vast majority, besides charging to the laptop or charging a device from the laptop, are plugging in a dongle or hub to then use a display output or USB-A. And that’s just dumb.
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Bloomberg: Next MacBook Pro to Feature SD Card Reader
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Who knows, but every time I hear one of these rumors, I'm even happier that I bought the first M1 if they indeed start adding more poo on the sides of them. Ugh.
It's strange isn't it - they ignored the people who need intel workloads, but apparently embrace the ones who need legacy ports like SD. One of those two isn't going away....
“SD” in a rumor could mean SD Express for all we know - it’s best not to get too wrapped up in the details of the announcement.
On the other hand, even SD, or MicroSD, would be great for my use case of writing cards for use in various models of Raspberry Pi.
WTF? It’s their architecture, they can build in however many TB ports they feel are warranted. That’s the whole point of controlling the chip architecture themselves - they can make it have whatever they want, on their own timetable.
Intel workloads will be around for many many years, far longer than widespread SD card use. The reason the mac came back from near death in 2006 was the ability to boot and virtualize windows. Corporate/professional applications is the big one - things like Solidworks aren't going to migrate to ARM. Gaming is another workload, though to be fair, mac gaming's pretty much been dead for years (even with boot camp/virtualization) because of lousy GPU support.
What? So, because the very first AS entry-level laptop has 1 TB port, that translates into every AS Mac that Apple ever makes is limited to 1 TB port? What kind of nonsense is that?
USB C is amazing but it really is a workflow nightmare in some situations that I have ran into.
And what poo do you stick to your M1? The one that makes more poo or the one that converts the poo?
So you want them to leave out ports that many people would find useful because, what... it would hurt your feelings if your MBP had ports that you personally didn’t need? Weird. My TV has a USB port I’m never going to use. I don’t get angry about it.
People who use micro-sd are already used to using adapters. And many micro-sd cards are sold with the adapters (since they are just cheap pieces of plastic).
SD cards didn’t go away as fast as they expected, so the still photography community, which is a very mac-centric crowd, still demands SD card slots? Ironically, CF Express is beginning to catch on, particularly at the high end, so SD cards is, in a sense, looking backwards even more than before.
Jony Ive didn’t have that kind of control over Mac features. He determined design, not the feature set.
it sure is a shame they hold no sway over the people who design Apple Silicon chips and can’t ask them to add more thunderbolt controllers. You talk like this is an off the shelf part, and like there’s only ever going to be one design. The M1 was them just getting started.
It would be fantastic news if they got away from their petty "beef" with NVIDIA and offered those discrete cards. Unfortunately, looks like they are probably going to go further in with their SOC. I imagine discrete cards being pulled altogether and replaced with additional cores on the SOC, though, along with total loss of eGPU support.
Thinking about it reasonably and based on Apple's past actions, it would make more sense for them to argue that the niche market can utilize wi-fi syncing and not need any cables, dongles, or ports.