I think 99.9% of all people would prefer to have two USB ports instead of one (given the trade-off of a device that is weighs 50 g more). You are the first person I have come across that would have preferred one instead of two USB ports on a laptop.
What I actually meant, is that from what I remember of the video, the revised macbooks showed a USB2 and a USB3 port side-by-side each other.
Since USB3.0 ports evidently have no trouble supporting devices built for USB2.0 ports, why not just include 2 USB3.0 ports, instead of one of each? That's what I meant - with USB3.0, why bother going back to 2.0 ever?
In addition, I seem to recall that in the case of the MBA, both ports were on opposite sides of the laptop. Since when were they beside each other? Won't that make plugging in of multiple devices troublesome as they might get in the way of each other?
Again, I could be very wrong here.
Can someone tell me why we all have the impression that the RAM/SSD is not upgradable, other than guessing from the video of the keynote? Are there any other current Mac products where the RAM is "soldered" in? (I really don't know.)
There's a difference between being inconvenient and being impossible.
The macbook airs have their ram soldered on as a space-saving measure (the drawback is that it is nigh-impossible to upgrade or replace them yourself). It is not unreasonable to expect that they would use a similar method to save space on the new MBP.
You *might* be able to upgrade the SSD yourself, but from my understanding, the MBA (and possibly the new MBP as well) was never designed to be opened up by the ordinary layman, so that might prove to be much more trouble than it is worth.
The fact that this effectively forces you to purchase ram directly from apple at inflated prices is probably another consideration. Otherwise, there would be little incentive when extra ram/SSD is readily is available online at 1/2 the price Apple charges (or cheaper).
