Well, I don't know about you guys, but I like to attach my dongles with duct tape. It looks clean and there's no logo.
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Yeah... that's the whole "form over function" Apple thing. In their mind, things like having a thinner iPhone with a camera goiter is preferred over a thicker phone with a flush camera.... or having a notch in the screen over a slim top bezel.
This is what people call "good enough",
but good enough is not what the typical iMac buyer expects, when it comes down to aesthetics.
but good enough is not what the typical iMac buyer expects, when it comes down to aesthetics.
Well they are, and people are buying their products. They're a good company. Though to speak for myself I tend to wait for a sale from them.
Given which port it connects to, I'd assume… Thor?
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WILDCATS, starring Goldie Hawn, 1986! I remember seeing it onboard a United Airlines 747, in flight from Honolulu to San Francisco in the summer of ’86. Pneumatic stethoscope style earphones and all. Anyone else old enough to remember when inflight entertainment was like that? 😆
You mean like on all Imacs since USB is on the back of them?
I literally have a hub that sits on my desk in front of my 2013 Imac that is connected by a cable to the ports on the back to prevent that from happening.
Seems that was what was being asked. Question seems reasonable.
Give me an extended USB keyboard with a built-in USB hub. I’m 100% okay with a wired keyboard.
Why not? Everybody can ask for X prices. The question is, will you find buyers, who will pay that price?
I personally know, that if Apple will rise the prices in the next iterration fo Apple Silicon/M1X Macs, that I will look for alternatives.
Yesteryear? Like 2020? Let me show you my laptop bag full of dongles. Ethernet dongles. HDMI dongles. A dongle/dock with extra USB-A ports and an SD card reader. And I still need more ports.
To me, this is the right approach by Apple. Many people do not need ports, many others use them only once (e.g., plugging in a storage device and leaving it there), and those people accordingly do not need the ports to be visible or readily accessible. For those who do, options abound.
Bolded part, I agree, those look much better and more functional.
Non bolded part, which design...just kidding, I am still not over it though, I would have liked a full screen iMac without the chin, hopefully the bigger one has no bezels, or at least mm bezels.
But then again, I probably buy a Mac Mini and a 4K 50 inch OLED TV/Screen.
An open letter to the manufacturer: If you could just kindly pull your narcissistic branding off of your extremely overpriced product, that'd be great. I'm pretty sure if Apple didn't want to put their logo there on the iMac, it wasn't for the express purpose of freeing up space for it to become a HYPER computer. Design deaf AF.
Lot of folks complaining about the appearance of this thing, which I think is just fine for a product like this. I have ordered one so I don't have to fiddle around behind my 24" iMac every time I want to insert or take out the SD card from my camera, which is relatively often. I wish apple would AT LEAST put ports on the side of the iMac, if leaving the front "unblemished" is such a big priority.
Too bad I already pre ordered the Satechi… oh well. It won’t look as good with my green iMac but that’s fine anyway. Functionality is more important.
Fugly way to ruin the new iMac design.
They should do a foot-mounted one, complete with routing for the cable up to the port.
They should do a foot-mounted one, complete with routing for the cable up to the port.
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