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Intel Dunks on Apple's Dongles in Continued Anti-M1 Mac Campaign

A complete non-sequitur. The range of ports in this case has nothing to do with the CPU architecture. If apple either comes out with the rumored MPB with extra port types, or as other manufacturers drop more legacy ports then this argument is completely destroyed.

Competitors are always "dunking" on apple for removing PS2, Serial, floppy, 3.5mm audio, charger brink, etc… up until they follow suit.
 
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My dell notebook has USB A, USB C, a 3.5mm full size sd card reader, touchscreen, 2 in 1 form factor and everything. It's much more valuable in use than not having those things.
 
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visualseed said:
Cupholders are important to a lot of people, but complaining that the car that smoked you on the track doesn't have them is not an effective strategy to winning races.
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pavinder said:
This whole "handful of dongles" thing is so old and disproven.
There are so many USB-C hubs available with anything from 4 to 10 different ports in them.
One "dongle". Just one. That's all people need.
If this is the best they can do, Intel are showing nothing but their own desperation. It's pathetic.
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Exactly that. There are those who need one port to charge their iPhone. And there are those that buy a hub with everything they need. I have one five port charger in the living room for all the phones and an iPad. And there's one 10 port hub on my work Mac and another one on my private Mac.
 
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jonnysods said:
We are all used to them now - but remember the collective outrage in 2016 when the 4 port USB-C MBP came out?

I really hope the new MBPs have a few extra ports. Kind of like an X1 yoga or something - 1 USB A, HDMI etc.

Having said that - these ads are pretty lame - they are attacking Apple, while their processors are still being sold in Apple's computers. I'm wondering if Apple breaking up with Intel in some boardroom a year ago maybe didn't go so smoothly....
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If you're asking for HDMI, then your laptop is on a desk. In a fixed position with your monitor plugged in. Which means you have the choice of dozens of hubs.
 
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Steve Adams said:
No. Correction. YOU don't. Millions of people are not going to buy new devices JUST to appease the great fruit like yourself. You are the exception, NOT the rule.
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Millions of people that have never owned a previous computer, nor have old devices will. And they will be quite happy.

Most dongles are only for transition. The beauty is people can buy only the ones they want and need. I already have three that I no longer need. Had they been built in ports I would have been needlessly stuck carrying around ports that I don't need that would look more and more legacy and dated every day.
 
As a happy m1 macbook owner I’ll say the lack of ports on MacBooks is absolutely ridiculous. Okay, so there may be an argument for the air. Put the pro should definitely have more ports, there’s no real excuse.
 
visualseed said:
Millions of people that have never owned a previous computer, nor have old devices will. And they will be quite happy.

Most dongles are only for transition. The beauty is people can buy only the ones they want and need. I already have three that I no longer need. Had they been built in ports I would have been needlessly stuck carrying around ports that I don't need that would look more and more legacy and dated every day.
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There are MANY MANY more millions that have. and again, your point has no weight.
 
Steve Adams said:
totally irrelevant comparison. By the time CD/DVD drives were removed the world had moved on to usb storage. Removing SD and USB A ports however are a brain dead move trying to push USB C forward and having "courage" to do so meanwhile 99 percent of the devices out there still USE USB-A. No correlation in the two form factors at all. Nice try though.
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Still. As far as technology evolves and while we are not living in a "all wireless" world, we'll still need a adapter for one thing or another at some point.

The only thing I regret in my MBP M1 is indeed the lack of SD card reader (I'm a photographer) and I would prefer USB-C ports in both sides of the laptop. Other than that, I'm living just fine with the current connectivity...
 
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Steve Adams said:
Apple termed the adapter the "dongle" because they love giving their customers the dongle with all their "new" technology. HA HA HA.
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I thought Phil Schiller said that Apple prefers the term ‘adapter’ over dongle. I could be wrong, but I’m pretty sure he said that in an interview.
 
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Squillace said:
Still. As far as technology evolves and while we are not living in a "all wireless" world, we'll still need a adapter for one thing or another at some point.

The only thing I regret in my MBP M1 is indeed the lack of SD card reader (I'm a photographer) and I would prefer USB-C ports in both sides of the laptop. Other than that, I'm living just fine with the current connectivity...
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Me too, One of the reasons I never looked at the M1. I want sd card input without adapters/readers/dongles. I also Have various USB A storage drives, I don't want to be dongle'ing up to get images and videos from them, I want the ports. They already come with an adapter. The cable that plugs into my computers.
 
Relentless Power said:
I thought Phil Schiller said that Apple prefers the term ‘adapter’ over dongle. I could be wrong, but I’m pretty sure he said that in an interview.
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Im sure that I saw them use dongle in some interviews....so maybe the changed direct. would not be apples first time to change everything...for the sake of change.
 
I haven't really understood that hate of dongles. I don't know of any computer that can meet anyone's ports needs. For instance, I still realy heavily on VGAs as I teach in colleges, where it remains the only way to plug your computer into the projector. But these days, very few laptops come with a VGA port. You'll need an adapter at some point for anything. So why not have one that serves multi purposes?
 
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Steve Adams said:
Me too, One of the reasons I never looked at the M1. I want sd card input without adapters/readers/dongles. I also Have various USB A storage drives, I don't want to be dongle'ing up to get images and videos from them, I want the ports. They already come with an adapter. The cable that plugs into my computers.
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This is a non issue. There are plenty of ultracompact USB-C/USB-A adapters that you can stick to the end of your cable and never take it off, acting like if it was an actual USB-C peripheral. They are very cheap and reliable.
I use a few from Satechi but plenty of brands sell these.
 
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