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

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Yeah. Because I always need 8 different types of connection whenever I go out.

I'm also envious of my Wintel friends who have laptops with the said 8 connections.
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it seems like so long ago now that we could go sit at a cafe with our laptops… but I’m trying to remember the most devices I’ve ever seen someone connect at once. No more than a couple. Maybe in an office when you need to connect a display for a presentation, but still then maybe a monitor and a drive or something.
 
Sasparilla said:
Apple is still a huge Intel customer...all their big money Mac's are Intel only at this point and to actively be stabbing a big customer in the back in public like this, says alot. Their new CEO from Qualcomm seems like a (insert colorful adjective of choice here), based on the choices he's been making since arrival at Intel.
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Qualcomm? He's actually from VMWare. Honestly, if he was from Qualcomm, they might be better off.
 
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Intel, like Samsung, will continue to lash out when their market share is being threatened. Facebook did the same more recently. I don’t think these negative campaigns have the intended effect, and yet you continue to see them.

These are ad campaigns that are made, presumably, by grown adults. Can anyone name an inferior product that leaped ahead of a superior product from just bad mouthing that product in ads? This is just tall grade school!
 
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I’m a proud owner of MBP15 2012 and 2016 and suffer the dongle thing and hurts and annoying me everyday.

I also have a Surface Pro 2 which has even less ports, only 2... Intel you are lying mee!!!!
 
Hmmm.. so complain about a dongle that you need to attach a cable .. so if you are going to attach a cable then what difference does 200mm of more cable make?

Look at it from the flip side. If anything there should be a couple more USB C ports. How many machines have you had that you never used XXX port?

Well, now you get the ports you need by getting the adapter to use the universal port for the function you need.

Dongles? BFD.

The only thing that annoys me with them is the price. IF you need a few, it's a decent price increase to the MacBook.
 
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I also thought Intel is become spiteful the gamers went AMD and Apple then Developed their own Arm Processors (the M1 to start)! The Marking Department at Intel should kicked in bums and Engineers need to get to better Miniaturized their Processors!
 
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ani4ani said:
I’m not sure you folks are getting these ads and the messaging. There is going to be a time quite soon when there will only be Mac (Arm) and PC (X86). There will be no X86 Macs. Intel are messaging that if you want choice in colours, style, form factor, touchscreens, ports, gaming, multiple price points etc, then go PC...because PC‘s use Intel. It is not about the merits of the chips inside.
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Well, if that is the case, then Intel's marketing dept has failed miserably at getting their message across.
 
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MistrSynistr said:
Apple face-planted removing the SD Card reader. Pro's don't upgrade their cameras that cost $5k and beyond for 10+ years or more. Having to have a dongle for that specific thing twas GOOFY.
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Owning and using a 10+ year old Pro DSLR, say a Nikon D3 for instance, might be feasible for current Pro use, although the SD Card slot would do me absolutely no good as the camera came with a CF Card slot.

Owning lenses that are 10+ years old is more likely than having a camera body that old, but I digress.

Pro users are going to simply buy an external reader and go on with their day.
It’s prosumers and consumers who benefitted from the SD Card reader, but Pros users are nonplussed by the lack of the SD Card reader.

If Apple does bring back the SD Card reader, it damn well better be top tier...it’s already a waste to do it, but if they have to do it, they need to get it right.
 
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If Anything this add campaign makes me wish apple would hurry up and release the 14 inch MacBook pro (with ports) and the iMac that can run circles around the current intel iMacs. (I'm writing this post on an intel 2015 iMac that's great but look forward to the redesign and upgrade).
 
iMaK18 said:
Why do you think so?

ill be the first to admit that dongles suck ass. but why is it Apples fault that people are stuck in their old ways of using outdated tech or trying to use their tech the wrong way?

I hate how my iMac doesn’t include a super drive anymore. But at the end of the day, I never used it anymore. Instead of wasting space inside the machine that other components could use for a IO that no one uses anymore, they got rid of it and the 3% of people out there can buy a super drive dongle.

MacBooks, or any laptops, are not meant to be a workstation with the IO selection of a fully loaded desktop workstation. They are a portable lite version of that to help take some work on the go for convenience. With great convenience, comes significant sacrifice.

I’m not trying to argue about this, I’m just genuinely curious why people feel the need to buy dongles because I’ve never exahad this problem.
ive had to buy adapters before for specific situations, but I didn’t blame Apple for it.

In college, i wanted to show a keynote presentation and use my Apple remote with it to go to the next slide. Since they had a Pc setup, I had to buy a hdmi adapter for my MacBook Pro.
Is it apples fault for not having an hdmi output on my MacBook? Or is it the schools fault for not having an Apple computer or a thunderbolt port/mini display port on their projector for me to plug into without an adapter?
It goes both ways. It was my personal choice to use a Macintosh to make my keynote instead of Microsoft PowerPoint. It was my personal choice to want to use a remote to change the slides.
in the end, it didn’t matter to me because going out of my way to do that paid off. I got the best grade for that project and made everyone else look like chumps.
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Delta-NC said:
USB-C was introduced in 2013, that’s 8 years ago. Are you still using devices with USB-A with your MacBook? If so why?
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How else am I supposed to data transfer from my MacBook to my iPhone? My only option out of the box is a lightning to USB cable. I either get the dongle or I go get a USB C to lightning cable.
 
gavroche said:
it seems like so long ago now that we could go sit at a cafe with our laptops… but I’m trying to remember the most devices I’ve ever seen someone connect at once. No more than a couple. Maybe in an office when you need to connect a display for a presentation, but still then maybe a monitor and a drive or something.
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Mmm... In Japan it's still very common to sit in cafe's for hours on end with laptops/books/etc. Often you can't even get a seat ;)

Still, I can't recall seeing anyone with more than one device plugged in to a laptop -- of any kind. Usually it's just power and maybe a mouse.

How else am I supposed to data transfer from my MacBook to my iPhone? My only option out of the box is a lightning to USB cable. I either get the dongle or I go get a USB C to lightning cable.
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Bluetooth? Wifi? AirDrop? Drop them into iCloud/Google Drive/Dropbox and download on the other machine? There's many, many ways... I can't recall grabbing a wire to do that in years. Heck, I even use AirDrop on a Hackintosh...
 
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I don't think you can really favor the lacking of port issue any longer when newer PC's are going the same route as well.

That's been dead many time, yet Intel just wants to keep at it.
 
ani4ani said:
I’m not sure you folks are getting these ads and the messaging. There is going to be a time quite soon when there will only be Mac (Arm) and PC (X86). There will be no X86 Macs. Intel are messaging that if you want choice in colours, style, form factor, touchscreens, ports, gaming, multiple price points etc, then go PC...because PC‘s use Intel. It is not about the merits of the chips inside.
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I have a dream.

That one day, all PCs will be running integrated processors like what Apple has done with the M1, and building your own PC will be strictly restricted to hobbyist endeavours because the performance compromise is simply too great for normal everyday use.

What place in this new world order will Intel still have? Not very much. 😈
 
The gaming capabilities issue is one that drove me, hardcore Mac user since 1995, to build a PC last year (for gaming as well as 3D modeling/rendering). I spend all day, 5 days a week, doing work (graphic design and Photoshop) on a Mac.

I now have access to a cornucopia of games, 3D and VR stuff. I love it. But I really do hate Windows...takes some getting used to. I wish there were some gaming nerds at Apple who would turn this sad state of affairs around, once and for all. But probably never will happen.
 
Steve Adams said:
keep drinking that kool - aid. touchscreen, gaming etc is important to ALOT of people. More than the m1 is to apple fans.
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Apparently not though, because I can game just fine with the ones I want to play. How else would you explain the growing Mac market share? Interesting.

Also, why are you even here on these forums? Go troll somewhere else.
 
Nobody cares about Justin Long’s adds against modern processors with low battery usage that power the most popular devices on the planet. Intel is living in the Stone Age, as Microsoft missed the boat with mobile devices Intel has missed the boat on the chips of the future. They are old news and in a matter of 5 - 10 years will be the Compaq and HP of this generation of computer companies. Old, out of date and out of money.
 
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