Intel is starting to make the same kind of sounds RIM and Nokia used to make.
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Intel Dunks on Apple's Dongles in Continued Anti-M1 Mac Campaign
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Intel is just so pathetic these days. First with AMD, now with Apple, whenever they smell even a hint of competition they immediately pivot to investing in marketing and spin to try and discredit their competitor's products... instead of keeping their head down, quietly investing in R&D and focusing on providing value to stay relevant in the meantime.
They could really learn a lot from AMD's pre (and early) Ryzen days... You don't right the ship by talking **** about the competition all day... that just shows your product can't sell itself.
They could really learn a lot from AMD's pre (and early) Ryzen days... You don't right the ship by talking **** about the competition all day... that just shows your product can't sell itself.
Weird. Because the *only* time I need HDMI is when I am traveling, and i need to connect to a projector or display in a conference room, remote office, courtroom, or the like. Carrying a hub along is no fun. I do carry a half dozen dongles (so that i can connect to every kind of video, Ethernet, and of course usb-c/a in case someone needs to give me files on a thumb drive.). Would be quite happy to get rid of some of those. Honestly, I’ve never actually needed Ethernet on the road, and DVI seems to be dead, but i still run into VGA and HDMI, depending on where i am.
Interesting... Besides my Macs I have also a Dell notebook, it is a really good computer. It has two Thunderbolt ports, an audio jack and a card reader. Nothing more, the Thunderbolt port is used also for the charging - and I do not complain, the notebook is light and thin, the best which Dell is producing, I like it... If I need more USB-C/Thunderbolt ports or the HDMI output I have a dongle, no problems.
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I raged against the dongle machine for a long time, but time has finally caught up with me.
Now that I have accepted the fact that I might need a dongle or two, AND I may no longer need a Mac at all (#iPad Life), Apple is rumored to bring back flexibility to their Mac's port selection.
The Intel ad points are somewhat valid though, for now.
Now that I have accepted the fact that I might need a dongle or two, AND I may no longer need a Mac at all (#iPad Life), Apple is rumored to bring back flexibility to their Mac's port selection.
The Intel ad points are somewhat valid though, for now.
AHHH the typical fanboy cry......TROOOOOLLLLLL. Too funny. I like and use apple things, I just find it massively ironic that the apple lemmings here are calling out intel for Justin and pointing out actual things about PC vs Mac when Apple had the other guy at the end of their release show just pretending he is running saying "im still fast" Seriously? I guess the mother ship is just as immature as most of it's following.
They are getting desperate, but this time they do have a point. It was stupid to get rid of most ports tbh.
That's why they hired this guy and we are now seeing daily articles dissing Apple then.
What's next, an Intel tweet saying 4 laptop colours is not enough?
Intel's timing on the dongle issue is well timed and I suspect not a coincidence. They are nudging this issue back into the public's consciousness, so if Apple DON'T put more ports in their next generation MacBooks then Apple's problems and ridicule due to the lack of port diversity continues and Intel are proven right, and if they backtrack and DO put more ports on, then Intel get to be smug, proven right, which gives a little more credence to all their other anti-Mac statements, and Apple are seen as admitting that they were wrong.
It's a win-win for Intel in this regard.
It's a win-win for Intel in this regard.
@tranceking26 But it's ok for apple to do it at the end of their M1 jerk sesh right? that's cringeworthy right there.
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Oh, just so you know, both apple pcs and win based machines are awesome at this point. I am just pointing out the massive hypocracy of apple fanboys whining about intel's latest ads which are very very clever.
The USB-A fans on here will love this - for the rest of us living in the present since 2016, there's USB-C.
If it works with USB 3 and HDMi then it works with USB-C and there's no need for those ports as there's a native cable solution. I've not needed dongles or USB-A since 2016. In fact lately I have been buying adapters/dongles, they're USB-A to USB-C ones as I don't use USB-A anymore so I convert those legacy ports on my iMac Pro into more USB-C.
Yes because millions of people are going to just ditch their perfectly good devices because you and apple said so. If apple was supposedly so environmentally friendly as they claim they would have kept the a port. Oh look it's Dannyjjk. Awesome.
You can't usher in a new world order without first doing away with the current one.
Yes, because apple claiming you can only use USB C is ushering in a new world order....well, apple lemm...i mean fans think that everything apple says and does is god like so I can see that.
It’s exactly the point. Apple Tech at an Apple Store is going to have anything and everything to help customers who have unique situations and needs. They have to be prepared to help their customers. This is no different than any other tech support oriented place or with an IT department, which is a bit more controlled even than what an Apple Store employee might encounter.
You don’t have to ditch your USB-A devices, simply have a dongle on hand for captive cables/flash drives or pry open your wallet and buy a USB-C to whatever you need on the opposite end. I did this in 2017/2018 and it was painless. You’re being melodramatic for no reason.
Yup. The laptop he is using in the ad is a Razer productivity laptop. It has 1 Thunderbolt 4 port, 1 USB A port (3.1 gen 2), 1 HDMI 2.0 port and a Micro SD port. The M1 has two Thunderbolt busses, meaning that it can substantially exceed the IO of the Razer.
For $48 I can get a USB-C dock from Monoprice with an HDMI, 3 USB A 3.1 get 2 ports, a gigabit Ethernet port and a USB C port. That is not talking about Thunderbolt docks which offer even more options and performance.
The reality is that most people do not even need one dongle. Most people do not connect anything to their laptops, and for those people who want to have a wired keyboard and a wired mouse on the Razer, they either a dongle or a keyboard that offers USB pass through.
Who said I ditched any devices? Every USB connection can be terminated with USB-C at the other end. I just bought new cables and don't use anything but USB-C anywhere as it's a far superior connector.
I purposely avoided buying devices which had cables you couldn't remove as when they break, unless you're up to resoldering (and can be bothered) the device is dead, so everything has a cable you can swap out from midi keyboards, to printers, to hard drives etc. The old USB-A cables were handed to recycling where they are stripped and reused.
Actually, the M1 MacBook Air and MacBook Pro includes two Thunderbolt busses rather than the one in the previous generation Intel Air and MacBook Pro. This means it offers twice the throughput. The Mac mini using the same chip offers an additional 2 USB-A ports and an HDMI 2.0 port, so am I am pretty sure the reason there are only two ports on these laptops is that the machines they replaced had only two ports.