Yea the lack of ports was claimed to be “ brave “ and “ innovated “In summary, Apple has six months to fix last year’s imbecile idea and bring the sim tray back (US). It reminds me of the cretin who wiped out all the ports on the MBP, only to later bring them back.
No one wants to carry around a bag of adapters to regain functionality out of a “ pro “ $2500 laptop.
The last great MacBook Pro was the 2013 Retina 15”
All the ports, slim, functional. Once they introduced the Touch Bar and eliminated the ports those MacBook pros are atrocious for productivity.
And they do not hold their value. And the fact their devices still used ddr3 till 2019…..
And the removing of the mag safe connecter sealed the deal for me.
I bought a 15” msi laptop with support for an external gpu. 8 core i7, 32gb ddr4 ram , 2tb nvme drive and an Nvidia 1080Ti. All for $1399. I use Ventura via emulation and it works better than my wife’s m1 MacBook Air. And this MSI is 4 years old…. Higher cinibench while booted into the Ventura VM.