YEP!! hdmi in -- you can get hdmi -> USB Adaptors for $10 , if apple had something at least as good as that built in it would pretty incredible. It's would be like 1996 again. They could call it MacBook Pro AV . seriously though this would be a realy great addition, baked in hi quality video input.
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Kuo: New MacBook Pro Models With HDMI Port and SD Card Reader to Launch Later This Year
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What I like to ask the people on here complaining that they don’t ‘want’ an SD card slot or HDMI port is; what do you have to lose?
If you don’t need or want to use those ports, then don’t use them. It really is as straightforward as that. Additional I/O isn’t suddenly going to make your experience worse.
If you don’t need or want to use those ports, then don’t use them. It really is as straightforward as that. Additional I/O isn’t suddenly going to make your experience worse.
In terms of numbers, you are right… only people who present at customers, in group meetings or in the public – in a way, a pre-COVID scenario – really need that.
The issue is:
These people are multiplicators, which is a huge issue in a mixed environment:
It is quite detrimental for the brand, if the Mac guys at the table always have to attach a dongle to attach the HDMI projector or meeting room monitor while the rest of the world just plugs the HDMI in.
It's just silly and it makes your new shiny MacBook Pro look like an overdesigned toy, instead of a working machine.
I am not sure about a mistake, more a design philosophy - Jonny Ives wanted thin and smooth – I think that this often went beyond function. When computers become things of beauty before things of use we are in trouble!
Totally agree. My wife is a professional photographer for the last 10 years and both of her cameras are SD. I showed her this story and she immediately said “yay, that’s a lot more convenient.”
True but a lot of us just use the SD as a 2nd jpeg back up and not the primary card so re including an SD reader seams pretty antiquated to me. SD cards can't keep up with fast shooting in raw, 4k video, or fast frame rates and they are more prone to fail on you at some point. I think most of us have already invested in a good USB-C type card reader that also reads our C-fast or CFexpress cards. I've been a commercial photographer for about 10 years and have never missed the SD reader in my 2019 MacBook Pro.
Maybe I wasn't clear enough: A lot of people are indeed Pros in other professions (i.e. programmers), while still using SD cards. Therefore your suggested way of slicing the market would fail anyway.
You won't get your CF Express slot for a number of reasons. Pro Photographers are a dying species, they lack mass market relevance.
tell that to people with a Mac mini who are forced to use HDMI for one of the video outputs.
That’s exactly how I’ve been doing it fit years in my old MacBook Air.
The easiest way is to just copy the library folder to the SD, then make an alias to it and move and rename that alias to where the original library was.
Occasionally the SD will eject itself but also reconnect for no reason. But for everything where performance doesn’t matter, I keep it on the SD and include it in the backups.
Oh yea, be sure to set it up as an encrypted drive, just in case someone just pulls it out and you notice it only days later.
I could care less about SD coming back. I’ve always used external readers, versus a usb-a thumb drive is so freakin common. As for HDMI I;d love that to come back. I have the Apple dongle (actually 2, only one of which supports 4K 🤬). The other big USB-a thing I use is a keyboard. I have a usb-c mouse, but haven’t seen a high quality usb-c keyboard. The last gen intel Mac mini did it right with USB-a, C and HDMI. No dongle snarl h-behind there. External dongles for card reading is so common it didn’t bother me when it went away. Every built in slot has always sucked compared to the external ones in my experience.
So they convince (forced) us all in move to usb-c and now that the industry has finally adapted to it, they'd bring back the old tech? I spent a lot on a usb-c card compatible 4k monitor, and card reader. I also feel bad for the companies that made all these products to support apple and their all in move to usb-c. If those 3rd party companies didn't hop on board, apple would been in a bad spot and now they are changing their minds?
I don't understand this complaint at all. I *guess* you can call tapping on the volume icon and sliding left or right "a 2 step process" (although it feels more like one fluid motion to me), but I really prefer it to the old function-key approach. It allows you to quickly change the volume to a greater degree without repeated taps and makes smaller volume intervals possible without the use of an additional modifier key.
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Same. There is so much Touch Bar hate here, but I just don't get it. Personally, I like having things like the predictive text or emojis available in most apps, and apps like Word that include the functions like being able to quickly change the text color or apply formatting with a single tap actually improve my workflows.
I have done something similar. Since my M1 MBP is not my main computer, I bought the 8/256 configuration.
I copied my iTunes / Music library (about 55 GB) to an external SSD and I use a USB-A to USB-C connector. I didn't notice any performance hit when playing music form that external drive.
One thing to be aware of, regardless of what "external" solution you try - by default (well, at least on my M1 MBP Music app), when you add music it gets copied to the default folder on your internal drive. You have to go into Music preferences and change it not to copy.
I did find out the first time, when I imported the music and it got copied to the internal SSD that the transfer was very fast, even though the external drive enclosure uses USB A. I thought I hadn't selected all of the music, but when I scrolled down through the Album list to see what did get imported I realized "Holy ****, everything got copied so fast I didn't even see a popup status bar!"
Sane here. I do have to remember to use it since my M1 MBP is the first MBP I have had with a Touch Bar.
But I do like it. However, I have to admit I wouldn't miss it if it goes away. Well, unless I get used to it and like using it - but even then, I have been regularly using laptop computers since the early 1990s, so I can easily get used to not having a Touch Bar again.
Nah, SD is always coming back. Even recently released cameras like the a7s III or the blackmagic pocket 6k pro have sd-slots. To get the fastest possible write speed, you'll need faster cards like Xd, Cfast,... but over the last decades, SD has always cought up after a while.
I know this is an inadvertent typo, but I just have to say:
"OMG, the next Apple Silicone models will have tits? Awesome! All of the lonely people in their parent's basement will love this feature."
The heck with improved performance and more ports, this is what will drive increased adoption of Apple Silicon Macs!
Apple really has its copy machines on. Folding phones, AR glasses, cars, copying PC laptops...play it safe Apple.
My PC laptops have all the ports. It's quite nice. Nothing wrong with that. USB A port is handy for all the peripherals out there that still are USB A.
I think so too. They only have two thunderbolt so they bring back magsafe, hdmi and sd-slot to cover at least something. I don't see any other reason to go back to these ports.
