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Leaked Photos May Show Upcoming MacBook Pro's Top Case With Space for OLED Touch Panel, Four USB-C Ports
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If you buy Apple you normally live in the future and if you need something from the past you get an adaptor until the rest of the world catches up then people wonder what the fuss was about.
It happened with Serial/COMM ports being removed and only having USB, removal of the floppy drive, removal of the DVD/CD drive, and the new Macbook being USB C only with 1 port.
At home i don't us a HDMI port on my Macbook Pro , i Airplay.
I don't use ethernet adaptor as my wireless is great fast Wireless AC.
I don't use USB pen drives i Airdrop to my mates or it goes in Dropbox and shared over the internet.
I take photos on my iPhone and they just appear on my Mac and iPad via iCloud drive.
I have very little to cling onto old tech wise. Its obvious what direction things are going. I get some people still need or like the existing things but if things never changed we would still be connecting to printers via parallel cables. We are just going through one of those transition stages again and they can be painful for some people but if we looked at this thread in 10 years time we would think is the fuss about?
It happened with Serial/COMM ports being removed and only having USB, removal of the floppy drive, removal of the DVD/CD drive, and the new Macbook being USB C only with 1 port.
At home i don't us a HDMI port on my Macbook Pro , i Airplay.
I don't use ethernet adaptor as my wireless is great fast Wireless AC.
I don't use USB pen drives i Airdrop to my mates or it goes in Dropbox and shared over the internet.
I take photos on my iPhone and they just appear on my Mac and iPad via iCloud drive.
I have very little to cling onto old tech wise. Its obvious what direction things are going. I get some people still need or like the existing things but if things never changed we would still be connecting to printers via parallel cables. We are just going through one of those transition stages again and they can be painful for some people but if we looked at this thread in 10 years time we would think is the fuss about?
Thats exactly how it is setup 70% of the time (when I am home or in the office), then I use the MBP in a clamshell mode and currently I only use 1 adapter, that is the TB to Ethernet adapter. Everything else I can plug in directly!
With your solution I will end up buying an adapter for everything which adds up to the cost and/or inconvenience, since it will take a couple of years until most tech will have USB-C ports.
Even if I buy a docking station, they cost around US$ 200-300 and I will need to buy two of them (1 for the office and the other for at home) and on top of that I will still end up replacing all my 3 magsafe power bricks since they are not compatible anymore (so add another 2 x US$ 80).
To top things off, even with docking stations, I will need to buy atleast a USB-C to HDMI adapter and USB-C to Ethernet adapter for when I am on the road or traveling and not taking my docking station along. So add another US$ 100 for that...
So I will end up paying next to the new MBP itself, which I guess the desirable model will go for around US$ 1500-2000, I will need to pay an extra US$ 800 atleast in accessories just to make the new MBP work in my productive environment.
That is the biggest reason while I will hold off at the beginning and atleast wait a year to see if other manufacturers are willing to change their products as well to USB-C to push it, so that it will become the new industry standard quickly. At the moment USB-C is still very much a niche!
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"At least $50" for a USBC to USB adapter?
LOL
They cost $1.99 on eBay with delivery.
I've told you a million times, don't exaggerate!!
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There is a good reason. In fact there are many. The USBC ports are way more flexible and powerful than the old USB ports. Smaller. Bigger bandwidth. Connects to ANYTHING not just a thumbdrive.
Buy a $1.99 adapter or next thumbdrive you buy can be one of the double ended ones with USBC and legacy USB.
"At least $50" for a USBC to USB adapter?
LOL
They cost $1.99 on eBay with delivery.
I've told you a million times, don't exaggerate!!
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There is a good reason. In fact there are many. The USBC ports are way more flexible and powerful than the old USB ports. Smaller. Bigger bandwidth. Connects to ANYTHING not just a thumbdrive.
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Are these adapters from the Chinese gray market? I am not being sarcastic; I would like to know. I have had bad experiences with unbranded third party adapters in the past.
I am concerned about whether such adapters could potentially damage a computer and I am curious whether they function to their full capacity (eg full USB 3 speeds--I have some fast thumb drives).
I have not checked prices on adapters but I wonder about the pricing with the USB-C/TB combo, so please forgive my overstatement. (I was thinking of TB adapters.) Still, I don't think many people will take kindly to plugging a thumb drive or mouse transmitter into an adapter which will dangle out the side.
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Ummmm, as stated in my post, I will buy a dock for the desktop setup at work. There's one cable that then plugs into the MacBook.
Please explain to me when the average user needs to plug in a usb drive. Five years ago it was common, but I don't know why anyone needs to much these days.
It happened fairly frequently when I was working in areas without reliable wifi networks in remote locations and if I want to bring something I want to share with friends who don't have the fastest wifi it's been the most helpful.
Ethernet too has been just effective for troubleshooting wifi since these spots aren't exactly the most desk friendly.
Yes, I encounter that issue myself. I see, so, the intention would be that the bar would display icons for functions for the particular application being used e.g. if I'm in Capture One Pro (photo editor) it would have a crop symbol and a loupe symbol etc . I can see how that would be handy.
It's funny that you're poo-pooing SD cards when they've got a much brighter future than CF. CF is dead going forward. Only Canikon are trying to keep them alive, but most are going to XQD anyway which is superior to CF. Anyways, I use both in my D810, but guess what, since I don't like to carry dongles, I use the SD card for reading into my rMBP 15. The CF card is just there for back just in case SD card fails (which hasn't happened after 50,000+ RAW files)
You will not be able to plug a floppy disk into Apple's Flagship Laptop
Honestly, it's not really (primarily) the computer being knocked off the table that the MagSafe protects, but rather the fact that any kind of sudden pull on the cable will, before very long, damage either the cable or the port. Having worked in Mac service/repair back in the day before MagSafe, I remember very clearly the alarming number of damaged ports that would come in, from people tripping over the cable. On some of those machines, the port was soldered into the logic board, so the repair could be several hundred dollars... Not good. And you can be certain that the likelihood of Apple using a daughter card for the AC board on these ultra-slim machines is zero. So, no MagSafe = more broken ports = more logic board replacements. Getting rid of MagSafe is idiotic, imho. Maybe they'll engineer a MagSafe-like solution on the cable. Who knows?...
480p webcam confirmed yet?
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If there was a yearly gimmick award, this would win.
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If there was a yearly gimmick award, this would win.
You hit the nail on the head. As an example the MBP would still have a RGB port because all professional projectors still use that port as some claim here.
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Strange, my Mac mini came with a number of adapters. You seem to be wrong.
A Nice reply.
I do differ in my opinion on a couple of items but u make your case very eloquently and I agree with most.
I would disagree that only professionals use use a pro machine. To me (at least) a professional laptop is one that is designed to work in a professional environment. While a lightly built consumer machine may be used a couple of hours a day a professional one would be expected to be used for 8 hours a day 5 days a week; be able to withstand the daily rigours of being manhandled into a bag everyday for commute to work or for regular trips to conference rooms; have superior strength keyboards that can take aggressive typing of angry emailer or just repeated typing of the same keys on some applications (by someone who probably didn't pay for the thing); have connector options for different displays, projectors, USB sticks, and multiple peripherals; work all day at full pelt without heat or throttling issues; have larger than usual ram and hd options; graphics cards for pro applications such as openGL etc; handle high resolutions, have color accurate screens etc.
While not everyone will need or want all those, anyone should be able to buy a Pro machine with all those or at least option to select. While a 13 inch Pro will have some comprises, the 15" model shouldrnt compromise at all.
Looking at other lightweight laptops from Dell or msi etc, I can see comparable models with 1 USB-C, 3 USB3, power, HDMI, mDP, SD slot, audio in and out, 4K screen, nvidia graphics, network socket, number pad, all within the same size and weight 2kg of a current macbook pro.
As Apple use the same chips and motherboards as everyone else I don't see why Apple doesn't just reduce footprint, the bezel around the screen, and have 3 ubc-c ad 1 USB3 and job done.
My two cents.
Quite disappointed with the idea of replacing th Fn keys by an OLED touch strip. You want to be able to control things like volume and brightness without having to look at the touch panel...Same goes for the Escape key.
This would have been much more interesting if Apple used individual physical OLED keys like Art Lebedev. Then they would be offering the best of both worlds, the comfort of physical keys with the ability to dynamically customize each key using OLED.
This would have been much more interesting if Apple used individual physical OLED keys like Art Lebedev. Then they would be offering the best of both worlds, the comfort of physical keys with the ability to dynamically customize each key using OLED.
That looks great, and I fully agree with your comment. Alternatively the OLED strip in addition to the function keys would work for me.
I'll be honest, the only Function key I use on a Mac is F1, and for that i hold fn.
Perhaps others differ, but maybe in a lot of ways the function keys are actually dead.
The main reasons i use function keys is for brightness, keyboard bightness, volume, and mute.
Perhaps others differ, but maybe in a lot of ways the function keys are actually dead.
The main reasons i use function keys is for brightness, keyboard bightness, volume, and mute.
So, you are really saying that the MBP looks like the MBP. Not really a shocker to any of us here I think.
I live in the present. In the present regular USB is everywhere.
If indeed the new MBP has only USB-C, then as is, out of the box, connectivity will be next to useless. Since an adapter will be mandatory, it should still just be there built in.
Apple is constantly making their devices smaller/thinner, then forcing users to add connectors that will add more bulk back in than they took out. My current MBP will actually take up less space than this new one because it does not need a number of connectors carried at all times.
Today I was in an office and needed to print something. Their wireless printer was having trouble but they had that old outdated technology (a USB cable) which I connected to my current MBP and I was able to print. This new MBP would have been unable to do that task by itself.