You're probably attempting sarcasm, but you're actually not wrong, that would be handy. I keep a PowerBook G3 Bronze Keyboard in a bag with a SCSI case and various SCSI cables. I end up using it more than I'd have expected.Throw in a SCSI also!
You're probably attempting sarcasm, but you're actually not wrong, that would be handy. I keep a PowerBook G3 Bronze Keyboard in a bag with a SCSI case and various SCSI cables. I end up using it more than I'd have expected.Throw in a SCSI also!
Good Lord, you are reckless. Next you are going to tell me that you run with scissors and assemble IKEA furniture without instructions. You should wear a warning label.😜Hah. I hot swapped SCSI for years without issues. I don't recommend it though.
That, but without the /s.Well, heck. Let’s demand an optical drive too! No need should have to buy an external reader!
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What purpose indeed …
Retaining a single USB-A port would be the best solution for the consumer
Then again, worrying about what’s best for customers LONG ago took a back seat to:
“Make number go up”
It’s all Tim cares about now
Anyone thinking otherwise is deluding themselves.
Not that hard to work around this. One usb-c for a dock or adaptor, Bluetooth everything else, 5 is actually a luxury.
I like that the MacBook Pro brought back the HDMI port, but I really don't miss USB-A. Even though I use quite a bit of external gear, all the time. Simply bought a few USB-C → USB-B cables, etc.
Forcing Mac users to buy adapters and hubs and such goes against Apple's environmental mission.Usb-c to Usb-a adapters and hubs are a thing
Well, heck. Let’s demand an optical drive too! No need should have to buy an external reader!
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Looking forward to seeing a redesign. Needs to be something that makes it stand out from its taller twin.
You’d be surprised how much they struggle with this. There’s people who don’t know the difference between their computer ann their monitor. Also, most hubs get hot. So waste of energy on top of everything.USB-C --> multi USB-A multi-port hubs are as simple as plugging it in. No power. Not sure how "non-tech people" would struggle with plugging in a cable in the back (or front).
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To compete with USB-C, I’d go for DB25.Pffft...USB A.
Real men use DB9. Now get off my blue fescue.
We’re at 9 years and counting with USB-C on Macs and crying about USB-A ports going away is hilarious. Go buy a $50 hub and move on with your lives. So much gnashing of teeth over old ports that Apple has telegraphed that they were going to remove as far back as 2015-2016 and the vitriol of the user base here has been just as silly since 2016.
One truism concerning Apple over the decades is that they have introduced industry-leading new formats and ways of integrating with computers, and have subsequently never been afraid to chuck out the old. The rest of the industry (and many users in general) then whinge and complain incessantly about "what Apple has taken away!". Apple pretty much drags the whiners, kicking and screaming like a small child who doesn't want to take a bath that the dirty child desperately needs, into a much better future.Oh my, shades of the rage when Apple first removed the SCSI port,the floppy disk and then the CD/DVD drives. The peanut gallery went berserk when Apple held out adding USB-C to the iPhone. Now it’s objecting to USB-C only devices.
Better question: who needs outdated ports on a desktop computer when hubs are a thing?Great decision
Who wants useful ports on a desktop computer!?
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Yeah exactly, I’m not getting the cadence of rage and complaints here on MR.
During the whole conundrum on lightning ports (which I find still great, easier to plug/unplug and lighter than the considerably bulkier by comparison USB-C) was that they were an old thing and people wanted to get rid of lightning things.
Well, USB-A is way older, so now’s the chance to get rid of all that once and for all. And by the way, USB-C specifications are already a decade old for that matter, people should have pushed for full on thunderbolt compliance instead! Now we are stuck by law to the lesser denominator.
Thunderbolts (USB-C) are an EVERYTHING port, it can become card reader, screen output, dvd player, storage expansion, the beloved USB-A for some here, etc.
Heck even HDMI, a $5 dongle can make it be an HDMI output or even also an HDMI capture input for $10 for those that need it.
For example, nothing I have even uses HDMI anymore just straight up thunderbolt that happens to display 5K+ resolution, daisy chain to many more thunderbolts, charge the devices, etc ALL AT THE SAME TIME… something other ports can’t dream on doing.
And again, those using the exact same lightning rationalizations, HDMI is also a many decades old port too.
Now, I get it, I’m not convincing anyone here, this is not about congruency or rational thinking, this is about “I got a many years old wired mouse that I love to use so I want to impose decades old ports on everyone else’s computers”.
At least it’s a good thing that just a few things here and there have been carried on… or our computers would still have floppy, Zip/CD/DVD drives and who knows what else.
So, a middle ground, kudos to HDMI, audio jack, SD card… but maybe let’s treat USB-A the way lightning did. Time to let go?
My .00002 opinionated cents
I own a dozen or so other peripherals with USB-A, from audio interfaces to colorimeters to USB microscopes. Well, I guess half of them don’t work with a Mac anyway.For a 2025 machcine, it makes sense.
The only accessories that stubbornly remain usb-a are keyboards and mice.
Me.Better question: who needs outdated ports on a desktop computer when hubs are a thing?