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Petey.07

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Feb 21, 2023
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I may be done with Apple. I purchased a $5500 MacBook Pro for me 8 months ago in addition to over $10k of Apple products for my business over recent years.

My wife needed a new laptop so I bought her a 13” M2 MacBook Pro with 32 Gig Ram and 1 Terabyte storage. I waited weeks to give it to her for xmas….18 days later (4 days past return option). When I finally helped her set it up, I saw it had one USB C port only…ONE! No HDMI, not one other single port. I’ve spent hundreds with expansion devices, extensions, Apple keyboard and magic mouse so she could actually use it. But it’s a laptop…so when we travel with it, we have to bring a bag worth of junk to get it to work in the real world…not really portable unless just cruising the web…she’s supposed to be abke to work on it…MS Office, images…

I feel so bad for her that I didn’t stop to think to ask about ports…right? At least 2 with an HDMI? Really Apple, or should I say Microsoft? It’s ridiculous and we’ll have to live with it.
 

chabig

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Sep 6, 2002
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When I finally helped her set it up, I saw it had one USB C port only…ONE!
It has two.

Screenshot 2023-02-21 at 9.32.47 PM.png
 

usagora

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Nov 17, 2017
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As others have already pointed out, it has 2 USB ports, not 1, but perhaps you meant that once you use 1 for the power cord there is only 1 free port left? In fact, that must be what you meant, because there's no way you couldn't see 2 adjacent ports. But in any case, I've never understood why people get so up in arms about having to cary around "dongles"/adapters/cables with their laptop. I do it all the time and the bag just fits right in my laptop bag with my MacBook Air and many other items. It's completely portable by any reasonable definition.
 

FreakinEurekan

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Sep 8, 2011
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I get the “one port” comment; if you have it plugged into a charger that uses one of the ports. The old 12” MacBook literally has ONE USB-C port - which is normally used for the charger. I have one of them, and the few (less than a handful in 5+ years) times I’ve wanted to connect something like an external display, yeah - it’s a bit of a PITA.

But the point is, I knew that going into it. 99.9% of the time, I get a super-compact, 2 lb easily-transportable machine. And once in a great while, I have to plug in a rat’s nest to it. That trade-off was worth it to me.

All I can say about the OP is… “Caveat Emptor”
 

GBstoic

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Nov 6, 2016
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Why are you blaming Microsoft in the final sentence?
Why did you have to buy her an Apple keyboard?
Why wait until two months after Christmas to post this?
Why didn’t you check the return policy on Christmas presents? In the U.K. most companies, including Apple, accept returns until late January
 

Sami13496

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Jul 25, 2022
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You knew what kind of work she does and that she needs ports, right? So why you bought her a laptop without ports then? It says on the box how many ports it has. It’s not a surprise or something you find out after you open the box.
 
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JM

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Nov 23, 2014
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The 13” clearly had PRO in its name: so it should have a Pro experience with ports to match.

Apple indeed named it incorrectly, and I feel bad for the OP who made the very understandable assumption that the 13”

“PRO”​

would have a similar experience to the 14” and 16” Pro laptops.

Y’all be nice.
 

MauiPa

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Apr 18, 2018
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The 13” clearly had PRO in its name: so it should have a Pro experience with ports to match.

Apple indeed named it incorrectly, and I feel bad for the OP who made the very understandable assumption that the 13”

“PRO”​

would have a similar experience to the 14” and 16” Pro laptops.

Y’all be nice.
Last I checked, apple had an excellent product page describing exactly what is on the 13 MBP. People are being nice, it is hard to stop laughing though
 

nkgmd

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Jul 16, 2004
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Reading between the lines a little, there's another life lesson to be learned here...don't buy your spouse a computer with lesser specs than the one you bought for yourself or it will come back to haunt you. Same goes for just about everything else, ie cars, jewelry, watches, phones, airplane seats, dinner entrees, clothes, etc. You have my empathy, but your only rational solution here is to trade laptops with her. And throw in a nice designer bag, LV or the like. And a spa day. Atone...
 

usagora

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Nov 17, 2017
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The 13” clearly had PRO in its name: so it should have a Pro experience with ports to match.

Apple indeed named it incorrectly, and I feel bad for the OP who made the very understandable assumption that the 13”

“PRO”​

would have a similar experience to the 14” and 16” Pro laptops.

Y’all be nice.

Not sure if your post is tongue-in-cheek or serious, but in case you're actually serious . . . when you're buying an expensive item like a laptop, it's pretty foolish to assume anything, especially when Apple literally has pictures of the actual laptop on their website along with a full spec sheet. And even if you decide to assume something, it still stands to reason that a smaller laptop might have less ports than a larger one. I agree some comments were "not nice," but I'm not going to err on the other end and say the OP's complaint is reasonable. It's simply not.
 

JM

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Nov 23, 2014
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Not sure if your post is tongue-in-cheek or serious, but in case you're actually serious . . . when you're buying an expensive item like a laptop, it's pretty foolish to assume anything, especially when Apple literally has pictures of the actual laptop on their website along with a full spec sheet. And even if you decide to assume something, it still stands to reason that a smaller laptop might have less ports than a larger one. I agree some comments were "not nice," but I'm not going to err on the other end and say the OP's complaint is reasonable. It's simply not.
The OP dropped over $15k on Apple gear. You think a big spender like that had time to check spec pages?

Their time alone is probably worth $100 a minute. When you’re as valuable as that, you can’t afford to spend your time on reading details and spec pages.

Have a heart ❤️
 
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