Those MBPs weren't symmetrical because they had a headphone jack on one side.
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MagSafe 3 Charging Cable Now Available in New Colors Matching MacBook Air
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"in the future when electricity is just floating in the air"
Inverse square rule says no.
In the future, the laws of physics will still apply. There is no future where you can have your phone sitting on the coffee table and the charger on the other side of the room magically charges it through the air. I mean it is possible, but only with a massive, very high power charger, like, high enough that you'd need 3 inch thick cables coming into your house to supply the required power. And the electromagnetic field it would generate would not only charge your phone, but would also cook you, and you'd smell that burning flesh smell.
There's a very good reason why a "wireless" charger requires the phone to be connected flat, flush against the charging puck, and has magnets in both the phone and puck to align it perfectly. And it's simply to minimise the effects of the inverse square law, and minimise the losses. Even with all that, the charging is lossy, inefficient, and slow. It is essentially a transformer, but without the essential iron-core, and thus, a highly inefficient transformer.
The Mac-style MagSafe 1/2/3 provides a lossless, direct electrical connection, rather than lossy, core-less, electromagnetic transformer. And it connects and disconnects just as easily as the stupid iPhone-MagSafe. If they put a Mac-style MagSafe on an iPhone, it would be just as easy to connect and disconnect, would require just as much wires, wouldn't waste power, would charge faster, and wouldn't require a big chunk of weight and space to be taken up by the huge magnet ring in the phone.
It is a crime that they created the iPhone MagSafe the way they did.
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Incorrect. Power doesn’t take PCI lanes. Data does.
I too wish there were a fourth TB4 port especially now it would have meant four busses as well (for faster RAIDs among other things).
However surely you don’t seriously believe we lost a TB port for the MagSafe??
We lost the fourth TB port to the idio… err people … who insisted we get HDMI and SD back. Those are taking up the data lanes the 4th TB port would have had.
I'll take that SD slot over a fourth USB port because it means I don't have to get up and grab my iPad's SD reader from the drawer I keep it in when I want to download photos. Just pop the card in and I'm good to go. MagSafe and SD were the two things I had been waiting for Apple to bring back.
But yeah MagSafe didn't replace a USB port.
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Yes it does seem out of the norm for Apple but I can't think of any other reason why they would make the cable this way.
If you look at the 24" iMac's cable; while it isn't detachable from the brick the colored part does not go all the way to the brick. I think Apple did it on purpose to color match against the white brick.
Yes - why bother to match the magsafe end colour but not the other end? (It looks particularly naff on the midnight cable...)
Coloured power bricks: Apple - you can have that suggestion for nothing!
Apple should have been all along color matching the cables that attached to any of its’s models of all devices… that white cable just sucks for the ascetics of things when your purportedly tying to make things “stylish and modern”. Apple can, and has done better than this, and I would think the cost to do so is negligible.
I saw that comment… Let another vendor get caught up in the inventory glut of the chargers of undesirable colors… no one is looking at whats plugged into the wall down by the floor, more times than not. The cables themselves are visible anywhere the laptop or other devices are and has the cable plugged in, like stretching across a table, etc… it should be color matching the device its being plugged into… otherwise its tacky.
I agree there is some color in the picture, but it seems like they purposefully decreased the saturation. The dull background also doesn't help
I want to see an iPhone that has a USB-C port right next to a Lightning port at the bottom
Why have both ports? USB-C can do everything lightning does and more… just make USB-C the standard charge port for everything that needs charged… and let it even be the source port to connect MagSafe too… i don’t understand what the conflict is about this… oh wait, yes i do understand… its a revenue source to constantly be changing charging standards and the needed cables. At least the EU is doing something about the confusing mess…
The number of people writing OMG WHY IS THE USB-C END WHITE THIS IS SUCH A CHEAPOUT BY APPLE is a further reminder to me of why there are warnings on hot drinks that the product can scald, and why a lady on Twitter was recently claiming that the fact we give cows only female names is evidence of widespread misogyny.
There are genuinely times I think we're not going to survive as a species.
There are genuinely times I think we're not going to survive as a species.
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How do you reckon a MagSafe version of USB-C would work? The benefit of MagSafe is that it's power only so you can access all the USB-C ports for data while charging via MagSafe but you still have the ability for USB-C charging.
Apple has been using Lightning for longer than the industry has been using USB-C, so how is Lightning an example of constantly changing standards to generate revenue? In the same length of time that Apple has had Lightning, the industry has charged via Mini-USB, Micro-USB, and USB-C so Apple isn the one with constantly changing standards.
If anything there are three or four different data bandwidths which all use the same USB-C plug (you can't look at a USB-C cable and tell if it is regular USB-C or TB-4), so its not like the EU is going to fix any confusing mess.
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They look beautiful I'm getting it!
Apple today made its USB-C to MagSafe 3 charging cable available to purchase separately in three new colors matching the MacBook Air, including space gray, midnight, and starlight, with pricing set at $49. Until now, the cable was only sold in silver.
Apple already includes a color-matched MagSafe 3 charging cable in the box with the new MacBook Air, but now the cable can be ordered individually from Apple's online store for those who want an extra one or need a replacement.
The cable is also compatible with the 14-inch and 16-inch MacBook Pro models released last year. This means that customers who purchased a new MacBook Pro in space gray will finally be able to get a matching space gray MagSafe 3 cable, as Apple somewhat surprisingly chose to bundle a silver cable with the space gray model.
MagSafe technology allows the cable to magnetically attach to a MacBook. If someone trips on the cable, it releases so that the MacBook does not go tumbling. The cable is two meters long and features a woven design for added durability.
The new MacBook Air is now available to order ahead of a July 15 launch. The notebook is powered by Apple's new M2 chip and has been redesigned with a slightly larger 13.6-inch display, a notch, and flatter edges. Pricing starts at $1,199, and the previous-generation MacBook Air with the M1 chip remains available for $999.
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What do you plug the other side of the MagSafe into to energize the hockey puck? Thats the part i suggest should be USB-C. That would require the USB-C charger…
Regarding Apple using lightning for longer… they may have, but apparently the industry has chosen the USB-C open source standard as opposed to the proprietary Apple Lightning… and its not the first time Apple wanted the whole industry to use their proprietary data transfer technology… Remember Firewire and FireWire 800? We don’t see that incorporated into many things anymore, and ever really did.
I agree that the USB (anything) is confusing, frustrating, and sometimes worse… but at least if they settle on one type to be multi-purpose then we as consumers can stop worrying about if we got the right cable at the tech shop
These new colours are absolutely stunning. I love the concept of mix and matching colors, and it also secures you spares around the home and office.