I guess on the upside, I should be able to take one usb brick when I travel now and charge all my iDevices, ehh?
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New MacBook Does not Include Power Extension Cable
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I guess on the upside, I should be able to take one usb brick when I travel now and charge all my iDevices, ehh?
I use mine and even have a few extra ones that I use with my iPad charger.
I also use my HDMI to DVI adapter that Apple no longer includes with the latest Mac mini Refresh. These are little things that are driving me away from Apple.
yeah, I guess one upside to this is now you can travel with one AC adaptor and charge your phone\ipad\macbook, lol.
No... I mean the wall plug now will take a USB cord from the new computer, the iPad's USB cable, and the iPhone's USB cable. No need USB-C because it looks like the USB port on the power brick is a standard USB... it's the other end of the cable (usb-c) that needs to match the device being charged.
EDIT: crud, you're right, I thought it was USB from the brick to usb-c on the other end, but you're right, usb c to usb c... ugh, this defeats that idea.
I think all Apple power adapters will be type C soon, the only real question is. Will Apple transition from lightning to type C?
I can't imagine them fragmenting into some computers with C and some with Lightning... but who knows... nothing surprises me (in a good way) with Apple lately... I want the laptop, but there are so many trade-offs. Ugh.
if you aren't negative about bad products you don't get good products.
Ive has just done a round of interviews where he talks about the first iPhone coming out of the team's mutual hatred and negativity about other mobile phone devices.
Hate is good. Hate is great, hate something, change something, make something better.
I did notice this, and I immediately popped the extension off one of my older charging bricks to put it on this one.
It annoyed me a little, but I had spares.
LOL Yeah man stop being so negative about a company that charges you more for their slowest mobile machine than a much more versatile faster one, and also gives you a much shorter power cable than they do with the others.
whine, whine, whine. if you dont own the rmb, don't complain about it. i had my doubts until i bought it. it does everything and more that my 2014 base mba 11" does, my 2010 15' mbp, and my desktop mac mini. the rmb base is fast, has a great screen, and keyboard. it's now dropping in price, so a much better deal than when it was released, and will be getting cheaper in price in the next few months.
People don't complain about its performance here. This post was to warn buyers that they will not get the same power brick as with the MacBook Air and MacBook Pro line.
Before you had a wallplug extension, a power brick and a cable from the power brick to the Mac.
Now you only have the powerbrick and the cable from the brick to the Mac.
The total length of cable is 2 meters now, you better have an outlet near your computer.
(Or buy the $19 extension cable)
many many MANY people complain about the rmb's performance, probably more than how it's performance is good. where have you been? in this particular thread it's about lack of the extension cable, and i agree, we should have gotten one.
This.
In my post, "here" refer to this thread.
We all agree that Apple should have included an extension cord for the power brick. It's useful to warn new users discovering this thread that the MacBook isn't sold with one.
Apple likely dropped the inclusion of the mains extension cable as the Retina MacBook is all about "portability" and working off the wire, so I can see where they are coming from, equally it also comes across as a little "mean spirited" although the provided USB C cable is longer than the standard, the extra reach of the mains extension is welcome in some situations.
Personally I have a bunch of them so it has no impact to me, when I am working in the field, I generally take a couple of mains extensions with me, especially if am not familiar with the surroundings that I will be living & working in.
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Personally I have a bunch of them so it has no impact to me, when I am working in the field, I generally take a couple of mains extensions with me, especially if am not familiar with the surroundings that I will be living & working in.
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It isn't as bad as you think it is. Powerbrick plus usb cable costs $78, a MagSafe powerbrick will cost $79. The only difference is that for $1 more you get the power cord included. Not that many people buy an additional power adapter anyway and because the MacBook uses USB-C that means you can use anything that uses USB to charge it (especially if you start looking beyond today; USB-C is the default Thunderbolt 3 connector too). With MagSafe you are stuck with the Apple power adapters. You can't use powerbanks or a faster charging power adapter from a different brand. Battery life also allows you to stay unplugged for quite some time. There are people who don't even bring the power adapter with them.
No we don't.
Useful? Maybe. But you are vastly overstating the impact here. If it was a big deal, it would have been talked about in April.
As it stands, almost no one cares, and for those that do care, Apple sells a cable you can use.
This talk about needing to be close to an outlet, um... Most people are. That's why it's not been a big deal.
For comparison, guess how long the power cord for the iMac is.
You don't move an iMac on a daily basis, if you don't have enough cable length you can still use a $3 standard extension cord and hide it behind your desk.
The Retina MacBook is the most mobile Mac ever, during the days I spent with mine I frequently had to use my old MacBook Air extension cord to reach an outlet.
Three reasons for this:
- The power brick takes a lot of room on a multi-socket adapter.
- Sometimes you can't find a plane surface near enough the wall outlet.
- I don't know for other countries, but in France, the power brick has a groundless plug, only the extension cord provide the three pins grounded plug.
You are right in that I shouldn't have stated that we all agree since you don't seem to care, but to me and many other, it's a regression not to have this extension cord included. Another accessory to buy.
The Retina MacBook is the most mobile Mac ever, during the days I spent with mine I frequently had to use my old MacBook Air extension cord to reach an outlet.
Three reasons for this:
- The power brick takes a lot of room on a multi-socket adapter.
- Sometimes you can't find a plane surface near enough the wall outlet.
- I don't know for other countries, but in France, the power brick has a groundless plug, only the extension cord provide the three pins grounded plug.
You are right in that I shouldn't have stated that we all agree since you don't seem to care, but to me and many other, it's a regression not to have this extension cord included. Another accessory to buy.
I have so many extension cables from old Mac's this is a non issue. For anyone who doesn't have one and this is their first Mac you should probably ask a friend who's owned macs because chances are they have them lying around and don't even know it.
Irrelevant. The claim was about not being close to an outlet. Clearly this isn't a problem for iMac owners, so 2 meters is clearly a reasonable length for most people.
I never used mine.
So doesn't it make sense, then, for Apple to do exactly what they've done? Made it optional?
Not many, based on the lack of outcry.
I think you mean, another needless accessory to have to store away.
the real frustration is that the extension is not available on its own as an extra - even if they sold this for a few quid, that would be something - but as far as I can see, it's not available, which means that you have a £1300 laptop that comes with a 2m power cable and no obvious way to lengthen it.
Talking about iMac is irrelevant here. As I said, you choose where you put your desktop.
When you work on a remote place you don't always have the perfect surface right next to an outlet.
Good for you, you won't miss it with the new MacBook then
If the standard power brick had at least a grounded plug, I could go with a standard electrical extension cord. But as of now we have to buy the official cable to get that. On the other laptops, you had it out of the box.
Let's agree to disagree on this.
It's good if you don't miss it, however every portable Mac user I know of use this cord, be it only for the grounded plug. Perhaps in your country you don't have this issue, but here it's real.