Why? People will moan, articles will be written, but they'll still shuffle down to the Apple Store to buy one.
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New MacBook Pros May Not Be Compatible With Some Early Thunderbolt 3 Devices [Updated]
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Why? People will moan, articles will be written, but they'll still shuffle down to the Apple Store to buy one.
Huh. That was kind of unsatisfying... I'd still like a more technical description of what's going on. Apple isn't saying the TI chipset will be supported, and they aren't saying why or why not... That answer may need to come from a source other than Apple, I guess.
Anyone know why the TI chipset is different?
"YO DAWG, WE HEARD YOU LIKE APPLE PRODUCTS, SO WE GOT YOU A DONGLE FOR YOUR DONGLE SO YOU CAN ADAPT WHILE YOU CAN ADAPT!"
There's no way professionals have the time to ease out all these kinks. Felt like Apple released a beta product. Better wait for the next cycle while all these stuff gets sorted out... a bag of hurt indeed.
I wonder if there is a technical rationale and if it's going to be addressed or if this is an Apple "we decided you don't need to use this" thing, as they do.
I think I'm going to continue with my long tradition of never purchasing first generation products.
I think I'm going to continue with my long tradition of never purchasing first generation products.
What are you doing? Injecting actual information in this thread, between all the whining.
Psst...the information he shared is not good. It didn't work with the OS the laptop is designed to run on. What if people don't want to Bootcamp?
Read the support page at Plugable—it's not a pretty sight. By the look of it, you'd have to be pretty careful buying this product whatever system you were running. Plugable won some points for being on the bleeding-edge and getting early to market, but they've also lost some points for the same reason. That's just the nature of the game...
Sorry, you have to pass thru the 'community organizer' phase first.
According to Schiller, making it more compatible with existing devices would have made the system less efficient and sacrificed battery life.
Apologist alert!
[doublepost=1478222425][/doublepost]What a disaster this has been. Bad news after bad news after bad news.
What a failure of a year 2016 has been.
Oh this explains why Louis Rossman had difficulty getting Wifi and his capture card to work at the same time.
He needs another dongle for this dongle, or buy an up to date one that has been working in many other TB3 devices , other than this!
Or wait until apple releases a 100 dollar version you can only buy at it at stores.
He needs another dongle for this dongle, or buy an up to date one that has been working in many other TB3 devices , other than this!
Or wait until apple releases a 100 dollar version you can only buy at it at stores.
Its mainly a loud minority crying like babies about things that won't affect them.
Thanks I stand corrected but it could have gone to the base model right?
Do you know why the base model has two TB ports only?
With 16gb RAM apple should waited this update till 7th gen CPU available or went with 5th gen CPU
Now this is just interim product
Or you could wait until the refresh next year and let other people who don't need 7th gen buy it now.
"If you see a dongle, 'they blew it'."
Steve Jobs
New Macbook Pro(fit$) are incompatible with USB-C adapters, USB video capture, USB storage, etc. that work fine on other laptops.
Steve Jobs
New Macbook Pro(fit$) are incompatible with USB-C adapters, USB video capture, USB storage, etc. that work fine on other laptops.
I love how a company most people have never heard of until today is getting a response from a tech giant /s
"While we have no comment on Plugable's specific complaint, products using the newest Thunderbolt chipsets, with up-to-date drivers, will have no difficulty connecting to any 2016 MacBook Pro," Apple said in a statement to AppleInsider.
I hope MR editors stop posting these dongle news. I just want to live in the matrix and take the blue pill. Everything is perfect.
Not sure that a MacBook that is thinner and lighter with marginal spec improvements really is a good reference to call the 2015 model outdated.