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So called MacBook "pro"...

lPHONE

lPHONE

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Nov 17, 2009
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Hey Steve, add 4 USB ports (fully powered), 2 FireWire 800 ports and MicroSD... Then MAYBE, just maybe you can call it a Pro.

There's nothing like swapping USB ports all day long with your iPad, iPhone, flash drive and other devices all day on a so called "pro" machine.
 
Dang, I probably should have waited. I mean, I guess a high res screen on the 13" would be nice, but then again, I don't want to wait till next year. I got mine in July anyways so I've gotten some really good use out of it - and no buyers remorse.
 
ermmm, 'Pro' is just a marketing name btw.

Adding loads more ports will have an impact on other features and will not necessarily make the unit more (or less) 'Pro'.
 
lPHONE said:
Hey Steve, add 4 USB ports (fully powered), 2 FireWire 800 ports and MicroSD... Then MAYBE, just maybe you can call it a Pro.

There's nothing like swapping USB ports all day long with your iPad, iPhone, flash drive and other devices all day on a so called "pro" machine.
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Everybody's design is a compromise, based on the goals of the designers.

I'm moving to a MacBook Pro from a Dell XPS 1645. I think the Dell might be more of the kind of machine you were thinking about. It had a huge, beautiful RGB LED screen, and a full quad core i7 processor. But, man, did you get tired of lugging that thing around, and having to carry two 9-cell batteries around to get it to last a business day without power.

Everything's a compromise, and I'm kind of liking Apple's MacBook Pro compromise. :)

You know your iPad and iPhone will connect to the MacBook using Bluetooth, right?

A lot of the Apple philosophy of design seems to revolve around various kinds of wireless technology. I'm not sure what you are doing that would require four USB ports running at one time, but when you start adding things like that, you are asking for the machine to get bigger.
 
lPHONE said:
Hey Steve, add 4 USB ports (fully powered), 2 FireWire 800 ports and MicroSD... Then MAYBE, just maybe you can call it a Pro.

There's nothing like swapping USB ports all day long with your iPad, iPhone, flash drive and other devices all day on a so called "pro" machine.
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Of all the things you could complain about the machine not being 'pro' enough... you complain about the lack of USB ports when you could easily buy a USB hub to fix this? :confused::confused:
 
MicroSD? That's nothing Pro, most phones use that standard, anyway you can just have an adapter for that with your current SD Slot, I find it a miracle that they added SD Slots at all (even if I use it twice a year)

How do you see 4 USB Ports and 2 FireWires on a 13" Laptop? That would literally fill one side with ports and remove the Battery Indicator, also the 17" Model has almost what you want, the 3 Ports and also one of those card slots where you can maybe use one for FireWire

I find it kinda creepie though to have 6 things connected to a laptop, a hub is way more convenient since you can unplug everything once and you can take the computer with you


I personally question the "Pro-ness" of the MacBook a lot, especially since they really overheat because they can't breath, but you are asking amounts of ports a desktop would have
 
how often do you use more than 2 ports on the go? you'd only need more than that at a desk, so you can easily just get a hub... stop QQ'ing over it
 
Wow.
I love this thing, absolutely love it.
But of all the things to complain about, not enough usb holes to shove your junk into? (no pun intended haha)

What the hell dude??:rolleyes:
 
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