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Stolen MacBook Pro Schematics Confirm Apple's Plans to Add More Ports and Remove Touch Bar
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MagSafe is just convenient and easy. Imo this was the worst port they could remove.
I don’t mind if there is a MagSafe port as long as the other end of the cable has a USB-C connector, that way an external power bank can be used.
More ports is pretty much always nice to have.
Losing the TouchBar is kind of sad to me. I actually never got to own a Macbook that had one, I got one of the 12 inch Macbooks with the butterfly keyboard as my secondary laptop and never got around to upgrading past that for fear of losing the keyboard. I always loved playing around with the TouchBar on my friends' machines though.
Maybe the novelty wears off, or maybe they are looking for any possible ways to increase battery life, but I really think it was a cool innovation I was looking forward to seeing stick around.
Losing the TouchBar is kind of sad to me. I actually never got to own a Macbook that had one, I got one of the 12 inch Macbooks with the butterfly keyboard as my secondary laptop and never got around to upgrading past that for fear of losing the keyboard. I always loved playing around with the TouchBar on my friends' machines though.
Maybe the novelty wears off, or maybe they are looking for any possible ways to increase battery life, but I really think it was a cool innovation I was looking forward to seeing stick around.
I find it ironic everyone saying ...
‘classy move macrumors for posting stolen information why would you do that even if it’s only for clicks’
... as you click on the post AND interact with the comment section.
crazy world.
‘classy move macrumors for posting stolen information why would you do that even if it’s only for clicks’
... as you click on the post AND interact with the comment section.
crazy world.
Because it's useful information for mac users?
Let's make the touchbar optional--a $300 option--since that's how much Apple increased MBP prices when they introduced it.
And then see how many choose this option. My guess is that the take rate will be less than that of manual transmission in cars sold in the U.S.
This idea that newsmedia are "supporting criminals" by publishing worthy news is ridiculous.
So according to you whistleblowers are also criminals?
In some cases whistleblowers are certainly criminals. In other cases they are not.
Are you able to run an external mouse from it ? Mines having a usb-a dongle connected through an adapter are laggy and unusable. Was thinking of buying a bluetooth mouse but I hear the problem is worst with them. That is a big problem for me. Force me to keep a second laptop.
Huawei’s Mate40 Android phone can charge at 66W. iPhones currently only charge at 20W but much much faster charging should be possible(I’d love to charge my iPhone 5x faster).500W would allow for quick-charging a laptop battery.
What I’m wanting is less along the lines of bigger AC power bricks and more along the lines of a new home power standard. Electric cars are going to start pushing DC into people’s homes. Tesla’s new Supercharger is 350000W(350kW).
There really aren’t any good reasons for staying with AC home power except for all the legacy cruft. DC is better for pretty much everything today. New huge power transmission lines being built today are almost certainly high-voltage DC… but we don’t have a home standard. https://hackaday.com/2017/03/06/what-voltage-for-the-all-dc-house/
So people come to MR expecting to read up on leaks, then find out how leaks even happen and get upset? Okay... I guess these people always thought Apple "handed over these leaks" to the public all these years. 😂😂😂
not sure this has been discussed in this long thread already, but why not have MagSafe as an option and also USB C charging - both?
I hardly read this thing but I see there’s lots more return of the old ports and I want it all and so do you right?
maybe they should make the OG MacBook Pro OG means original gangster. This would be a MacBook Pro that’s fairly thin and plenty thin enough and hopefully it’s lightweight and hopefully it’s got decent batteries and definitely it Has to have all sorts of ports For all my BS hard drives.
I know dongles can do the job but I think out of respect for the OG they should make it with all sorts of ports so I can get my stuff done
yeah because it’s a rumor site after all.
remember that guy who went to the bar with an iPhone to her iPhone three or whatever and then he lost the iPhone at the bar because I wonder why? Nobody had any ethical quandaries over that really or did they I don’t know
If the article is to be believed, it isn’t accurate to describe it as just “more ports”.
its different, single purpose ports.
so you lose a tb3 port that can do anything and gain... two ports that the lost port could have provided via a $25 adapter if you wanted them.
add to that, Apples penchant for hard wiring HDMI ports and you lose not just a physical port for a professional display, you likely lose the ability to drive it.
They probably noticed that I used to buy every brand new high whatever MacBook Pro every single time they announced it I already mediately the fully maxed out model but I think I stopped around 2016 because they started doing crazy stuff
I have stacks of MacBook pros. Remember when they used to make them out of titanium?
mush bring ba ck ports. For us who can use computers! Old men like us!
Damn I hated magsafe. Hated it! The cable was always breaking. It was also expensive to replace.
Lets just include a whole bunch of ports no one needs. There are already magsafe life attachments that can be used if people want to simulate that on a usbc device.
That's very presumptuous.
The fact most people seem to conveniently ignore in these 'debates' is that with Apple it's almost never "just add X".
In some ways it's just a harsh application of logical tradeoffs. Nothing comes for free. More weight. More cost. More complexity. Yes even 'less pretty', regardless of how much you personally value that... or fewer other ports.
There are very few instances where Apple has flat out just added more ports to a computer, where it wasn't also some other radical shift.
How many times in the earlier threads about the rumours of "more ports" did people question losing TB3 ports, or losing USB-C charging capability, or what have you. With very few exceptions, they would be pummelled with "of course they'll just add other ports no one is saying they should remove USB-C ports".
When I raised the issue that Apple has a tendency to hard-wire HDMI ports, stealing a dedicated video output (and thus making that video 'stream' completely unusable for a DisplayPort or USB-C monitor), I was: told it'd be different because it was all Intels fault before (the hardwired HDMI still exists in the M1 mini); told it was because the M1 mini is a low volume item and it just re-uses the pin outs that were really designed for an M1 MacBook{Pro,Air} (the M1 MacBooks almost certainly use eDP for their built in display, and they support 1 external display over TB3/USB-C, just as the M1 iMac does - no HDMI in sight); told that a more powerful M-series CPU/GPU would support more displays, so losing one to hard-wired HDMI is "not a big deal"; and most laughably, I was told that "most monitors have HDMI, and the Mac mini is a consumer device so it doesn't matter if it can't run two 'high end' DisplayPort or USB-C displays"... when the topic of discussion was the rumours of a future high-end MacBook Pro.
So, no. I, and many others, most certainly do not ****ing want a ****** single use port.
This comment is worth repeating, Why is Mac Rumors posting stolen information?
