It's funny how you already know what the new MagSafe Brick looks like. It could have a removable cable.
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That would violate the mouse infinity rule that always stops the mouse at the top of the screen so the menus are an infinitely tall target and easy to hit.
You want to replace an expensive proprietary cable every 18 months or less when it buckles and frays? Why do you even need it now when you can charge with a ubiquitous USB-C cable that'll quickly give you 20+ hours usage?
I get the feeling some people have some misplaced nostalgia for MagSafe. Aye, it was great that it popped out. And aye, we needed to tether our machines to a power brick at the time. But the blasted thing didn't half like fraying, buckling, breaking. Even with the newer barrel configuration. And the £80 each time to replace it compared to a £10 USB-C cable that can go in any port isn't selling me.
Then bring a dongle or use the one supplied for that once in a blue moon time you need it. Rather than having that space always wasted.
Yes, but remember if the bezels are this tiny then the screen edges will have rounded corners also. I'd imagine that full screen apps (games) and movies would automatically be letterboxed a tiny bit so you don't see either the corners or the notch.
I frequently need HDMI. Look you aren't the only person buying this macbook other people will have simliar needs to mine.
No, CF Express readers are huge and take up an entire PCIe lane like a TB3 port does. SD slots just take up room. Sony have moved off their daft SD cards to CF Express A. Canon and Nikon moved from CF, CFast 2, and XQD to CF Express B. SD slots are cheep value add but not used by professionals. Even when Apple did include a SD reader it wasn't used as we were using CF cards at that time and if you really wanted to use a SD card then you would get an external reader as using the built in one was worse than just plugging your camera directly into the USB 2 port.
It won't be the same MagSafe connector and you can still charge via USB-C.
You haven't even seen the new one.
Your problem can be solved with a cheep dongle. I can't turn a SD slot or HDMI port into something useful, once that space and bandwidth is taken up, it can't come back. One multi purpose port serves everyone, including yourself when these places eventually drop HDMI for something else or your needs change.
I don't want dongles. You don't like magsafe, I don't like dongles.
It'll likely be the same MagSafe as the iPhone so you'll have a coil somewhere on the laptop and a mat you can stick it on or it'll magically attach over the Apple logo. Regardless, it isn't needed in the age you can run a laptop at full tilt for 20+ hours and charge it up again in under 3.
lol NO WAY it will be a wireless charging pad or mat.
You cannot push 100watts through a charging pad. It will be SO slow. It will be a port.
Old consumer DSLR's used SD cards. Consumer DSLR's have been replaced with iPhones. The most common cameras in use by professionals are still using CF cards and XQD cards and have been for over a decade. The new bodies are all CF Express A and B. So no, the minority of professionals use SD cards. If anything shove a SD slot on the MacBook Air, but even that is daft in the age of wireless transfers and smartphones.
Yet the latest MagSafe is wireless and magical. It has been rebranded as so and you may just be charging your iPhone of your palm rest. Regardless, we are going in circles and unlikely to come to any sort of agreement when our needs are so vastly different.
Even the mac pro still comes with USB-A ports and headphone jacks. Apple could have added CF cards to the mac pro but they did not.
Yes and its slow and only does 15watts. No form of wireless charging is coming to the MBP.
It will be so slow and stupid.
So the 14” computer everyone is clamoring for turns out to be 13.5 when it’s on haha
I am really lookin forward to the 16” MBP. Unless the rumors are all wrong I think it’s going to check all of my wishlist boxes.
CF and CF Express are not the same thing. CF cards where the standard card in all professional DSLR's for decades, mostly seen in the very popular Canon 5-series bodies used by wedding and events shooters on mass and on the Nikon D800 series. The Canon 1Dx line had a bit of a mix with dual CF, then CFast 2 + CF, and finally dual CF Express B. Nikon went for dual CF and dual XQD models.
Adding a CF reader isn't hard but it was going out of date by the time the 2019 Mac Pro came. And on the older 2010 Mac Pro most of the readers where FW 800. The 2019 Mac Pro would have to give up one of its PCIe slots to support a CF express reader, but that would be daft when you can choose to plug a card in or use a TB3 port. Especially given it is common to use 2+ readers at the same time if your Mac's storage is fast enough.
Putting a different connector onto a USB-C cable is also stupid. Though lightning still exists so Apple may be daft enough to irk everyone and the EU mandates for a standard charging cable on all devices from phones to laptops.