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When to Expect the M1X MacBook Pros to Become Available to Order
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Nice, the way Apple is headed they will bring back native faxing as an OS feature & make iPhones w/rotary dials on them to support all the professional users.
I like your thinking here, I also heard a rumor they're working on a new acoustic coupler compatible with 4G
Do you people not actually do professional work? Do you honestly like dongles that much? I hate showing up for a conf talk and having to guess if my setup will work because they have a simple hdmi in. On the road shooting and need a dongle to look with some resolution my latest shots? There is some weird elitist "apple told me to not like it, so I don't like it" energy in denouncing useful ports.
The re-inclusion of the HDMI port will very likely be related to the much higher bandwidth of HDMI 2.1, which would enable these MacBooks to drive an Apple-designed 5K/6K monitor (with an HDMI port, OMG). This should allow these MacBook Pros to drive three 5K+ displays, given they'll have the standard 4 TB ports, and allegedly amazing Apple Silicon GPUs.
It looks like HDMI 2.1 even supports 5K at 120Hz which would be amazing, but not sure Apple would go that far in their forthcoming display.
These should be amazing machines all round, can't wait to see what's in store.
It looks like HDMI 2.1 even supports 5K at 120Hz which would be amazing, but not sure Apple would go that far in their forthcoming display.
These should be amazing machines all round, can't wait to see what's in store.
Totally agree with you. Dongle life is for the birds. Really a joke that a so-called professional device lacks even the most rudimentary ports.
Holding out for a SCSI port myself. For my 100mb SCSI array.now we're talking, USB-A!!! Enjoy your HP laptop
so you havn't used a MBP produced between 2016 and now??
I have ... and I don't need legacy port in my laptop ...
I'm hoping for a built-in floppy drive.
Currently using one and it's missing a ton of "pro" features, like an sdcard slot, f keys and a cpu that doesn't throttle at the first sign of danger. I'm also tired of needing a dongle to do literally anything.
General speculation seems to be around to constraints in MiniLED displays to support a full-scale launch until now.
I understand the desire to have "common" ports on the machine to save the need for dongles - especially when one uses equipment that is designed around said "common" ports - but one of the things I like best about the USB/TB ports on the MacBook Pros is that they allow you to connect so many things to them because of the availability of dongles.
An SD Card slot is not going to help "professionals" with cameras that use CompactFlash for their storage. And if a "professional" is giving a presentation at a place that uses VGA, a built-in HDMI port is not going to help them. In both cases, they will still need the dongle.
And for those "professionals" who are still rocking older stuff on the various older flavors of USB or Firewire or need hardline Ethernet at 100MBps/1GB/10GB..."there's a dongle for that" and they can continue to get value of that purchase.
3.5 or 5.25? I heard there's a comeback on 5.25
Acting like sdcards are not used anymore in professional photog is a clear sign you don't know what you're talking about.
Let’s copy & paste you.
The only reason it will have an HDMI port is because it is required for HDMI 2.1 support. The USB/Thunderbolt spec doesn’t support it yet without compression. That’s the only reason. Apple doesn’t care about projectors. They would prefer you use airplay anyway or a dongle if you have to. As for the SD Card slot, I’ll believe it when I see it. Would be nice, but SD is not ubiqiutous in the industry and their previous built-in SD Card readers have been rather slow and prone to failure. I’d rather have additional thunderbolt ports that I can use for whatever I need than sacrifice them for specific ports that I don’t need all the time.
Yeah. A lot of people on the internet act like they know everything when they don't. Everyone is an expert at everything these days.
So you can take 318,000 disks and install BigSur?
There is literally one dongle that would be needed to in all those use cases.
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No? What are you talking about? Are you mad that I want useful ports on the machine? I really don't get why someone would argue this hard about having default options, just because daddy apple tells them it's cool. Dongles are an extra expense, a point of failure, a thing you can forget, a thing that might not work with some system. They aren't as good of a solution as having a port on the machine. Whatever. I'm done with this thread. There is no point in trying to argue for things that most people will use and enjoy.
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