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When to Expect the M1X MacBook Pros to Become Available to Order
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Ask Microsoft or Sony, yeah they are definitely using the excuse to justify low sales.....
Meanwhile, scalpers are able to sell the same console for 3x retail value because nobody wants them.
Point is, there is a HUGE issue supply chain issue, and if you cannot see it.... well it must be very foggy where you live!
I don’t really care too much about the ports, it will be fine either way, I’ll be happy not to have to use SD dongle though. I’m just excited for next gen M chip in 16” chassis. It sounds like the screen could be amazing and the GPU improvement could be huge. I’m pretty excited, I think this will be the best Mac ever and will smoke the competition.
Good luck Apple on your new MacBook Pro models, I will be holding on to my MacBook Pro 16 2019 until it dies and then using my new Windows 11 2021 PC tower with a ASUS motherboard, with Thunderbolt 4, WIFI 6E, 32 GB of memory which I can upgrade, two m.2 SSD cards which I can add three more, 3080 TI card along with a slue of other new technology like optical audio out.
Apple gave up on creating upgradable tower boxes and decided to cater to the ohh I will buy a new $3000 laptop every three years with less function because it looks cool. Along when I need a laptop I can use a $650 Acer Chromebook that give me more than enough functionality for mobile use.
Apple gave up on creating upgradable tower boxes and decided to cater to the ohh I will buy a new $3000 laptop every three years with less function because it looks cool. Along when I need a laptop I can use a $650 Acer Chromebook that give me more than enough functionality for mobile use.
Even as someone who uses SD cards for photo/video work, I would take another USB4 port that I can use for anything over a single-use port any day.
One of the best parts of my previous 15" & 16" MacBook Pros was that I could use any of the ports on each side for absolutely anything.
One of the best parts of my previous 15" & 16" MacBook Pros was that I could use any of the ports on each side for absolutely anything.
Sure sure, especially for those who happened to lived through the demise of floppy discs and the rise of CD-ROM, HD-DVD’s up and downs, dumping HD-DVD players. But technically those zip discs back then were CD-R for rich folks.
BTW - your client's network does not allow you to connect your laptop and AppleTV to their Wifi. Now you need that wired connection again. If only you had not left that dongle in your last clients conference room.
As long as it takes to get sort out the supply of parts and materials. This is an ongoing issue that still affects device manufacturers like Apple, car companies, and almost all other manufacturers. It takes a long time to restart such a long complex line of production. Just this week, we heard about power outages and flooding in China's manufacturing zones.
"for want of a nail..."
Dude! You are not thinking this through!3.5 or 5.25? I heard there's a comeback on 5.25
8" floppy drive, baby! Go back to the original (IBM)! 🙀
Find one HDMI dongle that works 100% the same as the HDMI port. There's always some monitor or projector that has issues with it. At work I have to replug mine often. Otherwise I'd be happy for the saved space since it's a rather large port.
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Sorry but the laptop is made to serve me and not the other way around.
It's probably going to be the year 2028 by the time your MBP dies. I also wonder what your job is that requires such specs.
It used to be more for work projectors, but zoom/teams/hangouts has sort of fixed that.
Now I'd say the major use case is high bandwidth monitors that TB4 can't support yet (HDMI 2.1)
Please explain how having an HDMI port on your laptop would hurt your experience in any way.
I far prefer MacOS but I do wish we had great PC options like those affordable RAM/storage updates.
Personally, as a few others have noted, I'd prefer more USB4/TB3/TB4 ports than HDMI/etc.
Why? Because when I need to present, it's *never* just HDMI, it'll sometimes be DisplayPort (better at least), VGA, or even the oddball DVI at times. I carried a bag of dongles for presenting before, and so have most of my clients. More and more places I frequent anyway, are just presenting with Zoom/AirPlay etc anyway.
Also, I don't get the love affair with SD cards, especially as more and more high end cameras are going CFexpress. Me? I haven't even though of where my SD card reader has been since I got a camera that is utilizing a USB-C connection. Why would I bother? Transfers faster than my old reader that way anyway.
People go "dongles are expensive" yeah, and so is adding ports to a laptop. People go "dongles break" and I point out that at least you can replace them easily unlike broken ports in a laptop.
Both have pros and cons mind you, but I find the idea of adding an HDMI port and a SD card reader odd, and frankly kinda sad. Want to add a port? Add ethernet back, make it 2.5Gbps, or better yet a nice 10Gbps port.
Why? Because when I need to present, it's *never* just HDMI, it'll sometimes be DisplayPort (better at least), VGA, or even the oddball DVI at times. I carried a bag of dongles for presenting before, and so have most of my clients. More and more places I frequent anyway, are just presenting with Zoom/AirPlay etc anyway.
Also, I don't get the love affair with SD cards, especially as more and more high end cameras are going CFexpress. Me? I haven't even though of where my SD card reader has been since I got a camera that is utilizing a USB-C connection. Why would I bother? Transfers faster than my old reader that way anyway.
People go "dongles are expensive" yeah, and so is adding ports to a laptop. People go "dongles break" and I point out that at least you can replace them easily unlike broken ports in a laptop.
Both have pros and cons mind you, but I find the idea of adding an HDMI port and a SD card reader odd, and frankly kinda sad. Want to add a port? Add ethernet back, make it 2.5Gbps, or better yet a nice 10Gbps port.