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Thunderbolt is a multiplexed port. Typically, you plug it into your big screen. The external keyboard, mouse and speakers are attached to the big screen. Now yo
by robotresearcher 10y ago
Thunderbolt is a multiplexed port. Typically, you plug it into your big screen. The external keyboard, mouse and speakers are attached to the big screen. Now your MBP charges from that cable too.
No need to tell me that your use case is slightly different. You can't please everybody.
Edit: I just discovered that the LG screen Apple is selling as a proposed match for their new laptops does NOT have legacy ports on the back, but just more USB-C ports. This seems very dumb. I don't want three $39 dongles on the back of my screen.
- GVIrish 10y agoYeah so now you have to carry some sort of multi-adapter in addition to your ultra clean laptop. > It also doesn't have a floppy drive or an IBM serial port. So how long do you think until cameras stop requiring a SD card? How long until most peripherals go to USB-C? Any way you slice it, for the next 3-5 years people are going to need to carry around a dongle (or dongles) with their Macbook. Not the worst thing in the world, but certainly doesn't make the user's life appreciably better.
- robotresearcher 10y agoEdit: removed sarcastic response to a comment about a different use-case. Too late to delete.
- GVIrish 10y agoSure you can't please everybody. But you can certainly displease most of the people who buy your products. Not saying the ports is a dealbreaker, just that it makes things more inconvenient for probably the majority of users, with little offsetting benefit.
- jsz0 10y agoAdapters and dongles are pretty much unavoidable these days. There are simply too many semi-modern ports still in use for each type to be included on a laptop to cover everyone's needs. It makes sense to move towards modern ports that provide more functionality and better backwards compatibility via adapters. In that sense I'd argue they do make people's lives better because it's a solution to almost every potential problem. Back in the USB2 era it was simply impossible to connect many devices to a laptop. Now we have multi-function ports that can accommodate multiple external PCI-E enclosures.
- sushiwarrior 10y agoWhat's unavoidable about the basic requirement of a USB3 port and SD card? How about HDMI/DP at least? I take it this is a sign every Thunderbolt device is totally dead in the water now? It's not about including a port for every single type, it's about including at least SOME kind of port. It's one thing to make a leap like Thunderbolt 1 and then Thunderbolt 2 and Lightning etc. have been, then it's another to say it's all USB-C now (with no real transition!) and expect anyone to believe you when you say it's REALLY THE LAST PORT THIS TIME GUYS TRUST US. Would it really have ruined the laptop to include a single USB3 port?
- Teever 10y agoYeah you can. put a USB port on it.
- TazeTSchnitzel 10y agoWhy waste space with an inferior port? A USB Type A port is useful for backwards-compatibility, but lacks the speed or the Thunderbolt support of USB-C.
- jhasse 10y agoSpeed doesnt matter when I connect a mouse and a keyboard
- riskable 10y agoYou see, that's where you're wrong... Insert USB connector Ooops, must be wrong orientation Insert USB connector upside down Nope, that was right the first time Insert USB connector correctly USB C solves this very real time-wasting problem! =)
- wtetzner 10y agoExcept that now you have to buy all new peripherals...
- TazeTSchnitzel 10y agoOr you can buy a single USB hub.
- wtetzner 10y agoAnd now you have yet another thing to carry around with you. Making the laptop thinner sure made things more convenient...
- jonknee 10y ago
- sooheon 10y agoI just bought their latest phone offering. If I also pick up their latest and greatest MBP, I won't be able to charge the phone with it unless I buy a dongle. I want to buy a nice pair of thunderbolt headphones, this won't work with the MBP. I don't know what the hell they're thinking. Nothing "just works".