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Yeah you can. put a USB port on it.

• TazeTSchnitzel 10y ago
  Why 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 ago
    Speed doesnt matter when I connect a mouse and a keyboard
    • riskable 10y ago
      You 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 ago
        Except that now you have to buy all new peripherals...
        • TazeTSchnitzel 10y ago
          Or you can buy a single USB hub.
          • wtetzner 10y ago
            And now you have yet another thing to carry around with you. Making the laptop thinner sure made things more convenient...
  • jonknee 10y ago
    Because the inferior ports are used by almost everyone? If I just want to plug my laptop into a projector it doesn't matter that I have a technically superior port that I can't use. Imagine they added a couple USB-C ports in place of the little used Thunderbolt ports and then waited a year to see the usage frequency... I bet the HDMI and USB-A ports would be used a ton more than USB-C.
    • Nition 10y ago
      I'm in no way defending Apple's decision here - I think having no standard USB ports is stupid - but this is kind of Apple's thing. Apple knows you'll use the standard ports if they give them to you. And that's exactly why they've taken them away. Because it forces users to actually make the switch to something (they think is) better.
      • jonknee 10y ago
        I know this, but since they haven't fully committed themselves to USB-C yet so this move feels early. It's insane that you can't plug an iPhone into your brand new MacBook Pro without another trip to the store for a dongle (they aren't shipping a dongle in the MBP box).
        • Nition 10y ago
          Agreed, they could do with some more cohesiveness here.
        • kelseydh 10y ago
          Exactly. MacBook laptops have headphone jacks and USB-c connections but no lightning input ports. If I wanted to use my EarPods with the lightning end on my Macbook I'm screwed. Nor can I use the headphone jack or the USB-C ports on the Macbook with my iPhone. The lack of integration here between Apple's own products is alarming and indicates that a high level someone is asleep at the wheel.
          • TazeTSchnitzel 10y ago
  • rtkwe 10y ago
    Because it's still the port that nearly everything uses. USB-C is great and fast but I still have to replace all my cords and chargers because my new phone has USB-C and nothing else I own does. It's the same for a laptop, if everything I have expects USB-A USB-C for all it's great features is a hassle.
  • snovv_crash 10y ago
    When a client gives you documents on a thumb drive when they meet you at the airport 30 mins before your flight, and you sit on the flight for 6 hours with your useless laptop that can't read the contents of the drive, then maybe you'll understand why having the most popular connector currently in existence on your new laptop might be useful. Just like I don't want a Leatherman® with just a knife blade on it, even if it is slightly larger I want my laptop to have all of the connectors I'm likely to run into over the next N years so that I don't need to carry a separate bag just for the dongles.
  • ant6n 10y ago
    Waste space? My current Macbook Pro has 8 ports. The new pro mac pro has 5 ports. The non-pro mac pro has 3 ports. Surely we can fit a HDMI and a usb... Oh wait, they had to make this thing thinner. Because thinner is more useful, right. But now you get the silly extra-low-travel keyboard as well, like typing on a table. All these choices, they don't make any sense.